Art galleries offer exhibitions that challenge viewers to perceive the world in new ways. Some may incorporate seemingly basic images to raise questions about different combinations, and others will present unusual concepts. Here are a couple of exhibits that catch the eye, prompt a pause and evoke new perceptions:
Geometric Shapes and Color: In Service To Form, Motion, Pattern, Depiction, Memory, And Abstraction
Through November 16, 2023, David Richard Gallery is presenting Geometric Shapes and Color: In Service to Form, Motion, Pattern, Depiction, Memory, and Abstraction, a group exhibition including artists: Siri Berg, Bettina Blohm, Sonia Gechtoff, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, James Kelly, Dee Shapiro, Oli Sihvonen, Gary Stephan, and Thornton Willis. Most of the artists live and work in New York, except for Blohm who also has a studio in Berlin and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe who has lived and worked in California and Florida. Most of the artists are on the roster and exhibit regularly with the gallery. However, this exhibition marks the debut presentation for Bettina Blohm and Gary Stephan.
The artworks in this presentation are handmade, they are painterly, and the artist’s hand is ever present. Precise execution of each stroke and mark is not as important as the basic shapes and color as well as the artist’s influences and underlying concepts. The compositions and individual artworks are often process-driven, focused on formalist concerns and pure abstraction, while full of meaning and content despite their otherwise non-objective appearance. The objectives of each artist with respect to their compositions and individual artworks range from concepts and interests such as: form, motion, pattern, depiction, memory, and non-representational abstraction.
There are 30 artworks in this exhibition with 22 installed on the walls and all presented in the digital online catalog. Learn more about David Richard Gallery at www.davidrichardgallery.com
Trey Abdella: Under the Skin
From November 9, 2023, to January 13, 2024, Vito Schnabel Gallery will display Trey Abdella: Under the Skin, the gallery’s debut exhibition with the Virginia-born, New York-based artist.
Featuring 11 new works that bridge the mediums of painting, sculpture, assemblage, and sometimes introducing operating mechanical elements, Abdella’s exhibition demonstrates his category-defying exploration of American culture and its collision of the familiar and the uncanny, the humorous and the unsettling. A sly storyteller, Abdella cultivates a relatable nostalgia in his works, drawing upon life’s wholesome trivialities and mundane aspects and electrifying them. Bold in scale, unapologetically illustrative and fervently colored, his latest works on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery narrate a story about the path of the American dream.
Trained as a painter, Trey Abdella muddies his hyperrealistic approach to painted imagery with compelling three-dimensional components that extend his canvas beyond the picture plane into a sculpted realm that combines found objects and the language of assemblage. Employing an array of techniques and a mash-up of materials such as acrylic, aqua resin, clay, foam, glitter, glass and mirrors, motorized fans, turf, and faux leaves, Abdella is innovative and deviceful — a technical experimenter — elevating the mechanics of craft within the practice of fine art.
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