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The Capital Times just featured this great article on Amy Cutler's solo exhibition "A Narrative Thread" at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. "Amy Cutler: A Narrative Thread" opens to the public on March 12th, and will be on view through May 16th.
The Brooklyn painter's new exhibition, "A Narrative Thread," opens at MMoCA after pandemic postponements. The free museum reopens March 12.
Intersect Chicago 2020 opened today, and will be online through November 12. Our virtual booth features beautiful work by Tracey Baran, Dean Byington, Amy Cutler, Betsy Kaufman, Charlotte Moorman, Laurel Nakdate and Saya Woolfalk! Take a look at our presentation through the link below!
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects specializes in contemporary art across all media along with works on paper from the 1960s to the present. Since its inception in 1997, the gallery has been committed to working with important but under-exposed artists who emerged in the 1960s and 70s, while concur...
Agnes Denes's "Wheatfield" is named as one of T Magazine's "25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II." This seminal work accompanies many amazing contributions to the use of art as protest in recent American history. Read through the article below!
Saya Woolfalk is featured on Marie Claire Magazine as one of their "Black Women Artists to Have on Your Radar." Read the article via the link below!
Works by Agnes Denes and Helène Aylon are a part of “ecofeminism(s),” the group show at Thomas Erben Gallery slated to reopen September 8. Read an Art in America review mentioning works by both artists via the link below!
Works by Helene Aylon will be on view in "Did I Ever Have a Chance?," a group show opening at Marc Selwyn Fine Art tomorrow, August 15. The exhibition focuses on contemporary and historical works by multigenerational artists who confront and challenge entrenched systemic inequities.
The exhibited works are also on the gallery's website viewing room, linked below.
If you haven't seen "Agnes Denes: Photos of the Mind 1969-2002," it is currently on view in our ADAA viewing room, linked below.
"It’s interesting that when I think of my photographs I see them as projects that supercede documentation. And they are not documentation, but another art form – a newborn development."
—Agnes Denes
Human Dust, 1969 , Human Dust, 1969 , Human Dust (2b), 1969 , Rice/Tree/Burial, 1977/2012 , Rice/Tree/Burial (Rice Planting - Horizontal) , Rice/Tree/Burial (Rice Planting - Vertical), 1977/2012 , Rice/Tree/Burial (Tree Chaining) , Rice/Tree/Burial (Burial of the Time Capsule) , Isometric Systems in...
Helène Aylon, "two sacs en route: Nagasaki Flats," 1990 (detail)
The activist, ecofeminist, conceptual artist Helène Aylon was preparing a multimedia installation to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when she sadly died on April 6th of this year from complications of Covid-19. To honor the memory of this singular artist, and a project to which she was deeply committed, we are pleased to announce a modified, virtual presentation of the exhibition.
Please take a moment to experience "two sacs en route 1985-2020" virtually via the link below. The work in the exhibition stems from Helene's generative body of work stemming from her 1985 trip and actions in Japan, then to mark the fortieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The most comprehensive survey to date of works by Agnes Denes, originally scheduled to run through March 22, 2020, concluded on March 12 when The Shed was forced to temporarily close in consideration of the health and safety of its artists, audiences, and staff.
We are very pleased to announce a special presentation of selected installation views and individual images on our web site.
Initiated by The Shed's Senior Program Advisor, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Senior Curator Emma Enderby, and organized by Emma Enderby with Curatorial Assistant Adeze Wilford, the exhibition of more than 150 works created in a wide range of mediums from the 1960s to the present provided a broad overview of the artist's investigations in philosophy, mathematics, science, linguistics, psychology, ecology, and religion.
In addition to three major sculptural works, newly commissioned by The Shed, highlights of the exhibition included rediscovered video and film documentation of Denes's iconic Land Art works Wheatfield–A Confrontation (1982), and Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule (1992–96) for which she created a mountain with 11,000 fir trees planted in a mathematical configuration near Tampere, Finland.
Our deepest gratitude goes to the following individuals at The Shed who enabled the expansive presentation of works by this singular artist: Alex Poots, Chief Executive and Artistic Director; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Senior Program Advisor; Emma Enderby, Senior Curator; Adeze Wilford, Curatorial Assistant; Jesse Hamerman, Director of Exhibitions; Heather Reyes, Exhibitions Producer, William Hempel, Registrar, Elizabeth Berridge, Exhibitions Assistant, and Art Domantay.
The Independent opens to the public today. Please visit us on the 5th Floor mezzanine for a wonderful presentation of new and recent work by Saya Woolfalk! Our space is just up the stairs to the left of the main 5th Floor entrance. The fair is open today and tomorrow 12PM – 7PM, and on Sunday from 12PM – 6PM. See you there!
Some brief coverage below:
“The intimacy and scale is refreshing,” one dealer said.
Laurel Nakadate is currently re-performing "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears" for the year of 2020, 10 years after the original performance. You can follow @365_tears on Instagram to keep up with the piece, and read ARTnews's coverage on the re-performance below:
She’s revisiting her 2010 series “365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears” in an updated form.
Art in America's review of "Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates," read below!
