Girls, Interrupted

Emma Hapner 2022

𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔, 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒅 is a two person exhibition by @emmagracehapner (MFA 2022) and @arielletesoriero (MFA 2022) Join us for the opening reception on December 3rd, 6-8 pm to view a selection of new paintings, drawings and sculpture curated by both artists.

Hapner personifies the female gaze with her pink portraits. By embracing all things pink, she challenges objectification by controlling the agency of her subjects.

Tesoriero paints herself through a cast of imaginary characters. These therianthropic girls violently grapple with desire, consumption, and control through metaphors that play on women’s societal expectations and relationships.

𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔, 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒅 disturbs expectations of women and their bodies as Hapner and Tesoriero investigate conflicts of sexuality, power, and womanhood.

This exhibition is open Saturday, December 3rd - Monday, December 5th by appointment.

368 Broadway, 5th floor Studio 504, New York NY

Oasis

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Amy Liu @amyliustudio (MFA2022) will be having her debut solo exhibition "Oasis" at @Villageoneart.
Opening Thursday November 10th 6-8pm.
150 W 25th Street, #403, New York, NY 10001
Nov 8th - Dec 3rd

Oasis

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Amy Liu @amyliustdio(MFA2O22) will be having her debut solo exhibition "Oasis" at @villageoneart.

Opening Thursday November 10th 6-8 pm.
150 W 25th St Suite 403, New York, NY 10001
Nov 8th - Dec 3rd

Nature in Situ

Lisa Lebofsky

Lisa Lebofsky’s artwork bears witness to landscapes facing transformation or extinction, in order to increase awareness of our changing planet, and inspire through appreciation of the natural world a more responsible and engaged stewardship. The compositions are serene representations of nature, but populated by dying landscapes visually dominated and dissected by varied brush work and exposed layers of paint.
Nature in Situ is on View at Franklin Bowles Gallery through November 20, Tues-Sun 12-5pm.
There is an artist reception on Saturday, October 29, 2-5pm

Vanishing Points

Jeff Bye

The new body of work focuses on cityscapes of New York City.
Finding interesting perspectives that are not the norm by the daily bystander. Bye's love for the patinas and textures are an intrinsic part of his work. Scraping away the paint and reworking areas until they can breathe within the painting is his process. His love for exploring older buildings is his passion, from Mom & Pop Storefronts to abandoned theaters and factories, to old motels. He creates these works of art before they vanish from the American Landscape.

Semillas de Memoria

Santiago Galeas

Sean Horton (Presents) is pleased to announce Semillas de Memoria the New York solo debut by Santiago Galeas.
Galeas’s dynamic portraits forefront queer subjects within vibrant, naturalist landscapes, that act as portals into imagined
worlds. Rooted in ecology research, identity, and vulnerability Galeas’s practice seeks to create conditions of connectivity
that radically reclaim American traditions of portraiture and landscape.

Chicago Cityscape

Mary J Arthur

Remember the “Chicago and Vicinity” shows the Art Institute used to put up every year? Just like their annual “American Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture” they were discontinued in the 1980’s. As art critic Robert Hughes then noted, that was the decade when the judgments of art critics and connoisseurs were replaced by the monetary value assigned by a booming art market. Money talked - bullshit walked.
As quantifiable and objective as market value may be, however, it marginalizes many kinds of art which continue to be practiced, taught, and collected. Museums have ignored contemporary religious or sacred art for at least a hundred years. Since mid-century, they have also been ignoring just about every other kind of celebratory expression - unless it celebrates a preferred gender or racial identity. And whether it’s an architectural showpiece or a dingy alley, cityscapes do indeed celebrate something quite important to humanity: urban life.
What I’ve found remarkable was just how varied that celebration could be. I was not seeking variety - it just ended up that way - in location as well as elements of style. Yet what all of them share is a feeling of love rather than anger, grievance, alienation, or despair. The city is their home.
Passionate cityscapes have appeared throughout European art history —- remember El Greco’s View of Toledo that came to Chicago last year ? But what does love have to do with contemporary art theory? It does not distinguish love from sentimentality while it prioritizes semiotic cleverness over what is felt in the heart.
This show might not have happened without the Palette and Chisel Academy which graciously offered their gallery space free of charge and then mounted their own exhibit on the same theme. Hopefully this will be the first of several exhibitions of celebratory expression by local artists. Portrait, landscape, still-life, and figure are yet to come.
For over 125 years the Palette and Chisel Academy has played the long game of Western Civilization rather the short game of artworld fashion. Their 50th Anniversary Exhibition was held in the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945. Seventy-seven years later, 1012 N. Dearborn is hosting a show similar to the vicinity exhibitions that used to appear at 111 S. Michigan. And so the artworld of Chicago had come full circle.
... Chris Miller, curator

Summer's End

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“Summer’s End” imagines a metaphorical change of season. It is an oblique, atmospheric meditation on political and social divides. The landscape emerges as an emotional place rather than a literal one. The county fair at summer’s end is a place of reckoning, full of innocence, and innocence lost.

A Different World

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A Different World is a collection of mostly figurative large-scale charcoal and mixed media drawings, celebrating the multitude of ways Blackness takes up and creates space in the world. These works are heavily influenced by afrofuturist tropes such as space, geometry, celestial bodies and personal cosmologies. Traditionally my work has focused on US politics, and the juxtaposition of contemporary and historical social issues in this country with aspirational undertones. Now, the trauma of current mainstream political happenings such as the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection, fosters a creatively debilitating environment, leeching the joy from my creative process. The pieces in this collection intentionally pivot away from this, reclaiming joy and centering the personal politic using themes of love, beauty, family, identity and mobility. -Tylonn J. Sawyer

Interstellar Ascendants

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Lauren Amalia Redding (MFA 2011) isn’t just fascinated with the monumental, mysterious exploration undertaken by astronauts, but also by how philosophy and culture—which propel technology and the humanities in equal measure—launch each starsailor into their new frontiers. Redding draws primarily with silverpoint, which is metallic, and with mixed media on DuraLar, a plastic film used to insulate spacesuits, both reflecting the materials of space exploration. References range from ancient mythology and sculpture to Renaissance figures to enigmatic portraits, all of whom interact with astronauts and space shuttles. Her solo exhibition, Interstellar Ascendants, fine-tunes the feedback loop between what we perceive as anachronistic, what we praise as progress, and, ultimately, what principles we know to be timeless.

Multifarious Art Griup Exhibition

yupin pramotepipop Jiwoong Cheh Elyse Hradecky Zhao Shicheng

BOS2022 Multifarious Group Exhibition is curated by Yupin Pramotepipop. Included artists: Bruna D’Alessandro, Jiwoong Cheh, Elyse Hradecky, Andrew D. Moeller, Yupin Pramotepipop, Zhao Shicheng, Xiyun Xu and Eric Yevak. This exhibition presents a contemporary and conceptual mix of classical, representational, repurposed, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, and digital art.

Dilly Dally

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This show is an ode to the smallest moments in my town of Corpus Christi, TX. The scenes are often captured at twilight or evening. The loss of light and visibility lend a haunting quality to the pieces that creates a tension within the space. As if capturing a moment of stillness just before an action.