Ingrid Cincala-Gilbert of Cincala Art is an art consultancy based in New York. The blog page represents a selection of noteworthy shows that may be of interest to collectors and artists.
Anne Collier Studio, Brooklyn Navy Yards
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Photographer Anne Collier opened up her studio and her working process to the Whitney Artist Council, providing insight into how, and why, she seeks photographic and cultural remix. While Collier's images can have an inherent simplicity or even minimalist form at first reading, the way they are delivered to our eye is often layered and complex. Collier will have a survey exhibition at CCS Bard opening June 28th.
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Peter Sutherland
Dylan Lynch
Alex Perweiler
Louis Eisner
The Still House Group Studio, Red Hook, Brooklyn
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The always gracious Isaac Brest recently spent some time with me to provide an inside look at some of the current work going on by the members of The Still House Group: Isaac, Alex Perweiler, Jack Greer, Zachary Susskind, Louis Eisner, Jacob and Dylan Lynch, and Nick Darmsteadter. It was evident that there promises to continue to be some very exciting work emanating from Red Hook.
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Thomas Fouteirol Studio, Ridgewood, New York
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I was recently invited by Silvia Ammon from the Paris gallery Praz-Delavallade to visit with Thomas Fougeirol in his Ridgewood studio. Fougeirol's work and technique evokes elements of the American action painters of the 1950s, but with an emphasis on chance and anthropomorphism perhaps more akin to fellow Frenchman Yves Klein. While Fougeriol has previously worked in extremely large-scale, his most recent preference is for the use of more human-scale 6'x5' canvases, which enables him to work more instinctively and easily handle the work alone. The results are truly special.
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Agnes Gund talk at Frieze NY, Randall's Island
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In a discussion moderated by Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture Ann Temkin, MoMA President Emerita Agnes Gund gave a captivating talk at the opening of Frieze NY on the state of the art world, including how far we have come in terms of the attention being paid to female artists, and how far is yet to go.
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Monotypes, Wendy Mark Studio, New York
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I was lucky enough to be invited recently to the studio of Wendy Mark, an artist known for her often atmospheric, rich monotypes. Wendy’s work invites contemplation, and feels perfectly suited for her many collaborations, including those with poets, writers and architects. The artist is currently preparing for a show at Jill Newhouse Gallery in the fall.
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Exhibition Image, Lebbeus Woods, Architect, The Drawing Center, New York
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The Drawing Center presents a fascinating look at the late Lebbeus Woods' architectural drawings and constructions in a show that runs through June 15th. Presented through forty years of the architect's work, the show highlights Woods' ability to leverage conflict, physicality and the tension of proximity to envision and communicate space and form. In doing so, Woods challenges both architectural and societal conventions.
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Exhibition Image, Strike The Sun, Robert Longo, Petzel Gallery, New York
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Petzel Gallery's exhibition by Robert Longo entitled Strike The Sun examines national symbols of power and protest, including an image of JFK's riderless horse from his funeral procession, a massive black flag that knifes into the floor of the gallery as if discarded from above, and a large, multi-panel drawing of the U.S. Capitol building. The show runs concurrent with an exhibition at Metro Pictures, and ends May 10th.
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Exhibition Image, Sarah Jones, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
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In a series of large-format photographs, London-based Sarah Jones exploits specific darkness and illumination to produce a sometimes tense, sometimes calm series of works. The show runs at Anton Kern until April 26th.
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Exhibition Image, Peter Buggenhout, Caterpillar Logic II, Gladstone Gallery, New York
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Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout's massive works The Blind Leading the Blind #66 and The Blind Leading the Blind #67 at Gladstone, part of his series of so-called "dust" sculptures, are other-wordly inhabitants; meteorites formed from real-world debris. United by a thick layer of pulverized dirt and dust, and activated by the use of scale and lighting, these compositions enable the viewer to move with satisfaction from readings of simplicity to complexity, and back again. The show closes May 17th.
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Various Sculptures, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
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Storm King, under brilliant sunshine, opens again for the season and does not disappoint.
