September 20, 2016 Look Elements By Dan Piepenbring Dan Walsh’s exhibition “Prints and Multiples” is at Pace Prints, in New York, through October 22. “I always regarded the space in a painting as the soul of a painting,” he told the Daily in 2011. “I’m working to find a space I can interact with on a day-to-day basis, something neutral and malleable: one of the goals of minimalism was to experience qualities of materials, forms, colors and remove psychological space.” Dan Walsh, Axis, 2016, reduction woodcut, 22″ x 22″. Read More
September 12, 2016 Look Time Speeds Up By Dan Piepenbring Amy Bennett’s exhibition “Time Speeds Up” is showing in New York at Ameringer McEnery Yohe through October 8. Bennett, who works in Beacon, New York, paints her landscapes after dioramas she’s painstakingly constructed at a 1/500 scale. She carves valleys and rivers into Styrofoam and freckles the map with wooden houses and wiry trees; over time, she adds farmland, grocery stores, and schools. “The creation and gradual alterations of these models allow Bennett to indulge a novelistic sensibility,” Eleanor Heartney writes in an essay to accompany the exhibition. “The settings she selects are precisely those in which the American ideals of freedom and security clash.” Amy Bennett, Lowlands, 2016, oil on canvas, 40″ x 56″. Read More
September 7, 2016 Look Loose Ankles By Dan Piepenbring Caitlin Keogh’s exhibition “Loose Ankles” opens September 8 at Bortolami Gallery. Keogh lives in Brooklyn. Caitlin Keogh, Loose Ankles, 2016, acrylic on panel, 23″ x 17 1/2″. Read More
August 30, 2016 Look That’s Why We’re Running Away By Caitlin Love Sebastian Blanck’s new exhibition, “That’s Why We’re Running Away,” opened last week at Wetterling Gallery. Blanck, known for his intimate portraits of family and friends, has focused his latest work on landscape. The exhibition closes October 1. Sebastian Blanck, Blinding Light, 2016. Read More
August 26, 2016 Look Just Skating and Gettin’ High By Dan Piepenbring This month, Swiss Institute becomes Swiss In Situ, moving temporarily to a massive space at 102 Franklin Street in Tribeca. Their first exhibition, up through September 2, features a collection of artist-made zines from the independent Swiss publishing houses Nieves and Innen. Some of our favorites are below. Lawrence Weiner, Posters November 1965–April 1986, 2011. Read More
August 19, 2016 Look The Family Acid By Dan Piepenbring This is the last week to see the photography of Roger Steffens and the Family Acid at Benrubi Gallery, in New York. Taken mainly in the sixties and seventies, Steffens’s self-consciously psychedelic pictures “imagine a different America, one of strange beauty and mystic truth,” as his son Devon put it. The photos are on display through August 26. Roger Steffens and the Family Acid, Marrakech Rainbow, April, 1971, archival pigment print, 20″ x 24″. Read More