January 4, 2017 Look Flying Carpets By Dan Piepenbring David Schorr’s exhibition “Flying Carpets” opens January 5 at Ryan Lee Gallery, where his work is on display through February 18. The series draws inspiration from a childhood pastime of his: playing with toy trucks and race cars on the Persian rugs at his grandmother’s house. David Schorr, Green Tankers, 2015, gouache and silverpoint on linen, 22″ x 22″. Read More
December 16, 2016 Look Mythologies By Dan Piepenbring “Mythologies,” an exhibition of work by the French painter Hervé Heuzé, is on display at Galerie Richard in New York through January 28, 2017. Hervé Heuzé, Natacha, 2013, oil on canvas, 28 3/4″ x 36 1/4″. Read More
December 12, 2016 Look Out in Left Field By Dan Piepenbring Nine paintings by Nicholas Krushenick are on display at Garth Greenan Gallery through January 7, 2017. Krushenick, who died in 1999, favored a bright, bold style, commingling pop art with abstract expressionism, minimalism, and any other number of -isms. He relished the chance to defy categorization: “They don’t know where to place me. Like I’m out in left field all by myself. And that’s just where I want to stay.” In 1965, he contributed to The Paris Review’s print series. Nicholas Krushenick, United Color Kit, 1967, acrylic on canvas, 50″ x 40″. Read More
December 7, 2016 Look Wave Phenomena By Dan Piepenbring A recent group of Ara Peterson’s interlaced relief paintings are on display at Derek Eller Gallery through December 23. The paintings, according to the gallery, evoke “the elegance of New England transcendentalism, the overwhelming geographies of H. P. Lovecraft, the crisp sonic landscapes of Steely Dan, and the vertiginous feeling of swimming out to sea … Peterson begins his process with a lengthy period of development rooted in the visualization of wave phenomena. For each work, he plots the relationships between color, mood, scale, weight, surface tension, and directional flow.” Ara Peterson, Untitled, 2015, acrylic on wood, 18.5″ x 45″ x 2″. Read More
November 30, 2016 Look Foreign Body By Dan Piepenbring Hurvin Anderson’s exhibition “Foreign Body” is at Michael Werner Gallery in New York through January 14. Anderson is a British painter of Jamaican descent: “The first time I went to Jamaica, I was fourteen,” he told Sotheby’s a few years ago. “My elder siblings all came from there and I got to know the island through them. I wasn’t born there, so I didn’t actually fit in. I feel more British than Jamaican at times and vice versa. My painting is a dialogue between these two territories—trying to get these two places to meet. Hurvin Anderson, Studio Drawing 9, 2012, acrylic on drafting film, 19″ x 33″. Read More
November 28, 2016 Look Bombed Out of Their Gourds By Dan Piepenbring This week, Taschen is publishing a new, photographic edition of Tom Wolfe’s 1968 classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, for which he embedded with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters for their transcontinental (and very psychotropically enhanced) bus tour. Printed in a limited run of 1,968 copies, the new edition features never-before-seen facsimile reproductions of Wolfe’s manuscript pages; excerpts from Ken Kesey’s jailhouse journals; handbills and ephemera from the period; and photo-essays from Lawrence Schiller and Ted Streshinsky, who covered “the acid scene” for Life magazine and the New York Herald Tribune, respectively. Below are a few of the photos and documents from the book. Tomorrow evening, Tuesday, November 29, Wolfe will appear in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the New York Public Library. Original manuscript page for The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, complete with Tom Wolfe’s doodles and corrections, ca. 1967. The author’s never-before-published manuscript pages appear as tip-ins throughout the book. Copyright: © 2016 and courtesy of Tom Wolfe. Read More