ELIAS SIME – THROUGH THE WINDOW

Posted on 2025-02-03

The title Through The Window speaks to both literal and metaphorical apertures—portals that frame perception, whether through architecture or digital screens. His layered, textured surfaces recall aerial landscapes, circuit pathways, and organic topographies, offering a meditation on interconnectedness and the materials that shape our digital world.

Sime’s method is notably hands-on and meticulous, involving an almost alchemical reworking of materials, where each component is carefully selected, manipulated, and reassembled to create intricate networks that evoke emotions. At first glance, they give the impression of maps, topographies, and even urban grids. This attention to detail not only results in visually arresting pieces but also challenges viewers to reconsider the value and potential of the limitless possibilities of human imagination. By turning everyday industrial remnants into art, he interrogates the relentless pace of technological progress and its environmental ramifications, highlighting how precious minerals are extracted from the earth to fuel its development

Opposite – Tightrope: Through the Window 5

Exhibition runs through to May 24th, 2025

Lawrie Shabibi
Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al-Quoz 1
Dubai
UAE

www.lawrieshabibi.com

  

GILLIAN CARNEGIE

Posted on 2025-01-27

Carnegie has painted still lifes, landscapes, portraits, nudes, and interiors for the past two decades. With these most recent works, she revisits motifs recurring throughout her practice as a means to investigate the historical tradition of painting. Probing at the conventions of the medium, Carnegie layers her simple subjects with art historical and literary references that subvert their appeared normalcy the longer they are viewed. The seven works on display are self-contained, capturing fleeting moments with emotion and specificity through Carnegie’s restrained visual language.

Opposite – 1972, 2023

Exhibition runs through to April 26th, 2025

Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone 64
130 East 64th Street
NY 10065 New York

www.gladstone64.com

  

JOAN NELSON

Posted on 2025-01-20

For over four decades, Joan Nelson has created majestic and potent visions of the natural world, playfully subverting the long-standing art historical genre of landscape painting. This March, Herald St presents an exhibition of new works made by the artist in her studio nestled amongst the Catskill Mountains in Stamford,
New York.

In her newest works, produced for her second solo exhibition at Herald St, Nelson remains interested in geological phenomena: depicting the sky, clouds, caves, sunsets, mountains, valleys, and rivers. Drawing from both observed reality and imagination, Nelson’s meticulously rendered compositions depict a world seemingly untouched by human life. ‘I don’t want a human presence, or even an animal presence,’ Nelson previously observed. ‘Because then the painting has a specific focal point, and it’s about that focal point.’ Indeed, while this allows her paintings a universality to project one’s own experiences and memories, Nelson’s paintings also imagine a world pre-, or perhaps post-, human civilisation. ‘I think of a world in which humans don’t exist, and I’m a little gleeful about it,’ she once conceded.

Opposite – Untitled, 2024

Exhibition runs through to April 26th, 2025

Herald St
2 Herald St
E2 6JT London
England

www.heraldst.com

  

WHERE EARTH MEETS SKY

Posted on 2025-01-13

Where Earth Meets Sky, a group exhibition of contemporary painting that reimagines the landscape as a dynamic space shaped by culture, memory, and perception. Featuring the works of 26 artists on the ground and first floor of the Neubau at Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, the exhibition challenges traditional views of the landscape, not as a static, natural entity, but as a constantly evolving concept. Each artist brings a unique, abstract approach to the theme of “landscape,” pushing the boundaries of representation and distilling the natural world into new visual languages. The landscape is not simply depicted – it becomes a vehicle for exploring our environment’s psychological, emotional, and political dimensions. Through layers of texture, color, and form, the artists shift our focus from the physical landscape to its symbolic meanings – revealing how our perception of nature is shaped by history, memory, and collective identity.

Opposite – Maria Joannou, August Moon

Exhibition runs through to August 3rd, 2025

KÖNIG GALERIE
Am Bergson Kunstkraftwerk 2
81245 Munich
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

MENCHU LAMAS – HABITANDO EL COLOR

Posted on 2025-01-06

Central to the exhibition Habitando el Color and Menchu Lamas’ work is the use of colour and the creation of spaces. In contrast to Cubism, which is based on deconstruction, Menchu Lamas takes a constructive approach. She combines various elements from her own artistic universe, many of which are repeated, to generate spaces. Her style blends figuration and abstraction. Colour also plays a key role in her
artistic vision, establishing a unique visual identity

Opposite – Soñando na espiral, 2018

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2025

Galería Marta Cervera
Calle Valencia 28
28012 Madrid
Spain

www.galeriamartacervera.com

  

TAU LEWIS – SPIRIT LEVEL

Posted on 2024-12-30

Inspired by a range of sources including the many faces of the Caribbean Sea, techno and dub music, novels, and studies of religion and spirituality, among other subjects, Lewis expands her narrative and world-building possibilities. These figures, some of whom appear in other guises throughout Lewis’s various bodies of work, populate the artist’s domain with not only their presence and associated fables
but also with what she terms their “material DNA,” the genetic thread that binds them together. The works in Spirit Level originated in the wake of a major loss experienced by the artist. The forms embody Lewis processing a significant life transition, in which she refigures and repurposes material and emotional inheritances. Through the act of synthesizing found and inherited belongings, she reckons with the ending of an object’s journey as it changes hands, the mysterious space in between these transitions, and its reemergence in a new form.

Opposite – Alla världar ger ett sken, A / All Worlds Emit, A, 2023

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2025

David Zwirner
616 North Western Avenue
CA 90004
Los Angeles

www.davidzwirner.com