Tau Lewis, Vox Populi, Vox Dei (Installation View), via Art Observed

This month in New York, artist art Tau Lewis presents a body of new works at 52 Walker in Manhattan, compiling a range of works by the artist that underscores her interrogation and examination of mythology, material and form through a range of large-scale pieces. Lewis, whose work often uses densely layered material in pursuit of mythical and surreal figures, here renders a series of large-scale busts that feel immediate and otherworldly, examining real-world rituals and reconstructed emotional landscapes.

Tau Lewis, Vox Populi, Vox Dei (Installation View), via Art Observed

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Ariana Papademetropoulos, Phases of Venus (2022), via Vito Schnabel Gallery

This month, Vito Schnabel Gallery presents Ariana Papademetropoulos: Baby Alone in Babylone, an exhibition of new paintings that find the Los Angeles-based artist drawing upon 15th century lore of the mythical unicorn. In her exploration of this theme, Papademetropoulos considers iconography from two celebrated tapestry series of the late Middle Ages: The Lady and the Unicorn (Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris), an allegorical fable of the five senses, and The Hunt of the Unicorn (The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), a narrative unfolding of the swift, wild horned creature who could only be tamed by a virgin maiden. Constructing her own enigmatical tale in the present day, Papademetropoulos invites viewers to journey between collapsing realities and converging realms, through a sequence of hyperreal, dream-like episodes that coalesce in a story of awakening and transformation.  Read More »

Hernan Bas, Conceptual Artist #11 (Performance based, his work centres on discomfort) (2022), via Victoria Miro

Artist Hernan Bas is celebrated for works that, permeated by an aura of eroticism and decadence, and loaded with codes and double-meanings, point to the intricacies of self-identity while celebrating moments of transformation – the ordinary becoming extraordinary. This mode of practice returns in the artist’s most recent exhibition, The Conceptualists, on view this winter at Victoria Miro’s London exhibition space. Once again returning to the male figure in this series of works, Bas equally draws his lens on to the art world, resulting in a series of works that mix a careful eye for line and form with a playful engagement with the language of conceptual art. Read More »

Alicja Kwade, The Glass House (2022), via 303

This month in New York, 303 Gallery has tapped artist Alicja Kwade for its final show of 2023, and the artist”s third exhibition with the gallery. This latest exhibition of new works features a large-scale, immersive installation, sculptures, and wall works, as well as a series of suspended and standing mobiles that are being presented outside of Europe for the first time. This will also be the artist’s first exhibition in New York since her celebrated 2019 commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden. The exhibition’s title, Petrichor, refers to the distinctive earthy scent that briefly lingers after rainfall on parched soil, an ethereal implication of a past event. Read More »

David Lynch, Ladder Lamp (2022), all images via Pace

Renowned director and artist David Lynch has opened his first exhibition at Pace Gallery this month, titled Big Bongo Night. The show, featuring mixed media sculptures, paintings, and a work on paper that shed light on Lynch’s distinctive visual arts practice, mark a major step forward in the artist’s long-running art practice. Read More »

Phliip Taaffe, Plowshare (2022), via Luhring Augustine

This month, Luhring Augustine presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Philip Taaffe, on view in the gallery’s Tribeca location. Featuring intimate kaleidoscopic panels realized in monotype and collage, and rooted in a process recently developed by the artist, the show expands on Taaffe’s celebrated ability to build complex compositions, and cull from a wide variety of sources, from illuminated manuscripts to historical natural science materials. Read More »

Wyatt Kahn, A Bar (2022), via Eva Presenhuber

On view this month at Eva Presenhuber in New York, a body of new works by artist Wyatt Kahn continues the artist’s engagement with shaped canvases and complex forms, here turning his compositions towards a series of geometric and serpentine forms.  Read More »

Anne Imhof, Avatar II (Installation View), via Sprüth Magers

On view this month at Sprüth Magers, artist Anne Imhof has brought forward a new selection of works united under the title Avatar II. Continuing and expanding upon the narrative arc of Anne Imhof’s recent exhibitions, the works in Avatar II interweave notions of reality and artifice, presence and absence, exposure and concealment. Read More »

William Eggleston Untitled, (c. 1970-1973), via David Zwinrer

The Outlands, on view this month at David Zwirner, provides a new perspective and emphasis on the work of photographer William Eggleston, an American artist known for his pioneering use of color photography in the 1970s. The exhibition, held at David Zwirner gallery in New York, features a selection of Eggleston’s photographs taken between 1970 and 1973. Read More »

Sterling Ruby, TURBINE. CICADA KILLER. (2022), via Art Observed

On view this month at Gagosian Gallery’s 21st Street exhibition space in New York, artist Sterling Ruby has returned wits a new body of abstract paintings that continue the artist’s challenging and expressive exploration of the limits of painting. Marking a point of convergence between several varied thematic and material interests in the artist’s work, TURBINES brings together many of Ruby’s conceptual hallmarks into a commanding new mode.  Read More »