BRIAN CALVIN – WAITING

Posted on 2020-11-23

Faces abound, energizing the first and second floor galleries with hyperbolic color, mosaic eyes, and varnished lips. The cool neutrality of their expressions brings an equal and opposite force; a stillness to the space. Otherworldly as they are, this group of 23 new works cannot be untangled from the time within which they were created. These paintings were born out of the global pandemic, which brought life as normal to a halt.

Life as a painter in Ojai, California, is solitary. The isolation of the Ojai Valley provides a lifestyle that dovetails nicely with Calvin’s daily painting process. However with the forced suspension of his routine due to the lockdown, isolation took on a new meaning. It presented time to reexamine self-imposed boundaries in his work, including what it means to paint a figure.

Opposite – Committee, 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2020

Anton Kern Gallery
91 Walker Street
10013
New York

www.antonkerngallery.com

  

WINDOW

Posted on 2020-11-23

Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present two special installations by Matthew Monahan and Lara Schnitger at WINDOW.

Opposite – Booty For Biden, 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2020

Anton Kern Gallery
91 Walker Street
10013
New York

www.antonkerngallery.com

  

NOMADLAND

Posted on 2020-11-23

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

In theatres February 19th, 2021

www.searchlightpictures.com

  

PATTY CARROLL – COLLAPSE AND CALAMITY

Posted on 2020-11-23

The exhibition features new work from Patty Carroll’s series “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise”. Works including Staired Down, Cleaned Out, and Flagged Down feel particularly relevant to the tumultuous and exhausting past year. “Anonymous Women” is 3-part series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. By camouflaging the figure in drapery and/or domestic objects, Carroll creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and the Anonymous Woman. Aint-Bad Books recently published a new monograph of her work Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise, which is available to purchase at the gallery.

Opposite – Cleaned Out, 2018

Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2020

Catherine Couturier Gallery
2635 Colquitt Street
Houston
TX 77098

www.catherinecouturier.com

  

JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT – TWENTY FIVE ICONS OF AMERICA

Posted on 2020-11-23

In 2020, French-American photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont received The Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism and The Visa D’Or Award of the Figaro Magazine for Lifetime Achievement.

For more than three decades, starting in 1964, Jean-Pierre Laffont travelled all fifty states seeking to document as wide of a range of compelling American stories, and he also photographed celebrities both French and American along with all the politicians of the times. He spent eight years at the White House as a foreign correspondent and photographed several presidents. He produced in-depth photo essays of the rise of the World Trade Center, the gangs in the Bronx, and the violence on 42nd Street.

Opposite – Robert Kennedy campaigning, Brooklyn, NY, December 1st, 1967

Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
100 Crosby St, #603
New York
NY 10012

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

  

THE EXORCIST GBG – STONERDISCO

Posted on 2020-11-23

Exorcist have embraced hard rock more obvious than before, especially on the A-side, which is a boogie nightmare with fuzz bass and totally freed from guitar solos. The rhythm section with Osynlige Mann on bass and Tentakel on drums, plows in usual manner down space and time while Vesslans synthesizers shoots gamma rays through Exo-universe. The B-side is haunting, unsentimental dystopic disco.

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