Upstate Art Weekend
Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown is participating in the third edition of Upstate Art Weekend, which celebrates art and culture in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. More than 100 exhibitions and events will be on view and over 50 artists will open their studios for the public to explore. As part of Upstate Art Weekend, "Harmony Hammond: Monotypes" at Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown will have an opening reception today, July 22 from 12–6pm, with vegan food truck BABA and the artist present.
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Courtesy @UpstateArtWeekend
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The Kitchen Annual Gala Benefit
Lorraine O’Grady will be honored at The Kitchen’s Annual Gala Benefit, alongside George Lewis, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. View the link in bio for further information and to purchase tickets
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Identity design and art direction by @designerhooker, @rushjacksonstudio, and #rahulsubhashshinde
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Jennie C. Jones's one-person exhibition "Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics," an exhibition of new and recent work by the interdisciplinary artist, is on view through Monday May 2, 2022, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
"From February 4 through May 2, 2022, an exhibition of new and recent works by interdisciplinary artist Jennie C. Jones are on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 'Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics' includes paintings, works on paper, and a sound installation that responds to the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture by interweaving visual and aural experience.
'Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics' is organized by Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections.
Many of the works in the exhibition incorporate architectural felt and acoustic panels to create what Jones calls 'active surfaces.' These materials absorb and dampen sound, thus affecting the acoustic properties of their environments and impacting the viewers’ experience, auditory and otherwise as they move through the exhibition. Protruding from the wall, the works are both a part of and apart from the architectural spaces they transform.
The pieces in the show comprise multiple components and take the form of diptychs and triptychs—arrangements that Jones compares to chords in music. The surfaces of these objects balance a contained minimalist rigor with gestural painted marks. This interplay between traces of the artist’s hand and signs of its erasure evokes the tension between improvisation and controlled structure evident in avant-garde music. Jones channels in her hybrid objects a legacy of radical Black sonic practitioners who negotiated twentieth-century social experience with works that could be powerfully expressive in their embrace of opacity." - @guggenheim
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Video courtesy @guggenheim
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Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days
Melvin Edwards: "Brighter Days"
Melvin Edwards and curator Daniel S. Palmer discuss "Brighter Days," an exhibition at City Hall Park in the new exhibition video by Public Art Fund. Through stories stretching back to childhood, Edwards explores two of the show’s key motifs—the chain and rocker—and reflects on the multilayered interpretations of these charged symbols.
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A film by SandenWolff
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ART TREK x Alexander Gray Associates
Alexander Gray Associates is delighted to participate in ART TREK '21, a self-guided tour of Upstate Diary's favorite art happenings this Memorial Day Weekend, May 29 - May 30, 2021. Join the Art Trek to discover the Hudson Valley area and view Joan Semmel's recent works in the Gallery's Germantown location!
On View in Germantown:
Joan Semmel: "A Balancing Act"
224 Main Street, Garden Level
Germantown, NY 12526
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM
For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3hRS3MZ
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Coco Fusco's new video work "A Censured Prescription" reflects on the COVID-19 crisis. Dr. Li Wenliang was the first to sound the alarm in China about the escalation of what became known as COVID-19. Before his eventual death, he told the magazine "Caixin:" "I think a healthy society should not only have one kind of voice." Wenliang’s statement is uttered in various languages in this clip. A murmur of a crowd is constructed out of voices from different locations, recorded while in quarantine. Voices belong to Fia Backstrom, Chang Yuchen, Coco Fusco, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Chitra Ganesh, Emily Jacir, Paolo Javier, Tammy Nguyen, among many others, including Dr. Jane Kim of Brooklyn’s Kings County Emergency Room.
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Video clip: "A Censured Prescription," 2020, 3:04 video
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Melvin Edwards activating his sculpture "Homage to Coco" in January 2015 at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX during the installation of "Melvin Edwards: Five Decades."
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Video: Courtesy Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.
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🔈”When I do a piece of sculpture, it's the back that I think of.... because I can't see it. And it makes the front better, somehow. The way I work... it gives it more form. And the same way with painting... it's kind of a rhythm, a feeling, and a mood that I'm after in painting."⠀
— Betty Parsons, 1977⠀
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Betty Parsons: "Heated Sky" presents paintings and works on paper from the height of Parsons’ engagement with abstraction from the 1960s to mid-1970s.⠀
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Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce representation of Frank Bowling OBE, RA (b. 1934). Bowling was born in Guyana and maintains studios in London and New York. For over five decades, Bowling’s distinct painting practice has been defined by an integration of autobiography and postcolonial geopolitics into abstract compositions. The Gallery’s first exhibition of his work is planned for September 2018.
Born in British Guyana, Bowling moved to London in 1953, where he studied both painting and poetry at Royal College of Art from 1959–62. Emerging at the height of the British Pop movement, his early practice emphasized the figure, while experimenting with expressive gestural applications of oil paint. Prompted by his first Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1966 he moved to New York to immerse himself in Post-War American Art, and his practice shifted towards abstraction. As art historian Mel Gooding remarked “for Bowling, the complexities and complications of New York art were compounded by the problematic issues of personal expression and public representation that much occupied the thoughts and discussions of his Black friends and associates in a largely segregated art world.”
A major retrospective of Bowling’s work organized by the Tate Modern, London will open in 2019. Bowling is also represented by Hales Gallery, London and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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OPENING TONIGHT 6–8 PM
Alexander Gray Associates presents Luis Camnitzer: Short Stories, featuring new work in a variety of media, including: video, printmaking, and modified readymade objects. For his fifth solo-exhibition at the Gallery, Camnitzer employs his characteristic wit to investigate notions of time, creating open narratives for viewer engagement, redefining established systems, and questioning assumed realities. His recent work speaks to his belief in art making as a platform for organizing and acquiring new information through the decontextualization of familiar tools and objects.
Alexander Gray Associates presents Luis Camnitzer: Short Stories, featuring new work in a variety of media, including: video, printmaking, and modified readymade objects. For his fifth solo-exhibition at the Gallery, Camnitzer employs his characteristic wit to investigate notions of time, creating open narratives for viewer engagement, redefining established systems, and questioning assumed realities. His recent work speaks to his belief in art making as a platform for organizing and acquiring new information through the decontextualization of familiar tools and objects.
Announcing Representation: Polly Apfelbaum
Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce representation of Polly Apfelbaum (b.1955), with the Gallery’s first exhibition of her work opening September 2017. Apfelbaum’s artistic practice is distinguished by a hybridized aesthetic that fuses traditions of painting, craft, and installation. Deploying a wide variety of media—including fabric, paint, dyes, wallpaper, plasticine, and ceramics—her work has dissolved spatial, plastic, and temporal boundaries. She is best known for expansive polychromatic installations, which coalesce the radical and the beautiful, simultaneously domestic and irreverent. Her sensibility is informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of the applied arts, fine art history, and popular culture.