CASEY WELDON – BLUNDERLUST

Casey Weldon’s work has garnered much acclaim throughout the contemporary art world. Utilizing his iconic psychedelic palette of bright pinks and blue hues, Weldon’s work stands out amongst others in the “post pop-surrealist” movement. Weldon’s paintings depict strange and dreamlike circumstances of interchange between people and the natural world, creating a poignant and cinematic narrative that draws his viewers in.

Weldon’s new solo exhibition, ‘BLUNDERLUST’ is his long awaited and highly anticipated return to Seattle since his last exhibition in 2016. ‘BLUNDERLUST’ consists of an entirely new body of work, unseen to the public, rooted in Weldon’s familiar choice subjects: a variety of surreally painted cats and women placed in alternative realities and environments. Executed with his signature meticulous touch, Weldon’s work is simultaneously curious and exciting, appearing backlit with exuberant energy.

Opposite – Starry Party (2018)

Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2018

TREASON Gallery
319 3rd Ave S
Seattle
WA 98104, USA

treasongallery.com

CHARLES LONG – HUSBANDS SONS FATHERS BROTHERS

The four works which make up the exhibition were born within the circumference of the artist’s major installation, paradigm lost currently on view in the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA. If paradigm lost offers a place to contemplate a new paradigm amidst the aftermath of an imagined patriarchal apocalypse, husbands fathers
brothers sons presents the prologue—the paradigms of identities we still must contend with before they can be properly abolished and transcended. What these two distinct bodies of work do share is a relentless common denominator: a sole motif divined by Long from an anatomical cross-section of human male genital anatomy,
which also resembles a kind of ancient mask.
Each of Long’s four new works are presented in their own gallery and assigned one name from the four identities within husbands sons fathers brothers. Long explains that “the spark that lit the fuse came when I questioned not only the patriarchal order but also the need for any identity or relationship paradigms in my life and the world I relate to. I felt more comfortable with myself with every limiting label I dispensed with. While it was one thing to become aware of and question the unexamined hereto-normative, monogamous or other hegemonic ideologies I have previously acquiesced to, when it came to my biology I was up against the mystery of my physical and chemical self. I explored this physical specificity in drawings of the cross-section of the penis, which then revealed to me a face or mask that looked back at me with its own questions. Suddenly the new work spilled out from this tear in the fabric of my being with myriad images and forms of this open body.”

Opposite – fathers, 2018

Exhibition runs through to August 18th, 2018

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038 Los Angeles
USA

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

CAITLIN LONEGAN – POINTS OF VIEW

Lonegan’s compositions are based on sketches and drawings, the markings and traces of which are translated into large-scale pictures. These marks refer to the history of (abstract) painting and also reflect her personal reaction to the site.
“Caitlin Lonegan’s paintings exhibit a specific kind of gestural abstraction that eschews the grand, one-off gestures of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism. In a way, there’s nothing heroic about her process: each painting emerges as an accrual of marks built up slowly over time. She works on multiple canvases concurrently; some take more than a year to complete. Over these periods, the paintings migrate around her studio, from the floor to the wall and back again. Equipped with a basic arsenal of paint, linseed oil, and spirits, she relies on a heap of borrowed tricks, such as frottage, resist, or embossing to build up the surfaces. While her techniques allow for occasional chance effects, each mark is a calculated gesture, appropriated from smaller studies and then copied and refined on larger canvases.

Opposite – Untitled (Part of P.O.V., 2015-2018), 2018

Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2018

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at