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Faces and Figures in Self-Taught Art
at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Jul 11, 14 - Aug 31, 14

From Henry Darger's elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the prolific Reverend Howard Finster and the raw power in Thornton Dial’s turbulent compositions, the work of self-taught artists has achieved unique status in the art world for its compelling expression of emotion and unselfconscious style. The strength of the artwork lies not in its adherence to reality but in its refreshing deviations from it. read more...

Graphic Thoughts
at CES Contemporary
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jul 11, 14 - Aug 30, 14

Graphic Thoughts is an exploration of the ways in which design influences how artists convey image-based messages. Drawing from the four pillars of design—shape, form, pattern, and color—each artist in the exhibition uses various medium and technique resulting in a range of works that expand upon thought-generative concepts that push against assumptions of design. Matt Gonzalez creates complex collage from discarded and re-appropriated advertising and commercial printed matter in order to create a new dialog between the groupings of once disparate texts, imagery and color. read more...

Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage
at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Jul 12, 14 - Aug 16, 14

This group exhibition showcases artists whose practice involves combining disparate elements to create a coherent object that takes on a completely different meaning than the sum of its parts. Though collage, montage and assemblage can be used to create abstract work, this exhibition focuses on representation, particularly that dealing with the human body or psychology. The title, Holding It Together, most obviously refers to the adhesive used to make an assemblage or collage, but also alludes to the concepts that unify the diverse images or objects into a discrete entity. read more...

Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works
at Raven Row
Spitalfields - London, UK
Jul 11, 14 - Aug 10, 14

Dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer (born 1934, lives in New York) is widely acknowledged as having played a key role in revolutionising post-war dance, inspiring generations of performers. In the sixties and early seventies, initially as part of the Judson Theater in New York (alongside Simone Forti, Steve Paxton and Trisha Brown), Rainer made dance works that were concerned with social and political form. Her choreography incorporated 'ordinary' movement and ‘neutral’ performance, rethinking the performer-audience relationship. read more...

Forty Years of the Collection - Ten Years of the Museum
at Museum Frieder Burda
Baden-baden, Germany
Jul 12, 14 - Oct 26, 14

The Museum Frieder Burda and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Museum Frieder Burda, presenting highlights from the collection which has constantly grown for forty years. For Frieder Burda, sharing his works of art with others has been at the heart of his commitment from the very start. As was the case on the occasion of the museum opening in 2004, the exhibition will again present various groups of works from the extensive holdings of the collection at two venues — in the museum building designed by Richard Meier specifically for the collection as well as at the neo-classical Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden designed by Hermann Billing During one’s tour of the exhibition, one can trace both personal stages in the life of Frieder Burda from the past forty years as well as general developments and trends in 20th- and 21st-century painting and sculpture. read more...

Collection Alphabet
at Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK)
Leipzig, Germany
Jul 12, 14 - Feb 01, 15

A collection is a chronicle, a portrait, a research instrument. Whether you write it or read it, it allows multiple experiences and discoveries to be made, opens up new mental horizons and perspectives of observation. Again and again, new details and associations between objects come to light. Collections are a reflection of their own genesis just as much as the systems of order upon which they are based. read more...

The Secret to Living
at Jessica Bradley
Toronto, ON, Canada
Jul 11, 14 - Aug 16, 14

Jessica Bradley Gallery is pleased to present The Secret to Living, featuring artists Jason McLean, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Brad Phillips and Jon Sasaki. This exhibition brings together painting, drawing and video by artists that share an interest in autobiography and emotional expression, representing a vision of the artist’s life in all its rough and romantic realities. Over the last decade Canadian artist Brad Phillips has developed an international reputation for his extraordinary, masterfully rendered representational watercolour and oil paintings. read more...

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950
at Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Luxembourg
Jul 12, 14 - Oct 12, 14

Since the middle of the 20th century, destruction has played a wide range of roles in contemporary art: as rebellion or protest, as spectacle and release, or as an essential component of re-creation and restoration. Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 offers an overview, if by no means an exhaustive study, of this central element in contemporary culture. Featuring approximately 90 works by more than 40 international artists, and including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, video, installation and performance, the exhibition presents many of the myriad ways in which artists have considered and invoked destruction in their process. read more...

Objektiv: Josef Albers, Oran Hoffmann
at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv, Israel
Jul 11, 14 - Nov 22, 14

What might be the result of an imaginary conversation between two bodies of work, between two artists whom origin, time, space and medium all position in the farthermost boundaries of a wide field of influence? The exhibition, which casts a net of links and distributions between a selection of prints by Josef Albers and photographs by Oran Hoffmann, considers their artistic projects as a perceptual research of observation; a process of work as a material and formal trial and error through which assimilation takes place. read more...

Taliaa The Beginnings of Fine Art in Saudi Arabia
at Ayyam Gallery, Jeddah
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Jul 11, 14 - Oct 16, 14

Taliaa, a group exhibition featuring modern Saudi art from the early 1970s onwards, will be held at Ayyam Gallery Jeddah from 11 July - 16 October. Taliaa showcases a variety of paintings from the eight artists included in the exhibition, these works serve as points of entry into the oeuvres of some of the most significant pioneers of Saudi art, including artists and critics, Abdulhalim Radwi, Abdulrahman Al Soliman and Mohammad Al Resayes, and artists, Mohammed Al Saleem, Abduljabbar Al Yahya, Taha Al Sabban, Abdullah Al Shaikh, and Abdullah Hammas.  Born between 1930 and 1960, the above-mentioned artists were among the first to leave the Kingdom in order to pursue formal art education, traveling as far as Spain, Great Britain and Italy. read more...