LYDIA BLAKELEY – DOG SHOW

Posted on 2021-01-04

Dog Show, is a online solo exhibition of new paintings by Lydia Blakeley that depict dogs and their owners in competition at British dog shows. Positioned against a background of green, Blakeley puts the dogs in the leading role while their owners are the supporting actors. Part status symbol and part family member, the dogs symbolize prestige, loyalty and protection. According to Blakeley, “there is something captivating about the dogs’ expressions. They are endearing, and I like to think of these paintings as little scenes from one big performance.”

Opposite – Maltesers, 2020

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2021

Steve Turner (online viewing room)
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038 Los Angeles
USA

steveturner.la

  

NIGHTPORTS – STUPA

Posted on 2021-01-04

Nightports follow this year’s Nightports w/ Betamax album with a different take on their rule of restriction. Their simple rule has, until this point, been that only sounds created by a featured musician can be used on each release. On their ‘places’ series, they create music with sounds recorded in a specific location on one day. The sounds on the Wat Chedi Luang EP were recorded at a 14th Century temple in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand on December 22nd 2018.

Just as Nightports’ albums distil and amplify the characteristics of their featured artists, on Wat Chedi Luang they seamlessly evoke a sense of place in their engaging, intricate and melodic productions.

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THOMAS KLOTZ – I’LL NEVER BE YOUNG AGAIN

Posted on 2021-01-04

In this new series, Thomas Klotz addresses the theme of adolescence and the anxieties that come with it, by referencing his twelve-year-old daughter. Devoid of narrative dimension, this implicit portrait takes shape through anonymous images, “punctuation exercises,” where walls, volumes, materials, voids and shadows are all surfaces of projection, silent commentary. Heavily influenced by Lewis Baltz, Thomas Klotz directs his attention to the everyday, the trivial, where the shot resembles a micro-input of something that, in the photographer’s eye, takes on an intriguing and singular thickness. In addition, through his framing, Thomas Klotz turns away from what naturally draws the eye while suggesting presence by way of hints that attest to a life captured candidly toward a tipping point.

Opposite – Sans titre, 2020

Exhibition runs through to February 6th, 2021

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri
75004 Paris
France

www.nathalieobadia.com

  

DOUBLE-M, DOUBLE-X

Posted on 2021-01-04

Double-M, Double-X brings together the work of ten very different artists in a stimulating and eclectic presentation, celebrating the breadth, diversity and vitality of contemporary painting. Artist included, Leiko Ikemura, Merlin James, Brian Maguire, Isabel Nolan, Nano Reid, Sean Scully, Trevor Shimizu, Caragh Thuring, Liliane Tomasko and Charline von Heyl.

Opposite – Arizona 3, 2020

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2021

Kerlin Gallery (online viewing room)
Anne’s Lane
South Anne Street
Dublin 2 Dublin
Ireland

www.kerlingallery.com

  

PHILIPPE MAYAUX – BUTTERFLY DIVINITIES

Posted on 2021-01-04

Mayaux’s latest paintings are more reflexive than ever, too. Titled “Butterfly Divinities,” they form a set of small pictures on an intergalactic ground over which is splurged an almost-allover gangbang of gargoylish heads. The method that produces these figures is simple: as elsewhere in the Universe, it all starts with a blotch, which doubles up then proliferates.
But don’t to looking for Rorschach-style psychology here; these are just grimacing mouths emerging from the primal material, like shadows in the Cave. And, in a beating of wings, the butterfly becomes god and calls on Mayaux to take the constellation of his painting up a level or two, or three.

Opposite – Butterfly Divinity, 2018–2020

Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2021

Loevenbruck
6, rue Jacques Callot
75006 Paris
France

www.loevenbruck.com

  

IT WAS ALL A DREAM

Posted on 2021-01-04

Artists viewing the real world through an abstract lens.
With work by: Berenice Abbott, Nadav Kander, Jungjin Lee, Saul Leiter, Ray K. Metzker, and Bruno V. Roels.

Opposite – Saul Leiter, Snow Scene, 1960

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2021

Howard Greenberg gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
NY 10022

www.howardgreenberg.com