Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM, presents over 200 artworks from China Marks's sewn oeuvre, offering the broadest survey of the artist's hypnagogic tableaux of storytelling to date. China Marks dedicated the last 23 years of her active art practice to producing more than 600 sewn works. Lucid Perturbations, on view from May 15 to July 11, reveals the depth of Marks's artistic psyche and the range of her intuitive responses to the travesties and phenomena of our world, its power dynamics, and the tragicomedy or psychology of human relationships.
The dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam belongs precisely to that category, and at Galerie Gmurzynska in the Fuller Building, that exchange is given the intimate, scholarly, and utterly seductive treatment it deserves.
After we bought the palazzo, we lay on the floor in the music room to look at the details in the ceilings-and to understand what we just bought. That spirit of curiosity has guided curatorial decisions, as they placed artworks in conversation with ornate interiors.
Artist Murugiah will be speaking about the process of creating his new slew of painted, oddball characters as part of his debut solo exhibition opening this month.
In many works, sturdy, almost sculptural nude women appear alongside children and dogs, suggesting an untamed intimacy. The rust-colored painting is Barry's interpretation of the famed Capitoline Wolf, a centuries-old sculpture depicting Romulus and Remus, the mythical twin founders of Rome who were suckled by a she-wolf after being abandoned.
In the hushed, monastic cells of Florence's Museo di San Marco, Mark Rothko's canvases pulse with spiritual intensity. Rothko's paintings are a new arrival, part of the city's latest major exhibition.
The curators of Greater New York really captured the energy of the city well - not the out-of-towner's New York with its glossy surfaces, brands, and trendy fare, but the gritty New York that's always in the process of formation, that rejects surface in favor of rawness.
The drawings offer a rare glimpse into Shepard's working process and imagination as he brought AA Milne's character to life. They depict passages that are familiar to readers but were not accompanied by illustrations in the original published book.
The exhibition takes the form of a sonic prayer, a call to the contemplative act of listening, featuring works by twenty-four selected artists across two sites.
The stellar collection of 30-plus Venice paintings from the artist's 10-week visit in 1908 is smartly framed by additional materials. Visitors get exposed to historic photographs of the city, as well as of the Monet couple visiting, and are provided with lots of quotations from the artist about his approach to art, process and subject.
