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Broadway Gallery: Waiting: A Group Exhibition with Work by Bertram and Dr. Gerd Matysik
The awareness of the group show, “Waiting,” is about the nature of humans and the constant desire for something new as well as the constant waiting required to get it.
The exhibition will be held between June 1st to 15th, 2007 at Broadway Gallery...
Drawing Center: Another City for Another Life: Constant's New Babylon
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Drawing Center: Another City for Another Life: Constant's New Babylon
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Brian Gross Fine Art: Robin McDonnell: Flux Constant
In these paintings, McDonnell applies multiple layers of pigment in complex hues of oranges, browns, reds and greens to create active, viscous surfaces. By adding and scraping away paint with a palette knife, McDonnell's work quickly moves betwee...
DECORAZONgallery: GROTTO: An Exploration of Light - Works by Adam Morey
Usually, light is used by art simply as a method by which the art is made observable to the viewer. Adam elevates light from simple and passive enabler of the observational process to a "material" indivisible from the art itself. However, as light...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Atelier: Christianne L'Esperance
Rich patterning and exquisite forms that resonate with qualities of
transformation and metamorphosis are a constant in her work. The Atelier
Series is an ongoing programme at the Gallery that features recent work by
Canadian artists from Hami...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Racetrack
The stretches of country
between destinations have been a constant subject in Freemantle's painting.
Racetrack develops these concerns, exploring driving as a space for
contemplation - for thinking about our lives while catching glimpses into
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Guild Art Gallery: The Teacher and the Taught: S.H. Raza, Sujata Bajaj
Paradoxes, pluralities and hybridities. These are recurring leitmotifs, that appear whenever we consider the question of what constitutes 'Indian'. Right from the dawn of civilisation, from the Indus-Harappan period moving into the twenty-first ce...
Abel Raum fuer Neue Kunst: Urban Decline
The pictures in the new series portray scenarios of collapsing, exploding or delapidated architecture symbols of the power of capital, knowledge and states. Through their destructiveness the paintings create a uniformed, synthetic and universal re...
Wadsworth Artheneum: About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits
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Artangel: Longplayer: Jem Finer
The project engages with the shapeless and limitless mystery of time. It offers no promise of glimpsing a future horizon but rather alludes to the constant impossibility of defining and imaging time beyond human existence. In the accelerated world...
Museum of New Art: Inventing the Pixel: Abstraction in the 21st Century
So-called abstract painting has never been wholly original, has never been its own end. Such creation exists only where art presents images that take nothing from what has been imagined, neither repeating or modifying a particular artist's vision,...
Groundfloor Gallery: ILYA VOLYKHINE: All That's Left and Then Some
His works often evoke his own physical presence, his body seen as an instrument through
which a relationship of osmosis is established between the creative Self and the rest of the
world: the artist is his own body through which, in a constant...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea: Ernesto Neto: Abstract Bodies
His
work presents us with a seductive image of bodies imagined by the artist,
revealing his inter...
Arte Studio: INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL
EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Prizes were awarded to artists from Germany, Mexico, Japan, Great Britain, Saudi
Arabia, Brazil, Argentina, Italy and other nations. Thus, for the brief period of the
Biennial Exhibition, Florence rediscovered i...
Pirate: a Contemporary Art Oasis: Proximity: Peter Illig
The title PROXIMITY refers to the condition that it isnt the pictures
themselves that carry so much meaning but how they are juxtaposed.
A quote from the artists statement:
... The ideas are found in how one image is placed near another and...
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Gallery of Bishop's University: Venus Inferred: Photographs by Laura Letinsky
The composition, the gesture and the lighting of each of the
photographs are reminiscent of Old Masters painters, but in Letinsky's
work women act as the protagonists not merely as the object of the
male gaze. Letinsky depicts the scenes from t...
Museum of New Art: At the Edge of the World: New Work from Japan
Kenzu Nagawa combines film and photography to create a dark but sensual world of swirls and chiaroscuro. His work is narrative without a story. Or, at the least, without resolution. There is a tension in his work that is relentless, never allowing...
Stedelijk Museum: Alan Charlton - Paintings in the Gallery of Honour
The paint -- regular house paint -- is always applied evenly and uniformly. Nevertheless, Charlton's oeuvre demonstrates how wide the possibilities based on this manner of working and these fixed elements are for variation and for investigating th...
Museum of Contemporary Art: Encounter: Bruce Nauman and Kcho
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Breadbox: What I Am: Photographic and Textiles Exhibition by Elisa Markes-Young and Christopher Young
The patterns that Elisa creates with her textiles tell stories of individual and cultural marginalisation. She also confronts the issues of influence, and social and environmental conditions.
Chris's photographs deal with his self-perceived ...
Ohio Art League: Francis Schanberger: The Close-up World of Dr. Frangst
Both their desks are in a constant state of chaos: covered with stacks of photographs, files, equipment and photographic debris, heaped like autumn leaves. Both must focus so intently on their research that the edges of their vision blur into vign...
