Ciarán Murphy, hollow daze (2023), via GRIMM

On this month at GRIMM in London, Irish artist Ciarán Murphy presents a solo exhibition of new paintings that mark his ninth solo show with the gallery, and his first at its new London outpost. Engaging with the entanglement of technological and analogue modes of image-making, the artist’s work here works through a range of histories of the image and the act of art-making in turn. (more…)

Alma Allen, Not Yet Titled (2022), via Blum & Poe

This month in Los Angeles, Mexico-based artist Alma Allen’s fourth solo exhibition with Blum & Poe marks a continuation of the artist’s work in intense, gesturally-oriented sculpture and meticulously carved and cast bronzes, here exhibited for the first time as a series of wall-hanging works. (more…)

Jim Shaw, Going for the One (2022), via Gagosian

On view this month at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, artist Jim Shaw presents a selection of new works that continue his enigmatic and challenging exploration of modernity and culture. United under the title Thinking the Unthinkable, the show reanimates mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment, outwardly disparate fields that collide here in a dreamlike mélange. (more…)

Maggie Lee, Unique Boutique (Installation View), via Reena Spaulings

Artist Maggie Lee’s work functions on complex twists of both memories and their embellishment. Frequently approaching her works as both the material of her past and their continued presence and importance in the present, Lee’s pieces dwell on constructions of culture through materials and experiences simultaneously. For her latest show, open this month at Reena Spaulings and Gaga’s shared Los Angeles space, the artist continues this mode of practice, her delving deep into clothing as both container and surface for a range of associations and meanings.

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Tara Donovan, Screen Drawing (2021), via Pace

On view this month, from January 13 to February 25 at Pace, artist Tara Donovan brings together a selection of screen drawings made with aluminum insect screen, a body of work that began during the pandemic, and which involves moving, pinching, and cutting the wires of an aluminum screen to extract mesmeric patterns from the material’s existing grids. Ranging from just over a foot in height and width to nearly four feet wide and tall, these two-dimensional screen drawings feature unique geometric motifs that produce varied visual effects. (more…)

Lucio Fontana, Nudo (Nude) (1926), via Hauser & Wirth

This winter, Hauser & Wirth presents the second in a trilogy of exhibitions dedicated to the late Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana, considered among the 20th century’s most inventive artists. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, and focused on Fontana’s prolific breakthroughs and experiments in the medium of sculpture, this exhibition will fill the gallery’s uptown location at 32 East 69th Street, the very same address where, in 1961, Fontana’s first solo show in the US was presented at the galleries of the legendary art dealers Martha Jackson and David Anderson. (more…)

Silke Otto-Knapp, Versammlung (Installation View), via Buchholz

On view this month at Galerie Buchholz in New York, the gallery presents an exhibition by the artist Silke Otto-Knapp (1970-2022). Produced in the 18 months before the artist’s death last year, and conceived of specifically for the Buchholz space in New York, Versammlung (German for “assembly”) unites a series of free-standing paintings that depict a series of bodies traversing space, moving and floating through the gallery.  (more…)

Jannis Kounellis (Installation View), via Gladstone Gallery

This winter, the artist Jannis Kounellis is the subject of an expansive exhibition of work on view at Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea this month, underscoring the artist’s powerful and expressive body of work, and its exploration of violence, loss and pain. Like many of his generation in Europe, Jannis Kounellis (1936 – 2017) experienced war at close quarters throughout his childhood; first during the German Nazi/Italian Fascist occupation [subjugation] of Greece, and then the civil war that erupted in the power vacuum when the occupiers were defeated in 1943. One of the first Cold War conflicts, the war lasted until 1949, when Kounellis was 13 years old. (more…)

Jacqueline Fraser, The Making of Reflections in a Golden Eye (2022), via Downs & Ross

Marking artist Jacqueline Fraser’s first solo show at Downs & Ross in New York, The Making of Reflections in a Golden Eye marks a continuation of the artist’s fascination and exploration of the processes and mythos of filmmaking. Here turning her attention to the 1967 film Reflections in a Golden Eye, directed by John Huston, the artist interprets its subject matter and plot through a series of collaged materials and spaces, arranged costumes and various materials that trace a distinct sense of anxiety and exploration of the modern cultural and social landscape.

