Jonathan Monk, This Painting (Schnabel) (2022), via Casey Kaplan

Continuing a particular and often challenging brand of conceptualism in the act of painting, artist Jonathan Monk opens a new show at Casey Kaplan this month, brought forth under the title These Paintings Should.  Exhibiting a striking brand of wistful thinking, the exhibition is comprised of a collection of twelve acrylic-based paintings, each emblazoned with screen-printed text that differs from one to the next, always beginning with the phrase “This painting should ideally be hung…”. As such, each sets up an imagined reality by dictating a supposed “ideal” placement on the wall, offering an unexpected conversation with iconic artists—from Isa Genzken to Claude Monet and back.  Read More »

Sonia Gomes, Coroa de reis (2022), via Pace

On view this month in New York, and marking the first-ever solo show by the artist in the city, Pace Gallery opens a show of works by Sonia Gomes. Gomes, who is known for her use of textiles and everyday materials in her complex assemblages, brings physicality and movement to the fore of her work. On view from November 4 to December 17, this presentation, titled O mais profundo é a pele (Skin is the deepest part), showcases the artist’s impressive material and conceptual practice. Read More »

Tunji Adeniyi- Jones, Triple Dive Orange (2022), all images via Nicelle Beauchene

On view this month in New York, painter Tunji Adeniyi-Jones presents his third exhibition with Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, a show titled Emergent Properties that continues and expands on the artist’s long-standing interest in printmaking—particularly lithography and monotype work—as a formal and conceptual inspiration for new large and small-scale, oil on canvas paintings.

Tunji Adeniyi- Jones, Triple Dive Violet (2022)

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Issy Wood, My Consequences (2022), via Michael Werner

Painter Issy Wood mines a complex visual lexicon throughout her work, walking a fine line between pop observations and meticulous studies of form and space that make her canvases instantly compelling and intricate in their gathered meanings and constructions. The artist’s work continues in this vein this month at Michael Werner Gallery in New York, where the American-born, British artist presents a body of new paintings. Read More »

Firelai Baez, Fruta Fina, Fruta Estrańa (Lee Monument) (2022), via James Cohan

For painter Firelei Báez, abstraction takes it cues form alchemy; gesture and material commingling in the artist’s hands in order to realize new spaces, new forms, and new ways to see the world. Incorporating this concept into senses of the body and of the world, her works tug at the notions of how we live, and how we might rethink the material of life through new modes of transformation.  This notion sits at the core of the artist’s work in her new show at James Cohan, where a series of canvases explore these modes of thought in detail.   Read More »

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Panoramism and the Abstract Sector (Installation View), via Esther Schipper

On view this month in Berlin, Esther Schipper presents Panoramism and the Abstract Sector, artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Continuing the artist’s ongoing exploration of artistic, emotional and intellectual geneaologies, extending from prior shows in 2021 and this year, the show takes the form of a 30-meter long 180°-degree curved panorama, especially conceived for the exhibition, with imagery spilling over onto a custom-printed carpet, and printed pillow books. Read More »

Amy Sherald, For love, and for country (2022), via Hauser & Wirth

Marking the artist’s first solo show in Europe, Amy Sherald, the American painter and portraitist has opened a major suite of new paintings at Hauser & Wirth London. Bringing together a selection of both small-scale works and large, monumental pieces, the show is Sherald’s largest to date with the gallery, and a shining example of her abilities in translating and expressing powerful emotional landscapes and intricate relationships through a simple, elegant color palette and meticulous use of space. Read More »

Kiki Smith (Installation View), via Timothy Taylor

On this month at Timothy Taylor Gallery in New York City, artist Kiki Smith presents a selection of new works focusing on sculpture, drawing, collage, and wall works from the 1990s that draw together Smith’s study of the human body and the natural world. Presented in a new, temporary exhibition space at 211 West 19th Street in Chelsea while the gallery renovates a new 6,000-square-foot gallery in Tribeca that will open next year, the show offers a new series of possibilities and opportunities for the artist’s work.  Read More »

Sam Gilliam, Late Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed

Debuting a suite of large-scale paintings and works on paper executed in the last two years of his life, Pace Gallery has opened Late Paintings, a testament to artist Sam Gilliam’s commitment to abstraction. Conceived together with the artist prior to his death in June of 2022, the exhibition occupies the entirety of Pace’s Hanover Square gallery, and marks the first-ever solo exhibition for the artist’s work in the United Kingdom.  Read More »

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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