Join us for a conversion between artist Jose de Jesus Rodriguez and Joey Lico, Global Curator & Sr. Director, Americas at The Cultivist.

Congratulations to artist Beverly Fishman, one of the 2020 National Academicians! ⁣

On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, the National Academy of Design inducted fifteen new National Academicians. Becoming a National Academician (NA) is a lifetime honor and one that cannot be applied for or solicited. In a tradition dating back to 1825, current members confidentially nominate and elect new National Academicians each year, honoring the group’s remarkable contributions to the canon and story of American art. The National Academicians of 2020 join 440 living members, with over 2,387 elected since our founding.
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Join us for a virtual conversation and studio tour with artist Gisela Colón and "A Very Anxious Feeling" Co-Curator Amethyst Rey Beaver. Gisela's sculpture "Untitled (Monolith Black)" is included in the banner exhibition "A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," which is on view at the Taubman Museum of Art through February 7, 2021.

School of the Art Institute is excited to welcome artist Alex Anderson into our ceramics department this week to give a lecture this forthcoming Thursday, October 1st at 4:00 CST.

Alex Anderson shows three ambiguous ceramic sculptures that poetically reference the artist’s Asian-African American and gay experiences using aesthetic styles historically related to Western imperial power.
One Thing to Fight For is part of Five Artists, Five Mediums, Five Days – A Curated Selection for One Thing, featuring drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and film/video, accompanied by a series of online talks.

Join Terry R. Myers in conversation with Sarah Gavlak, founder of the eponymous Gavlak Gallery, which showcases female and LGTBQ artists. Gavlak is also founder of New Wave Art Wknd, which hosts an annual residency program for emerging artists from marginalized communities. Myers and Gavlak will discuss the process of creating the New Wave Art Wknd initiative, and cultivating patronage and creativity in Gavlak’s community. After the talk, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and comment on the discussion.

"In art school, I was making these big collages. I was inspired by Greek mythology. I started making work about other mythologies until I started making my own. Collage is more than a dumping ground of imagery. You just don’t put things together that don’t make sense. As I got further into collage work, I realized that I wanted to create a psychological moment. I try to make it look like a freeze frame of a movie, or as if you had walked into a play and all of a sudden, the characters had stopped. Like you walked into a scene and said, “What’s going on here? Now, my goal when I do a collage is to create an emotionally charged situation. I really believe that, over the years, I’ve found my voice." —Marnie Weber, Juxtapose (September 2016)

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Join Gavlak LA for an discussion and walkthrough of Meta Minimal with artist Gisela Colón and art critic Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.

On Saturday, June 22, Keyes Gallery at The American Hotel in Sag Harbor opens “Boyz Keep Swinging,” a group exhibition curated by artist Maynard Monrow. With its title taken from David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging,” the exhibition plays out in carefree spirit, emulating summer queer culture in The Hamptons.

Storied artists and up-and-comers display their pieces in time for the solstice

Vanessa German and her partner, Janae Brown, present an intimate exchange between Black women, a perspective absent in mainstream depictions of African-American femininity.

“Send in the clowns… Don’t bother, they’re here.” Nodding to Sondheim, clowns abound in Marnie Weber’s art, most recently in her exhibition as artist-in-residence at Pasadena City College. Clowns are mostly appealing and Weber uses that appeal in complex, absurd and emotionally-involving sculpture and painted collages.

Pools of shimmering silver, flies alighted on walls, golden snakes slithering through museum cases: Rob Wynne’s ethereal work makes a point of being impossible to pin down. His exhibition, Float, is placed as a critical counterpoint to objects on permanent display in the Brooklyn Museum’s fifth floor American galleries. Wynne’s pieces interact well with their surroundings but would resonate on their own, thus making this a strong exhibition on many levels. The intellectual agility of the poured glass wall installations offers at times biting critique of the stodgy portraits and history paintings of the new American republic with their traditional European aspirations, but Wynne’s glass intrusions can by turns be tender and empathetic as well.

by Janelle Zara

As with an answer on Jeopardy!, a tarot reading must be phrased in the form of a question. At Frieze Los Angeles, the fair’s resident medium, Alpine Moon, asked me: “Are your actions in your best and highest interest?”

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As Frieze LA takes over Paramount Studios in February, Conceptual Artist, Lisa Anne AUerbach Presents "Psychic Art Advisor", an interactive performance offering visitors guidance, both creative and commercial. Executive Director of Frieze LA, Bettina Korek checks in with Auerbach in advance of the persentation. 

Please join us at Gavlak Los Angeles (1034 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038) on Saturday, January 12, at 5:00pm for a conversation between Maynard Monrow & William J. Simmons regarding Monrow's solo exhibition on view.

William J. Simmons is Provost Fellow in the Humanities in the art history PhD program of the University of Southern California. He received his BA from Harvard University and taught art history for three years at the City College of New York. His research and writing have appeared in numerous international books, journals, monographs, and magazines.

While Art Basel makes a splash in Miami, gallery owner Sarah Gavlak is shining a light on Palm Beach's thriving arts scene

Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
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December 1-2, 2018

Entering the Luce Center for American Art on the Brooklyn Museum's fifth floor, one immediately encounters Rob Wynne’s ethereal glass works that activate the adjacent nineteenth-century neoclassical marble statues of Pandora, Nydia, The Lost Pleiad, and Bacchante. Rob Wynne’s work re-contextualize viewer perceptions of the historic sculptures perched atop black granite pedestals, enveloping them in a swirling timelessness of hand-poured mirrored-glass wall reliefs. On view through January 6, 2019, Wynne's 16 ephemeral glass works force a reexamination of historic American artworks and are presented in an exhibition entitled “Rob Wynne: FLOAT” curated by Brooklyn Museum chief curator Jennifer Y. Chi and assistant curator Margarita Karasoulas.

There are no pictures in “Under the Influence,” Maynard Monrow’s exhibition at Gavlak Gallery.

Monrow works exclusively with words.

His pithy sayings are displayed in standardized white letters on black, grey or pink cafe boards. (Cafe boards are those black signs with white letters that communicate information such as “wait to be seated” at restaurants or room schedules at convention centers.)

Lily Stockman speaks about the work in her show "Pollinator" and how her home in Joshua Tree inspires her practice

"I made this series of work over the past six months while working on my desert garden, so the botanical and structural shapes – cactus pads, rock perimeters of garden beds, etc.– come through subconsciously, not because I set out to paint plants but because that’s the shape language I’ve immersed myself in."

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