JOYCE TENNESON – DRAPED AND VEILED

Posted on 2022-09-12

Standing behind the substantial presence of the large format Polaroid 20×24 camera—weighing 200 pounds and the size of a refrigerator—artists peer through the viewfinder towards another world. The process of creating the unique large dye transfer prints imparts framing to a scene and quality to an image that balances subtlety with boldness, softness paired with an undeniable presence. The 20×24 Polaroid adds an additional layer of veiling and diaphanous softness to the imagery in Joyce Tenneson’s Transformations series, which she began in 1985 and engaged with through 2005.

Opposite – Untitled from the Transformations series, 1985–2005

Exhibition runs through to October 10th, 2022

Asheville Art Museum
2 South Pack Square
Asheville
NC 28801

www.ashevilleart.org

  

MELISSA SHOOK – EARLY SELF-PORTRAITS 1972-1973

Posted on 2022-09-12

The Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973 series is a pioneering project exploring intimate female identity in photography. Shook captured herself in a simple setting in her downtown New York loft against an empty wall space. Over the next 8 months, Shook developed a personal landscape, taking control of her attractive body while feeling shy, playful, melancholic, tired, or intimidated. With potted avocado plants often by her side, Shook posed wearing worn-out jeans, a wrinkled chintz robe, bath towels, etc.

Featuring 25 images, the exhibition highlights Shook’s critical series in several segments: a transition from everyday scenes in December to posed portraits in January and February; torso close-ups capturing the beauty of feminine features in March; face portraits with eloquent hand gestures from March to April; dance-like movements of her naked body with childlike playfulness in May. In addition, the exhibition features 6 reclining nudes (circa 1973) which Shook appeared to have worked on in parallel to her daily photographs.

Opposite – December 13, 1972, 1972

Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2022

Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery
24 East 64th Street
New York
NY 10065

miyakoyoshinaga.com

  

DARREN BADER – WONTHS EVERY FEW MONCE

Posted on 2022-09-12

JLG died last week. He was old (I’m not young). I’ve largely refrained from reading the obits/tributes because I want to continue to regard him and his preternatural gifts as I do (or prefer to): word and image, word and image, word and image, word and image, word and image, word and image—their confluence and dissonance (their never-to-be-consonant), their hauntings and their bliss. Spectac(u)larity.

I finished reading The Recognitions a few days before. It couldn’t but bring to mind persistent thoughts from my mid-aughts: (don’t) pity the artist who wishes to speak with new voice in this vast, decades-old organism of global cultural exchange—its audacious optimism, its shipwreck of meaning across countless shores—that artist was born decades late.

Postmodernism, as it was once quasi-commonly called. Not that (fairweatherly) fashionable, frequently-Francophonic facet of it fashionably denigrated in the conservative press, nor the ghoulish neoliberalism and/or late capitalism dogging many on the left. Rather [I reverently write]: the righteously quixotic embrace of everything—the utopia and vertigo of information, of exuberant semiotic superabundance, insatiable maw of manic (panoptic) panoply, sublimely fanciful farce.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2022

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
W1B 5QN
London

www.sadiecoles.com

  

ATMOS X ADIDAS ADIMATIC OG SHOEBOX

Posted on 2022-09-12

Atmos and adidas Originals continue their partnership with the adidas ADIMATIC. Making its return this year, the ADIMATIC has been presented in an array of OG looks. Expanding on this, atmos and adidas Originals are bringing back the retro brown adidas shoeboxes with the “OG Shoebox” colorway of the ADIMATIC. While the shoeboxes are a replica, the co-branded sockliner of the sneaker features images of the original boxes. The sneaker’s signature thick Three Stripes arrive in black while a golden brown suede outfits the remainder of the upper.

www.adidas.co.uk
www.atmos-tokyo.com

  

SINGING WITH THE WOLVES

Posted on 2022-09-12

In fairy tales and myths it is quite common that the fate of humans and animals interact. Very often humans transform into animals and back to humans again, when the spell is broken. In the video animation East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen, the title leads us
to a Nordic fairy tale about a prince who by a curse has become a white bear and lives East of the Sun and West of the Moon. It is unknown why, but this fairy tale ended up to become a song performed by Frank Sinatra in 1940. During their stay in Hybrida, an artist residency in Sweden, Margit Lukács and
Persijn Broersen encountered an ancient wasteland of the iron industry that had turned into wilderness and was inhabited by wolves. Triggered by the landscape and the wolves, in collaboration with Smári Róbertsson, the artist duo transformed Sinatra’s song into a desperately growling plea for love,
embodied by a white wolf. Spinning in circles, the hybrid wolf-man-creature is torn between the natural and the virtual, the animal and the human within him.

Opposite – Charlotte Schleiffert, Save Ukraine, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022

AKINCI
Lijnbaansgracht 317
1017 WZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

akinci.nl

  

JAN GROOVER – LABORATORY OF FORMS

Posted on 2022-09-12

Jan Groover (American, 1943 – 2011) was among the very best still life photographers since the medium’s invention. Her Kitchen Still Life photographs were first exhibited at Sonnabend Gallery. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1979. In 1987, Groover had a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art which subsequently toured the United States. Her work has been exhibited and included in the collections of most major museums worldwide, and continues to influence a new generation of artists. Groover moved to France in 1991, with her husband, the painter Bruce Boice, who still lives there.

Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2022

Janet Borden, Inc.
91 Water Street
Brooklyn
NY 11201

janetbordeninc.com