USA Art Guide
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Sunday 21st - Sunday 28th, October 2018
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forthcoming:James Rosenquist: His American Life 25 Oct - 7 Dec 2018 paintings from the early 1960s through the early 1980s, focusing on the themes that preoccupied Rosenquist throughout his career
European Art: Part I Auction: 31 Oct 2018
Exhibition: 25 Oct - 30 Oct 2018
European Art: Part II Auction: 31 Oct 2018
Exhibition: 25 Oct - 30 Oct 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale Auction: 11 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Albert & Diego Giacometti: Masters of Design Auction: 12 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Work on Paper Auction: 12 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Auction: 12 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale Auction: 15 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 15 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session Auction: 16 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 15 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session Auction: 16 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 15 Nov 2018
Latin American Art Auction: 20 Nov - 21 Nov, 2018
Exhibition: 17 Nov - 20 Nov 2018
American Art Auction: 20 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 17 Nov - 19 Nov 2018
An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection Evening Sale Auction: 13 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 13 Nov 2018
An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection Day Sale Auction: 14 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 13 Nov 2018
forthcoming:The Life of Forms 26 Oct - 14 Dec 2018 an exhibition that explores the vitality and diversity of biomorphic sculpture among modern artists who translated forms found in nature into poetic shapes and rhythmsGreene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideGreene NaftaliNew York Upper East Side
forthcoming:Zoe Leonard: Analogue 27 Oct 2018 - 20 Jan 2019 coinciding with her MOCA Los Angeles retrospective, this is the gallery’s first LA exhibition devoted to Leonard and her decade-long project documenting the homogenizing effects of globalization
forthcoming:Calder: Nonspace 27 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 in collaboration with the Calder Foundation NY, the gallery’s first exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the artist - large-scale outdoor and indoor sculptures, mobiles and stabiles in an environment designed by Stephanie Goto
forthcoming:Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto 27 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 the West Coast premiere of the 13-channel film installation by Julian Rosefeldt, with Cate Blanchett assuming 13 different personas and performing various historical artists’ manifestos
forthcoming:Holding Up 1/2 the Sky 27 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 an exhibition bringing together women artists whose abstract sculptures operate in call and response to Saar’s installation currently on view in the neighboring exhibition space forthcoming:Betye Saar: Something Blue 27 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 selected works from 1983 to this year all featuring the color blue as a means to explore magic, voodoo and the occult
forthcoming:Janaina Tschäpe: HumidGray and ShadowLake 26 Oct - 8 Dec 2018 Tschäpe’s first exhibition at the gallery features large-scale paintings and watercolors and demonstrate her assured approach and deft ability to handle delicate media while painting on an impressive scaleSunday 21st - Sunday 28th, October 2018
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Modern Decorative Art + Design Auction: 25 Oct 2018
Exhibition: 19 Oct - 24 Oct 2018
California and Western Paintings and Sculpture Auction: 19 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 19 Nov - 19 Nov 2018
last weekJoan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953-1962 6 Sep - 27 Oct 2018
last weekWolfgang Tillmans: How likely is it that only I am right in this matter? 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018
last weekMarcia Hafif Remembered 27 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 an exhibition commemorating the American abstract painter who was renowned for her astute engagement with the material conditions and art historical tropes of monochrome paintinglast weekHölle 20 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 a group show with new and selected works by Lutz Bacher, Caleb Considine, Vincent Fecteau, Rainald Goetz, Sergej Jensen, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Monica Majoli, Albert Oehlen, Henrik Olesen, and Heji Shin
last weekMark Wallinger: Study for Self Reflection 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 the first solo exhibition with the gallery in the United States for Turner prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger, one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists, recognized for his rich and complex body of work
