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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Carrie Mae Weems featuring new work as well as highlights from several key series in the artist’s four-decade career. The exhibition continues Weems’s long exploration of questions about power, history, and identity. Two new photographs from Weems’s ongoing Museum Series depicting San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will be on view for the first time, shown with other selections from the project. Large-scale photographs from Painting the Town present boarded-up storefronts in Portland, Oregon following protests against the murder of George Floyd. Other works reference earlier moments in the struggle for racial justice, including scenes from Civil Rights protests in the 1960s. Weems will speak at FOG Design+Art on Saturday, January 25, at 5pm, followed by a conversation with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Director Christopher Bedford.
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 examines an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists—including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini—in defining Western painting. In the decades leading up to the catastrophic onset of the plague around 1350, Siena was the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity. While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance, this presentation offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Siena, from Duccio’s profound influence on a new generation of painters to the development of narrative altarpieces and the dissemination of artistic styles beyond Italy.
The exhibition Sculpture Nails at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais retraces Sylvie Fleury’s profound contribution to how we understand the sculptural medium. On the ground floor of the gallery, the Swiss artist presents a selection of sculptures – both historic pieces and new works seen here for the first time – spanning her career of more than 30 years. On the first floor, visitors will discover an immersive space illuminated only by the glow of the artist’s celebrated neon works.
In conjunction with Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative, Roberts Projects is honored to present Mojotech, a monumental altar assemblage by the renowned artist Betye Saar. Originally conceived in 1987 during Saar’s residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this installation serves as a profound exploration of the intersection between contemporary technology and ancient spiritual practices.
The Steve McCurry exhibition, on show this winter at Caumont-Centre d’art, brings together the 80 most emblematic works by the celebrated contemporary American photographer Steve McCurry, as well as recent images never before exhibited in France. Born in 1950, Steve McCurry has captured iconic and poignant images all over the world, always centred on the human experience, providing a striking testimony to our times.
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present a series of rarely seen works by Doug Ohlson (1936-2010), created during 1969 and the first half of the 1970s. The paintings, consisting of brilliant orbs of brushed and aerosol paint that hover on richly colored backgrounds, represent a transitional phase in the artist’s career. Acting as a vehicle for his developing investigations of chromatic relationships, these process-based works facilitated Ohlson’s changing focus to color as his primary subject matter.
From Mick Jagger screaming energetically at the audience to Kate Moss lasciviously flirting with the camera to Her Majesty the Queen grinning as she demurely sits next to a pair of wellies – these personalities could hardly be less alike, yet they have all been captured in portraits by Bryan Adams‘s camera.
The paintings in Maison Ancart are conceived in conversation with the spirit of radical freedom and innovation put forth by pioneering abstractionists, from the Post-Impressionists and the School of Paris to postwar American artists, among others. The trees, meadows, ponds, mountains, and other features operate as archetypal forms that Ancart revisits throughout this body of work. According to the artist, these subjects serve as an “alibi” for painting, providing a platform through which he can experiment with paint.
Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce The river returns nothing of what it takes an exhibition of new works by London-based, Chinese artist Shiwen Wang. For her first solo exhibition with the gallery and in the United States, Wang presents a series of 10 new abstract compositions that piece together the artist’s recurring explorations of natural life and its impermanence. The exhibition will be on view from October 26, 2024, through January 11, 2025.