Structure and Imagery

Clockwise: Genieve Figgis, Janet Maya, Peter Schlesinger, and Felipe Ariza Castro From the Press Release: Marquee Projects is pleased to present Strangers in Stranger Lands , a group exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Felipe Ariza Castro, Mary DeVincentis , Genieve Figgis, Philip Gerald, Carly Haffner, Brandon Lipchik, Janet Maya, Peggy Robinson, Carol Saft, Peter Schlesinger, and Emily Quinn. Mary DeVincentis, After the Gold Rush, 2020, acrylic on panel, 14 x 11 inches. There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.  – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land. 1961 In recent weeks we’ve all had the disorienting experience of witnessing massive, dramatic global events while still largely staying at home or slowly emerging from our homebound cocoons. Our mi...

Sigmar Polke, Zwei  Köpfe, 1971-73 Dispersion, latex, acrylic on canvas, 51 1/4 x 43 1/4 inches About the Human Figure June 25 - September 4, 2020 From the Press Release: Michael Werner Gallery, London is pleased to announce the reopening of our gallery and the opening of our new group exhibition titled   About the Human Figure , which will run in tandem with our summer online exhibition titled   The Human Figure .   On view at Michael Werner Gallery, London will be a selection of major paintings and sculpture by James Lee Byars, Enrico David, Peter Doig, Florian Krewer, Francis Picabia, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Raphaela Simon, and Don Van Vliet. From the beginning of time, humans have desired to see themselves reflected in art. The human figure was rendered on cave walls and carved into stones to be carried as totems or idols. Since antiquity, artists have expanded on these early impulses, and the portrayal of the human figure has a long traditio...

Kudditji Kgwarreye, 2004 Idris Murphy, Wash Away, acrylic on board, 60 x 60 cm Kudditji Kame Kngwarreye and Idris Murphy June 10 - July 18 Mitchell Fine Art 86 Arthur Street, Fortitude Valley Brisbane QLD 4006 Australia

Jeanne Tremel, May 22, 2013, oil on yupo paper, 24 x 24 inches Jeanne Tremel: Slow Dive  [web] An online exclusive solo exhibition June 12 - July 24, 2020 From the Press Release: Court Tree Collective proudly presents Slow Dive by Jeanne Tremel. Whether Jeanne is gathering found objects, hand sewing new ones, or painting colorful abstractions her work moves to the same rhythm. In the discovery of her work, there is something incredibly fresh and organic. Jeanne Tremel (b. 1960) is a visual artist who has shown her works throughout the NYC area, the US, and abroad. Born in Minneapolis, her formal art education began at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota (BFA), and continued in Chicago at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). Later, at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, she earned a Certificate in Art Therapy. She has exhibited her work most recently at Nancy Margolis Gallery, Pelham Art Center, David & Schweitzer Contem...

Nehal Devi, Video still from  Aham , 2020 Nehal Devi, Video still from Aham , 2020 Aham , Nehal Devi, 2020 I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, but I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song? Rainer Maria Rilke Nehal Devi, Video still from Aham , 2020 Nehal Devi   is a yogini and an artist, who expresses herself through varied forms: painting, performance, and moving/still images. She explores the seemingly paradoxical relationship between Nehal, the ‘self’ identified with her name and form (the relative ‘I’), and Devi, the unchanging unidentified ‘Self’ (the absolute ‘I’). Her work focuses on I-I. All Images & Content  © Nehal Devi 2020

Pistol Packing Little Boy 26” x 27” x 7” Hand Etched and Formed Plexiglass with Acrylic Paint, Shadows and Reflections   2019  Willian Norton 's area of concern has long been the protest, the outcry for better and just treatment, the demand for equality and compassion, and the brutal, monstrous response of those in power, to that demand. The world needs voices like Norton's that are able to poetically and at times beautifully distill and present the profound sufferings of a citizenry and force an often indifferent, affluent, and predominantly white public to look at itself and question how close we are living to our professed values.  To paraphrase, the painter,  Francis Bacon, Norton creates very close to the nerve and in doing so comes very close to our nerve.  Norton's current body of work is topical but it's also much more. It eloquently voices, perhaps the dominating and eternally ingrained characteristic of the human experience, the move...