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New York – Jessi Reaves: “At the Well” at Bridget Donahue Through November 19th, 2022

October 27th, 2022

Jessi Reaves, Bad Apartment SHelf (2022), via Bridget Donahue
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. Read More »

London – Andra UrsuÅ£a: “Joy Revision” at David Zwirner Through October 29th, 2022

October 26th, 2022

Andra Ursuţa, Erotic Cobwebs,(2021-2022), via David Zwirner
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. Read More »

RIP – Canadian Photographer and Painter Rodney Graham Has Passed Away, Aged 73

October 25th, 2022

Rodney Graham, Untitled (2022), via 303 Gallery
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.  Read More »

London – Helen Marten: “Third Moment Profile | The Almost Horse” at Sadie Coles HQ Through October 29th, 2022

October 24th, 2022

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

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New York – Christina Forrer at Luhring Augustine Through October 29th, 2022

October 21st, 2022

Christina Forrer, Sepulcher (2021), via Luhring Augustine
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.  Read More »

Erika Verzutti: “Churros and Rain” at Andrew Kreps Through October 29th, 2022

October 20th, 2022

Erika Verzutti, Churros and Rain (Installation View), via Andrew Kreps
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.  Read More »

New York – Claudio Parmiggiani at Bortolami Gallery Through October 29th, 2022

October 20th, 2022

Claudio Parmiggiani, Untitled (2022), via Bortolami
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
Claudio Parmiggiani, Untitled (2022), via Bortolami

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AO On-Site – Art Basel Paris+ at the Grand Palais Éphémère, October 20th-23rd, 2022

October 19th, 2022

Jack Pierson at Regen
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. Read More »

New York – Mary Heilmann: “Daydream” at 303 Gallery Through October 29th, 2022

October 17th, 2022

Mary Heilmann, Glassy Wall (2020), via 303 Gallery
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. Read More »

New York – Urs Fischer: “Denominator” at Gagosian Through October 15th, 2022

October 14th, 2022

Urs Fischer, Denominator (2020-2022), via Art Observed
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.  Read More »