March 24, 2020
Who claims that threads of wool cannot be hair, or that the fanning tines of a yard rake attached to each other cannot be comforting, like extended arms open wide for an embrace? Anne Samat, an artist from Malaysia, questions identities and the means...
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Omar Rodriguez-Graham (Mexico City, 1978) is a powerhouse of an artist. He lives between both the analog and digital worlds, as an artist who represents the future of Mexico City’s vibrant art scene. Omar’s work reflects the present while simultaneously honoring the past. Rodriguez-Graham...
Read MoreOctober 18, 2019
When asked about her influences, Rona Pondick tends to reply succinctly. “Kafka and my mother,” she will often state, but when pressed further she has only been known to elaborate on the former. In looking at the hybrid metal creatures for which Pondick is perhaps best known, Kafka’s influence—from Metamorphosis to his letters to his fiancée Felice—is not hard to see. The artist is drawn to the writer’s creativity, born from the mind of an emotionally troubled man: “His fantasy life was so great that he could describe America having never been here…he could understand emotional things and be so emotionally damaged,” she marvels. But on the topic of her mother she is more reticent, held back by a deeply seated, complex feeling of what I suspect to be both love and fear for a woman with little love to give her children. Pondick’s mother, however, died in October of last year; and for the first time, the artist has been able to feel free of her shadow. Holding the mirror of influence up to her body of work, it becomes clear that the relationship between Kafka and Mother is closer than it initially appears.
Read MoreSeptember 26, 2019
Rona Pondick’s work is currently on view in shows from the permanent collections at three distinguished museums this season: The Nasher Sculpture Center, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Portland Museum of Art. Head in Tree, AP, 2006-08, Stainless steel at the Nasher...
Read MoreAugust 20, 2019
We are pleased to announce our representation of Carlos Quintana. Carlos (b.1966 Cuba), who lives and works in Havana and Miami, makes feverish paintings, narratives, some with ghostly figures, others with a rabbit or horses, or a woman in an old-world gown and parasol....
Read MoreJuly 26, 2019
This summer group is based on the premise that the worlds of boxing and art are somewhat similar—at least in terms of just how quickly professional fortunes can turn for artist and pugilist alike. One day you could be a champ and the next...
Read MoreJune 28, 2019
We’re pleased to be a part of Masterpiece London 2019, featuring works by Chris Jones, Sandro Chia, Antonio Santin, Clive Smith and Michael Brown.
Read MoreApril 11, 2019
Entang Wiharso, whose artwork is exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world, has received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. The announcement was made Wednesday by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in The New York Times. In a statement, the foundation writes, “This year,...
Read MoreApril 3, 2019
Hermann Nitsch will have his solo exhibition “Spaces of Color” at The Albertina Museum in Vienna on view from 17 May to 11 August 2019. Painting is one of the disciplines encompassed by the Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries of Hermann Nitsch. His approach...
Read MoreMarch 1, 2019
Paul Laster reviews on Galerie Magazine: “Referencing well-known Renaissance paintings, Paul Pretzer’s works depict classical characters in surreal situations. Fruits and vegetables levitate over the headless bodies of friars and shirtless men caress porcupines and rabbits, while a bearded man in a cape and white...
Read MoreMarch 1, 2019
There is a saying in Yiddish – Bashert – it was meant to be… My wife Livia brought me to Michael’s studio in Saugerties, NY when Michael Brown was just completing his undergraduate studies at SUNY New Paltz. She had nominated him for an...
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2019
William Corwin reviews Jeanne Silverthorne’s exhibition “From Darkness” on The Brooklyn Rail: “Silverthorne soberly acknowledges Frankenstein’s revulsion of his creation but seems sympathetic and morbidly fascinated by the malformed progeny of her own creativity.” Read the full article here.
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2019
The Sound of On and Off by Glenn Adamson Click. The lights turn on. You are in the newly renovated loft of Marc Straus Gallery, in downtown Manhattan, for an exhibition of work by Jeanne Silverthorne. At one end of the space is a...
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2019
Like many other galleries, we were affected by the sudden cancellation of the 2019 Art Stage fair in Singapore. The local community came forward to support and quickly we found hosts for our shows. JONG OH: LIGHT AND ROCK January 23—27, 2019 Opening Reception:...
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2019
Please join Rona Pondick for a lecture in Claremont at the Graduate Program and a conversation with the director Jonathan Neil from Sotheby’s in LA. January 30th 4:30 – 6:30 pm Albrecht Auditorium Claremont (Claremont Graduate Program) January 31st 6:00- 8:00 pm The Reef/LA...
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