Adrian Ghenie, Figure with Remote Control (2022), via Thaddaeus Ropac

Marking his latest engagement and exploration of the intersections of history, pop culture, and the dialogues of art history that are bound within the former, artist Adrian Ghenie presents The Fear of NOW, is an exhibition of new oil paintings and charcoal drawings at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. He fuses the profoundly personal with the art historical, bridging the abstract and the figurative to examine the impact of the Digital Age on the human condition.

Adrian Ghenie, Self Portrait with Favorite Book (2022), via Thaddaeus Ropac

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Emily Mae Smith, Habitat (2022), via Pace

On view this month in New York, Petzel Gallery presents a series of new works by painter Emily Mae Smith, marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The painter, who blends the surreal and cartoonish with a meticulous study of space and form to create otherworldly scenes that draw on tensions between the imagined and known world.  (more…)

Do Ho Suh (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin

On view this month in New York, Lehmann Maupin presents an exhibition of new work by London-based artist Do Ho Suh. Working across various media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, and film, Suh engages ideas of home, memory, psychic space, and displacement. In this exhibition, Suh expands on his exploration of the politics and subjectivity of memory, a concept that has remained central to his practice over the last 25 years. For this exhibition, the artist returns to his long fascination with the role of public monuments, using his signature approach towards fabric to create replicas and embellishments of items, spaces and bodies.

Do Ho Suh (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin

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Carol Bove, Vase Face I / The Ascent to Heaven on a Dentist’s Chair (2022), via David Zwirner

Marking a continued engagement with scale, monumentality and perception through her enigmatic workings of steel and glass, artist Carol Bove has brought a new body of work to bear on David Zwirner’s Paris exhibition space. Marking a major show of new works by the artist, the show continues her use of crumpled stainless steel tubes, yet here takes these works and adds circular glass discs, all complemented by a stark, monochrome gallery environment.  (more…)

Liu Xiangdong at Lisson, all images via Art Observed

Since moving its running dates away from the hustle and bustle of Armory Week in New York, the ADAA Art Show has emphasized and capitalized on its reputation as a special and singular event in the New York and international market calendar. Liberated from the usual hustle and bustle of the surrounding fairs, The Art Show’s curatorially-focused programming and emphasis on project-based booths has made for an ever stronger draw, welcoming a casual, meandering pace, with its gentle lighting and wide aisles, all driving home its exploratory and thoughtful program. This year, the event was no different, and its return to the aisles of the Park Avenue Armory was met with enthusiasm with guests during the opening reception last night.

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Edward Hopper, New York Movie (1939), via The Whitney

For Edward Hopper, New York was a city that existed in the mind as well as on the map, a place that took shape through lived experience, memory, and the collective imagination. It was, he reflected late in life, “the American city that I know best and like most.” This concept sits at the center of Edward Hopper’s New York, a new exhibition of works by the artist on view this winter at The Whitney. Edward Hopper’s New York takes a comprehensive look at Hopper’s life and work, from his early impressions of New York in sketches, prints, and illustrations, to his late paintings, in which the city served as a backdrop for his evocative distillations of urban experience.  (more…)

Mira Dancy, Between Worlds (2022), via Night Gallery

On view this month in Los Angeles, artist Mira Dancy presents Madonna Undone, an exhibition of new work at Night Gallery that marks her fourth exhibition with the gallery. Continuing the artist’s studied and lyrical approach to the canvas space, Madonna Undone sees Dancy executing her signature take on chromatic figuration into expanded compositional fields, her subjects exuding strength within vivid naturalistic scenes. Dancy moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 2020, and evidence of this shift in environment is alluded to throughout the exhibition: wide skies, the craggy forms of mountains, and the more impressionistic features of the landscape, such as the sun’s intensity and the heat of the air.

