SARAH CUNNINGHAM – IN ITS DAYBREAK, RISING

Posted on 2022-02-14

Cunningham’s works depict complex psychological landscapes drawn from nature, vision and dreams. The artist frequently paints through the night until sunrise, a habit that engenders her use of deep, saturating pigments like Prussian blue and viridian green that evoke the duskiness of evening’s onset. Gestural strokes of crimsons and yellows frequently illuminate the compositions, mimicking the crepuscular light of dawn and casting into sharper relief the topography of the painted canvases.

Opposite – Echo Chamber, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2022

Almine Rech
39 East 78th Street
NY 10075
New York

www.alminerech.com

  

ORTAMIKLOS – RELATIONS

Posted on 2022-02-07

The exhibition offers insight into Orta and Miklos, who decided to separate this past year to develop their individual studio practices. Divided into three separate sections, works by OrtaMiklos alongside pieces from Orta and Miklos Anderson’s independent studios. Relationscaptures this rare moment in the careers of these emerging designers by looking at how their approach to design has evolved while working as part of a collective and how that experience continues to shape their approach since leaving the partnership.

Opposite – Yellow Foot, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

Friedman Benda
515 West 26th Street
NY 10001 New York
USA

www.friedmanbenda.com

  

UNMASKED

Posted on 2022-01-31

Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul.
Seeing faces and communicating unspoken emotions and thoughts via facial expression has never seemed more significant than now, after nearly two years of a pandemic which has made mask-wearing an essential aspect of everyday life. In these works, a number of which have been created especially for the exhibition, artists convey the myriad nuances of human countenance: the warmth of a friend’s smile; the pursed lips of a toddler; the resolute gaze of a self-portrait…

Opposite – Nicholas, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2022

Victoria Miro
Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994
30124 Venice
Italy

victoria-miro.com

  

JULIEN CECCALDI – GOURMANDISES

Posted on 2022-01-31

Working in painting, sculpture, and comic books, Julien Ceccaldi explores a set of archetypal characters that morph and develop in different iterations of themselves. Influenced by the Shōjo manga genre — which focuses on romantic relationships and heightened emotions, Ceccaldi portrays characters as yearning or aspiring in some form or another: for love, sex or success. Attention or affirmation is sought through different means, and Ceccaldi’s world tends to be split into two polarised types of being: hulking, muscular, glowing bodies – aloof targets of sexual and romantic desire – and the unnoticed, exhausted other in this unrequited dyad. Through compositions framing the gaunt, almost repulsive, figure as a lead protagonist, the artist hints at the grace and nobility lying underneath their off-putting traits.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

Modern Art
4-8 Helmet Row
EC1V 3QJ
London

modernart.net

  

SUZANNE JACKSON – IN NATURE’S WAY…

Posted on 2022-01-31

For her first exhibition at The Modern Institute, Savannah-based artist Suzanne Jackson presents a new body of sculpted paintings. Jackson’s life’s work is multifaceted; spanning five decades, Jackson has excelled as a painter, poet, dancer, teacher, curator and theatre designer. Breaking away from the structure of stretched canvas or paper, Jackson re-examines the medium and abstraction as a genre.

Opposite – P.K. Blossoms, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

The Modern Institute
14-20 Osborne Street
G1 5QN Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com

  

RICHARD HUGHES – PAPERWORK

Posted on 2022-01-24

Richard Hughes’ practice primarily centres on the transformative effect of time on a place or an object via deterioration, or how it can be transubstantiated into a dissimilar situation.
At The Modern Institute’s Brick Space Richard Hughes presents works on paper for the first time. During the UK lockdowns Hughes began re-exploring the medium, making use of rudimentary materials and limited space. The initial sketches began as proposals for potential sculptures, works to be made when the limitations were lifted, but they soon evolved into works that held their own footing. Unconsciously they illustrated a collected mindset pondering something greater than the self that can be enhanced from isolation, feeling the vastness illustrated through the minutiae of the everyday.

Opposite – Three Ball Surprise, 2022

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2022

The Modern Institute
Bricks Space
1 Aird’s Lane
G1 5HU Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com