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Galerie Ernst Hilger
There is a visceral and lyrical quality embedded within the fibers of Jakob Kirchmayr’s work. Like a palimpsest that reveals itself over time, the mixed media works integrate handwritten messages that guide the viewer along the landscape of memory. The artist’s hand is in rich in texture and presents a meditation on materials and surface […]
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SARADIPOUR Art Gallery
The landscapes rendered by Iranian artists Mahdieh Abolhasan and Abbas Nasle Shamloo are distinctively absent of human figures yet extend an invitation to explore the subtleties of the texture and elements of the natural world in solitude. In searching for answers through the intricacies of the material employed by each artist respectively, we adopt a […]
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Andy Moses: Recent Works
The paintings of Andy Moses possess an intense magnetism defined by a palette of hypnotic pearlescent hues. The solo exhibition Recent Works on view at William Turner Gallery presents large-scale circular, hexagonal, and concave wood panels treated with a skillful hand conducting colors like a synesthesia symphony. Oil and acrylic paint charge the surfaces, however, […]
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Rainer Hosch: Apocalypse Now
The outstretched branches of the Joshua tree quiver with fiery spiky leaves and recede into the horizon. The single trunk that supports the once-thriving plant species still stands despite enduring intense heat and the unforgiving wrath of flames. Rainer Hosch’s documentation of the scorched earth in the aftermath of the Dome fire, just one of […]
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Kathleen Vance at VOLTA NY 17
Kathleen Vance unveils her site-specific project Traveling Landscape: Precious Cargo, presented by ROCKELMANN &. By modifying reclaimed vintage luggage with artificial and real flora (moss, dirt, water) in miniature dioramas within, the Brooklyn-based artist considers a multitude of salient topics, from pristine green spaces to land proprietorship and water rights (Berlin, booth D5).
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Lisa Adams: Location Unknown
The viewer’s gaze unhinges the schism between a utopic past and a dystopic present, whose wrath is concealed by an arsenal of exacting moves executed invisibly by the hand of artist Lisa Adams. By implementing a set of painterly techniques of her own creation, which includes the meticulous use of sponge rollers to create mosaic […]