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Exhibition Image, Jordan Wolfson, David Zwirner, New York
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Jordan Wolfson's exhibition at the 19th Street David Zwirner space in Chelsea explores images and contexts pulled from media, advertising, consumerism and contemporary technology, but re-imagines and subverts it, often forming fantastic narrative structures that give starring roles to unlikely characters.
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Exhibition Image, Michel Majerus, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
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Comprising three gallery spaces at galleries at 502, 522, and 526 West 22nd Street in Chelsea, Matthew Marks' exhibition of the late Michel Majerus' work is an exploration of pop, appropriation and reinterpretation from an artist who clearly had much more to give.
Exhibition Image, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, New York
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Rudolf Stingel's landscape paintings on view at Gagosian's 21st street gallery channel vintage photographs of his childhood home in the Tyrolean Alps, but taken to monumental scale. These works capture in intense black, grey and white a certain nostalgia to the power and serenity of nature, but also, through the reproduction of and addition of fatigue and imperfection, the idea of decay and loss.
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Exhibition Image, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, Group Show, CLEARING, Brooklyn
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This group show at Johnson Avenue's CLEARING gallery in Brooklyn features a set of new work from Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Ryan Foerster, Eyan Goldman, Sayre Gomez, Patrick Jackson, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Nancy Lupo, Sean Raspet and Jesse Stecklow. Watched over by a 3D-printed Maltese Falcon (the film containing the quote from which the show takes its title), these sculptural and painted works lean, sit and inhabit the space in a perfect, haphazard way.
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Exhibition Image, Paintings Without Borders, Ned Vena, Real Fine Arts, Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn
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Meeker avenue's Real Fine Arts presents 15 shaped-canvas paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Ned Vena. Known for his use of vinyl stencils, Vena explores, in the first set of 10 monochrome canvases, the pure interaction of grid, built-up paint and canvas edge. In the last 5 canvases, however, recycled digital files from Vena's commercial sign-making work settle on the canvas, simultaneously ignoring and defining the edge. The exhibition closes April 21.
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Studio Image, Peter Funch Studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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I was privileged recently to have the opportunity to meet Danish-born photographer Peter Funch and preview some of his latest work, including, among other pieces, some especially captivating photographs capturing the 2013 intentional destruction of the Amelia Earhart bridge over the Missouri River. Funch's work reveals similarities, sometimes absurd, in the way we interact with, and move through, the city. Like the destruction of the bridge, staged events can become reality, and vice versa.
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Exhibition Image, Untitled, Urs Fischer, Lever House, New York
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On through May 30 at Lever House is an exhibition of 26 mirror-block photographic sculptures by Swiss-born artist Urs Fischer. Utilizing a range of common and seemingly unrelated commercial products, Fischer documents somewhat clinically each flat side, top and end view of these objects, reconstructing the five surfaces into a proxy three dimensional work that exists in space but removes all tactility.
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Studio Image, Landon Metz Studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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V1 Gallery's Mikkel Grønnebæk organized a recent visit to the Brooklyn studio of Landon Metz, who had on view sets of sequential canvases, which, while legible on their own, add a layer of meaning through the use of sequence, repetition and subtle differentiation. Metz's work is on view at Retrospective Gallery in Hudson, NY through April 13th.
Studio Image, Jessica Sanders Studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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A visit with artist Jessica Sanders at her Greenpoint studio provided an overview of her thoughtful process and minimalist results. Working in wax, Sanders's techniques use the canvas not as a surface but rather as a vessel and, through transparency, as a component of the art in its own right. Sanders is currently in a group show at Johannes Vogt gallery in Chelsea through April 5th.
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Studio Image, Ryan Estep Studio, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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A visit to Ryan Estep's studio in Greenpoint was illuminating in terms of hearing the artist's intentions and understanding the various processes Estep employs (variations on, and combinations of, mixing, patching, sanding, disinfecting, casting, handling and stretching). The result is some compelling works that easily transcend pure story or document. Ryan will show two of his sterilized dirt paintings as part of a group show at Robert Blumenthal Gallery that opens March 20th.
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