Uta Barth - New Ways of Seeing

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Uta Barth’s (b. 1958) meditative photographs go on display at the Getty in an exhibition  through October 2023. While for Uta the camera is her chosen tool ,she says,”I rarely think of photography. I think of sculpture and installation and painting. I don't categorize media the way the world likes to.”

The LA based artist, 64,is a former recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2012) and a Guggenheim fellowship (2004), among other honors. She also attended UC Davis as an undergraduate.

Barth’s images examine, often in large scale, and color, examine the ephemeral qualities of light on human perception. Barth often photographs settings within her own home. She works and lives in Los Angeles.

Artist Abbas Zahedi: Frieze Artist Award Winner

Artist Abbas Zahedi—the latest Frieze Artist Award winner, who has turned “chip shops and bus stops into art,” and who is about to open a show at London’s Belmacz gallery—got the profile treatment in the Financial Times in advance of Frieze London’s opening next week.

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Abbas Zahedi @ Barbican

Titus Kaphar

Filmmaker, artist and activist Titus Kaphar has joined United Talent Agency (UTA).  The agency has announced its representation of the internationally renowned artist following his streak of major accomplishments in 2020, including a critically acclaimed solo exhibition at the Gagosian New York and having his painting cover Time Magazine’s issue on George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement––his second feature by the publication.

UTA will work with the artist across a range of projects from television and film, to publishing and podcasts.

As an artist, his work examines the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves. His artwork has been included in solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

He was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow in 2018. Kaphar’s commitment to socially engaged art and racial justice led him to establish NXTHVN, a non-profit arts organization that empowers artists and curators of color through education and access.

Kaphar joins UTA ahead of the launch of his own production company, Revolution Ready. Forthcoming film projects, currently in post-production, translate his paintings to the screen in both feature and short film formats. Kaphar’s films are an extension of his studio practice, adapting existing bodies of painting and sculpture to the screen to provide more democratic access for audiences to experience his work.

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Tavares Strachan

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Tavares Strachan was born in Nassau, the capital city of the Bahamas. 

Initially a painter, Strachan earned his Associate of Fine Arts degree from the College of the Bahamas in 1999.  After completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, Strachan went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Yale University 

His work is a multidisciplinary artistic practice. Aeronautical and astronomical science, deep-sea exploration, and extreme climatology are some of the themes Strachan explores, underlining human stories of struggle,  cultural displacement, aspiration, and mortal limitation

On December 3, 2018, Strachan launched his project ENOCH into space. Created in collaboration with LACMA Art + Technology Lab, ENOCH is centered around the development and launch of a 3U satellite that brings to light the forgotten story of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African American astronaut selected for any national space program.

This isn’t the first time Strachan has teamed up with elite scientists. For years he has been working on an ambitious and highly secretive project with SpaceX, the Elon Musk-founded space exploration research facility.

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Simon Watson

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Simon Watson is a native of Dublin, Ireland. He has been living and working in New York for the past twenty five years. He studied film in Dublin and experimented with other forms of visual art including painting before concentrating on photography. He now lives between New York and Dublin.

His new book; The Lives of Others focusing on historic interiors around the world, is out next week.

"Aesthetic beauty is what stirs me and what always will," Simon Watson

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Chloe Bass

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Chloe Bass is an American conceptual artist who works in performance and social practice. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY, and holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Brooklyn College.

Chloe Bass’s first institutional solo exhibition; Wayfinding is presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem. It features twenty-four site-specific sculptures focusing on three central questions: How much of care is patience? How much of life is coping? How much of love is attention?

Through a combination of text and archival images, the sculptures encourage moments of intimacy and private reflection in public space.

“I study the depth of what is already at hand. My work is not seeking to invent, but to reveal. I believe in performance as participation, and installation as scrutiny. If I succeed, I will become the world’s most invisible performance artist: always present, but unseen. Without you, my work is nothing.”- Chloe Bass

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Keith Carter - Poet of the Ordinary

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A native of East Texas, Keith Carter has been called "a poet of the ordinary”  Keith Carter is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work has been shown in over one hundred solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. Carter first found his subjects in the familiar, yet exotic, places and people of his native Texas. For the past two decades he has expanded his range not only geographically, but also into realms of dreams and imagination, where objects of the mundane world open glimpses into ineffable realities.

@Keith Carter - My absolute favorite image from Keith work

Carter is teaches photography at Lamar University, where he is Regents Professor and holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Visual and Performing Arts. Carter has been awarded the University's highest teaching honors, the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award and University Professor Award. In addition he conducts workshops and seminars in the United States, Latin America, and Europe.

“First a pandemic, then Ms. Monster Hurricane Laura rages down upon us. A little unfair & ironic, as I have a sister named Laura, and she is as sweet and lovely as the day is long. Lately... as our planet seemingly wobbles, the natural world has been my companion. She is quiet, of muted colors, lovely, and occasionally affectionate” –Keith Carter

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teamLab

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TeamLab is an interdisciplinary group of artists formed in 2001 in Tokyo. Japan. The group refers to themselves as “Ultra-technologists,” and consists of artists, programmers, engineers, CG, animators, mathematicians and architects. Since 2014 teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery.

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Their interactive multisensory spaces are powered by Epson digital technology and aim to show the relationship between nature and artificial creations, immersing the recipient’s body in an interactive world

Their next space aimed  within Utrecht’s futuristic Wonderwoods green urban development  is set to open next to the city’s Centraal station in 2023.

