Spatial perception and the emotive power of light are harnessed within the ephemeral installations and geometric sculptures of Phillip K. Smith III.  The LA-based artist represented by royale projects: contemporary art has an enviable retinue of installations already, from his ethereal Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree to Reflection Field, commissioned for the 2014 Coachella Music & Arts Festival. He brings both […]

Gail Stoicheff contributes a major discourse on image-making and its relation to the creator’s unique environment, in her presentation with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.  Her sumptuous process-driven paintings marry intentional gestural interventions with manipulations of the canvases themselves   She received the prestigious Daedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and The Elaine DeKooning Painting.  

Batia Shani represented by Tamar Dresden Art Projects creates the site-specific installation Tissue.  The Hebrew word “rikma’”references this and translates to “needlework”, which the artist has been doing since she was a child.  The installation reflects the ongoing political instability in the Middle East.  By combining gendered outfits — male army uniform scraps stitched into handmade […]

In the vibrant, emergent neighborhood of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, some of the most exciting contemporary art is evolving and being seen.  It’s no surprise, then, that a new kind of gallery would spring up, playing to more alternative and intimate tastes than those of the “white cube” variety housed in Chelsea or the Upper […]

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Basements are good places to play, licitly or not.  A person can tinker or experiment out of sight of people going about their day-lit lives.  Leeza Meksin has landed a body of new artworks into Airplane, a basement gallery in Bushwick, New York, that takes full advantage of its cellar opportunities.  She pinches, perforates and […]