FINDING MEANING

Posted on 2021-04-26

Photographs can support the journey through our diverse experiences of processing, loss, and healing; we all react and respond to images differently, based on our own life perspectives. In this exhibition the Center shares a range of photographs to encourage investigation, reflection, and restoration as we explore ideas central to this historical moment. The exhibition (both online and in the Center’s Main and Heritage galleries) will share images within five conceptual pairs that seem particularly resonant at this time: connection/isolation; wellness/illness; solace/discomfort; presence/absence; and communal/domestic. We will create opportunities to share thoughts and responses to the photographs, building a collective and multivocal conversation about how we are experiencing and coping during this time.

Opposite – Joan Liftin, Tascusa, Amarillo, Texas, ​​​2003

Exhibition runs through to May 31st, 2021

Center For Creative Photography
1030 N. Olive Road
Tucson
AZ 85721

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MARC DENNIS – LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA

Posted on 2021-04-26

The exhibition features a selection of new paintings in Dennis’ signature hyperrealist style, all produced during the prolonged period of social isolation experienced by people around the world, uncannily reflecting a near-universal state of existence in which work, leisure, and communications have been collapsed into a vast, seamless universe of images. By co-opting imagery from celebrated paintings of centuries past, including works by Caravaggio and Ingres, Dennis’ works find new meaning in the hallowed lineage of Old Master painting to explore contemporary questions of artistic ownership, pictorial representation, and the consumption of images.

Opposite – From a Close Distance, 2021

Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2021

GAVLAK
340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite M334
FL 33480 Palm Beach

www.gavlakgallery.com

  

HIPDOT X REESE’S

Posted on 2021-04-26

HipDot has just released a cosmetic collaboration for all the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups fans out there. Joining Hersey’s Reese’s, this makeup release is entirely themed off of the iconic candy.

“Reese’s candy has satisfied millions of taste buds for so long, and when the opportunity came along to offer fans a new way to tap their other senses, it was too sweet of a deal to pass up,” comments Jeff Sellinger, CEO of HipDot Cosmetics. “We’re excited to be working with this legendary household brand.”

Arriving in the form of the White Chocolate Cup Palette, Milk Chocolate Cup Palette, Peanut Butter Lips Duo Balm (peanut-free), and Double Ended Brush Duo, each item maintains Reese’s signature color palette of orange, brown, and yellow as well additional shades named Candy, Peanut Butter, Tasty, Sweet, Perfect, Milk Chocolate.

www.hipdot.com

  

THE PAPER TIGERS

Posted on 2021-04-26

As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan) and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring—and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges (and a dangerous hitman still armed with ample knee cartilage) if they are to honorably defend his legacy.

In Theatres May 7th, 2021

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MARÍA GÓMEZ – EL VIENTO, RETIRARSE ES LO PRIMERO

Posted on 2021-04-26

María Gómez’s work drifts away from her Spanish contemporaries coinciding with long journeys through Italy, Greece and Egypt. The influence of early Renaissance classics such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca, as well as contemporary masters like Morandi and Balthus, stands aside a rebellious stance against other artistic trends of the moment, claiming the rapprochement between the past and the present within a tradition of her own, deeply rooted in the Mediterranean, where speed slows down, and the past is inhabited and coexisting with the most immediate present. In this way, she delves into painting, architecture and landscape, as well as a narrative restlessness, since she also writes and is a devoted reader.

Opposite – Toro Sevillano, 2019 – 2021

Exhibition runs through to June 5th, 2021

Galería Marta Cervera
Calle Valencia 28
28012 Madrid
Spain

www.galeriamartacervera.com

  

DANIELE FORMICA – BOYS BY THE POOL

Posted on 2021-04-26

To swim in a pool of material belongings, plunging, drifting, whirling. The water is glistening, and so are the boys, staying afloat in the quiet streams of aquatic nostalgia. Fidgety silhouettes merge into one another, blurring the limits of their bodies. The water is inviting yet challenging, for its fluid state of being is not apt for humans to live in. Partly vulnerable, partly sensual, Formica’s boys exist in a voyeuristic vacuum where their beautiful bodies swing between subject and object by our gaze, and they coexist with repurposed memorabilia and blue introspections. In Boys by the Pool, Daniele Formica invites us to dip into his watery realm and navigate its liquidity.

Daniele Formica’s new series of work follow a common thread in his practice that began last year while he was rediscovering his domestic environment. Drifting in a confining atmosphere with a decreasingly structuralised perception of time, his belongings started dissolving around him.

Opposite – Blue Pigment (Some boys drift), 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2021

Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS
Singel 372
1016 AH Amsterdam
The Netherlands

www.edbprojects.com