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TweetIn his paintings, sculptures, videos, public artworks, and installations, Kenny Scharf unites political ideas with a pop aesthetic, critiquing mainstream media and rampant commercialism through his art. For his new exhibition, Scharf has produced three distinct but related bodies of work. Monumental in scale, the BLOCKHEADZ paintings feature square and rectangular cartoon faces in loose grid patterns that recall hard-edged abstraction and color field paintings. Occasional breaks between the faces reveal the galactic skyscapes that have appeared in Scharf’s work since the 1970s. Using abandoned television monitors found on sidewalks around the city, Scharf transforms the matte black and silver plastic TVs into brightly painted faces for his series TV BAX. Finally, Scharf’s Assemblage Tableaux Vivants series comprises wall-mounted assemblages pieced together from found plastic toys and games. Scharf uses paint along with plastic beads and decorations, layering colors and objects to create fantastical, intimate dioramas that reference Scharf’s lifelong concern about the detrimental environmental effects of discarded plastic. These three series all engage rectilinear forms as framing and structuring devices but resist the traditional rigidity of the grid, inviting playful imagery and bold color into its structure.
Opposite – Supersonic Home Entertainment Communication Vortex, 2016
Exhibition runs through to April 22nd, 2017
Honor Fraser
2622 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90034
Spanning work made from the 1950s to the end of the artist’s life, this survey traces Maria Lassnig’s evolution from early experiments with abstraction to a richly inventive figuration and the refinement of her ‘body awareness’ paintings, in which she captured physical sensation as felt from within. Lassnig devoted much of her career to recording her physiological states through a direct and unflinching style, believing that ‘truth resides in the emotions produced within the physical shell’. Pursuing her extraordinary science of the self, Lassnig rendered an oeuvre that has influenced important artists such as Martin Kippenberger and Paul McCarthy.
Opposite – Grosse Flächenteilung / Spiegel (Large field-division / mirror), 1989
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2017
Hauser & Wirth London
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
Carey’s new work investigates the very fundamentals of capturing color on paper through light. Creases and folds create a relief map of geometric shapes and ridges and work in combination with photographic color theory to create boldly hued abstract compositions.
Opposite – Caesura, 2016
Exhibition runs from March 18th through to April 22nd, 2017
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
California
90069
Duane Hanson, known for his hyperrealist sculptures of everyday people and the down-and-out, used photography as a primary means of developing his vision. With a meticulous eye, Hanson shot a series of Polaroids to sketch out his sculptures, photographing his subjects in subtle gestures looking for the pose that felt most real. He looked for the perfect tweak of the hand or shift of the gaze that would bring him closer to conceiving the end result, a sculpture that was both an unbelievably lifelike person and simultaneously a broader character type. The Polaroids on view here were often pinned to the wall, or spattered with paint, so they are not pristine but scarred by the artist’s hand. These Polaroids, of which there are nearly one thousand in the archive, are treasured historical documents of the artist’s process, showing not only the sitters but also the sculptures in various stages of development. Individually, they are witty, nostalgic time capsules that are both strange and playful, fascinating photographs in their own right.
Opposite – Fancy Dude Cowboy, 1984–88
Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2017
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York
NY 10001
Vivid colour photos of cars, traffic signs and interiors of restaurants: through the eye of William Eggleston’s camera the everyday America is turned into a photogenic subject. The colourful works from the series Los Alamos by the American pioneer grace the rooms of Foam from 17 March. Until the 1970s only black and white photography met the standards of the art world. That was, until Eggleston’s works offered a powerful argument to use colour photography in art, paving the way for future generations to follow. William Eggleston experimented with the practice of dye-transfer processing, a technique that accentuated his characteristic use of colour accents.
Opposite – En Route to New Orleans, 1971–1974
Exhibition runs from March 17th through to June 7th, 2017
Foam
Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS
Amsterdam