“We are seeing the birth of a new paradigm, and by putting our bodies inside this new paradigm, we open our minds and even grow and expand our minds. The human race can move forward, collaboratively, feeling its way toward a new stage.”~teamLab

Amy Sherald

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Amy Sherald is an American painter based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is best known for her portrait paintings. Her choices of subjects look to enlarge the genre of American art historical realism by telling African American stories within their own tradition. She is well known for using grisaille to portray skin tones in her work as a way of "challenging the concept of color-as-race."[3] Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects. Sherald is the first African-American to paint an official First Lady portrait. Her portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC on February 12, 2018

Grisaille is a painting technique by which an image is executed entirely in shades of gray and usually severely modeled to create the illusion of sculpture, especially relief. ... In French, grisaille has also come to mean any painting technique in which translucent oil colours are laid over a monotone underpainting

“When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.” Amy Sherald

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Elizabeth Turk -

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Elizabeth Turk is an artist and native Californian known for her marble sculptures and community installations. She splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and NYC, where she has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern since her first exhibition in 2000. She is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, an Annalee & Barnett Newman Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient, among other awards.

Elizabeth is most noted for her carved marble sculptures, manipulated photography and community installations.

"Marble found me. It is intrinsically beautiful and holds great history. Maintaining a contemporary voice in this traditional material is daunting. But marble is the pathway to connect my work to the past, to a larger story– human and geological..” Elizabeth Turk

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Nicole Eisenman - New Narrative

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Nicole Eisenman is an American artist primarily known for her paintings. Eisenman was a professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 2003 to 2009. She has been awarded the Guggenheim fellowship, the Carnegie Prize, and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial. And lets not forget the MacArthur grant in 2015.

Eisenman's figurative oil paintings often toy with themes of sexuality, comedy, and caricature. Though she is known for her paintings, the artist also creates installations, drawings, etchings, lithography, monotypes, woodcuts, and sculptures. With ­A.L Steiner she is the co-founder of the queer/feminist curatorial initiative Ridykeulous.

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Anna Atkins - Scientific Illustrations

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Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

Atkins’ specialty was in the scientific world of botany. Following in the footsteps of her father, Atkins took an interest in botany from a very early age. Atkins and her father were friends with William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the first forms of photography. Her book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, successfully gained the approval of her peers, and in doing so established photography as an acceptable medium for scientific illustration.

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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is a figurative artist and designer based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Driven by a fascination with ancient mythologies and scientific theories, Sunstrum muses on the origins of time, geological concepts, and ideas about the universe. Her works on paper, large-scale installations, and stop-motion films are rooted in autobiography and explores how one’s sense of identity develops within geographic and cultural contexts. 

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Thea Alvin - Rock Star

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Thea Alvin is an artist, designer and dry stonemason. She lives in Vermont where she teaches and works on projects from her studio. She has been working in stone since she was sixteen. Stone is a family business as she was taught by her father.

Thea creates spirals, arches, and monuments with dry stone locked by gravity.

“The work I do happens with me, through me and not so much because of me.”

Cai Guo Qiang

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Born in Quanzhou but based in New York since 1995, Cai Guo-Qiang  works across various media and is particularly well known for his performance pieces created with explosives.

It is a multidisciplinary practice is grounded in his lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy as a means to inquire into our relationship with the universe. Exposing traditional Chinese materials, paper, porcelain and silk to gunpowder explosions during a series of live ignitions of small and intimate to epic proportions.

“My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy” Cai Guo-Qiang  

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Sarah Anne Johnson's Healing Images

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The Hirshhorn Artist Diaries is a series highlighting contemporary international artists’ responses to the worldwide pandemic. Artist Sarah Anne Johnson is an Canadian photo-based, multidisciplinary artist working in installation, bronze sculpture, oil paint, video, performance, and dance from Manitoba Canada.

 “I want to give into the beauty when I step into my studio. I want to feel the healing power of art and I want to try to convey the healing power of nature.”

Abelardo Morell's Alice in Wonderland

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Photographer Abelardo Morell’s new Project; Alice in Wonderland contains images of a “topsy-turvy, unfamiliar and illogical world” In this body of work Morell’s Alice “ makes sense out of nonsense” and seems to draw from our chaotic times.

For many images, the artist works in large format, recording self made constructions of Alice’s world. Morell created many props and designed wallpaper backdrops inspired by Tenniel’s drawings you see in many of the images.

You can see more of his work and archive at https://www.abelardomorell.net/

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Bradley Hart's Bubble Wrap Paintings

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The artist works with a proprietary algorithm to create a digital image. The bubble wrap is then used as the canvas, filling each bubble with acrylic paint by hand by syringe.

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Kara Walker's Fons Americanus at The Tate Modern

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Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus at The Tate Modern was inspired by many elements including The Queen Victoria Memorial Statue near Buckingham Palace. Walker as a response “installed allegorical figures of her own that offer a sardonic counter program to the celebration of empire.” The artist first used mock ups using clay maquettes, then converting amd arranging the pieces as 3D models. After manipulating them in the digital space, the final monument was rendered using a eco-friendly cork and clay with a chalky finish. The finish was intended to model the Portland stone often used in London’s historic monuments.

The exhibition is on display through October 2.

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