Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Clearing Gallery, Brooklyn

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Exhibition Images, Koenraad Dedobbeleer: A Useless Labour, Apolitical and of Little Moral Significance,  Clearing Gallery, Brooklyn.
Photo Credits: Cincala Art Advisory

Koenraad Dedobbeleer presents a series of works balancing tension and strength to set the standard for Clearing Gallery's new space on Johnson Avenue. With a jumping-off point of Raymond Duchamp-Villon's Le Cheval Majeur,  a work that lived on after Duchamp-Villon's death, Dedobbeleer explores uniqueness and subversion of originality. The exhibition runs through November 16th.

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Jeff Zilm at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn

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Exhibition Images, Jeff Zilm: Comedies,  The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn.
Photo Credits: Cincala Art Advisory

Artist Jeff Zilm brings his rule- and process-driven approach to painting to bear on a series of new works shown at the Journal Gallery. Working with raw material of 8mm and 16mm comedic films of the early- to mid-20th century, Zilm dissolves and reconstitutes the original celluloid reels, preserving the atmospheric and cinematic quality while producing an entirely new work that embodies both past and future. The show closes October 26th.

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Rob Pruitt at Gavin Brown's Enterprise

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Exhibition Images, Rob Pruitt: Multiple Personalities,  Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York.
Photo Credits: Cincala Art Advisory

Rob Pruitt presents a series of new paintings and sculpture in three parts at Gavin Brown's enterprise. Entitled "Multiple Personalities," these works are inward-looking and contemplative in focus--explorations in relationships between gestural interpretation, analysis and the expanse of the unknowable.  The show ends October 25th.

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Hugh Scott-Douglas at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco

Artist Hugh Scott-Douglas' solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco combines four bodies of work that explore appropriation, re-presentation and transformation that is enabled by, and influenced by, technology. In doing so the artist calls on the viewer to question materiality and substance in the context of this new "weightless" world. The show runs through November 1.

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Group Show "Hypothesis for an Exhibition" at Dominique Lévy, New York

The impressive group show “Hypothesis for an Exhibition,” curated by Begum Yasar and held at Dominique Lévy’s gallery in the Upper East Side, is a study in self-reflexivity, a hallmark of the work of Italian Giulio Paolini's work and the genesis of the exhibition. While Paolini explored (explicitly) reverberations and resonance between his work and earlier traditions, Yasar here extends the self-reflexivity to another dimension through the collection of, and juxtaposition of, work by contemporary artists Richard Aldrich, Harold Ancart, Sebastian Black, Kerstin Brätsch, Guyton\Walker, KAYA, Charles Mayton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, R.H. Quaytman, Antek Walczak, and Viola Yeşiltaç–each of whom, in unique ways, embody Paolini’s ideals. The exhibition runs through August 16th.

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Nancy Rubins: Our Friend Fluid Metal at Gagosian

Nancy Rubins brings her playful yet slightly sinister scrap material sculptures to Gagosian's West 21st Street gallery in an exhibition that contemplates the absurdity of, and potentially the power of, the discarded and the refused. The exhibition closes September 13th. 

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Galerie Neu at Gladstone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea

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Exhibition Images, Gallery Neu at Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street, New York
Photo Credit: Cincala Art Advisory

The summer exhibition Gallerie Neu at Gladstone Gallery features work by John Knight (in situ, which masks the white walls of the gallery) and Reena Spauling's portrait series The New Dealers, as well as works by Gedi Sibony, Sergej Jensen, Klara Liden, Manfred Pernice and Kitty Kraus. Through explorations of celebrity, weathering, decay and repurpose, the exhibition invites us to examine how the passage of time can inform our culture and world. 

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Pre-History, Post-Everything Group Show at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Sean Kelly brings together a strong group exhibition featuring prehistoric tools and objects juxtaposed against contemporary painted works from artists Isaac Brest, Sarah Crowner Luca Dellaversaon, Thomas Fougeirol, Dean Levin, Hugo McCloud, Landon Metz, Evan Nesbit, Kasper Sonne, Patricia Treib and Artie Vierkant. One of the many strong group shows in New York this summer. The show runs through August 1st.