last weekFausto Melotti: The Deserted City 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 creating an environment that hovers between the earthly and the otherworldly, the exhibition situates Melotti’s work within the context of his fellow Italian artistic titans and highlights their shared belief that art can facilitate a return to lifeJason Jacques GalleryNew York Upper East Side
last weekSuh Se Ok 8 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 the artist’s debut exhibition in New York features a number of works from People, his ongoing series of ink paintings produced between the 1960s and the 2000s
last weekLiza Lou: Classification and Nomenclature of Clouds 6 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 a continuation of the West 24th Street exhibition, with a room dedicated to an installation of paintings and sculpture from Lou’s Terra series
last weekLiza Lou: Classification and Nomenclature of Clouds 6 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 inaugurating the gallery’s new location, Lou’s first exhibition in New York City in over a decade encompasses painting, sculpture, drawing, and video
last weekIntimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey 6 Sep - 24 Oct 2018 looking at artists who bring the vastness of infinity into tangible dimensions through obsessive detail and concentrated mark making
last weekCarmen Herrera: Estructuras 14 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 the first ever large-scale presentation of the artist’s Estructuras - paintings “really crying out to become sculpture”
last weekHugh Hayden: Border States 15 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 new sculptures carved from trees collected on the United States/Mexico border, exploring notions of citizenship, the American Dream, the Wild West, manifest destiny and home ownership
last week(UN)COVERED: Miró | Hammons 12 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 the first to present the works of Catalan master Joan Miró alongside postmodern American artist David Hammons, the exhibition illuminates the parallel iconoclastic practices of these two seemingly divergent artists whose careers only briefly overlapped
forthcoming:Tala Madani 1 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 new paintings and animation works subsumed by light that points both outward and inward, at human instinct and upended social ritualno current exhibition
forthcoming:James Rosenquist: His American Life 25 Oct - 7 Dec 2018 paintings from the early 1960s through the early 1980s, focusing on the themes that preoccupied Rosenquist throughout his career
forthcoming:By Fire, Ceramic Works 31 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 by placing modern and postmodern ceramics in context with one another, the exhibition highlights the dialectical nature of the medium Modern Decorative Art + Design Auction: 25 Oct 2018
Exhibition: 19 Oct - 24 Oct 2018
California and Western Paintings and Sculpture Auction: 19 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 19 Nov - 19 Nov 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Auction: 13 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 13 Nov - 13 Nov 2018
Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples Auction: 08 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 2 Nov - 7 Nov 2018
19th Century European Paintings Auction: 07 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 3 Nov - 6 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Auction: 14 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 9 Nov - 12 Nov 2018
Modern Decorative Art & Design Auction: 14 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 7 Dec - 13 Dec 2018
Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection 31 Aug 2018 - 31 Mar 2019Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 14 Sep 2018 - 3 Feb 2019last weekJoan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953-1962 6 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 European Art: Part I Auction: 31 Oct 2018
Exhibition: 25 Oct - 30 Oct 2018
European Art: Part II Auction: 31 Oct 2018
Exhibition: 25 Oct - 30 Oct 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale Auction: 11 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Albert & Diego Giacometti: Masters of Design Auction: 12 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Work on Paper Auction: 12 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Auction: 12 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 11 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale Auction: 15 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 15 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session Auction: 16 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 15 Nov 2018
Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session Auction: 16 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 15 Nov 2018
Latin American Art Auction: 20 Nov - 21 Nov, 2018
Exhibition: 17 Nov - 20 Nov 2018
American Art Auction: 20 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 17 Nov - 19 Nov 2018
An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection Evening Sale Auction: 13 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 13 Nov 2018
