JEROME CAJA – UGLY PAGEANT

Posted on 2024-11-04

Jerome’s midwestern Catholic school upbringing was foundational to both the physical and representational aspects of his work from the late eighties until his untimely death due to complications from AIDS in 1995. Caja’s paintings, intimate in scale and primarily composed in nail polish and glitter on found materials like plastic tip trays or scraps of wood, lace, and other refuse, often resemble Catholic miniatures, icons, or reliquaries, depicting saints and other figures in bawdy, grotesque scenes.

Opposite – The Rose Bikini, 1990

Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2024

Bortolami Gallery
39 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

www.bortolamigallery.com

  

CAITLIN KEOGH – PROCESSION

Posted on 2024-11-04

Keogh’s fourth solo exhibition at Bortolami, titled Procession, is itself a generous conversation and act of devotion featuring a cavalcade of images unfurling over eight paintings. To make the works, Keogh pored through hundreds of the images mailed to her, searching for ones whose emotional tone she was drawn to. She looked for unfamiliar images, unburdened by iconic status or overdetermined historical narratives that felt open to interpretation. They were pictures that, to many people in our era of media saturation and aesthetic amnesia, could only be described loosely as “classical” or “historical,” making their beauty, mystery, or strangeness all the more potent for generating associative responses. Keogh was interested in how the images in her pile spoke to her and to one another, and, in turn, how they would speak to viewers encountering them through the language of her painting.

Opposite – Procession Painting, Bugs and Boy, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2024

Bortolami Gallery
39 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

www.bortolamigallery.com

  

RYAN GANDER – THIS IS FEELING ALL OF IT

Posted on 2024-10-27

THIS IS FEELING ALL OF IT draws on Gander’s research into human perception and cognition, investigating the variety of ways in which humans navigate and perceive the world around them. Particular focuses include his research into Autism, with his six-year old son Baxter having been diagnosed several years ago, alongside ongoing themes around attention and distraction — terms highly charged in cultural discussions of the last 150 years, and increasingly so in the context of social media and their impact on changing human cognition. Gander’s exhibition address these topics as artist and father, transforming them into artworks that are profoundly moving and thought-provoking, a subtle celebration of cognitive diversity.

Opposite – Closed systems, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 7th, 2024

Esther Schipper
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com

  

LEYLA YENIRCE – EYE LEVEL

Posted on 2024-10-27

Using oil paint, acrylic spray paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, the paintings in Eye Level include printed motifs depicting female Kurdish freedom fighters using binoculars to survey the land and sky, except for one fighter, who sits and reads a book. While she reads in Fireball, the Sumerian language appears as cuneiform in Gold. The Sumerian script, familiar to the artist through her Yazidi background, signals the written word, while her brushstrokes evoke associations of inscription or signatuare.

Additionally, Yenirce layers blueprints of F-16 fighter jets, used extensively by Turkey in conflict with these women fighters, and Google Earth views of the controversial Ilisu Dam project, built and finalized by Turkey in 2018. Mapping tools of ruin, the images relate to each other in various ways: while the jets are used to control the area where the women operate from above, the dam has flooded about 200 villages from below, as rising water levels overflow the banks of the Tigris River and submerge regions where people have lived for millennia. As the artist states, only between the earth and the sky, “on eye level, can these women exist.”

Opposite – Focus, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 14th, 2024

Petzel Gallery
35 E 67th Street
NY 10065
New York

www.petzel.com

  

DANIEL BOYD – DREAM TIME

Posted on 2024-10-27

With his unique pictorial language, Daniel Boyd seeks to “de-locate our visual perception from a single entry to one of multiplicity” by directing our gaze toward narratives obscured by empire and oppressive cultural framework. Taking as his subject landscapes, historical representations, and portraits linked to his own personal history, heretofore invisible, as well as iconic figures rarely depicted in the visual arts, Daniel Boyd continues to transmit and transpose his cultural and artistic traditions while expanding our collective imagination.

The title of the exhibition responds to “dreamtime,” the term given by early European anthropologists to define what they understood to be the mythology behind the natural order of things for most Australian Aboriginal groups, proposing a reductive vision of their cultures, which are both highly diverse and interconnected by complex narrative networks. Boyd, who is of plural origins (descended from indigenous Australians and South Sea islanders), splits the term dreamtime into binary opposites (Dream Time), allowing the uncontrollable nature of a dream to be freed from the European linear and controlled perception of time.

Opposite – Untitled (NIIDT), 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2024

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

JAMES TURRELL – PATH TAKEN

Posted on 2024-10-21

Almine Rech Paris is pleased to announce its 12th exhibition in 3 decades with James Turrell organized by the gallery. A new light piece from his ongoing Glassworks series started in 2004 will be on view.

I’ve always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is colored, the way light rains off people with auras and things like that… We don’t normally see light like that.
But we all know it.
– James Turrell

Opposite – Path Taken, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2024

Almine Rech
18 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France

www.alminerech.com