DQ superstars
FALL SHOWS FROM BROOKLYN TO ROMA TO LA
Anya Kielar & Johannes VanDerBeek, Sarah VanDerBeek
organized Guild & Greyshkul exhibit
Cooper Union in NYC, thru Oct 31
Guild & Greyshkul is a group exhibition about the artist-run gallery Guild & Greyshkul that operated in New York City from 2003-2009. Presenting the works of over 70 artists, the exhibition reflects past and emerging models of creative exchange and collaboration amongst an intergenerational cohort of artists. The exhibition will be held in the 41 Cooper Gallery at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—an institution that has fostered open discourse since 1859. The exhibition is organized by Anya Kielar A’02, Johannes VanDerBeek A’04, and Sara VanDerBeek A’98, the three founders of Guild & Greyshkul, in cooperation with Adriana Farmiga A’96, dean of The Cooper Union School of Art and Yuri Masnyj A’98, associate dean of The Cooper Union School of Art, all of whom are alumni of the school.
Patricia Cronin in first-ever U.S. presentation
of works from the Digital Stone Project
The Active Space in Brooklyn
Sebastiaan Bremer published a monograph of his floral works
Super Modern Things from 99 Uitgevers / Publishers
from the publisher:
[The Artist’s] fascination with floral motifs originates in various historical sources. For instance, a 1948 book on Dutch flower cultivation inspired him with its vibrant colors and compositions. Later, Bremer discovered a rare tulip catalogue from the time of Tulip Mania (1636-1637). The origin of the ‘Dutch’ tulip in Central Asia and its journey via the Middle East to Europe touched upon themes such as migration, appropriation, trade, and value creation for him. He was also inspired by seventeenth-century flower still lifes by artists including Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Jan van Huysum, and Rachel Ruysch.
Spencer Finch in Sky Blue: group exhibit
Subtitled Gallery in Brooklyn, thru Oct 25
“Sky blue” may be a color, yes. Colloquially that is, but not scientifically. No, sky blue is not a color so much as a memory. Another place, another mindset, another time with another person. In paintings, drawings, and sculptures, each of the artists here capture something that would have remained otherwise ineffable. But from their ruminations in color and light take shape a precious manifestation of what can only be nostalgia; a feeling not lost to time but buried in it. Under layers of a life lived, calcified by the weight of their own aggregation, smoothed over by the repeated lapping of water on rock, a mere flicker may be all that is needed, one wave refracted amongst a million rays, it takes the shortest path to you as blue.
Dan Asher: In the I of the Beholder
Martos Gallery in NYC, thru Nov 7
Adventurer/ethnographer, whether on the streets of the East Village or far afield—South America, Asia, Antarctica—a painter, photographer, sculptor, an obsessive draftsman, the artist Dan Asher (1947-2010) was a true force of nature. He possessed a restless energy, an elevated intelligence, well-read, well-traveled, always searching. An iconoclast, a mischief-maker, at times insistently impolite, the sort of figure today’s professionalized art world can’t easily accommodate, he slipped in and out of various scenes to which he was magnetically attracted . . .
Joshua Smith: Hearts and Triangles
839 Gallery in Los Angeles, thru Oct 17
. . . the show juxtaposes two abstract icons at different moments in the semiotic life cycle. One has become so culturally familiar that its artificiality has all but disappeared; the other is still actively acquiring meaning. Between them lies a meditation on how form migrates through culture, how abstraction becomes political, and how symbols increasingly circulate faster than consensus can form around them.
Smith’s solidarity with the Palestinian struggle is present here as he examines the complicated ways symbols circulate, transform, and accumulate new significance. 20% of sales from the exhibition will be donated to London-based mutual aid group The Sameer Project, supporting displaced families in Gaza amid the ongoing genocide.