Mira Dancy, Madonna Undone (Installation View), via Night Gallery

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Anicka Yi, IÌ€§W†RRñ†0 (2022), via Gladstone

Few artists in the past decade have outlined a more exploratory and incisive practice than Anicka Yi. Focusing on foreign agencies and complicit interactions with non-human actors, the artist’s interest in biology and ecology has seen her utilize bacteria, scent, and animal performers in her works, ultimately arriving at a practice that defies easy material or media classification. Yet here, in Yi’s first solo exhibition with Gladstone Gallery, the artist has turned to painting as a central tentpost of her practice, and presents a body of works that seem to function as a complement and study of the materials so often present in her other works.  (more…)

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Beatriz Milhazes, Roda Piao (2021), via Pace

This month at Pace’s New York flagship, artist Beatriz Milhazes has installed ten vibrant, large-scale paintings created between 2021 and 2022, as well as a large scale mobile sculpture that underscores and exemplifies Milhazes’s uncanny ability to forge dynamic, unified choreographies with seemingly disparate elements, patterns, and hues. Drawing inspiration from European Modernism, Baroque decorative arts, the Brazilian Antropofagia movement, and other art historical sources, Milhazes continues her enervating plays of color and form in her paintings, collages, prints, and installations. (more…)

Jessi Reaves, Bad Apartment Shelf (2022), via Bridget Donahue

On view currently at New York space Bridget Donahue, artist Jessi Reaves has returned to the gallery with a new body of works that continue and expand her uniquely inventive turn on sculpture, drawing on shared languages of design, interior space, domestic languages and the possibilities of these elements to work in tandem, here taking shape in a series of floor sculptures and hanging works, investigating and reposing questions of varied histories of making, and how they ultimately converge, twist, and reform. (more…)

Andra Ursuţa, Erotic Cobwebs (2021-2022), via David Zwirner

This month in London, David Zwirner plays home to Joy Revision, an exhibition of work by artist Andra UrsuÅ£a, marking the Romanian-born, New York–based artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition will debut new photograms and lead-crystal sculptures that stem from a premodern conception of art as an essential tool to deal with mortality, loss, and grief. (more…)

Rodney Graham, Untitled (2022), via 303 Gallery

Rodney Graham, the Canadian artist whose restless and relentless body of work moved across photography, video, painting, and even music, has passed away at the age of 73 after a battle with cancer.  (more…)

Helen Marten, Third Moment Profile | The Almost Horse (Installation View), via Sadie Coles HQ

On view during the run of exhibitions and shows surrounding the bustle of Frieze London, Sadie Coles HQ’s fall exhibition welcomes the work of artist Helen Marten this month, playing on notions of monumentality, scale and production through a range of motifs and concepts. Centered on a single conceit: the attempt the depict a horse, the show unfolds through a range of materials and modes that underscore the artist’s conceptually rigorous, yet playful approach to art-marking. In each instance, a sense of the inaccessible stands in the way of success, failing to materialize a horse through language or image.

Helen Marten, Third Moment Profile | The Almost Horse (Installation View), via Sadie Coles HQ

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Christina Forrer, Sepulcher (2021), via Luhring Augustine

On view this month in New York, artist Christina Forrer marks her second exhibition at Luhring Augustine, on view at the gallery’s Tribeca location, with a series of new weavings and drawings, continuing her expressive and enigmatic approach to the medium with a range of works that mix together powerful symbolisms with an animated and vibrant sense of energy.  (more…)

Erika Verzutti, Churros and Rain (Installation View), via Andrew Kreps

Tactile in its approach, Erika Verzutti’s practice rests between sculpture and painting, drawing on a wide range of references from nature to popular culture. Shapes derived from fruits or vegetables recur alongside familiar objects, self-referential gestures, and images culled from social media to form a new vernacular. Firmly rooted in studio practice, Verzutti’s work revels in its process and explores how disparate ideas and perceptions take on a physical form. For her most recent exhibition at Andrew Kreps in New York, the artist continues that mode over a range of materials and approaches.  (more…)

Claudio Parmiggiani, Untitled (2022), via Bortolami

On view this month at Bortolami Gallery in New York, artist Claudio Parmiggiani has installed a body of new work that continues his enigmatic and materially-oriented approach through a range of new canvases. Utilizing simple operations of fire and ash posed against a stark white canvas, Parmiggiani’s work in the show makes the most of the most simple of operations to create lyrically rich subject matter.

