NEW YORK

Flor Garduño, Black Sun/Sol negro, Campeche, Mexico, 2013.

Flor Garduño

On view through February 25, 2017

Throckmorton Fine Art

145 East 57th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10022

 

An exhibit of the photography of Flor Garduño is on view at Throckmorton Fine Art. Thirty of the celebrated Latin American artist’s black and white images highlight her most recent work, as well as some of the most iconic images of her career. Garduño started out as an assistant to Manuel Álvarez Bravo, who many revere as Latin America’s greatest photographer. Though he influenced her greatly, she developed her own eye and distinct personal style. Her photographs conjure poetic images drawn from nature, dreams, and the female form. Her images are sometimes sparse, as she is a surrealist, but they are elegant and suggestive, with an air of the mystic. All of the luminous, dream-like works on view are gelatin silver prints. This exhibition will be on view through February 25, 2017.

 

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Temple St. Clair, The Wolf, 18K Gold with Natural Tanzanite (13.59cts) & Diamond (0.13cts).

Temple St. Clair Exhibition

December 8, 2016 - February 15, 2017

DeLorenzo Gallery

969 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10021

By appointment only: 212.249.7575

Weekdays 10:30am - 6pm

 

Master American jewelry designer Temple St. Clair will have her gorgeous collection of Haute Couture jewels on display at DeLorenzo Gallery for the first time. This exhibition will debut The Big Game, the third and final chapter of St. Clair’s Haute Couture Collection, part of her three-part trilogy, The Golden Menagerie. The first two collections were entitled Mythical Creatures and Wings of Desire. The former made its debut with a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in January 2015, while the latter was unveiled at the November 2015 edition of The Salon: Art + Design. This year, St. Clair was awarded the GEM Award for Jewelry Design, which is the industry’s most prestigious honor. Temple St. Clair’s exhibition will be on view through February 15, 2017.

 

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Chuck Close, Lyle, 1999. Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art; Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President. © Chuck Close, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Through February 12, 2017

Whitney Museum of American Art

90 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014

 

This exhibition of over 200 works will offer a new perspective on portraiture, one of art’s oldest genres. Taken entirely from the Whitney’s holdings, these works show how portraits have evolved from the early 1900s to today. With both iconic and lesser known works on view, in a wide range of mediums, the exhibition is organized into eleven thematic sections. Though portraits were once a rare, luxury good, they are now more accessible than ever before, thanks to the rise of photography, smartphones, and social media. The artists represented in Human Interest, including Edward Hopper, Paul Cadmus, Joseph Stella, and Chuck Close, raise questions about who we are and how we memorialize others.

 

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CINCINNATI

Agunna of Oke Igbira (d. circa 1930), Yoruba culture, Nigeria, Veranda Post, early 20th century, wood, pigment, Museum Purchase, Lawrence Archer Wachs Fund, 2003.271.

Opening of Redesigned African Art Gallery

December 10, 2016

Cincinnati Art Museum

953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

 

The Cincinnati Art Museum’s permanent collection of African art will be unveiled this Saturday, December 10 following the gallery's redesign. Many works of art will go on view for the first time. African artifacts, masks worn by ritual performers, healers’ tools, textiles, objects of status used by community leaders, and decorative objects will all be on view. The African art collection at the museum first began in 1889, three years after the museum opened. The cornerstone of the gallery is the extensive collection of almost 1,300 objects purchased by the museum from Carl Steckelmann, a German American who acquired various works of art and ethnographic pieces while working for an English trading company on the coast of equatorial and central Africa in the late 1800s. Pieces from his collection will be featured in the new gallery space. The museum was one of the first to acquire a major collection of African art, and is immensely proud to open their newly redesigned African art gallery.

 

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ENGLAND

Roger Hiorns, Untitled, 2011, Military aircraft engine, fire, youth. Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist. © Roger Hiorns. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016.

Roger Hiorns

December 7, 2016 - March 5, 2017

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HS, UK

 

A major exhibition of Roger Hiorns, a Birmingham-born artist will be shown at Ikon Gallery beginning this week. His influential work focuses on various aspects of modern life through the transformation of materials and found objects, and analyzes what we take for granted. One favored element in his work is his use of jet engines, reflecting his ongoing fascination with the anthropomorphism of machinery. Hiorns shines a philosophical light on these pieces of machinery, as if to warn us of what will eventually become of us and our modern achievements. This exhibition will also include Untitled (a retrospective view of the pathway), a new video work documenting an off-site project produced by the gallery this past June featuring a chorus of St. Philip’s Cathedral Birmingham. In the video, they sing Evensong while lying on their backs on the nave floor, exemplifying the restlessness associated with a revered institution that defines our society. The exhibition will be on view through March 2017.

 

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Triathlon (Scenario), 2005. Inkjet dye transfer on polylaminate. 217.2 x 306.1 cm. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York.

Robert Rauschenberg

On view through April 2, 2017

Tate Modern, The Eyal Ofer Galleries

Bankside, London SE1 9TG, UK

 

A major retrospective at Tate Modern in London just opened with modern American master Robert Rauschenberg at its center. Organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, this is the first posthumous retrospective and the most comprehensive survey of the painter and graphic artist’s work in 35 years. A multi-talented artist who created works in all kinds of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, technology, stage design and performance, his six-decade long career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. This exhibition will travel to the MoMA in May 2017 and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in November.

 

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