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Opening Friday, September 6 | Deborah Re*****on: Mirrors  Bortolami is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by ...
08/30/2024

Opening Friday, September 6 | Deborah Re*****on: Mirrors

Bortolami is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Deborah Re*****on (b.1930, d. 2010) at the gallery. Mirrors features works from three distinct junctures in Re*****on’s career, from some of the artist’s most iconic compositions to rare and never before exhibited paintings. The exhibition
coincides with the release of the artist’s first monograph, published by Rizzoli Electa.

Re*****on achieved notoriety in the early 1960s for an inscrutable approach to hard edge abstraction, painting an iconography of irregular, organic shapes rendered with startling precision. Her heraldic imagery, both biomorphic and mechanistic at once, encircled luminous, mirror-like surfaces painted with gradients of black, white and gray. She painted the irregular perimeter of each shape with brilliant bands of orange, blue or green, as if the metallic surfaces
within were a conduit for the bold, electric lines which surrounded them.

🔗 To read the full press release, visit the link in our bio

Deborah Re*****on
Mirrors
6 September - 19 October
Bortolami
Opening Friday, September 6, 6–8pm

📸: Deborah Re*****on, Devon, 1969, Oil on canvas, 73 x 71 in (185.4 x 180.3 cm)

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Bortolami is pleased to present Sounding Lines, an exhibition by celebrated performance and visual artist Aki Sasamoto. ...
08/28/2024

Bortolami is pleased to present Sounding Lines, an exhibition by celebrated performance and visual artist Aki Sasamoto. For her third solo show at the gallery, Sasamoto re-envisions her recent commission at Para Site in Hong Kong by creating an installation of oversized, handmade fishing lures suspended from a network of motorized springs. Sounding Lines continues her series of installations which imply movement without requiring physical activation, “performing” without her presence.

Each of Sasamoto’s suspended lures houses a kitchen tool; a knife, a strainer, a whisk, a spatula, which quake at seemingly random intervals, triggered at the turn of a motor. The effect is a choreography of catalytic movements set to a metallic soundscape as the coils zip and the kitchen implements rattle within. Historically, sounding lines are among the oldest navigational instruments. Composed of a rope and a heavy weight, the simple tool has been used to measure the depths beneath a ship for hundreds of years. In the gallery, however, Sasamoto’s Sounding Lines might quantify the profundity of interpersonal relationships hands rather than measure the depth of water. Situated between sculpture and performance, the constellation of lures in the gallery, tethered via supple springs, allude to the physical and psychological distance between things, people, and places, relative to each individual position.

🔗 To read the full press release, visit the link in our bio

Aki Sasamoto
Sounding Lines
6 September – 19 October
The Upstairs at Bortolami
Opening Friday, September 6, 6–8pm

📸: Aki Sasamoto, Sounding Line (blue, green, gold – carving fork), 2024, Wood (red cedar), carving fork, acrylic paint, epoxy, Mylar, plexiglass, stainless steel wire and springs, copper rods, fishhooks, stainless steel hardware, steel, AC motor, speed controller, timer, 6 x 17 1/2 x 1 3/4 in (15 x 44.5 x 4.5 cm). Courtesy the artist and Bortolami.


We’re excited to share that Marina Rheingantz will be showcasing her work at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (), “Pansori, a S...
08/20/2024

We’re excited to share that Marina Rheingantz will be showcasing her work at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (), “Pansori, a Soundscape of the 21st Century.” Her presentation features new paintings created specifically for the exhibition.

In response to curator Nicolas Bourriaud’s focus on sound and acoustics in modern spaces, Rheingantz has crafted evocative landscapes where rhythmic brushstrokes and flowing paint serve as visual interpretations of vibration, resonance, and ambient phenomena.

See new paintings by Marina Rheingantz September 7 – December 1 at the 15th Gwangju Biennale. 🔗 For more information, visit the link in our bio


Aki Sasamoto: Sounding Lines6 September – 19 OctoberThe Upstairs at BortolamiOpening Friday, 6 September 6–8 pm📸: Instal...
08/09/2024

Aki Sasamoto: Sounding Lines
6 September – 19 October
The Upstairs at Bortolami
Opening Friday, 6 September 6–8 pm

📸: Installation view of Aki Sasamoto: ‘Sounding Lines’, 2024, Para Site, Hong Kong. Photo: Studio Lights On.