An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection Day Sale Auction: 14 Nov 2018
Exhibition: 4 Nov - 13 Nov 2018
just openedChristian Haub: Like A Butterfly, Recent Floats 19 Oct - 18 Nov 2018 new and recent hanging constructions of thin colored acrylic strips that read as painting as much as sculpture
just openedMatthew Kluber: No Place Like Utopia 19 Oct - 18 Nov 2018 abstract images digitally projected onto painted aluminum supports - the actual artwork created at the interface of these two very different media last weekWolfgang Tillmans: How likely is it that only I am right in this matter? 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018Derek Eller GalleryNew York Lower East SideDespina Stokou: White Lies 11 Oct - 11 Nov 2018 forthcoming:The Life of Forms 26 Oct - 14 Dec 2018 an exhibition that explores the vitality and diversity of biomorphic sculpture among modern artists who translated forms found in nature into poetic shapes and rhythmsno current exhibition
forthcoming:Liam Gillick / Adam Pendleton 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 The work of Liam Gillick and Adam Pendleton operates within an understanding that forms of abstraction cannot evade the contradictions of history and the enduring pains of the present last weekMarcia Hafif Remembered 27 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 an exhibition commemorating the American abstract painter who was renowned for her astute engagement with the material conditions and art historical tropes of monochrome paintingno current exhibition
just openedNate Lowman: Never Remember 19 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 Lowman’s first exhibition with the gallery, including a survey of the drop-cloth paintings - known as Maps - begun in 2013
forthcoming:Mark Grotjahn: New Capri, Capri, Free Capri 30 Oct - 22 Dec 2018 an entirely new direction in Grotjahn’s largest exhibition of new work, three interconnected series of paintings stemming from a body of work he created for a private presentation at Casa Malaparte on the isle of Capri
forthcoming:Tomie Ohtake: At Her Fingertips 2 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 including paintings, studies, engravings and photographs, this concise exhibition draws on the rich body of work created by Ohtake in the 1960s and 70s, as well as the artist’s own rarely-seen documentation of her processlast weekHölle 20 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 a group show with new and selected works by Lutz Bacher, Caleb Considine, Vincent Fecteau, Rainald Goetz, Sergej Jensen, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Monica Majoli, Albert Oehlen, Henrik Olesen, and Heji ShinGavin Brown's enterpriseNew York Lower East SideDanny Lyon: Wanderer 12 Sep - 4 Nov 2018Ugo Rondinone: drifting clouds 22 Sep - 3 Nov 2018Greene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideGreene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideGuggenheim Collection: Brancusi 17 Mar 2017 - 4 Mar 2019Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future 12 Oct 2018 - 3 Feb 2019R. H. Quaytman: + x, Chapter 34 12 Oct 2018 - 3 Feb 2019
Glade Hits 1 Sep - 4 Nov 2018not open todaya group exhibition taking the seemingly innocuous trope of landscape as its subject matter to hint at modern social unrest, environmental violence and existential concerns
Off-site: Arielle Falk: Phantasms 1 Sep - 4 Nov 2018not open todaypresented in an old East Hampton barn, a dramatic installation in which Falk offers an alternative perspective of the palm tree
Bryan Graf: Paradise Window 1 Sep - 4 Nov 2018not open todayGraf continues his exploration of techniques and materials with a multi-faceted approach to photography, navigating between control and chance
forthcoming:Gutai 1 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 exploring the legacy of Japan’s most innovative and influential avant-garde collective of the twentieth century forthcoming:Zoe Leonard: Analogue 27 Oct 2018 - 20 Jan 2019 coinciding with her MOCA Los Angeles retrospective, this is the gallery’s first LA exhibition devoted to Leonard and her decade-long project documenting the homogenizing effects of globalization forthcoming:Calder: Nonspace 27 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 in collaboration with the Calder Foundation NY, the gallery’s first exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the artist - large-scale outdoor and indoor sculptures, mobiles and stabiles in an environment designed by Stephanie Goto forthcoming:Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto 27 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 the West Coast premiere of the 13-channel film installation by Julian Rosefeldt, with Cate Blanchett assuming 13 different personas and performing various historical artists’ manifestos last weekFausto Melotti: The Deserted City 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 creating an environment that hovers between the earthly and the otherworldly, the exhibition situates Melotti’s work within the context of his fellow Italian artistic titans and highlights their shared belief that art can facilitate a return to life
