Isaac Layman’s first solo museum exhibition on view at the Frye Art Museum

SEATTLE, WA.- One of Seattle’s most talented contemporary artists, Isaac Layman (b. 1977), at the Frye Art Museum through January 22, 2012. In his first solo museum exhibition, Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged, photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his Seattle home. Curated by the director of the Frye Art Museum, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Paradise includes more than twenty new photographic constructions created especially for the exhibition. Layman’s most recent constructions, small-to-epic photographic re-orderings of [...]

First U.S. solo museum exhibition of Canadian artist Ron Terada at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

CHICAGO, IL.- Ron Terada: Being There is the first U.S. solo museum exhibition of Canadian artist Ron Terada who uses text, signage, advertising, and Hollywood films in unusual and inventive ways to create cultural narratives. Curated by MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling, the exhibition includes a fascinating body of work that shows Terada’s wide-ranging conceptual practice –from paintings, photographs, and graphic design, to video, sound, and interventions. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Ron Terada: Being There through January [...]

First major solo exhibition of Brian McCutcheon’s work opens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art will presents the first major solo museum exhibition of the work of Brian McCutcheon. Comprised entirely of new works commissioned by the IMA, Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World will be on display in the McCormack Forefront Galleries from September 9, 2011, to March 11, 2012. An Indianapolis-based conceptual artist, McCutcheon uses video, photography, and sculpture to explore the relationships between play and masculinity. After realizing that his son is currently the same age that he [...]

The Whitney Presents Dianna Molzan’s First Solo Museum Show and New York Debut

NEW YORK. N.Y.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Dianna Molzan: Bologna Meissen, the first solo museum exhibition devoted to the artist’s work. This lobby gallery show, open today, is curated by Whitney curatorial assistant Margot Norton. Dianna Molzan’s works engage in an open and unpredictable dialogue with the history of abstract painting. Although she works with traditional materials, such as oil on linen, she approaches her canvases irreverently, invoking elements of fashion, the decorative arts, ceramics, and popular design. [...]

Henrik Olesen Presents New Works at MoMA for His First U.S. Solo Museum Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- For Projects 94: Henrik Olesen, on view February 9 through May 23, 2011, The Museum of Modern Artpresents new works by Berlin-based artist Henrik Olesen (Danish, b. 1967) made specifically for this presentation. Olesen’s past projects have addressed a range of subjects, including legal codes, the natural sciences, distribution of capital, and art history. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the artist has gathered disassembled electronic devices mounted on large Plexiglas panels, found-object sculptures, [...]

First U.S. Solo Museum Show of Gabriel Kuri at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston

BOSTON, MA.- On Feb. 2, 2011, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab, the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work in the U.S. Using familiar materials such as receipts, newspaper or plastic bags, Kuri focuses our attention on contemporary consumer culture and the way money mediates almost all our human relationships and daily transactions. Approximately 25 sculptures and 10 collages will be on view, including Untitled (Superama), one of [...]

Aaron Curry’s Mmnktlplkt at Michael Werner Gallery

LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery presents Mmnktlplkt, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Curry, on view at 20 Hoxton Square through 20 October. With Mmnktlplkt, Aaron Curry disregards the confines of the traditional white cube to create an environment of complete optical immersion and confusion. Dazzling patterns cover the walls and floor of the gallery, alternately mirroring and obscuring the painted sculptures that stand, lean and hang throughout the space. The exhibition continues across the street from the gallery with [...]

SFMOMA Announces New Body of Work by R.H. Quaytman

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition New Work: R. H. Quaytman. Organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, SFMOMA assistant curator of painting and sculpture, the exhibition features a new series of paintings commissioned by the museum and made specifically for the exhibition at SFMOMA, the artist’s second solo museum exhibition and the first presentation on the West Coast. Modest in scale, Quaytman’s paintings on beveled [...]

Mika Rottenberg’s New Video Installation Debuts at SFMOMA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Artist Mika Rottenberg debuts her latest immersive video installation for SFMOMA‘s New Work series this summer in her first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast. Rottenberg makes feminist art decades after feminism was legibly defined. She makes seriously political art that is preposterously funny. She documents reality, but spins it into narrative fiction. With Squeeze (2010), Rottenberg hones these signature tactics, creating a video installation that is both humorous and unsettling. New Work: Mika Rottenberg will [...]

First Solo Museum Exhibition of the Work of Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS Opens at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

RIDGEFIELD, CT.- This first solo museum exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, includes his most recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a survey of his iconic street art, apparel, product and graphic designs. KAWS’s first aesthetic influences came from skateboarding, as did his familiarity with New York City. Around 1991, he started marking his name in different areas of New Jersey and Manhattan. By the time he finished high school, he [...]

Drawings and Installations by Brigitte Waldach at Kunsthalle Emden

EMDEN.- Kunsthalle Emden present a comprehensive showcase of the works of Berlin-based artist Brigitte Waldach entitled Zeichnungen und Installationen [Drawings and Installations]. The former Master Scholar of Georg Baselitz has gained international recognition for her works, such as her unique red drawings that stand out both in form and content, and her thematisation of the “German Autumn” and RAF (Red Army Faction). Following numerous exhibitions in New York, Copenhagen, São Paulo, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Berlin, the show at Kunsthalle [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Ceal Floyer’s First Solo Museum Exhibition

MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will present Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus from March 11 through May 9, 2010. This mid-career survey is Floyer’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, featuring multi-media works from the late 1990s to the present. The exhibition is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and is curated by MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. Floyer’s deceptively, minimal conceptual works emerge from her daily experiences rather than from [...]

Etienne Zack’s Innovative and Vibrant Paintings at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

MONTREAL.- In Etienne Zack’s innovative and vibrant paintings, the viewer’s eye is led every which way over the canvas. Like a modern-day maze, each of his works draws us into a multilayered labyrinth. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents the exhibition Etienne Zack from February 4 to April 25, 2010. Etienne Zack was previously featured in The Québec Triennial. Now the Musée has mounted a solo exhibition comprising twenty-two paintings produced over the last six years, including two major [...]

First Solo Museum Exhibition in The Netherlands for Daniel Roth Announced

HAARLEM.- De Hallen Haarlem will present the first solo museum exhibition in The Netherlands by the German artist Daniel Roth. The show will trace the development of the artist’s oeuvre on the basis of existing and new work, from drawings, sculptures and photographs with a narrative character to ever more frugal, autonomous images in which the relation between the human body and the landscape is central. This exhibition can be seen from March 20 through June 6, 2010. Daniel Roth [...]