10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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Aug 10, 2016
Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle
at The Parrish Art Museum
Southampton, NY, USA
Aug 07, 2016 - Oct 16, 2016
Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle features the work of three artists who met in the early 1970s at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles before moving to New York in the 1980s, where they immediately established careers as influential painters. At a time when painting was thought to have passed its prime, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl and David Salle discovered, in its materials and conventions, a medium rife with possibilities—particularly for artists interested in doing something original, and ambitious, with its history. read more...
Aspects of Minimalism
at Guild Hall Museum
East Hampton, NY, USA
Aug 13, 2016 - Oct 10, 2016
The entire Museum is dedicated to the Minimalism movement and works associated with this aesthetic which investigates, for the first time on the East End, the importance and range of Minimalism and its influence on art through works of the leading artists associated with this prominent movement, such as Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter. Many of the works will be on public view for the first time. read more...
Apostles of Nature: Jugendstil and Art Nouveau
at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Park La Brea - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aug 13, 2016 - Mar 12, 2017
Organized by LACMA’s Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Apostles of Nature: Jugendstil and Art Nouveau explores the popular late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century style known as Art Nouveau in France and Jugendstil in Germany. Inspired by the British Arts and Crafts movement, which celebrated craft in an age of advancing industrialization, as well as by Symbolist and Romantic painting, Japanese prints, and folk art, European artists developed a style characterized by highly decorative forms drawn from nature, with curvilinear, serpentine lines and daring whiplashes of color. Art Nouveau quickly spread beyond France and Germany, influencing a range of artistic movements and artists’ groups, including the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte in Austria. read more...
What Lies Beneath
at Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Aug 06, 2016 - Aug 06, 2017
Every painting has a story under its surface. This exhibition will feature paintings with important clues hidden underneath their surfaces that curators, conservators, and conservation scientists have used to better understand the paintings. read more...
A Building with a View: Experiments in Anarchitecture
at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
New Orleans, LA, USA
Aug 06, 2016 - Oct 01, 2016
In 1974, roughly two years before the founding of the CAC, the artist Gordon Matta-Clark, together with a group of artists including many native to Southeastern Louisiana, coined the term Anarchitecture. A word used to title an exhibition, to describe a form of thinking, to bind a community of friends and artists, and to acknowledge space as a social and formal condition, Anarchitecture pointed to an interdisciplinary spirit of the times that helped usher in contemporary arts centers across the country and, significantly, here in New Orleans. As we begin our commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the CAC, this exhibition also serves as a formal meditation on the concept of Anarchitecture, an elision of the words architecture and anarchy. read more...
Emperors, Scholars, and Temples
at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO, USA
Aug 12, 2016 - Jul 09, 2017
During the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, the arts of China reached full maturity. Painting, calligraphy, porcelain and textiles flourished, and new styles and techniques emerged. The imperial court, scholars and temples supported this profusion of creativity, each establishing distinctive, yet overlapping artistic styles. Emperors held court in the Forbidden City in Beijing in unparalleled splendor. read more...
Richard Pell: The Myth of the Great Outright Extraordinary!
at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Aug 19, 2016 - Oct 30, 2016
Above all I strive to be a storyteller. I collect something (an object, a recording, an idea) when I have a strong suspicion that it will one day tell me a story. The stories that an object can tell accumulate and change over time as the world around them changes. Some get better with age. read more...
Felix Sefton Delmer (1950-2016): A Life in Paint
at North House Gallery
UK
Aug 06, 2016 - Oct 01, 2016
This celebratory memorial exhibition of paintings by Felix Sefton Delmer focuses on new work completed since his two successive shows (Paint and Blue) at North House Gallery in 2014, a production curtailed by his premature death in May 2016. It will also include a selection of earlier paintings, some exhibited before and others not, at least in their current form. His nominally monochrome paintings are in fact built up with many layers of paint, all of which inform the final surface. read more...
Vincent Routhier: Deux images de x
at Galerie Simon Blais
Montreal, QC, Canada
Aug 06, 2016 - Sep 03, 2016
Vincent Routhier, a conceptual artist whose multidisciplinary practice finds its bases in philosophical thinking and a science-based approach, examines the possible complementarity of art and science. Considering translation a creative act, Routhier develops systems that find expression in large geometric drawings, mathematical formulas, and contextual performances. Taking mathematical concepts—the Pythagorean theorem, duplication of the square, or homothety (geometric transformation)—as his starting point, this artist creates drawings using graphite powder. read more...
Marlene Steyn: Your Skin is Not The Best Hiding Place
at SMAC Art Gallery, Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Aug 06, 2016 - Sep 10, 2016
Marlene Steyn is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Marlene Steyn: Your Skin Is Not The Best Hiding Place. The exhibition opens on 06 August at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, and runs until 10 September 2016. Featuring new paintings on linen and canvas, as well as a series of mixed media sculptures in ceramic and wood, the exhibition will also include the debut of large scale, hand painted bronze sculptures. As her most substantial sculptures to date, these works mark an important juncture in Steyn’s practice. read more...