2018 January : EXIT

JACKIE SACCOCIO – SPECTRAL HOLE

Posted on 2018-01-22

Through vibrant large-scale paintings and works on paper, Saccoccio’s improvisational practice examines the tension between gestural force and the fusion of color. Employing a series of controlled accidents, Saccoccio applies wet swaths of paint to her surface, aggressively tipping, turning, and pressing multiple canvases atop one another. This technique creates vast fields of overlaid colors, smudges, drips, and stains that spread like living, breathing entities across the surface of the work.

The exhibition, comprised of six large paintings on linen, is charged with implosive energy. Through the manipulation of surface and material, Saccoccio creates condensed networks of pigment that are both centralized and dispersed. Immersive in scale, the content is at once organized and chaotic, digitized and organic. Bold colors cascade into bright, delicate hues within a fragmented picture plane that refuses definitive identification. Titled Portrait or Place, these works dissipate into vistas and vortexes, alluding to the presence of both body and location. Saccoccio draws inspiration from a variety of art historical figures including George Seurat, Lee Bontecou, Jackson Pollack, Elizabeth Murray, and Sigmar Polke to create entrancing, dense, and diaphanous fields that draw the viewer in, insisting quiet contemplation to determine what is concealed and what is revealed by the surface of the painting.

Opposite – Portrait(Hysteria), 2017

Exhibition runs through to January 27th, 2018

Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 North Peoria Street
Illinois
60607 Chicago

www.rhoffmangallery.com

ADAPTATION X DOGTOWN X MAXFIELD

Posted on 2018-01-22

Adaptation joins forces with Dogtown and Ocean Pacific to produce a special collaborative line for Maxfield LA.

Focused on graphic-heavy, branded offerings, ADAPTATION, Dogtown and Ocean Pacific’s new joint efforts feature prominent use of each label’s signature motifs and takes from a lighter-toned selection of colors. The collection emphasizes casual streetwear staples such as long- and short-sleeve T-shirts and hoodies, though flannels are also added to round out the package.

www.adaptation-la.com

NORTH: FASHIONING IDENTITY

Posted on 2018-01-19

North: Fashioning Identity features over 100 photographs, fashion garments and artworks from a host of renowned photographers, designers and artists including Alasdair McLellan, Corinne Day, Mark Leckey, Jeremy Deller, Raf Simons, Paul Smith, Off White’s Virgil Abloh, Peter Saville, Stephen Jones, Gareth Pugh, Nick Knight, Glen Luchford, Jamie Hawkesworth and David Sims, plus the likes of Shirley Baker, John Bulmer and Peter Mitchell.
In the exhibition, contemporary photography, fashion collections and multimedia artworks will sit alongside social documentary film and photography, highlighting how the realities of life in the north of England captured in the 20th century continue to influence new generations of photographers, artists and designers.
The show unpicks the themes and tropes present in these collective visions of northern England, from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Birkenhead, Doncaster to Preston, considering why these regions, or representations of these regions, are increasingly a source of inspiration and still so idealised today.

Exhibition runs through to February 4th, 2018

East Wing Galleries,
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 1LA

www.somersethouse.org.uk

GUY BOURDIN

Posted on 2018-01-15

From her iconic Penthouse on the port of Gustavia, Asmaa Khamlichi along with Louise Alexander Gallery and Art Saint Barth – promoting the island as an international art destination – are presenting an exhibition of the works of Guy Bourdin. Guy Bourdin is considered to be one of the most daring and intriguing artists in the world of 20th-century visual culture. This St Barth exhibition aims to capture the memories of dreams, fantasies, and moments of glamour and beauty. The show will exhibit eleven masterpieces of Guy Bourdin. The lucky visitors will be given the special privilege to go through the singular vision and lens of the artist Guy Bourdin and admire works of someone who has revolutionized the history of fashion photography, and continues to influence the world of contemporary creation.

Exhibition runs January 25th through to March 17th, 2018

Penthouse Gustavia
21 rue Jeanne d’Arc
4ème étage 97133
Saint Barth

artsaintbarth.com

JEFFREY MILSTEIN – LEANING OUT

Posted on 2018-01-15

The advent of aerial photography has changed the way people see their world more than any other development since Eadweard Muybridge’s seminal images of moving animals in the second half of the nineteenth century. The impact is immediately visible in Leaning Out, the new solo show by Jeffrey Milstein at Benrubi Gallery, his second at the gallery. Milstein’s overhead images of ports, train yards, airports, parking lots, and cityscapes, shot from small planes and helicopters, reveal harmonious symmetries invisible during daily life, yet are still somehow familiar. It’s as if we’ve seen these views before, or constructed them with an idea of what they would look like from 2,000 feet above the ground.

The geometric mosaics in many images jump out immediately, with shipping containers, train cars, and automobiles slotted together in checkered patterns like gigantic tesserae. Milstein’s bird’s-eye view flattens three dimensions to two and his shutter shrinks several square miles down to the size of a tapestry. The signs of use disappear, the wear and tear, the small distinguishing details, leaving behind bold blocks of color that could as easily be a child’s stacked toys as a massive freight yard or automobile dealership. Ground is transformed to wall, and the underlying (literally) and surprisingly playful pictorial aesthetic that determined the arrangement is revealed.

Opposite – Gatwick 2 Planes, 2016

Exhibition runs January 25th through to March 17th, 2018

Benrubi Gallery
521 W 26th St
Floor 2
New York
NY 10001

benrubigallery.com

WINCHESTER

Posted on 2018-01-15

Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, (Helen Mirren) heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook) or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters…

In theatres February 2nd, 2018