One could speculate that the Shed’s figuring of Agnes Denes as an unclassifiable savant more in league with Renaissance humanists than with her direct contemporaries serves in part to bracket the q…
"Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes’s art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today." - Louis Bury on Agnes Denes's current show at The Shed. Read the linked article of Hyperallergic!
Agnes Denes in The New York Times! Read the glowing review on her current show "Absolutes and Intermediates" at The Shed below:
She set out to change humanity. Now a superbly installed survey at the Shed charts this visionary artist’s 50-year journey.
"When I started, I wanted to evaluate human knowledge. I wanted to re-examine our thinking; and during this investigation, my art was born."
- Agnes Denes in conversation with Emma McCormick-Goodhart for frieze.
With a survey exhibition at The Shed, the visionary artist speaks to Emma McCormick-Goodhart about the importance of learning from nature
The Washington Post recently published a review on Agnes Denes's retrospective at The Shed that takes a quick look on that artist's immense body of work and resulting legacy:
Artist made pieces about climate change, decades before it was a mainstream topic.
The Columbus Museum
Thank you to the Ledger-Enquirer for the great write-up and video about Exhibit - Saya Woolfalk: Augmented Visionary Reality Outpost! Hear from the artist about how Pasaquan and Columbus native Alma Thomas inspired her work!
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If you haven't already, make plans to get to The Columbus Museum this weekend to check out this amazing exhibition where art meets science fiction in an alternate universe!
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If you haven't already, read Artforum's extensive article on Agnes Denes's work, which is also the cover story for October's print issue!
ASHES TO ASHES . . . Before the recent wave of disquisitions on our planet’s impending demise, there was Agnes Denes’s Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter (1989). A heavily researched investigation of the death of all matter, written between 1972 and 1987, the book is ...
"Model for Probability Pyramid – Study for Crystal Pyramid" (1976-2019), Commissioned by The Shed. Photo: Stan Narten
We are pleased to announce that The Menil Collection just recently acquired the Amy Cutler painting "Semblance" (2019)! The work was a part of our most recent solo show of Amy Cutler's work "Points of Egress."
We are pleased to share that Saya Woolfalk also has a solo exhibition at the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. "Saya Woolfalk: Expedition to the ChimaCloud" is currently on view through September 1, 2019. The museum will also host an artist talk with Saya Woolfalk on the evening of May 9th. Information on the talk and related programming can be found via the link below:
Contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk’s body of work transports visitors into a fantastical world where they encounter a fictional race of women Woolfalk has created called the Empathics.
We are pleased to share that Saya Woolfalk has a solo exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. "Visionary Reality Outpost" is currently on view through August 18, 2019.
Artist Saya Woolfalk (NY) works at the confluence of science fiction, anthropology, technology, and art to imagine a world that is simultaneously set in the future and the past. Her work considers hybrid identities, especially in relation to the contemporary transcultural influences occurring in a t...
Work by Amy Cutler is currently on view as part of The FLAG Art Foundation's survey of contemporary drawing "Drawn Together Again." Make sure to stop by before the show's closing date! (May 18, 2019).
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Drawn Together Again on view February 23–May 18, 2019 on its 10th floor. This survey of contemporary drawing focuses on the intimate act of drawing through the variety of traditions and practices artists employ. The exhibition of more than 120 artists ...
Our current show of Amy Cutler's recent work as featured on Time Out New York!
Cutler’s surreal allegories on paper are executed with a jewel like precision that recalls Persian and Indian miniatures, and similarly evoke a world both exoti
Laurel O'Neill Butler of Artforum gives a very informed and thoughtful write-up of our recent show with Helène Aylon:
In 1963, two years after Helène Fisch (née Greenfield) became widowed at age thirty, she was painting a mural for a community center when a newspaper reporter asked for her name. Spontaneously, she replied, “Helène Aylon,” offering a shortened Hebraic version of her first name for her last. T...
Thanks to The Brooklyn Rail for this great write-up of Amy Cutler's recent work! Read it via the link below:
Amy Cutler has dedicated her career to the cultural subtexts associated with womanhood. She draws a network connecting history and mythology, revealing the guts of that animal-woman as a straw man other to an audience of power.
Amy Cutler - "Semblance" (2019)
Helène Aylon - "Drifting Pink" (1970)
Artnet News named “In This Imperfect Present Moment,” at the Seattle Art Museum (featuring work by Saya Woolfalk) among their list of inspiring museum shows to see over the holidays! "In This Imperfect Present Moment” is on view through June 16, 2019.
From the East Coast to the West, from North to South, here are our picks of what to see at US museums this holiday season.
We are proud to announce that Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects now represents Helène Aylon. Read a short article below on the announcement published last week via Artnews!
She will have her first show at a New York gallery in several decades in January 2019. Read More
Our "MOTHER" show was named among Jerry Saltz's 10 Best Art Shows of 2018! Read the list below via New York Magazine
Including an abstract pioneer and presidential portraiture.
Agnes Denes is featured in this great and informative article on Women Land Artists published in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Read it via the link below!
Decades after the movement flourished, its female practitioners are at long last being recognized.
Dean Byington - "Colossus 1," 2018.
Make sure to stop by the Editions/Artists' Books Fair tomorrow and catch Saya Woolfalk's talk with Dexter Wimberly on Prints and Politics. More information via the link below!
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