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Nick van Woert Solo Exhibition at MAMbo, Italy

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Exhibition Images, Nick van Woert, Nature Calls, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Photo Credit: courtesy of the artist.

Nick van Woert's first museum solo exhibition, Nature Calls at MAMbo in Bologna, Italy, provides a comprehensive, complex platform for a discussion on contemporary landscape, history and materiality. Simultaneously archeological and forward-looking, van Woert's work explores in a meaningful way acts of destruction, repurpose and re-presentation, each level building on what came before to provide new levels of information.  The exhibition runs through September 7th.

Israel Lund at David Lewis Gallery, New York

Israel Lund presents a series of abstract paintings and free-standing sculptures for his first solo exhibition at David Lewis. The works play randomness and chance against order and geometry in a thoughtful mix. The show runs at David Lewis’ Eldridge Street space through July 27th.

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Jean-Baptiste Bernadet at American Contemporary, New York

Paris-born Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s Fugue, presented at American Contemporary through August 9th, explores large-scale painting and the power of brushstrokes in a way that is at once of the moment while referencing art history through color and technique.

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Patrick Berran at White Columns, New York

White Columns’ current solo exhibition of the work of Patrick Berran highlights some of the artist’s first larger scale works. Hybrid, layered and sometimes unsettled, the works use the language of collage in high density. The exhibition runs through July 26th.

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Blake Rayne at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

Artist Blake Rayne’s latest exhibition entitled On Fridays We Have Half Days at Miguel Abreu Gallery creates a passageway between the gallery’s two locations, within which Rayne places a series of cinematic, architectural, sculptural and two-dimensional works. The show runs though June 25th.

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Tom Friedman at Luhring Augustine, Bushwick

Comprising largely monochrome works in bright colors, Tom Friedman's show at Luhring Augustine's Bushwick outpost explores the arc of art historical reference and the value of surface vs. depth in a series of illusory sculptures crafted entirely out of styrofoam. The show runs through August 8th.

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Lucien Smith at Skarstedt Gallery, New York

A series of 11 large paintings from Lucien Smith are on view at Skarstedt's Upper East Side gallery.  Here Smith takes inspiration from a work that had a deep influence on him, the ukiyo-e woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai  "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," but through his use of abstraction and the infusion of camouflage produces work that combines nature and man in a tense dialogue. The show closes June 27th.

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Life – The Journal Gallery at Venus Over Manhattan

Bushwick meets the Upper East Side in “Life” a group exhibition showcasing artists that have at one time or another been shown at The Journal. A celebration of the gallery’s history, this ten year retrospective at Adam Lindemann’s Venus Over Manhattan, curated by gallerists Michael Nevin and Julia Dipplehofer, reveals an enticing and level look at the work of both established and emerging artists. Runs through July 26th.

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Sam Moyer: More Weight at Rachel Uffner

Artist Sam Moyer's third exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery is entitled "More Weight," and is an ambitious investigation into materiality. Explorations are offered via painting and sculptural compositions--often pairing the found and created--and the encouragement of perceptual misreadings. The centerpiece of the show, a large walkable marble slab sheltered by an illuminated canvas, breaks down the traditional relationship between viewer and art and takes the experience further. The show is on until June 8th.

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Ai Weiwei: According to What? at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum presents the much discussed survey of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The survey, which originated in the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is sometimes serene and contemplative, and other times jarring and disturbing. Regardless, the show demonstrates that the inextricable link between politics and the day-to-day existence of both the artist himself and the Chinese people are each impossible to ignore. The show runs through August 10th.

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Studio Visit: Gedi Sibony, Brooklyn

A visit by the Whitney Artist Council members to Gedi Sibony's Navy Yard studios revealed the artist's fascinating blurring of the lines between, found and created object, between painting and sculpture, and between extant and extinct. 

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Studio Visit: Beth Campbell, Brooklyn

Beth Campbell is well-known for her "potential future" drawings, but has a breath of exploration that far surpasses this work. Campbell gave the Whitney Artist Council members a revealing look at her working process and the ideas that she is currently exploring, which include re- or dis-orientation, re-think and reflection.

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