The term Pareidolia is a phenomenon involving an image or a sound wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. For example, the man in the moon or hidden messages in recorded music. Similarly, each piece in Sagato’s Pareidolia series is designed to give the viewer a […]
What would it be like for a blind person to “see” their portrait for the first time? Recently featured in The Huffington Post, Examiner, and Vice’s The Creators Project, Please Touch the Art, a recently released documentary by Cantor Fine Art, focuses on the unique relationship between Myers and George […]
Parrasch Heijnen is pleased to present Womansong, an exhibition of new work by acclaimed New York artist Joan Snyder. Additionally, the gallery will have on view for the first time publicly Spring (1971), one of the largest example from the artist’s breakthrough “Stroke Paintings” series. Recognized for her uniquely physical […]
Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) We’re All Made of Star Stuff Gavlak is pleased to present We’re All Made of Star Stuff, an exhibition of new work by Jose Alvarez. Working in a variety of media, including works on paper, paintings, video, collage, crystal paintings, and digital murals, Alvarez creates dazzling, brightly-colored […]
RECEPTION: September 12, 5-8 p.m. EXHBITION PROGRAM: September 19, 2 p.m. Please join artist Ruth Pastine for a tour of her exhibition. Concurrently On View PEDRO GUERREO: MASTERWORKS A selection of the photographer’s most iconic images, presented in conjunction with the television debut of documentary American Masters: Pedro E. Guerrero: […]
Beginning 15 September 2015, Hauser & Wirth will present its first New York exhibition devoted to Los Angeles-based artist Rachel Khedoori. In a practice that merges architecture, sculpture, and film, Khedoori’s work collides and blurs boundaries between the actual and the perceived, and raises provocative questions about reality and representation. […]
I credit my discovery of fractals (the self-repeating properties found within a single object of nature) for completely transforming my artistic vision. From the early representational work – illuminated white roses painted as portraits reminiscent of Rembrandt’s style – my vision has evolved to much more conceptual views with a […]
Spaces is a feature of art-agenda that proposes a thematic examination of galleries based on the analysis of their physical and spatial configurations. Every two months, art-agenda publishes a new reflection on the spatial characteristics of galleries, their architecture, identity, and relation with their historical and geographical context. The second […]