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Paris – Yang Fudong: “The Coloured Sky: New Women II” at Marian Goodman Gallery Through May 30th, 2015

Friday, May 29th, 2015

Yang Fudong, The Light That I Feel 1 (2015) via Marian Goodman Gallery
Yang Fudong, The Light That I Feel 1 (2015) via Marian Goodman Gallery

Artist Yang Fudong is exhibiting his latest series of photographs at Marian Goodman’s Paris location.  Titled The Coloured Sky: New Women II, the exhibition incorporates two bodies of work as well as a high-definition colored video installation that continues his use of dream-like worlds and constructions of fantasy through the female body. (more…)

New York – David Hockney: “Some New Painting (and Photography)” at Pace Gallery Through January 10th, 2015

Friday, January 9th, 2015

David Hockney, The Dancers IV. 14 August - 5 September 2014 (2014), via Art Observed
David Hockney, The Dancers IV. 14 August – 5 September 2014 (2014), via Art Observed

David Hockney’s new exhibition of paintings at Pace Gallery, his first full-size canvases since 2009, are a fitting continuation of the artist’s current interests, combining vaguely abstract environments and poses with a subtly loaded series of juxtapositions. The exhibition, which closes this Saturday, sees Hockney returning from several years focused on landscape studies and experimentations in digital video and photography to portraiture and human subjects. (more…)

New York – Tim Barber: “Relations” at Capricious 88 Through June 23rd, 2014

Saturday, June 21st, 2014


Tim Barber, Relations (Installation View), via Art Observed

In his most recent body of work, Tim Barber captures everyday moments and splits them open to reveal the complex interactions within. On display at Capricious 88, Relations invites the viewer to relate to the universality of the seemingly unrelated, yet similarly impactful, images.


Tim Barber, Relations courtesy Capricious (more…)