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New York – Sabine Moritz at Marian Goodman Through August 19th, 2022

August 15th, 2022

Sabine Moritz, Lair I (2022), via Marian Goodman
Sabine Moritz, Lair I (2022), via Marian Goodman

On view this summer at Marian Goodman, a solo exhibition by Sabine Moritz brings forth a suite of new large-scale paintings and works on paper. The exhibition, the artist’s first presentation in the New York gallery, follows three previous exhibitions held at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris. The presentation will be comprised of a new series of abstract paintings and new intimately scaled workson paper, all from 2021-2022. This vibrant, abstract terrain is presented in conjunction with four select representational works. This new body of work can be seen as the next chapter in Moritz’s phenomenological practice –– acts of deep looking that seek to understand the world.

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New York – “SUMMER Nights” at Canada Through August 12th, 2022

August 12th, 2022

Samantha Vernon, Vacant Lots (2015-2022), via Canada
Samantha Vernon, Vacant Lots (2015-2022), via Canada

This month at Canada, the gallery presents a group show titled SUMMER Nights, featuring work by Addoley Dzegede, Julia Haft-Candell, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Abigail Lucien, Carly Mandel, Mary Manning, Lee Relvas, Beverly Semmes, Fin Simonetti, Hanae Utamura, Sam Vernon, Rachel Eulena Williams, and Kristine Woods. Exploring a range of works that oscillate between various fragments of architecture, the show draws on artists using memory and experience to create works meditating on world building, family, and the abstractions of daily life. Read More »

New York – “Eyes of the Skin” at Lehmann Maupin Through August 12th, 2022

August 11th, 2022

Francheska Alcantara, Tiger Jaw IV (2022), via Lehmann Maupin
Francheska Alcantara, Tiger Jaw IV (2022), via Lehmann Maupin

On view this month at Lehmann Maupin in New York, the gallery welcomes New York City-based artist Teresita Fernández to curate a group show for the summer season, bringing together works by Francheska Alcántara, Carolina Caycedo, Adriana Corral, David Antonio Cruz, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Leslie Martinez, Glendalys Medina, Jeffrey Meris, and Esteban Ramón Pérez. Engaging various degrees of abstraction, the works in the show are united by each artist’s focus on materiality, process, and tactility.  Read More »

New York – “On the Nature of Things” at Andrew Kreps Through August 12th, 2022

August 10th, 2022

On the Nature of Things (Installation View), via Andrew Kreps
On the Nature of Things (Installation View), via Andrew Kreps

On view this month at Andrew Kreps Gallery, the gallery presents a meditation and exploration of the history of Assemblage, culling together a range of works that span over eighty years and drawing from the work of more than forty artists who explored and shaped that mode of practice.  Read More »

London – Kathleen Ryan: “Red Rose” at Josh Lilley Through August 13th, 2022

August 9th, 2022

Kathleen Ryan, Bad Peach (Bite) (2022), via Josh Lilley
Kathleen Ryan, Bad Peach (Bite) (2022), via Josh Lilley

On view this month at Josh Lilley’s London exhibition space, artist Kathleen Ryan presents a new body of works, presenting a series of intriguing topographies and structures that mix together engaging mechanical and organic symbolisms to create peculiar, surreal objects. Walking a line between cityscapes, cells and circuit boards, Ryan’s work mines an engaging and resonant set of commentaries on modern life, suspending her images and objects in a space between technology and bodies.

Kathleen Ryan, Bad Melon (Double Rainbow) (2022), via Josh Lilley
Kathleen Ryan, Bad Melon (Double Rainbow) (2022), via Josh Lilley

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New York – “The Patriot” at O’Flaherty’s Through August 10th, 2022

August 8th, 2022

The Patriot (Installation View), via O'Flaherty's
The Patriot (Installation View), via O’Flaherty’s

O’Flaherty’s, the gallery project of painter Jamian Juliano-Villani, has, in its short time, has built a reputation for challenging and engaging shows, operating a program that has made the small gallery a central voice in the representation of young artists and historically resonant projects overlooked by larger galleries. It should be no surprise then, that the pioneering space would take an equally iconoclastic and engaged approach to the summer groups show, lampooning the format with The Patriot, an open call exhibition that has packed the gallery to the gills with art for the past month.

The Patriot (Installation View), via O'Flaherty's
The Patriot (Installation View), via O’Flaherty’s

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Hong Kong – Raoul de Keyser: “Replay Again” at David Zwirner Through August 6th, 2022

August 4th, 2022

Raoul de Keyser, Come on, play it again nr. 2 (2001), via David Zwirner
Raoul de Keyser, Come on, play it again nr. 2 (2001), via David Zwirner

On view through the end of this week at David Zwirner’s Hong Kong location, artist Raoul de Keyser presents a selection of works the continues and elaborates on a previous show at the gallery in 2021. Among the notable works that will be on view are representative paintings from the Belgian artist’s seminal Come on, play it again; Hal, and Hayward series, made during the height of his career, from the middle of the 1980s to the 2000s. Read More »

New York – “Commonwealth and Council” at Petzel Gallery Through August 5th, 2022

August 3rd, 2022

Cayetano Ferrer, Surrogate Pylon Display Unit (replica) (2015-22), via Petzel
Cayetano Ferrer, Surrogate Pylon Display Unit (replica) (2015-22), via Petzel

Marking its entry in a summer of group shows, Petzel Gallery’s uptown space hosts Commonwealth and Council, a show dedicated to the Los Angeles gallery of the same name, celebrating over ten years of work supporting young artists and the growth the gallery has seen in recent years. Founded in 2010, Commonwealth and Council has committed itself to a dynamic program building counter-narratives that reflect individual and collective realities. On view here, artists Cayetano Ferrer, Gala Porras-Kim, Nikita Gale, rafa esparza, and Suki Seokyeong Kang, showcase interests and focuses on the underrepresented, acknowledging that meaning occurs at a host of myriad idiosyncratic registers—and propose alternative modalities of knowledge, speech, and value systems. Read More »

New York – “The odds are good, the goods are odd” at Lisson Through August 5th, 2022

August 2nd, 2022

Hugh Hayden
Hugh Hayden, all images via Art Observed

Lisson Gallery wades into summer group show month with The odds are good, the goods are odd this year, a group exhibition that highlights a new generation of New York-based sculptors. Bringing together artworks across a range of mediums, the presentation showcases the divergent ethoses behind sculpture-making today. The featured artists favor the handmade, creating a spectrum of artworks that range from the polished and conceptual, to the raw and visceral. Read More »

New York – Barbara Kruger at David Zwirner Through August 5th, 2022

August 1st, 2022

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battlefield) (1989 2020), via David Zwirner
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battlefield) (1989/2020), via David Zwirner

Barbara Kruger makes her first outing with David Zwirner Gallery this summer, marking her inaugural show with the exhibitor three years after announcing she was joining the mega-gallery. Spanning the gallery’s three locations on West 19th Street in New York, the show is a monumental review of her work, and quite a timely one. Kruger powerfully and directly engages with viewers through a distinctive visual language, utilizing images, text, and technology as tools of communication to reveal and question established power structures and social constructs, challenging power structures through their direct address. Read More »