New Paintings by Colorado-Born Artist John Currin Presented at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents new paintings by John Currin. Currin’s depictions of the female figure enchant and repel, often in equal measure. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and evade categorization. While his meticulous and virtuosic technique is indebted to the history of classical painting, the images themselves engage startlingly contemporary ideas about the representation of the human figure. With inspirations as diverse as Old Master portraits, pin-ups, and mid-twentieth century [...]

Royal Academy of Arts Announces Jeff Koons as New Honorary Member of the Royal Academy

LONDON.- Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, 1955. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft- making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race [...]

Wolfgang Tillmans’ First Major Exhibition in London Since 2003 Opens

LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery presents Wolfgang Tillmans’ first major exhibition in London since 2003. Conceived by the artist for the Serpentine Gallery, the exhibition will present both abstract and figurative work. Over the past 20 years, Tillmans has redefined photography and the way it is shown. Known by the early 90s for the seemingly casual images of the world he inhabited, his work reassessed photographic conventions and reflected the identity politics of the time, capturing the fragility of human life [...]

New Wire Drawings by Cornelia Parker at D’Amelio Terras

NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents a series of new wire drawings by gallery artist Cornelia Parker. The artist is well known for her large-scale installations of transformed or destabilized objects that re-emerge in surprisingly beautiful forms. For years, Parker has been concerned with formalizing things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something quiet and contemplative. Here, Parker has melted lead bullets and literally drawn them to the limits of their materiality. Creating wire grids, Parker [...]