Eddie Martinez: Cowboy Town
Eddie Martinez’s canvases are formed from oil paint, enamel, spray paint, screen printing and studio detritus, works loaded with coloured, quasi-abstract masses.
Mary Henderson’s Sunday Paintings series
Mary Henderson sources material from social media and photo-sharing websites in her new series Sunday Paintings, on at Lyons Wier Gallery through March 29. She focuses on the leisure activities of her peers and “fellow gentrifiers,” the well-educated, middle-class, neophyte city dweller – active and happy in privileged […]
Chris Temple: Three Cities
Artist Chris Temple has three favorites: New York, Vienna and his native Toronto, all subjects for paintings at an exhibition held this month at Nicholas Metivier Gallery. He focuses on the sharp angles that intersect with the “barriers and connectors” of an urban landscape – such as bridges […]
William Klein: A powerful visual language
William Klein’s photography, paintings, films and graphic arts had a major impact on postwar arts, evident in an exhibition of rarely seen works on now at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.
Jacob Hashimoto’s Kite-Like Tapestries
Jacob Hashimoto is on a slew of favorites lists for The Armory Show, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The Colorado-born, New York artist uses traditional Japanese methods to create large-scale “tapestries” out of thousands of pieces of hand crafted paper and wood.
Park Avenue Armory: Billowing in a Field of Swings
The Park Avenue Armory’s new installation by internationally recognized artist Ann Hamilton, revered for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale, multi-media installations, is making waves — waves from sound (a new recording every night) and waves of billowing fabric. The installation consists of 42 swings, a large billowing […]
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