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Ayakamay: Captive Train_reck
at The Lodge Gallery
Lower East Side - New York, NY, USA
Jan 04, 2017 - Jan 22, 2017

The Lodge Gallery is proud to debut new video, print, and live performance works by Ayakamay in her new solo exhibition, Captive Train_reck. Ayakamay’s work tackles the blurred lines of commercial marketing with traditional gender and cultural perceptions. In this, her latest body of work, her focus centers around creating what the artist describes as,  “an irritating and uncomfortable attraction… to take in something which one doesn’t want to watch, and in doing so opens oneself up to a new world view. read more...

The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley
at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Hollywood - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jan 04, 2017 - Feb 12, 2017

With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet…when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.” – Mary Shelley There is a striking parallel between the moment when an idea hits and the moment life is conducted into Dr. read more...

Bahar Behbahani: Let the Garden Eram Flourish
at Hood Museum of Art
Hanover, NH, USA
Jan 05, 2017 - Mar 12, 2017

This exhibition presents a suite of paintings, installations, and video from Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based Bahar Behbahani’s acclaimed Persian Gardens, an ongoing series that she began four years ago. An engineering tour de force, Persian or Iranian gardens have captured human imagination since their emergence in the sixth century BCE. These walled gardens comprise multilateral structures, connecting aqueducts, networks of water channels, and surrounding trees and vegetation that remain lush all year in the middle of the desert. read more...

Hamlet Dobbins: I will have to tell you everything
at David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Nashville, TN, USA
Jan 03, 2017 - Feb 04, 2017

Recognizing the ancient concern about illusionary space hardly begins to assess the complexity of Hamlett Dobbins' paintings. Nor does that recognition explain the range of shapes and their relationship to one another, nor the possibility of a vast and rich terrain opened up through allusion. Dobbins’ canvases, both small and large, employ pure abstraction and pure painting. read more...

Jacob Lawrence: To Haiti Let Us Go
at The Phillips Collection
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Jan 07, 2017 - Apr 23, 2017

This special exhibition features 15 rarely seen silkscreen prints created by American artist Jacob Lawrence between 1986 and 1997. The series portrays the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture (1742-1803), the former slave turned revolutionary leader who led the fight for the liberation of Haiti during the French revolution. Lawrence had explored the same subject more than 50 years earlier in a series of paintings of the same title (now in the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans). read more...

Turner in January 2017
at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Edinburgh, UK
Jan 01, 2017 - Jan 31, 2017

These works, bequeathed to the Gallery by the distinguished collector Henry Vaughan, span Turner’s career, from his early topographical wash drawings to his atmospheric sketches of continental Europe from the 1830s and ‘40s. Vaughan stipulated in his bequest that these delicate watercolours should be ‘exhibited to the public all at one time, free of charge, during the month of January’ and his wishes have been faithfully adhered to for over 100 years. This limited exposure has resulted in the works retaining their luminous colours and pristine condition. read more...

New Horizons of Painting: Part one: The identities of Others
at Frissiras Museum
Athens, Greece
Jan 01, 2017 - Jul 31, 2017

Through the trilogy of exhibitions ‘New Horizon of Painting’, Frissiras museum, presents distinguished artists from its collections, depicts contemporary figurartive trends in painting from all over the world, in an effort to comment on the tangible and intangible notions in the history of painting, its underlying dynamics and its fields of expression in the future. In this, first out of three, part , entitled ‘The Identities of Others’, each artist approaches in their own way, the notion of identity, expressing not only individual, but also collective aspirations. read more...

Ashley Zelinskie: Reverse Abstraction
at Torch Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan 07, 2017 - Feb 11, 2017

TORCH will start the new year with Reverse Abstraction, a solo-exhibition of new work by American artist Ashley Zelinskie. The exhibition will open on Saturday the 7th of January and will be on view through the 18th of February. In her work Zelinskie is attempting to transcribe our rich cultural heritage in a way that our future robot overlords might comprehend. She feels that as we are nearing a technical singularity it is of the utmost importance to find a way to preserve our creative spirit and to teach machines about aesthetic as well as poetic values. read more...

The Art and Aesthetics of Form: Selections from the History of Chinese Painting
at National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan
Jan 01, 2017 - Mar 25, 2017

The history of Chinese painting can be compared to a symphony. The styles and traditions in figure, landscape, and bird-and-flower painting formed themes that have continued to blend into a single piece of music. Painters, who make up this "orchestra," have composed and performed many movements and variations. In the Song dynasty (960-1279), landscape painters created new manners based on previous models. read more...

Kishin Shinoyama: Picture power
at Yokohama Museum of Art
Kanagawa, Japan
Jan 04, 2017 - Feb 28, 2017

The photographer Shinoyama Kishin’s career spans over five decades. This exhibition, made up of approximately 120 of Shinoyama’s photographs, which were selected by the artist from his enormous body of work and printed on large panels, was specifically designed for the museum space.  As suggested by Shinoyama’s comment that “my theme is people that everybody knows,” portraits of famous people lie at the heart of the photographer’s practice. read more...