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Paula Hayes: Lucid Green
at Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
Soho - New York, NY, USA
Apr 25, 14 - Jun 28, 14

Lucid Green relies equally on image, typography and word to create a poetic world in which the reader is invited to enter through various portal s which the book offers. Every detail of the book offers carefully nuanced details of the experience of a place named Lucid Green; a nature sanctuary set in an unknown time in the future. That future is a type of space and time that is different than the one we are in when we read the book, we are told, by the book,s main character, Jill Poet. read more...

Michael Decker: New Car Smell
at Ambach & Rice
Seattle - Seattle, WA, USA
Apr 26, 14 - May 31, 14

AMBACH & RICE presents New Car Smell, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Michael Decker. Decker’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, drawing, video, performance and sculpture. New Car Smell features works that include monumental cardboard assemblages on panel, canvases derived from collaged fragments of silk screened t-shirts and reassembled text based bas-reliefs. Comprised of pop culture detritus, obsolescent packaging and slogan strewn t-shirts, this work coalesces formally and conceptually to illuminate Decker’s unique poetic taxonomies. read more...

Ryan Travis Christian: Check please
at Western Exhibitions
West Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Apr 25, 14 - Jun 06, 14

For Check please, his second solo show at Western Exhibitions, Ryan Travis Christian presents graphite on paper drawings featuring his signature cartoon-style alongside a second suite of works on paper and sculptures that employ color. These new bodies of work introduce new elements and motifs (chevrons, spirals and lighting bolts), building on the artist’s already extensive and distinct visual vocabulary (zig-zag linear patterns, hallucinatory energy, optical illusions and fractured spaces). The show opens with a free public reception on Friday, April 25 from 5 to 8pm and runs through June 6, 2014. read more...

David Heathcote: Numberless Islands
at GV Art London
London, UK
Apr 25, 14 - May 31, 14

Numberless Islands is a new solo exhibition by David Heathcote.  A follow-up to 2011’s Beyond Horizons, which showcased Heathcote’s wide repertoire, this exhibition focuses on two key elements of the artist’s work: his treatment of figuration and abstraction. In so doing, it draws together paintings, etchings and pencil studies which examine the artist’s evolving language during the course of his 60-year career. read more...

Søren Behncke: Backdrop and Dropouts
at Charlotte Fogh Contemporary
Århus, Denmark
Apr 25, 14 - May 24, 14

Charlotte Fogh Gallery has the pleasure to present the exhibition “Backdrop & Drop Outs” by Søren Behncke, which is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. This time, Søren Behncke is back with works inspired by locations from near and far. From the nearby intimate tombs to great urban architecture and open space. read more...

Yuichi Hirako: The Bark of Mind
at Galleri Christoffer Egelund
Indre by - Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr 25, 14 - May 31, 14

Galleri Christoffer Egelund proudly presents the second solo exhibition with the Japaneese artist Yuichi Hirako. At the exhibition The Bark of Mind we are presented to new drawings, sculptures and paintings. But across the different medias runs the same artistic vision: to investigate the relationship between man and nature. Antrophomorphic creatures inhabit the sprouting scenes of Yuichi Hirakos paintings and for a while the rooms of Galleri Christoffer Egelund as well when the plant-like beings seem to have crawled from the canvases into the rooms as sculptures. read more...

Proudly Presenting
at Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Salzburg, Austria
Apr 26, 14 - Oct 12, 14

The Generali Foundation has entrusted its internationally acclaimed collection to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg as a permanent loan. This first show, offering a selection of the new acquisition of roughly 2,100 works by 130 artists, will provide insights into some of the characteristics of this renowned collection.    One central theme-based group of works comprises objects in which art, design, and architecture merge to shape but also articulate a critique of utopian ideas. read more...

Saâdane Afif: Affiches & Fontaines
at Xavier Hufkens
Brussels, Belgium
Apr 25, 14 - May 24, 14

Saâdane Afif’s work often takes the exhibition as a pretext and originator for production and embraces various formats, such as objects, performances and texts. The new solo show at Xavier Hufkens brings together two important series from his oeuvre: Affiches as a witness and narrator of his practice and the Fontaines, from his on-going project ‘The Fountain Archive’, as an expression of his collecting obsession. A complete survey of Afif’s posters as well as the largest selection of Fontaines is displayed for the very first time. read more...

Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossoms
at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing, China
Apr 26, 14 - May 18, 14

Taiwan-born, New York-based artist Lee Mingwei’s performance-installation Sonic Blossom has classically trained opera singers periodically select a museum visitor and approach them with a simple question: May I give you a gift? Should the visitor accept, the singer will lead the participant to a chair and serenade them with one of Franz Shubert’s Lieder. Lee Mingwei devised Sonic Blossom while caring for his mother as she was recuperating from surgery. read more...

Hamra Abbas: Kaaba Picture as a Misprint
at Lawrie Shabibi
Al Quoz - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Apr 26, 14 - May 27, 14

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Kaaba Picture as a Misprint a solo exhibition by Hamra Abbas.  Kaaba Picture as a Misprint marks the return of the artist to the UAE following her award of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2011 and the Jury Prize at Sharjah Biennale 9. Hamra Abbas' vast artistic practice draws from a myriad of sources. read more...