David Nolan Gallery presents a selection of new paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Jonathan Meese
Installation view. Courtesy the Artist and David Nolan Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY
.-David Nolan Gallery is presenting ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (DR. SPACE-ANIMALISM ,,E.A.G.L.E.: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE), a selection of new paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Jonathan Meese. The exhibition marks the artists second collaboration with the gallery and his first show in New York in five years. These works were produced in the last 12 months in the midst of the global quarantine, apart from the social interactions of daily life. Greeted with isolation, the artist delves into a vocabulary both real and imaginary, armed with a rich arsenal of cultural references and a penchant for the fantastical. Meese invites the viewer, without prejudice or preconceived notion, into his dynamic, spectacular universe.
We’re all in need of some feel-good moments, and Stine Goya delivers some for fall. There’s an inherent optimism to the designer’s color and prints. The starting point for a floral motif on a navy ground was the fluorescent flowers of Tetsumi Kudo, a Japanese artist concerned with “new ecologies” in a dystopian world, whose work was recently on view at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, not far from Copenhagen.
Goya said on a Zoom call that this collection, which she called Grunge Euphoria, was additionally built around the ideas of freedom and rebellion. Her mood board was pinned with photos of flappers, New Romantics, and proponents of the Seattle style, influences that could be traced in loose ruffled dresses, a wide-shouldered coat with ’80s graphics, and plaids, including one frock covered in recycled sequins. Off-theme, but wonderful was a striped denim set that stood apart from the frillier looks.
Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Helmut Federle
Helmut Federle, Basics on Composition C (April at Kamikochi), 2019. Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (40 x 50 cm). Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Helmut Federle entitled, Basics on Composition at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Helmut Federle has developed a body of work over four decades that is characterized by both painterly and geometric imagery rooted in spirituality, symbolism, and a closeness to nature. He engages in the tradition of geometric abstraction, renewing and expanding it, exploring the relationship between figure and ground, between order and disorder, between movement and stillness. Federle began investigating the reclining H in 1979 while living in New York, using the first letter of his first name as its basic, now iconic, form. Subsequent