Exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian Gallery in Paris

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg stands as one of the most inventive artists in American art, arguably the first of his generation to chart a viable course out of Abstract Expressionism towards the formal integration of art and the mess of life. His approach to making art using discarded materials, everyday objects and appropriated images eviscerated the distinctions between medium and genre, abstraction and representation, while his “flatbed picture plane” created an [...]

Exhibition of paintings from the 1960s to the 80s by the late Milton Resnick at Cheim & Read

NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of paintings by the late Milton Resnick. The gallery has been the exclusive representative of the artist’s estate since 2006. Cheim & Read’s previous exhibition of Resnick’s paintings was in 2008 and focused on works from 1959-1963. This show looks to later works from the 1960s to the 80s. It is accompanied by a full color catalogue with an essay by Philip Larratt-Smith. The essay, “Play Dead,” combines art historical analysis with juxtapositions [...]

Abstract Expressionism and Its Discontents at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, a new installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on view through August 28, 2011, revisits the post-World War II art movement to include artists historically not associated with Abstract Expressionism. When in 1946 New Yorker critic Robert Coates identified an expressive, gestural and subjective approach towards abstract painting in American art, he inadvertently gave the name to a style popularly known as “Abstract Expressionism.” Although it has come to describe [...]

American Artist Wade Guyton Shows Small-Format Works at the Secession in Vienna

VIENNA.- In his exhibition Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer (Drawings For A Small Room) at the Secession, American artist Wade Guyton shows small-format works characterized by a minimalist formal vocabulary. As his support medium, he uses pages from old art, architecture and lifestyle magazines which he prints over with an inkjet printer. The abstract idiom devised by the artist on the computer using standard word processing software and the results of this work process are imposed by the fluctuating quality [...]

Group of Important Works from 1963 and 1964 by Lee Lozano at Hauser & Wirth

NEW YORK, NY.- Lee Lozano (1930 – 1999) has been described as one of the least known great artists of the New York scene of the 1960s and early 1970s. Navigating the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, from Minimalism to Conceptual Art, she created a radical, overtly sexual, and aesthetically provocative body of work in a male-dominated art world. She rifled through styles at breakneck speed, from surreal representational drawing and painting, toward abstraction and, ultimately, word pieces [...]

Allan Stone Gallery Extends the Exhibition Alfred Leslie/John Chamberlain: Collage

NEW YORK, NY.- The Allan Stone Gallery extends the exhibition Alfred Leslie / John Chamberlain: Collage through January 22nd, 2011. The exhibition features 15 early works from both artists, spanning the ten years from 1951-1961. Leslie is best known for his expansive abstract canvases, experimental films, and precisionist nude paintings. Chamberlain, the king of 60s and 70s sculpture, is famous for his polychromatic car part assemblage. Both artists are now considered giants of the post-war era, easily recognizable for their [...]

New Abstract Works by New York Painter John Zinsser at Graham Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of new abstract works by New York painter John Zinsser is on view at Graham Gallery through January 4th, 2011. Zinsser’s current exhibition follows his installation of drawings in the main gallery last season, Art Dealer Archipelagoes, which charted the history of New York’s post-war gallery development through a series of “maps.” These new works on canvas again source that history, but through strictly formalist and quotational terms. As Zinsser describes, “Early attempts, with my own [...]

Solo Show of Paintings by the American Artist Pat Steir at Galerie Jaeger Bucher

PARIS.- Galerie Jaeger Bucher presents a solo show by the American artist Pat Steir, born in Newark, New Jersey. Since her first exposition in New York in 1964 at the gallery Terri Dintenfass, Pat Steir has created a broad spectrum of paintings all born from her pouring technique which has been refined to the point of virtuosity : layers of paintings placed as successive veils whose meditative silence is reminiscent of Agnes Martin pictorial space. Pat Steir, Summer Moon, 2005 [...]

Largest-Ever Exhibition in Scandinavia of the Work of Alice Neel at Moderna Museet Malmö

MALMO.- This autumn, Moderna Museet Malmö presents Alice Neel: Painted Truths – the largest exhibition of this American artist ever to be shown in Scandinavia. With 59 works spanning more than 70 years, the exhibition fills the entire Turbine Hall and the new gallery at Moderna Museet Malmö. Today, Alice Neel (1900-1984) is an iconic figure in American painting. For most of her life, however, she worked without recognition from either critics or the public. Persistently and unremittingly, Neel continued [...]

The Pace Gallery Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary with Retrospective Shows

NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades. 50 Years at Pace brings together some of the key masterpieces that have passed through Pace’s doors, featuring loans from important public and private collections worldwide. With works spanning more than a century and a selection of rare archival materials, 50 [...]

Tate Announces First Major Retrospective of Joan Miró in Fifty Years

LONDON.- Tate Modern will present the first major retrospective of Joan Miró (1893–1983) to be held in London for almost 50 years. Opening on 14 April 2011, Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape will bring together over 150 paintings, works on paper and sculptures by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists. The exhibition will draw on collections from around the world to represent the astonishing breadth of Miró’s output. It will also explore the wider context of his work, [...]

First Class Array of South Asian Art at Sotheby’s London

LONDON.- This year’s sale of South Asian Art at Sotheby’s in London will take place on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 and it will bring to the market a first class array of works that track the course of Indian art: from classic Modern masterworks to cutting-edge Contemporary art. The sale is further distinguished by the rare group of works by Rabindranath Tagore from the collection of the Dartington Hall Trust in the South of England, an important selection of Modern [...]

Exhibition of Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964 Opens at Museum Kunst Palast

DUSSELDORF.- The 1959 documenta II in Kassel marked a peak in gestural abstract painting. Here, fourteen years after the end of World War II a central tendency of painting was celebrated, which presented itself as an international phenomenon spanning the entire Western world. Following this documenta and a major tour of American Abstract Expressionism to several European capitals in the preceding year, the so-called genre of informal painting received, in a sense, official status. The significance of ‘abstraction as a [...]

Christopher Stone and Peter Morris to Exhibit at The Forge Gallery

WEST SUSSEX.- In Western art the most powerful icon has always been the human figure, and this is the element which has connected the work of the two artists exhibiting at the Forge Gallery, Walberton, England, later this year. Both artists take the idea of the figure but then that idea goes through the process of figuration, or formalization, but each uses a different process and each naturally comes up with different results. Christopher Stone deliberately avoids making any preparatory [...]

Saskatoon-Born Artist Luanne Martineau Exhibits at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

MONTREAL.- Saskatoon-born artist Luanne Martineau has made a name for herself with her virtually indescribable hybrid felt and wool sculptures. Human, animal and organic, all at once, they produce an experience that wavers between fascination and repulsion, the microscopic and the macroscopic. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents the exhibition Luanne Martineau from February 4 to April 25, 2010. Form Fantasy, 2009, for example, made of industrial felt, needle-felted wool and thread, looks like a soft industrial chair set [...]

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