Bortolami is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of works by Deborah Re*****on (b.1930 d. 2010). Mirrors inclu...
08/08/2024

Bortolami is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of works by Deborah Re*****on (b.1930 d. 2010). Mirrors includes some of Re*****on’s most iconic compositions alongside rare and previously unexhibited works. The exhibition will coincide with the release of the artist’s first monograph, published by Rizzoli Electa.

📸: Deborah Re*****on, Aldwych, 1973, Oil on canvas, 56 x 52 in (142.2 x 132.1cm).
Image courtesy Bortolami and the Deborah Re*****on Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts.

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Paula Wilson is known for creating works that use collage as a unifying approach, in both material and content. Drawing ...
08/07/2024

Paula Wilson is known for creating works that use collage as a unifying approach, in both material and content. Drawing deeply from her own biography, including her 2007 relocation from Brooklyn to Carrizozo, New Mexico, a town of less than 1,000 residents, her holistic practice in the high-desert plains extends beyond traditional artworks. It encompasses functional objects such as her own clothing which she prints and sews, as well as rugs made from painted and printed fabric affixed to wood slats.

⭐️ See Paula Wilson: The Wind Keeps Time through August 30 at 55 Walker

📸: Paula Wilson, Meridian, 2011/2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas glued to pine slats, 68 1/2 × 58 1/2 in
Paula Wilson, Given Space, 2013 & 2024, Monoprint, acrylic, oil on canvas laminated to pine slats, 80 × 48 in
Paula Wilson, Trailhead, 2021/2016, Collagraph print, acrylic, and oil on muslin mounted on pine slats 69 1/2 × 43 3/4 in


Today is Ann Veronica Janssens’ birthday! 🎉🎈
Since the late 1970s, Ann Veronica Janssens has developed her research arou...
07/30/2024

Today is Ann Veronica Janssens’ birthday! 🎉🎈

Since the late 1970s, Ann Veronica Janssens has developed her research around light and its relationship to what surrounds it, often creating site-specific works that challenge the immutable nature of sculpture and installation. Her experimental work emphasizes different stages of fragility, whether visual, physical, temporal, or psychological. 

“In the tradition of optical art, Janssens’ work radically questions human perception. But the power of her art lies in the tension between the mastery and the wildness of the natural world. Hers is an architecture of the immaterial: a radical act of resistance against the tyranny of space in favour of time,” writes Benoit Loiseau for .

Happy Birthday, Ann Veronica!

📸: Ann Veronica Janssens, Esther Schipper x Domaine du Muy, Installation view, 2024. Photo © Jean-Christophe Lett

Virginia Overton in The New York Times 🗞“You don’t have to know how Virginia Overton made “Untitled (n**e descending a s...
07/26/2024

Virginia Overton in The New York Times 🗞

“You don’t have to know how Virginia Overton made “Untitled (n**e descending a staircase)” to enjoy it. Comprising dozens of 1-foot-by-8-foot sheets of glittering, silvery steel, each bent or bowed in a different place and lined up edge to edge across Bortolami gallery’s back wall, it has the same jagged, thrilling sense of possibility and movement as the 1912 Marcel Duchamp painting name-checked in the title. […] It does, however, add something to know that Overton specializes in reclaiming materials and responding to specific architectural sites, and that all the metal in this show came from the mammoth old Domino Sugar sign on the Brooklyn waterfront.”

🔗 Visit the link in our bio to read more
📍 See works by Virginia Overton through August 9 at Bortolami



Bidding for the 2024 ArtCrush Online Auction is now live! Bortolami is pleased to participate in the 2024 ArtCrush Aucti...
07/25/2024

Bidding for the 2024 ArtCrush Online Auction is now live!

Bortolami is pleased to participate in the 2024 ArtCrush Auction and support the Aspen Art Museum with donated works by Lena Henke and Marina Rheingantz. The Live Auction will take place in person at ArtCrush, the Aspen Art Museum’s annual summer gala, on Friday, August 2, 2024.

🔗 To bid in the Online Auction, tap the link in our bio

LENA HENKE
Combustions 9, 2023
Pigment on soldered leather on wood
36 x 24 x 1 1/2 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York. Photo: Guang Xu.

MARINA RHEINGANTZ
Sopro, 2024
Oil on canvas
51 x 43 in.
Photo: Eduardo Ortega. Courtesy of the artist, Bortolami, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, and White Cube.

In Virginia Overton’s Untitled (cascade), long, thin bands of galvanized steel flat stock have been cinched together wit...
07/24/2024

In Virginia Overton’s Untitled (cascade), long, thin bands of galvanized steel flat stock have been cinched together with vises bolted to the wall. The sculpture repositions the formerly rigid materials, allowing the inherent and newly “encouraged” curves to make the steel appear to flow downwards.

