MIGUEL CARDENAS – CONDO NEW YORK

Posted on 2019-07-08

Cardenas’ landscapes are painted from an impossible point of view, distant and near, flat and spatial, alive and static. Flora and fauna meet depictions of archeological objects on a stage that at once feels like an elaborate, metaphysical recreation of the outside world and a visit to a personal museum. His sculptures draw together the iconography of the ancient Pre-Columbian era with that of European modernism. Through the use of abstract pedestals that deconstruct the animal body yet support an recognisable head, Cardenas conjures up the anthropomorphic qualities of animals and conveys the mimetic element implicit in our fascination with a more primal understanding of the world.

Opposite – Garden City, 2019

Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2019

Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.metropictures.com

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MAYO THOMPSON – GO TO THE WINDOW

Posted on 2019-07-08

Mayo Thompson (b. 1944) is from Houston, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, CA. His formal education includes Garden of Arts Kindergarten until Holy Rosary Elementary School through fifth grade, then Moye Military School until high school at Cascia Hall College Preparatory School, from which he received a diploma in 1962. He went on to St. Thomas University, trying variously, off and on, in some cases simultaneously, Pre-Law, Creative Writing, English and American Literature, Philosophy, and Art History, before dropping out and starting a band with Frederick Barthelme in 1966 The Red Crayola, after the first album, spelled with a Kin the USA for legal reasons.

Opposite – Cessna 137, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 2nd, 2019

Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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DANA HOEY – DANA HOEY PRESENTS

Posted on 2019-07-08

Dana Hoey Presents, is a para fictional exhibition conceptualized, produced and directed by Hoey, in which the artist will show her own photographic work, the performance and sculpture work of Marcela Torres, and a live ladies Muay Thai fight night that will take place in a 20’ x 20’ boxing ring installed inside the gallery. The show, which challenges and confronts preconceived ideas and realities of feminism, combat, violence, self defense and the martial arts.

“During the run of Dana Hoey Presents, my role will be that of Svengali,” Hoey says. “Although I make work as a single subjective, expressive artist, I prefer to emphasize my position as a participant in a larger social construct.”

Opposite – Sweet Arena, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 2nd, 2019

Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.petzel.com

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