Joe Bradley, Duckling Fantasy (2011) installation view, courtesy Almine Rech.
Joe Bradley’s “Duckling Fantasy” is currently on show at Paris’s Almine Rech Gallery. The exhibition consists of new, somewhat large-scale paintings from oil, oil sticks and pencils, that continue Bradley’s interest in color and dirt.
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Zerek Kempf, Weight of Fall (Waltz) (2011) at 2-UP Gallery.
All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Friday evening’s Dependent Art Fair opened its doors for a one-night-only event showcasing the works of various galleries and artist groups. The newest addition to 2011’s growing roster of fairs, the Dependent was held on the 12th and 14th floors of Chelsea’s Sheraton Hotel. Fifteen exhibitors filled their respective hotel rooms with works for sale. Some revealed highly curated installations while others presented a collected showcase of individual works. The fifteen groups were given 60 minutes to install, with the fair beginning its preview hour at 4pm and closing altogether at 9 that evening. What began as a scattered number of curious collectors and onlookers grew quickly to a sizable throng of attendees navigating from room to room through the hotel’s packed hallways.
A sculpture by Barkev Gulesserian at CANADA (bathroom gallery).
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Joe Bradley, Struth (2010). Via Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
American artist Joe Bradley is showing his work simultaneously at two New York Galleries: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Canada Gallery on the Lower East Side. Each gallery exhibits works by the artist in a completely different style. For his first show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Bradley shows large colorful abstract paintings made with oil sticks instead of paint brushes. The canvases are full of the artist’s footprints, dirt, dust, references to comic book characters, and abstract expressionist and primitivist symbolism. At Canada, his longtime art gallery, he gives viewers large black and white silkscreens of male silhouettes.
Joe Bradley, Human Forms (2011). Via Canada Gallery
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New York Stock Exchange After Bond Rally 1919 (2006) by Rosson Crow, currently on display at the White Cube Gallery, Hoxton Square, London; picture via White Cube
Rosson Crow’s ‘Texas Crude,’ which explores themes from American history and myth, is on display at Jay Jopling’s White Cube Gallery in London through February 21st, 2009.
Crow’s paintings depict locations set during historical periods or evocative of culturally significant events, devoid of people yet retaining vestiges of their presence–or rather, theatrical vestiges of their most Dionysian, excessive behavior. The settings tend to be large rooms at bars, hotels, or theatres, painted on a scale that inserts the viewer into the space.
‘Texas Crude’ continues in the vein of her previous works, with the titles of the paintings serving as a guide to their contents: ‘Wildcatting in Paradise’ serving as an exploration of the early days of Texas oil prospecting and its impact on the physical and economic landscape of Crow’s home state, while ‘New York Stock Exchange after Bond Rally 1919’ conjures the moment between the end of World War I and the Roaring 20s. Similarly, ‘Lincoln’s Funeral’ references the death and assassination of the President; a somber hearse carriage is the background to an explosive palette of red, white and muted blackish blue found in flowers and ribbons intersecting the painting. Crow’s style incorporates a wide array of influences, from Impressionism to Las Vegas to Baroque interior design. The paintings in this show, like her oeuvre as a whole, reflect these influences and inspirations while tying them together in a very unlikely fashion, creating a very original and unmistakable aesthetic.
Crow, who graduated from Yale’s MFA program just over two years ago, and being born in 1982 is relatively young amongst those represented by the gallery, is showing at White Cube for the first time. Crow is also represented by Honor Fraser in California and CANADA in New York. The artist, who was born in Texas, currently resides in California.
TEXAS CRUDE
by Rosson Crow on display through Feb 21, 2009
White Cube Gallery
48 Hoxton Square
London, England
Exhibition page: Texas Crude
Artist page: Rosson Crow
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Katherine Bernhardt via ArtObserved
Katherine Bernhardt’s bold collection of work, which opened last night at CANADA Gallery in New York, celebrates her canvas-chronicled love affairs with fashion and music celebrities known to the masses by their now infamous monikers. Bernhardt captures her favorite bold-faced names in vibrant colors and fresh, graphic strokes that allow her audience to see the stars that are “Kate, Giselle, Natalia, Kanye, George & Simon” in striking and fanciful new light.
Katherine Bernhardt at CANADA [CANADA Gallery]
Bernhardt in Studio [V Magazine]
Katherine Bernhardt at Saatchi Gallery UK [Saatchi Gallery]
Critics Picks of The Armory Show [NYMag]
Bernhardt’s Artist Rank [ArtFacts.Net]
Nearby Restaurants & Bars [Time Out New York]
Benhardt at Patricia Low Contemporary [GSTAAD Life]
Bernhardt’s Artist Playlist [WPS1 MoMA]