Jacqueline Fraser, The Making of Reflections in a Golden Eye (2022), via Downs & Ross

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Robert Colescott, MOM’S OLD FASHION ROOT BEER (1974), via Venus Over Manhattan

On through the end of the week at Venus Over Manhattan’s downtown space, the gallery presents a body of works by painter Robert Colescott, organized to trace the development of the artist’s depictions of female subjects over the course of his sixty-year career. Serving as a coda to the recent, critically-lauded traveling museum retrospective Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, the show charts the evolution of Colescott’s ambitious practice through some thirty works produced between 1955 and 1996. (more…)

David Altmejd, The Vector (2022), via White Cube

This winter in London, artist David Altmejd has opened a new show at White Cube, continued his strange fusions of the human form, its constituent parts, and inflections of foreign material to create otherworldly new images. Drawing on classical mythologies of the trickster and the hare as a classical symbol of that mythological archetype, the artist blends languages and images through the frame of Carl Jung to create a surreal interior landscape.  (more…)

Laurie Simmons, Color Pictures/Deep Photos (Pink Dressing Table with Toiletries) (2022), via 56 Henry

On view this month at 56 Henry in New York, Color Pictures/Deep Photos 2007–2022, surveys a collection of new work by Laurie Simmons on view from November 9, 2022 through January 15, 2023. Marking the artist’s first show with the gallery, the exhibition underscores Simmons work in the photographic medium, revisiting a series of works she first made over a decade ago.

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David Hockney, 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures (Installation View), via L.A. Louver

Marking a major global exhibition of the work of painter David Hockney, L.A. Louver is currently presenting 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures, a series of works created by Hockney in 2021, expanding on a series of iPad paintings in 2020 while quarantining at his studio and residence in Normandy, France. Inspired by his daily observations, Hockney devoted himself to the iPad, a medium of unique immediacy that allowed him to be prolific in his depictions of his home, the changing seasons, and surrounding countryside.

David Hockney, 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures (Installation View), via L.A. Louver

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Thomas Ruff, d.o.pe.01 II (2022), via Sprüth Magers

Artist Thomas Ruff’s multi-faceted practice mines the ever-changing possibilities of photography, investigating visual and cultural phenomena to address the ways in which technology influences our seeing. It manifests across a wide range of subjects and methods ranging from classical portrait photography to algorithmically generated digital images. For the artist’s most recent show, on view this winter at Sprüth Magers in Berlin, the artist continues this practice, taking on a series of wall-tapestries as a mode for the continued exploration of image-making and its connections to material. (more…)

Michel Majerus, gemälde (Installation View), neugerriemschneider, Berlin, November 8, 2022 – January 14, 2023 © Michel Majerus Estate. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe

This winter in Berlin, neugerriemschneider is printing a dynamic show by Michel Majerus – gemälde, 1994. The show recreates gemälde, the first exhibition in the gallery’s collaboration with Michel Majerus in 1994, and is her reconstructed for the first time as part of an ongoing focus on the artist by the gallery this year. The historic exhibition will be reconstructed to scale and includes the same works it originally showed, evoking the inception of Majerus’ innovative artistic method, which presented a new way of approaching painting and making it accessible in the form of installations. (more…)

K.R.M. Mooney, Radial Affordance (c.) i (2022), via Miguel Abreu

On view this winter at Miguel Abreu in New York, artist K.R.M. Mooney marks his debut solo show at the gallery with a body of new works that emphasize the artist’s meticulous interpolations of hardware, construction materials and mechanical parts, applied here in a subtle and engaging series of operations.  (more…)

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.  (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. (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. (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. (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. (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.  (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. (more…)