📍See new sculptures by Virginia Overton now through August 9 at Bortolami

Pictured: Virginia Overton, Untitled (cascade), 2024, Galvanized steel and steel vise, 117 x 122 x 3 1/2 in (297 x 310 x 9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami.

Lena Henke featured in the Summer 2024 Edition of Aspen Art Magazine Henke has designed a limited-edition Stetson on the...
07/22/2024

Lena Henke featured in the Summer 2024 Edition of Aspen Art Magazine

Henke has designed a limited-edition Stetson on the occasion of her solo show at the Aspen Art Museum - available for pre-order now in the Aspen Art Museum Shop. The Move Stetson Hat is meticulously hand-fashioned in Garland, Texas, and is the hand-branded image of Henke’s striking sculpture, THEMOVE (Aspen), on view at the Aspen Art Musuem through September 29.

🔗 For more information visit the link in our bio

Lena also has a donated work in the 2024 ArtCrush Auction. Bidding opens this Thursday, July 25!

Pictured: Portrait of Lena Henke. Photo: Christian Werner.
Lena Henke, THEMOVE (Aspen), 2023, Installation view, Aspen Art Museum. Photo: Daniel Pérez


“School’s In For Summer” Lola Kramer recounted her experience to the inaugural exhibition at the Campus in  📓🎒 “I was he...
07/19/2024

“School’s In For Summer”
Lola Kramer recounted her experience to the inaugural exhibition at the Campus in 📓🎒

“I was headed out for the grand opening of the Campus, a new exhibition and project space housed in a former school building founded by six New York galleries: Bortolami, James Cohan, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, kurimanzutto, and kaufmann repetto. ‘All aboard the Gallerina Express!’ one caffeinated gallerist remarked. […]
In the principal’s office, dealer Stefania Bortolami sat at a table with the Campus’s staff—everyone was taking a break from the excitement. ‘So how do we, you know, end this thing?’ she laughed, gesturing into the packed hallway while addressing the event’s publicist. ‘You could pull the fire alarm,’ I said.”

🔗 Read more about Kramer’s experience of the opening of The Campus via the link in our bio!

⭐️Visit The Campus for Upstate Art Weekend July 20 & 21, open from 12-5 PM.

1. Dealer Loreta Lamargese posing for her school picture at the opening of The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.
2. Artist Barbara Kasten blowing out her birthday candles at The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.  
3. Madeline Hollander with her work Bob, 2023, at The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.
4. Dealer Stefania Bortolami with Rachel Harrison’s The Excavator, 2023, at The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.  


Frieda Toranzo Jaeger caught up with Gaby Cepeda for Issue  #49 of Elephant Magazine “Toranzo Jaeger speculates … on the...
07/16/2024

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger caught up with Gaby Cepeda for Issue #49 of Elephant Magazine

“Toranzo Jaeger speculates … on the redirection of impulses in a driverless world:

“I wonder what will happen when self-driving cars are more pervasive. Driving is linked to sexuality in so many ways – what will happen to that potency, to that expenditure? When speed and power no longer signify that, where will all that sexual projection go? Ideally that logic of power will extend somewhere else, that eroticism we project on machines, but where will it go? And how will that dislocation mangle our visualization of the future?”

[…] Her hinged pieces embody this sort of static, passive potential as well, in that they are capable of movement, of transformation and as she says, “That potential is always evident, and forces the viewer to imagine the limits of that possibility and then their own role as mere viewer of possible interactor with the piece.” – Gaby Cepeda

🔗 Visit the link in our to grab a copy of Elephant Magazine’s transformation themed Issue #49

Rebecca Morris has donated an artwork to Anderson Ranch’s annual auction!Nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Aspen/Snowmas...
07/11/2024

Rebecca Morris has donated an artwork to Anderson Ranch’s annual auction!

Nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado, Anderson Ranch Arts Center hosts an extensive array of workshops for aspiring, emerging, established artists, children and teens in seven disciplines, including Photography & New Media, Ceramics, Painting & Drawing, Furniture Design & Woodworking, Sculpture, Printmaking and Digital Fabrication.

Auction proceeds support Anderson Ranch’s workshops, residencies, lectures and community events that cultivate art making across all ages.

