STANLEY WHITNEY

Posted on 2020-05-04

The exhibition features works produced in Italy and the United States.

Whitney’s vibrant abstract paintings unlock the linear structure of the grid, imbuing it with new and unexpected cadences of color, rhythm, and space. Deriving inspiration from sources as diverse as Piet Mondrian, free jazz, and American quilt making, Whitney composes with blocks and bars that articulate a chromatic call-and-response within each canvas.

Whitney has spent decades experimenting with the seemingly limitless potential of a single compositional method, loosely dividing square canvases into multiple registers. The thinly applied oil paint retains his active brushwork and allows for a degree of transparency and tension at the borders between each rectilinear parcel of vivid color. In varying canvas sizes, he explores the shifting effects of his freehand geometries at both intimate and grand scales as he deftly lays down successive blocks of paint, heeding the call of each color.

Opposite – That’s Rome, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 26th, 2020

Gagosian
Via Francesco Crispi 16
00187 Rome
Italy

gagosian.com

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CACHE – FROM B TO Z

Posted on 2020-05-04

A group exhibition featuring Birdhead, Chen Wei, Chen Xiaoyun, Ding Yi, The Grand Voyage – Guo Xi & Zhang Jianling, Han Feng, He Wei, Lynn Hershman, Hu Jieming, Hu Liu, Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing, Jiang Pengyi, Li Shan, Liang Shaoji, Liang Yue, Lin Aojie, Liu Weijian, Liu Yi, Liu Yue, Lu Lei, Nabuqi, Ouyang Chun, Shao Yi, Shen Fan, Shi Qing, Shi Yong, Sun Xun, Melati Suryodarmo, Tang Maohong, Xu Zhen®, Yan Bing, Yang Fudong, Yang Zhenzhong, Yu Youhan, Zhang Ding, Zhang Enli, Robert Zhao Renhui, Zhao Yang.

Opposite – Yu Youhan, Playing Sports, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 12th, 2020

ShanghART
West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555 Longteng Avenue
Xuhui District
200232 Shanghai
China

www.shanghartgallery.com

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CHRIS HOOD

Posted on 2020-05-04

Chris Hood’s paintings depict layered arrangements of images set against fields of stained color, scattered landscape vignettes, picturesque vistas, “clip art”-style icons and simplified central figures. Painted from behind as opposed to from the front, Hood works in a reverse layering process, as each layer dries it seals the surface, blocking the successive layers from penetrating the canvas. The imagery appears to fracture, double, and dissipate amongst the surfaces. Drawn from an archive of personal photographs, self-portraits, advertising imagery and anatomical studies, the figures that Hood paints seem to be in a trancelike state — dreaming, sleepwalking, or hypnotized, suggesting that the disparate images that make up the compositions may be organized by dream logic or governed by a series of undetermined associations.

Opposite – Split Cave, 2019

Exhibition runs through to May 19th, 2020

Praz-Delavallade (Online Viewing Room)
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris
France

www.praz-delavallade.com

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