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Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter Work from Fragments of Time Past at Gagosian, Athens. “Gagosian is pleased to announce Fragments of Time Past, an exhibition of new work by Vera Lutter featuring photographs of Attica’s ancient architecture, together with her images of the Greek temples of Paestum, Italy, and of classical statues housed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum […]

Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace Work from Ian Wallace at Hauser & Wirth, London. “A poet of images, Ian Wallace explores the interplay between form and content, using photography as a vehicle for developing an avant-garde art that weds the strategies of conceptualism with the pictorial tropes of painting. In doing so since the late ’60s, he became […]

Idris Khan

Idris Khan Work from Overture at Sean Kelly, New York. “Overture will present over 25 new works exploring philosophical and theoretical ideas surrounding global displacement and conflict, demonstrating Khan’s profound interrogation into language and meaning over a wide array of media. Khan has developed a unique narrative drawing on diverse cultural sources including art, literature, […]

Ken Gonzales-Day

Ken Gonzales-Day Work from Erased Lynchings. “The Erased Lynching series is an artist project that was intended to draw attention to the historic absence of Latinx, Asian, Native American victims from the history of lynching in California and has since extended to instances across the nation as a way address the erasure of African American […]

Nguyen Phuong Linh

Nguyen Phuong Linh Work from Sanctified Clouds. “Almost 200 small masses of Sanctified Clouds fly over the wall, foam beautifully and shine in a blue hue, the blue of peace, Oriental ceramics, and sacred mosaic paintings in Arabic temples. However, looking closely, we realize that these soft white are not clouds, but actually the masses […]

David Hartt

David Hartt Work from Naturphilosophie. “Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Naturphilosophie, an exhibition of new works by David Hartt. For his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Hartt expands on an ongoing body of work, continuing his engagement with themes related to dominant systems of knowledge and representation, and corresponding processes of marginalization and displacement. Reproduced […]

Jumana Manna

Jumana Manna Work from Break, Take, Erase, Tally. “This ongoing series of ceramic sculptures explores a tension between preservation and ruination. Their forms draw from the khabya, a once common structure for grain storage in rural houses across the Levant. Built into homes, the khabya–which means “the thing that hides” in Arabic–would preserve the annual […]

Casey Moore

Casey Moore Work from Fault Lines. “This ongoing project explores major fault lines in the earths crust. It began in my home town of Christchurch where earthquakes have become commonplace. There is an uneasy feeling throughout the area which is experiencing regular aftershocks. The city centre is still being rebuilt and large swathes of land […]

Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco Work from Double Vision. “…Stephanie Syjuco creates an expansive multimedia installation that transforms images of renowned works from the Carter’s collection and investigates narratives of national identity. Using digital editing, staged photography, and archival excavation to reframe works by Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, and others, Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision reconsiders mythologies of the […]

Tarrah Krajnak

Tarrah Krajnak Work from Master Rituals II: Weston’s Nudes “Tarrah Krajnak’s work makes clear reference to the history of photography, on the one hand, and to the artist’s identity as a Latin-American woman, on the other. A sequel to her first critical homage to Ansel Adams, this series is dedicated to another North American “master”, […]