“Sic transit Gloria mundi,” words written in burn marks on the white wall of Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma’s Enel Room. It is an epigraph that sounds powerful, dramatic and yet resigned. It is not easy for an artist to deal with decadence. I mean, working on a concept so broad as “The word is falling […]

The most exciting, moving aspect of these works is temporality of his brushstrokes; not relegated to one permanent space, his strokes are moveable. Estrada-Vega’s painting process allows him to supercede the academic dryness of a straightforward grid by adding an element of performance. In a time when others may be moving pixels around on a […]

Jason Stopa: One of the most striking aspects in these new works is the kind of back-lit illusionism that is present in the handling of the paint. It reminds me of Pollock in that Hans Namuth film, where he is painting on screen to create a certain liquidity. Your work references paintings’ reproduction via the […]

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present “Watch Your Step,” a group exhibition of floor works including Grimanesa Amoros, Kiki Smith, Richard Serra, Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Patricia Cronin, Tara Donovan, William & Steven Ladd, Richard Long, Michael Phelan, Julianne Swartz, and Corban Walker among others. “Watch Your Step” examines the relationship of the […]

Törmälehto’s work stands out as an exciting combination controlled spontaneity and coincidences where stiff paintwork is applied lovingly against lighter marks. His irrational confrontations are embodied through a variation of “bad painting” techniques with delicate, beautiful strokes. Here the distinction between good and bad is delicate – if it even exists at all. The third […]

“McElheny’s oeuvre combines the legacy of conceptual art and a keen interest in history with an extremely high proficiency in glass blowing, a degree of craftsmanship almost completely outmoded in today’s art world,” said Molesworth. “Over the past two decades, the problem of infinity has driven McElheny’s efforts to represent the unrepresentable, as the infinite […]

Alternatively, New Dan Bal Ryeong, Mang Geum Gang is presented on a single monitor. The origin of this work is from Jeun Sun, a Chosun Dynasty landscape artist. There are two mountains; one is the famous Geum Gang San (Diamond Mountain), which is presented on the left side of the work and Dan Bal Ryeong […]

Spray-painted and found printed papers cut into diamonds and triangles make up the seemingly random compositions of the Flotilla series. As the name suggests, the arrangements of shapes and colors looks like a flotilla of ships on the sea as seen from above. A flotilla is usually composed of a homogeneous group of the same […]

Lauren Luloff’s solo exhibition of large-scale paintings will occupy the ground floor of the Halsey McKay Gallery. Richly layered, complex activity propels the construction of these works as the artist layers bleach-stained bed sheets, muslin, transparent fabric and varying viscosities of oil paint. Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of […]

VOLTA is a platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global repute whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors alike. Conceived to bridge a gap between Basel’s pre-existing fairs, VOLTA showcases galleries–whether young or mature–that choose as their mandate to work with the most exciting emerging artists. The […]