GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON – FLAGWASTE

Posted on 2018-09-17

In November of 2016, Hillary Clinton was widely presumed to be the frontrunner in the American presidential election. During the early evening hours of the eighth, however, it became clear that her opponent would be declared the victor. Shortly before the election, Team Gallery had opened a solo show by Gardar Eide Einarsson at its project space on the West Coast. Included in that exhibition was a work entitled Flagwaste, a substantial sculpture that consists of remnants from the production of American flags. The materials had been obtained directly from U.S. factories, the residual waste of the flags’ fabrication process. The factories contacted were asked simply to sweep the floors at close of day, box the refuse and ship them to the gallery. The red, white and blue material was displayed as a giant, contiguous mound in the center of one of the gallery’s spaces.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 1st, 2018

team (gallery, inc.)
83 Grand Street
NY
NY 10013

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ANA MENDIETA – CUBA & MIAMI, 1981-83

Posted on 2018-09-17

Often referring to being “torn” from her homeland, Mendieta persistently sought to connect with her origins and the Cuba she left as a child. Mendieta’s return to Cuba as an adult and fully formed artist deeply influenced her perspective and approach to artmaking. Almost 40 years later, a selection of these works will be on view in Paris for the first time.

The exhibition features works made in Miami, symbolically and physically the closest geographic point to Cuba. Finding affinity to Miami’s shores, she often visited and created a number of works in the landscape, notably, the Sandwoman (1983) series. A rare recreation of the original installation, which anticipated her subsequent sculptures made from earth and wood, as well as several Sandwoman photographs. Ochún (1981), a photograph of a work that Mendieta also documented on video, was titled after the patron saint of Cuba and Afro-Cuban deity who possesses the power to create unity. Two curved ridges of sand symbolize the United States and Cuba, unified by the same water, which then flows between them. Displacement and unity, two abiding themes for Mendieta, are clearly present throughout this body of work and the exhibition.

Opposite – La Venus Negra (The Black Venus), 1981 / 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 17th, 2018

Galerie Lelong & Co.
13, rue de Téhéran
75008 Paris
France

www.galerie-lelong.com

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KEENAN DERBY – WAVEFORMS

Posted on 2018-09-17

This series of paintings was inspired by a 17th century ceramic tile depicting the expedition of a Dutch whaling party, which Derby found in “Secrets of the Sea”, a 1971 copy of Reader’s Digest. “I was immediately drawn to the luminous blues and whites, and the complex and elegant lines tracing ships, waves, and whalers.” The tile’s lines serve as the foundation of Derby’s paintings, moving in and out of focus as he adds thick, shimmering, coats of acrylic and sand. “The work is finished when the layers of opacity begin to glow with an inner light, and the paint functions on its own terms.”

In addition to cool, rocky, ocean waves, Derby is inspired by the warm, hazy, vistas of Southern California. These paintings hug the surface close, lines of paint seeping into an ochre desert of raw linen. Just as the mast of a ship might appear, bobbing, in the thick paintings, here cacti and ancient pines glimmer, like a mirage, within the flat weave of the surface. “Flanking perception and invention, a finished work is a moment cast in stone, a flawed memory solidified into reality, asserting its own place in the world.”

Opposite – Descending Branch, 2016

Exhibition runs through to October 13th, 2018

Craig Krull Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Los Angeles
90404 CA

craigkrullgallery.com

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