Claudio Parmiggiani, Untitled (2022), via Bortolami

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Jack Pierson at Regen, all images via Art Observed

With the fall months pressing on, the annual fair stretch between London and Paris is an annual event, with galleries shuttling between the two European capitals for the usual run of art fairs. But this year, with FIAC sitting out on a 2022 edition, Art Basel has filled a gap in the annual fair offerings, opening the first run of a new fair, Paris+ at the Grand Palais Éphémère from Thursday, October 20 to Sunday, October 23, 2022. Bringing together 156 leading French and international galleries for this first program, the fair continues its reputation for exceptional artworks across all media – from painting and sculpture to photography and digital works. (more…)

Mary Heilmann, Glassy Wall (2020), via 303 Gallery

A California native, Mary Heilmann has been gazing out at the ocean since the age of three, and this fascination with the landscape and climate of her home state continues in her work to this day. Across Heilmann’s surfaces, waves swiftly build in one canvas before crashing over into the next. This notion sits at the center of Heilmann’s current show, Daydream, on view at 303 Gallery in New York. (more…)

Urs Fischer, Denominator (2020-2022), via Art Observed

Continuing his enigmatic and playful engagement with the languages of artistic production, pop culture and materiality, artist Urs Fischer returns to Gagosian in New York this month for a strikingly surreal and technologically-driven body of new works, unified under the title Denominator. Exploring concepts of data compilation and agglomeration, as well as the meanings that systems of organization and exhibition create, the show uses digital imagery as a structure of recontextualizing and complicating the act of creation and the understanding of an image.  (more…)

New York Art Book Fair (Installation), via Art Oserved

The leaves are changing in New York City, the fall equinox is on its way, and the time has once again come for the New York Art Book Fair to open yet again, kicking off its latest edition of a unique and energetic exhibition of young artists, publishers, writers and thinkers, each representing a small part of the national and international art publishing community.  Always free and open to the public, the event draws more than 35,000 individuals including book lovers, collectors, artists, and art world professionals each year.  (more…)

Anthea Hamilton at Thomas Dane, all images via Art Observed

As the chill of autumn washes over the British capital, another year of the Frieze London art fair has opened its doors, bringing with it a stream of sales and installations across its spacious halls that make for a fitting center to one of the city’s busiest art events. Opening in the midst of a challenging moment in British politics, the fair continued its role as a major staple of the fall art season, with impressive attendance and ample sales that seemed to ensure that the British art market was still showing its resiliency in the face of economic and political uncertainty.  (more…)

Cathy Wilkes (Installation View), via Ortuzar Projects

On this month at Ortuzar Projects in New York, artist Cathy Wilkes has orchestrated a subtle, yet incisive series of paintings, sculptures and readymades that continue her work in establishing tenuous and compelling narratives through delicate spatial arrangements. Marking her first show in New York since her her acclaimed solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2017, this new installation combines subtle paintings, objects, and Wilkes’ characteristic papier-maÌ‚ché figures. Visions of landscapes and interiors from her childhood are often recognizable in the work, collapsing and reforming time and space repeatedly. Employing what the artist has called “hypostatic abstraction and intense social realism,” the exhibition conveys themes of separation, suffering, infancy, and fragility. (more…)

Lucy Bull, 17:50 (2022), via David Kordansky

On view this month at David Kordansky Gallery New York and artist Lucy Bull present Piper, her first solo exhibition in New York, featuring new paintings that underscore her use of resonant color, intensively worked vocabularies, and disorienting spatial experimentation. While Bull’s vision of abstraction takes shape on the canvas with abundant force, her approach is also notable for its insistent openness, which favors the creation of associative and narrative possibilities rather than the execution of pre-determined ideas regarding composition or any of the other constituent parts of painting.

Lucy Bull, Piper (Installation View), via David Kordansky

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