⭐️ The auction goes live Saturday, July 13 at 11am. Registration is encouraged – register to bid via the link in our bio


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Now on view in classrooms 4-7 at : Barbara Kasten Barbara Kasten has been fascinated with staging and the theatrical pot...
07/02/2024

Now on view in classrooms 4-7 at : Barbara Kasten

Barbara Kasten has been fascinated with staging and the theatrical potential of the studio for over fifty years. She began her Constructs series in 1979, assembling temporary theatrical tableaus and then photographed them. The series went from compositions of exclusively grey and silver, to including isolated reflections of color, to the full-on multi-hued saturation typical of mid-1980s examples.

See works from Kasten’s Construct series, installed alongside works by Nathalie Du Pasquier at The Campus now through October 27

🔗 To learn more about The Campus and view the complete list of artists, visit the link in our bio

Pictured: Barbara Kasten and Nathalie Du Pasquier at The Campus, Installation view, 2024. Courtesy of the artists, Bortolami and Anton Kern. Photography:


Today we celebrate Babara Kasten’s 88th birthday! 🎉 Over a career spanning five decades, Barbara Kasten has experimented...
06/29/2024

Today we celebrate Babara Kasten’s 88th birthday! 🎉
 
Over a career spanning five decades, Barbara Kasten has experimented with notions of space, stage, and architecture between photography, sculpture, and painting. 
 
“I really find it intriguing that an object or an action has the potential to be read in different ways. Is a photograph an illusion that stirs an intellectual or observational kind of emotion? Or does it have a physical kind of connection that a sculpture of an installation can evoke? Perhaps responses to each are interchangeable and that’s why I continue to do both. I want to see from multiple directions and, hopefully, show my audience ways to do the same.” -Kasten in an interview with Amanda Ross-Ho for MOCA.

Happy birthday Barbara, we wish you a wonderful day! 

📍 See Kasten’s work on view at the De La Warr Pavillion (East Sussex, U.K.) and The Campus (Hudson, NY). For more information visit the link in our bio.

  


Paula Wilson’s () seamless integration of artistic practice with daily life showcases her continual process of revision,...
06/26/2024

Paula Wilson’s () seamless integration of artistic practice with daily life showcases her continual process of revision, recycling, and recombination. Drawing deeply from her own biography, including her 2007 relocation from Brooklyn to Carrizozo, New Mexico, a town of less than 1,000 residents, her holistic practice in the high-desert plains extends beyond traditional artworks.This exhibition highlights Wilson’s process of remaking, bringing artworks previously installed in the living spaces of her home and studio, into the gallery.

⭐️ See Paula Wilson: The Wind Keeps Time now through August 30 at 55 Walker

1-2: Paula Wilson, Fanfare Fantail Rug, 2017, Acrylic, oil, enamel, on canvas laminated to pine slats, 59 1/4 x 92 in (151 x 234 cm)
4: Paula Wilson, The Window’s Edge (detail), 2023, Acrylic, oil, mixed media on muslin and canvas
6: Paula Wilson, Lovers Rug, 2018, Oil on canvas and wood slats, 32 x 69 in (81.3 x 175.3 cm)
7: Paula Wilson, Strata V, 2024, Mixed media on muslin and canvas, 56 x 45 in (142.2 x 114.3 cm)
3,5,8: Installation views

Photos courtesy of the artist, Bortolami, kaufmann repetto and Andrew Kreps Gallery.


‘An Unheard-of Collaborative Process’: Six Dealers Come Out of their Silos to Open the Campus in  by Brian Boucher. “Thi...
06/25/2024

‘An Unheard-of Collaborative Process’: Six Dealers Come Out of their Silos to Open the Campus in by Brian Boucher.

“This summer, six galleries are joining forces at the Campus, a new art space in upstate Claverack in a disused 1952 school. The founders—Bortolami, James Cohan, Kaufmann Repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and Kurimanzutto—have galleries in Manhattan, but struggled to find suitable storage space and dreamt of a bigger canvas.

Drawing mostly from the 200 artists on their rosters, the debut show opens June 29 and is organized by guest curator Timo Kappeller. The lineup features about 80 artists, including blue-chip stars like Cecily Brown, Petrit Halilaj, Rachel Harrison, and Jenny Holzer, as well as late influential figures like Philip Pearlstein and Roy Lichtenstein. Complementing it is a group show curated by the fellows at New Haven arts incubator NXTHVN.”

🔗 Read more via the link in our bio

⭐️ Join us this Saturday, June 29 for the opening of our inaugural exhibtion at The Campus. For more information subscribe to our mailing list at www.thecampusupstate.com.

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