DEAD CROSS – REIGN OF ERROR
2022-06-13“Reign Of Error” is first single from Dead Cross’ new album, II. Pre-order the CD, Digital, Cassette and Vinyl Variants of the October 28th release.
TweetROBERT G. ACHTEL – THE CITY OF NAMARA
2022-06-13The City of Namara by Robert G. Achtel presents an American city that exists somewhere between reality and fiction through nine original composites meticulously created from the artist’s photographs and designs. The citizens are nowhere to be seen, yet it’s the implied human drama presented in each piece that pulls the viewer into a thrilling narrative of excess and despair. On the surface, the series alludes to a period of architectural upheaval when the standards of Modernism were questioned, if not rejected, by a new school of designers. At the end of the 1960s, the truth had become all but relative and this new age was embedded in the architecture through irony, seduction, and profitability.
Opposite – JEALOUSY, 2020
Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2022
Marshall Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. #A6
Los Angeles
CA 90404
LOUISE BONNET – ONSLAUGHT
2022-06-06In Onslaught, Bonnet focuses on corporeal fluids as objects of societal disgust, investigating art historical precedents for their depiction and considering the ways in which modern aesthetic and ideological conventions complicate the ways in which they are now received (“We are much more prudish about certain things now than people were in the 1500s,” she observes). The paintings explore our sense of mortification at our own bodies and the way they seem to betray us by leaking, sagging, or failing in various ways. “I’m interested in shame and the body in my paintings,” she states, “and bodily functions bring extra shame and embarrassment.”
Opposite – Projection 2, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2022
Gagosian
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central Hong Kong
China
JONGSUK YOON – YELLOW TO PINK
2022-06-06Traces can run parallel, cross each other, or be superimposed. In Jongsuk Yoon’s work, traces of condensed temporality, corporeality, memory, and biography intersect and result in idiosyncratic pictorial worlds that dis-play an impressive range of colors. The paintings by the artist, who was born in South Korea and has been living in Germany since the early 1990s, fuse the traditions of Asian landscape painting with a Western canon of art that is defined by abstraction, translating these elements into abstract landscapes that consist of large, overlapping forms.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2022
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Austria
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – FROGS 1 – 9
2022-06-06In past bodies of work, Michael Williams has developed a suite of interconnected paintings out of a drawing, not uncommonly focused on a human figure or surrogate. In the case of Frogs 1 – 9, the source is Untitled (Frog) (2019–2020): a small sheet given over to a greying man-cum-jester, hollowed nostrils shaped like an electrical outlet and mouth agape, forming an unlikely heart. There, in his domestic sanctum, he dons a bell-tipped fool’s hat, historically, the triangular protrusions recapitulated asses’ ears—and gaudy checkered sweater. His thumb and middle finger pinch a splayed frog that stares back at its reciprocally confounded wide-eyed captor. The tone is jocular as befits its comic protagonist. But it also recalls the morality play of Puritan theology, as exemplified by Jonathan Edwards’ sermon equating the precarity of human life to that of a spider dangling over a fire (a none too subtle analogy for the proximity of Hell). The jester and frog reappear in related sketches suggesting defeat, Untitled (Wipeout) (2022) literally spells this out—and the cap ‘n’ bells transmogrifies into a fleshy body atop a goldrimmed plate in Untitled (Mar-A-Lago) (2022), a perfectly horrible cannibalistic feast.
Opposite – Frogs 1, 2022
Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2022
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Lichtenfelsgasse 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
‘BULLHEADED’ BY BRIAN VIVEROS X 3DRETRO
2022-06-06Painter Brian Viveros’ seductive yet gritty Dirtyland series comes to life with the new Bullheaded vinyl art toy produced by 3DRetro. Bullheaded features one of Viveros’ classic formidable females wearing a black combat helmet with bull horns, two belts of bullets, a red bullfighter’s cape and not much else.
The ambitious piece translates Viveros’ work to vinyl — no easy feat given his intricate pieces with hyper-realistic facial details. Highlights include the floral detail on the helmet, the tattoo of a bullfighter, and the warrior’s moody, dramatic eye shadow. First released in extremely limited, pandemic-constrained quantities at DesignerCon 2021, Bullheaded is now ready for a wider release.
An edition of 50.
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