Various Contributors: The New Media Encyclopedia
The site also inventories initiatives taken in the field of new media--notably exhibitions and other public events, publications, and productions--by the
partners cited above as well as the Constant vzw, Vereniging voor Kunst en Media, and the A...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Cobra: Copenhagen Brussels Amsterdam
The name Cobra was coined in 1948 by the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont from the three cities where the main participants lived: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. Explosively expressive, with an emphasis on myth and the untutored art of child...
Artists Gallery: Paintings by Nina Chung Dwyer
Another group of paintings – the "Content" series – uses pattern to create tempo, suggesting repetition in domestication and the search for a more passionate life that underlies the commonplace one.
The third and most recent group of paintin...
Agnes Bugera Gallery: Sotto Voce : Daniele Lemieux
Daniele Lemieux graduated from Dawson College in 1979 with a degree in graphic design and was a respected art director and commercial illustrator for 20 years. She kept her first love for fine art alive by continuing her studies for many years at ...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Tapies: Curated by Manuel Borja-Villel
If there is a single, key element in Antoni Tàpies’ contribution to 20th century aesthetics, it is unquestionably the unique way he treated materials, his constant search for the material nature of artworks. Tàpies developed this aspect through wh...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Lawrence Weiner: AFTER ALL/NACH ALLES
. His art can literally be disseminated by word of mouth. A work can be made or merely spelled out on a museum wall, but it can also be read in a book or heard if uttered aloud. In a radical restructuring of the traditional artist/viewer relations...
Hang Art: Katherine Valentine: Temperature
Katherine Valentine's figurative paintings flicker on the canvas, saturated with evanescent light, subtle movement, and palpable emotion. Her painting process mimics life itself, with its constant negotiation of boundaries, its cycles of dissoluti...
Bartley and Company Art: please please me new neon work by Mary-Louise Browne
Mary-Louise Browne has a Master of Fine Arts degree
with First Class Honours in sculpture from the Elam
School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. She
has exhibited widely and is represented in major public
and private collections. She...
Stills Gallery and Fruit Market Gallery: Architecture of Time: Works by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Opening Saturday 3 August, Hiroshi Sugimoto, The Architecture of Time is a co-operation
between The Fruitmarket Gallery, widely recognised as Scotland’s leading international
contemporary art space, and Stills, the nation’s pre-eminent resource ...
Muse at 269: Cezary Bednarski: Kariobangi Kibera
The digital colour photography documents the community’s current dwellings and the building materials commonly used. From abstract shots of corrugated iron to portraits of the people, the photographs are not only a documentation of African life, ...
Plains Art Museum: Common Ground: The Landscapes of Kim Gordon
Gordon is a plein-air painter, taking her canvases and brushes outside to paint the landscape from life. The artist stated, "As a plein-air painter I have a constant fascination with the way the world looks, with the way light defines and erodes f...
Old Boys Network: Very Cyberfeminist International
Cyberfeminism is not a game without borders, but a dealing with borders that is taken seriously; a work on the boundaries of that 'contested zone', in which the so-called real and virtual diverge; which mines utopias of transgression and works to ...
Il Ramo d'Oro: The sign and the Dream/Il Segno e il Sogno
It gives a synthesis of the artists of ìIl segno e il sognoî (the sign and the dream) whose works of small size we are showing , in October, November and December 2005, collected in the elegant box-frame projected by the architect Gianfranco Erba...
State Hermitage Museum: The Past of the Present: Cobra and Contemporaries from the Stedelijk Museum
Artists
Pierre Alechinksy, Karel Appel, Eugene Brands, Constant, Corneille, Lotti van der Gaag, Henry Heerup, Arne Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Lucebert, Pieter Ouborg, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Anton Rooskens, Shinkici Tajiri, Theo Wolvecamp.
Co...
Andrew Bae Gallery: Sandra Sunnyo Lee: Self No Self - Meditation Paintings
Lee paints closely cropped views of the face, its features overlain with gestural strokes of translucent resin glazes or columns of hand–lettered Korean or English text. In these works, the artist gives visual expression to the Zen teaching of Sel...
South African National Gallery: Inferno and Paradiso: A Photojournalism Installation
The installation showcases work by eighteen of the world's most acknowledged
photojournalist and revolves around the emotional neutralization that
photography and other visual representation have suffered in our times. The
photographers were as...
Catto Contemporary: Sarah Carrington: Iona – Time and Tide
Her canvases are often large in scale (up to 6 x 12 feet), colourful yet at the same time subtle. Her work captures the various moods of both the sea and sky at different times of the year, and in varying weather conditions. Often the viewer is ov...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Picasso - For All Times
PICASSO – FOR ALL TIMES is the first exhibition in Denmark in 20 years to embrace a full range of the artist’s work. Counting loans from other collections, 101 works illustrate the scope of his achievement. The show follows Picasso year by year—start...
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