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Grief, distance, and connection: These are themes that run through the abstract paintings of Soleé Darrell’s latest solo exhibition, “Where You Need to Be: Studies in Teleportation,” on view through July 13 at pt.2 Gallery in Oakland, California. The Bermuda-born, Bay Area-based artist was guided by intuition to create this new body of work, a dance of cosmic colors that evokes an awakened confidence.I first met Darrell in 2018, when she was still working as a jewelry artist at her booth at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. More than five years later, the bright gemstones she once mounted…

CHICAGO — Grief comes in many forms: It can be a warning sign inside you, or a quiet voice telling you that something is irreversible and that only you know how wrong it is. In the work of artist Bimbola Akinbola, Island of Sorrownow on view at the Romain Susan Art Foundation, Sorrow is a lonely place, with back-to-back beach chairs and crushed aluminum cans. For Akingbola, Sorrow Island is a place of relief and sorrow, a place of mourning and remembrance. Roman Susan opened in 2012 in a mere 280 square feet on the ground floor of a flatiron…

Art MarketMaxwell RaabPortrait of Dooyong Ro. Image courtesy of CYLINDER.The meteoric rise of 33-year-old Korean art dealer Dooyong Ro began in a former fried chicken shop. He spent four years in London, earning an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art. In 2020, he returned to his birthplace, South Korea. There, he discovered this space in Seoul’s Gwanak district. Initially, he planned to use it as his makeshift art studio. But as the coronavirus lockdown kept him from working for longer than expected, he decided to take a different path when Wonwoo Lee, an artist he admired, inquired…

Artist June Leaf, known for her experimental and intuitive curiosity about movement, gesture, and the female form, died on Monday, July 1, at her home in New York City at the age of 94. Leaf’s death was confirmed by her agent and close friend, Andrea Glimcher of Hyphen Advisory, who said the artist had recently been diagnosed with stomach cancer. Born in Chicago in 1929, Leaf knew from a very young age that she wanted to work with her hands, especially when she saw her mother sewing. She recalled in a 2016 interview Allergic She once asked her mom to…

On June 7, the Serpentine Galleries opened its 23rd annual pavilion. The islands are hollow, Designed by Minsuk Cho, founder of Seoul-based architecture firm Mass Studies, Cho’s design was inspired by the concept of a Madang, or traditional Korean courtyard, with a central area surrounded by five distinct structures, known as “islands.” These areas will serve different functions and provide a platform for the Serpentine’s live programming this summer. The pavilion’s main exhibition hall will feature a six-channel sound installation by Chang Young-kyu that captures the seasonal changes in the local landscape. Next to the main exhibition hall is the…

George Clark, wet-plate print of Abraham Lincoln’s campaign emblem based on an 1860 portrait by Mathew B. Brady (All images courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery) How do you imagine the president? We might think of many ancient presidents as being from a time before photography, but in fact, 39 of the 45 highest-ranking leaders of the United States have been captured by photography. The earliest surviving portrait is an 1843 daguerreotype of our sixth leader, John Quincy Adams, who served from 1825 to 1829. This portrait is one of several on display. Portraying the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Wet-plate Photographs…

Published by Christopher Wool in 1997 Ninth Street IncidentThis is a collection of his studio photos taken while filing a fire insurance claim. His bland snapshots document blown-out windows, collapsed ceilings and torn-up floors – with papers and materials strewn everywhere. In one of the photos, however, two of Wool’s paintings are seen leaning against the wall, intact amid the ruins. See Stop Run, an exhibition in a century-old office building in New York’s financial district, focuses on Wool’s work from the past decade, though his practice dates back to the 1980s. The exhibition features photographs of undamaged paintings—a temporal…

Much like the nation’s so-called founding in 1776, the definition of American culture has always been problematic, fraught with a deep-seated history tied to colonization, imperialism, and capitalism. Essentially, the idea that certain art forms and cultural ephemera are considered to represent a uniquely American identity while others are not tends to erase the diversity of intersectional experiences and perspectives that truly make up this country. Every Fourth of July, these questions about our nation’s heritage resurface as communities across the country mark America’s independence from Great Britain with star-studded celebrations like parades, fireworks, and barbecues. For this year’s holiday,…

Mysterious muralist Banksy on Wednesday took aim at British Home Secretary James Cleverley, who had previously criticised an inflatable raft artwork that appeared at the Glastonbury festival last week. In the recent Sky News The politician outwardly called Banksy’s work “vile and unacceptable”. Banksy hit back on Instagram today, saying the response seemed “a bit much”. “The real ship I funded, the MV Louise Michel, rescued 17 unaccompanied children from the central Mediterranean on Monday evening,” Banks wrote. “Italian authorities are holding it as punishment — vile and unacceptable in my opinion.” related articles Cleverly claimed Sky News In the…

Tina Kim Gallery has announced that it will represent the artwork of Lee ShinJa, who helped establish and legitimize fiber art in South Korea. Lee’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will open in New York on August 22. This week, Tina Kim will be showing her work at Art Basel’s booth. Born in Uljin, South Korea in 1930, Lee began working in textile art in the early 1950s, when textile art was primarily associated with women and therefore considered a serious art form. Lee’s work pushes the boundaries of traditional fiber crafts, using experimental materials such as old sweaters…