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Shepard Fairey and his assistant Nicholas Bowers spent the day at Pace Prints 521 West 26th Street yesterday, installing two site-specific murals. These will be on view in the windows of the gallery and will be visible from the Highline and the street.
Shepard's exhibition Harmony & Discord opens tomorrow, Saturday May 5, at noon.
GERING & LóPEZ GALLERY is pleased to present Women: Sketches & Solutions, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Ryan McGinness. This will be McGinness’ first solo exhibition with the gallery.
For this exhibition, McGinness presents the series Women, a body of work that has occupied his attention for the past several years. Like previous works, these begin with numerous sketches. The Women works however are unique in that the sketches are done as academic figure drawings, in the artist-and-model salon tradition. The exhibition will be in two parts: for the Gering & López venue uptown, the exhibition will showcase McGinness’ working process and will be entirely in black & white. For the second venue, at Charles Bank Gallery on the Lower East Side, the works will be fluorescent paintings and sculptures derived from the process.
Well known for their compelling compositions and images of erotica and arboreal floral, the two artists will show mixed-media works on paper completed during the past year. Playing with the definition of authorship and the slippery boundaries inherent in collaboration, The Other I refers to the two artists and their long-standing working relationship investigating diverse issues of beauty and social identity. Amer and Farkhondeh have included new materials such as gold leaf to their well-established vocabularies of stitch-work, watercolor, ink, and acrylic. What is more, the two artists have begun to combine the use of thicker lines and layered colors in their works on paper to compliment their lyrical meditations on landscapes and the female form.
Louise Belcourt is a painter. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1961 and has resided in New York City since 1984. Called a “Physical Abstractionist” by Roberta Smith for The New York Times in 1996, her work has evolved from pure abstraction, through a form of narrative representation, to a personal iconography that combines abstracted landscape and urban elements in paintings that are formally rigorous, deceptively simple, and almost sculptural in intent. Her work is a mixture of her two lives as she spends part of each year in rural Canada near her roots and the rest in the dense environment of the city. As David Brody for ArtCritical.com in 2010, put it: “Hard-nosed Canadian empiricism and Brooklyn grit seem to combine in Belcourt’s work.”
WNYC, New York Public Radio, broadcast a panel discussion on artists and the business of art from a recent live show in the Greene Space. Gallery owner Sean Kelly, Whitney Museum of American Art curator Carter Foster, and artists Pat Steir and Fred Wilson talk about the current state of the art market in light of the economic downturn and the impact of the exponential growth of art fairs.
