Design Miami returned to Pride Park in December with its biggest edition to date – more than 80 exhibitors gathered under the curatorial theme “Make. Believe.”. It was the perfect rallying cry for a city with an uninhibited disposition, and where design is part of its aesthetics. Visitors to the 20th anniversary of the fair… Continue reading Design Miami – Celebration of “Make. Believe.”
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Stan Squirewell: Robitussin, Hotcombs & Grease
In Stan Squirewell’s most recent solo exhibition, Robitussin, Hotcombs & Grease, at the Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem earlier this year, he offered a poignant meditation on Black domestic life, memory, and inheritance. Drawing from anonymous archival photographs sourced from the Smithsonian and private family collections, Squirewell transformed historical images into fascinating mixed-media portraits that… Continue reading Stan Squirewell: Robitussin, Hotcombs & Grease
Japanese Art at Onishi Gallery
Japanese art is the highlight in the 1,200 sq ft historic Sidney Ripley mansion in New York City on the Upper Eastside. The new location of the Onishi Gallery may be small, but it’s outsized examples of fine Japanese art and craftsmanship more than fills the space. Exhibition The Spirit of Noto: Urushi Artists of… Continue reading Japanese Art at Onishi Gallery
Fragments of Broken Plates
When you come across an exhibition that offers a unique take on a subject or a new way of presenting art, it’s like hitting the lottery. At Fremin Gallery using broken plates with an array of detailed patterns, Robert Strati continues the design dialogue by extending the conversation with each broken shard. Strati frees not… Continue reading Fragments of Broken Plates
Verena Loewensberg: Kind of Blue
Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg was a leading figure and the only female member of the influential Zurich school of concrete artists. She created oil compositions using wide-ranging colors and hard-edge geometric shapes in her abstract paintings. In the exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in NY, it featured works from 1944 to 1985, that highlighted her… Continue reading Verena Loewensberg: Kind of Blue
Afro-Caribbean American Portrait Artist Kandy G Lopez Explores Identity
There aren’t that many surprises when wandering through art galleries in New York City neighborhoods. I was lucky enough to stumble upon works from Afro-Caribbean American portrait artist Kandy G Lopez with her innovative works. Ms. Lopez offers a personal perspective of those around her not with chiseled stone, paint on canvas or some other… Continue reading Afro-Caribbean American Portrait Artist Kandy G Lopez Explores Identity
Imani Bilal – Behind the Veil: Musings of Muraqaba
Atlanta based contemporary abstract artist Imani Bilal is deeply inspired by her Islamic faith. Bilal states, “I strive to convey the notion of Tawheed (oneness), the idea of primordial matter, chaos, and calm; of all things sharing a source and being connected to an infinite mound, inclusive of the human experience.” Chase Contemporary, NY Featured… Continue reading Imani Bilal – Behind the Veil: Musings of Muraqaba
Paper Towns
Yeji Moon’s Paper Towns exhibition at Fremin Gallery, NY. The artist uses ordinary materials to create beautiful and complex collages that recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Newspaper is ripped, twisted and pasted into three-dimensional compositions for her exhibit of Disney-esque castles that reminds us to embrace our childlike wonderment. Featured image: Bawana
Between Either And Or
New York-based artist Tim Wilson’s solo exhibition Between Either and Or at Nathalie Karg Gallery, NY, presented works that embrace pre-modernist modes of painting of domestic interiors gleaned from television and film. Featured image:Stairway I, 2021 oil on paper mounted on linen stretched panel
Strange Instrument
David Goldblatt’s black and white photographs depicts life and conditions during apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. The Strange Instrument exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York features 45 vintage prints from Goldblatt that offers the artist’s view of the beauty, brutality and humanity in everyday lives under those conditions. “The camera is a strange instrument.… Continue reading Strange Instrument
