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In conjunction with Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative, Roberts Projects is honored to present Mojotech, a monumental altar assemblage by the renowned artist Betye Saar. Originally conceived in 1987 during Saar’s residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this installation serves as a profound exploration of the intersection between contemporary technology and ancient spiritual practices.
The Steve McCurry exhibition, on show this winter at Caumont-Centre d’art, brings together the 80 most emblematic works by the celebrated contemporary American photographer Steve McCurry, as well as recent images never before exhibited in France. Born in 1950, Steve McCurry has captured iconic and poignant images all over the world, always centred on the human experience, providing a striking testimony to our times.
Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present a series of rarely seen works by Doug Ohlson (1936-2010), created during 1969 and the first half of the 1970s. The paintings, consisting of brilliant orbs of brushed and aerosol paint that hover on richly colored backgrounds, represent a transitional phase in the artist’s career. Acting as a vehicle for his developing investigations of chromatic relationships, these process-based works facilitated Ohlson’s changing focus to color as his primary subject matter.
From Mick Jagger screaming energetically at the audience to Kate Moss lasciviously flirting with the camera to Her Majesty the Queen grinning as she demurely sits next to a pair of wellies – these personalities could hardly be less alike, yet they have all been captured in portraits by Bryan Adams‘s camera.
The paintings in Maison Ancart are conceived in conversation with the spirit of radical freedom and innovation put forth by pioneering abstractionists, from the Post-Impressionists and the School of Paris to postwar American artists, among others. The trees, meadows, ponds, mountains, and other features operate as archetypal forms that Ancart revisits throughout this body of work. According to the artist, these subjects serve as an “alibi” for painting, providing a platform through which he can experiment with paint.
Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce The river returns nothing of what it takes an exhibition of new works by London-based, Chinese artist Shiwen Wang. For her first solo exhibition with the gallery and in the United States, Wang presents a series of 10 new abstract compositions that piece together the artist’s recurring explorations of natural life and its impermanence. The exhibition will be on view from October 26, 2024, through January 11, 2025.
This November, Lorna Simpson will debut a monumental new body of work at our New York, 22nd Street gallery. A suite of large-scale paintings of meteorites, inspired by photographs found in an early 20th century natural history textbook, will create a temple-like atmosphere of contemplation in which human scale and geological time are unmoored. These canvases will be accompanied by a new text-based wall sculpture that references an incredible story from the same book, wherein a named, and then unnamed, Black farmer is surprised when a meteorite lands right at his feet. Simpson’s new works reimagine traditional notions of ancient celestial objects and phenomena, prompting viewers to reflect on the vastness of the cosmos and our place within its grand narrative.