FEMME TOUCH

Posted on 2020-11-16

From transgender icons and stalwart members of the underground scene, to the artist’s mother and his radical would-be assassin, women and femmes in Warhol’s world played crucial roles in every area of his life and practice. This exhibition shines a light on their stories, whose contributions have often been overlooked in retellings of Warhol’s story. In the museum’s second floor gallery, rare Warhol color films and popular paintings will offer new narratives about the individuals depicted.

Femme Touch will also transform five floors of the museum’s permanent collection galleries to position Warhol’s work in dialogue with artifacts and artwork from the lives of these fascinating women and femmes. The exhibition also brings forth areas of the museum’s archives, an extensive holding of over half a million diverse objects, and Warhol’s films, many of which are being newly restored and digitized in an ongoing preservation initiative.

Opposite – Peter Beard – Donna Jordan and Jane Forth, Ca. 1970

Exhibition runs through to January 3rd, 2021

The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh
PA 15212

www.warhol.org

  

AJARB BERNARD ATEGWA

Posted on 2020-11-16

The exhibition consists of a new series of portrait based works and the title of the exhibition references the photo studio beside the house that the artist grew up in. The portraits in this exhibition straddle two temporalities – referencing the black and white studio portraiture popular across countries in post-independence Africa, as well as a contemporary selfie culture.

In both cases, the camera that Ategwa imagines is a technology that marks ascendance, status, abundance. The artist demonstrates that to pose for a camera is to control your own image, to know what part of yourself to project, to know what to be proud of. That celebratory energy is channeled by Ategwa through these new paintings. The documentation of a life, is also to be seen. Evident in these portraits is the post-colonial shift away from the ethnographic view of “Africa”, towards a reclamation of the camera as a tool for the affirmation of the self.

Opposite – Studio Ekwe’s, 2020

Exhibition runs through to November 20th, 2020

Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin
Germany

www.peresprojects.com

  

GLENN SORENSEN

Posted on 2020-11-16

Though figurative painting has been the base of his practice in preceding bodies of work, Sorensen has in recent years increasingly let go of recognizable references in his work. This latest presentation of striking black and green works characterizes Sorensen’s progression into ever greater abstraction.

Essentialism has been the driving force behind Sorensen’s work. In previous work this led him to portray his every day, domestic surroundings, focusing on flowers and plants and his family. The resulting works are instilled with a dreamlike, removed atmosphere, in which the underlying private tensions and emotions remain concealed within the image.

In this recent body of works Sorensen pushes himself further, creating paintings in which the source of the image is masked to unrecognizability. Rather, with the painted canvases laid on wooden panels, the works evoke religious icons. In the use of materials and abstraction, Sorensen explores the essential in the image to a heightened degree. The various bold and less defined lines and spots of colour depicted, communicate an array of movements, emotions and tensions both unknowable and open to interpretation.

Opposite – Non-Stop, 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2020

Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016PL Amsterdam
Netherlands

www.annetgelink.com

  

WALTER PRICE – PEARL LINES

Posted on 2020-11-16

Walter Price’s paintings offer visions that straddle abstraction and representation, combining suggestions of personal memories, collective history and cultural ciphers within his constructions. Extraordinarily apt at placing the viewer, Price’s compositions invoke the feeling of peering into lucid dreams or surreal stage sets, bringing forth an awareness of looking at a familiar setting but from an unusual and disjointed view, as if a wall were removed to allow quiet observation from a specific perspective. Objects are thus placed to accommodate this direction, or appear in motion as though the viewer stumbles upon seemingly private scenes: figures appear to be in repose as they lounge within the space surrounded by a chest of drawers, sofa, table, all the usual hallmarks of a domestic interior. However there is an idiosyncrasy in them – these sparse interiors act as vehicles for the non-linear narratives they hold rather than mirroring a reality.

Opposite – GLIDE UNDER THE MOON, 2020

Exhibition runs through to November 14th, 2020

The Modern Institute
3 Aird’s Lane
G1 5HU
Glasgow

www.themoderninstitute.com

  

ABELL OCTOVAN – I DONUT CARE (SPOOKY EDITION)

Posted on 2020-11-16

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SUPREME /STONE ISLAND

Posted on 2020-11-16

Supreme has worked with Stone Island® on a new collection for Fall 2020. Made exclusively for Supreme, the collection consists of a hand-painted Hooded Shearling Jacket; water and wind resistant painted camo Crinkle Down Jacket, nylon Cargo Pant, cotton Top, nylon Shoulder Bag and nylon 6-Panel; cotton corduroy Jacket, Pant and Crusher; cotton Hooded Sweatshirt and Sweatshort with custom dye treatment; and Glow-in-the-Dark Balaclava and Baruffaldi Rek Goggles.

Available November 19th.

Available in Japan November 21st.

www.supremenewyork.com