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Necessary Construction
at Brooklyn Art Space, Trestle Gallery
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
Aug 14, 2015 - Sep 18, 2015

Trestle Gallery is pleased to present Necessary Construct. Each of these artists construct meaning through the process of reducing material to its constituent parts in order to reinterpret it through the creative process. Their works deconstruct material and content in order to re-imagine and create a new and necessary understanding of their subjects. Exposing hidden internal assumptions and contradictions, these artists subvert, reorder and add their point of view to the layered world around them. read more...

Alexander Reben: Engineering Psychology
at Charlie James Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aug 15, 2015 - Aug 29, 2015

Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present Alexander Reben in his solo gallery debut Engineering Psychology, opening at the gallery August 15th in conjunction with the 7th Annual Perform Chinatown. Engineering Psychology invites the viewer to become the subject in a dialogue between technology and humanity. Ranging from low to high tech and from playful to serious, each piece uses technology to engage an element of human experience: including love, attraction, physical pleasure, repulsion, and pain. read more...

In the Abstract: Mid-Century San Diego Painting and Sculpture
at Oceanside Museum of Art
Oceanside, CA, USA
Aug 15, 2015 - Nov 01, 2015

Abstract art is often an image or composition in which color, line, form, and texture may exist as fully independent subject matter, rather than literally depicting aspects of the natural world. From the late 1940s through the 1960s, abstraction became vital to the work of many highly regarded San Diego artists. At no time was this approach more controversial in the region, more charged with excitement and possibility, than during the mid-twentieth century. read more...

Out of Light: A Contemporary View
at Pensacola Museum of Art
Pensacola, FL, USA
Aug 15, 2015 - Sep 19, 2015

The PMA presents 2014 Members Exhibition Best of Show award winner, Dottie King. The photography within this exhibition explores the experience of light. An aesthetic journey through variations of dark, light, shadow, reflection, refraction, absorption, diffraction and luminosity. King intrigues with a selection of photography from varied landscapes both nationally and internationally. read more...

Jem Cohen: Life Drawing
at University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Aug 15, 2015 - Nov 29, 2015

The title of this multi-format photography and video installation by New York filmmaker Jem Cohen comes from the artist’s own characterization of his practice. As he explains, “The unifying core of my work stems from encountering the world as it unfolds. Whether the project is long- or short-term, moving image or still photography, single pictures, multiple projections, or an installation, it is through close observation, careful listening, and an embrace of chance that I establish the bedrock. read more...

John Waters: How much can you take?
at Kunsthaus Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Aug 14, 2015 - Nov 01, 2015

John Waters, the enfant terrible of American cinema, has influenced the aesthetic of independent film-making like almost no other, pushing its boundaries with untrammelled relish. Just as the world of film infiltrates our lives – nurturing dreams, awakening obsessions and longings – so it affects visual artists. John Waters’s radical visual idiom has inspired countless such artists. read more...

Johannes Willi: Soundzz.z.zzz…z
at Museum of Art Lucerne
Lucerne, Switzerland
Aug 14, 2015 - Sep 13, 2015

In 2015 Kunstmuseum Luzern and Lucerne Festival are continuing through the SOUNDZZ.Z.ZZZ…Z competition to foster exploration of the interface between visual arts and music for the third time. This years winner is the Swiss artist Johannes Willi (born in 1983 in Switzerland). Johannes Willi’s project stood out for its unique blend of visual art and classical music. read more...

American Dream / American Nightmare
at Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth, Australia
Aug 15, 2015 - Feb 15, 2016

American dream, American nightmare is a two-part display that focuses on one of the Collection’s most iconic and most requested works, Brett Whiteley’s The American dream 1968-1969. This major, 18 part installation has not been seen at the Gallery since 2004 and it is looking better than ever: the work has recently received major conservation treatment prior to its inclusion in the major survey of Australian and international Pop art Pop to Popism at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Whiteley’s work is a dynamic visual summation of his experiences in America, that charts his initial passion for the place, his intense responses to the politics and culture, and his powerful desire to leave it all behind. read more...

Julia Margaret Cameron
at Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Aug 14, 2015 - Oct 25, 2015

A pioneer of photographic portraiture, Julia Margaret Cameron remains one of the most influential and innovative photographers of the 19th century. Using the camera to convey both tenderness and strength, Cameron introduced an emotive sensibility to early photographic portraiture. At the time, her work was controversial and her unconventional techniques attracted both praise and criticism. read more...

The Fullness of Emptiness, Čolaković Legacy
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
Aug 14, 2015 - Oct 14, 2015

The Fullness of Emptiness exhibition considers the phenomenon of emptiness in the domain of contemporary sculpture. The idea of the “fullness of emptiness” refers to the domain of a certain “shaped” i.e. artistically formed emptiness in sculpture, not the undetermined and encompassing presence of cosmic space. The concept/term “fullness of emptiness” is the result of discovery and a new consideration of the efficacy and meaning of the artistic expression of emptiness in contemporary sculptural production. read more...