The distinct accent acquired during an untraditional childhood raised on a hippie commune in the Australian outback can still be heard in the voice of gallerist Om Bleicher, who now divides his time between his native Brisbane and bG Gallery, the art emporium he founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, California.
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Ballet played a formative role in the life of gallerist Susan Eisner Eley. In an interview with Art & Object, Eley explained, “I danced through my entire childhood. I danced through school. But when I majored in Art History at Brown University, it was a discovery. I knew this was it!”
One of the art world’s rising stars, Paris and NYC-based French painter Alexandre Lenoir (1992) captivates audiences with his otherworldly, mysterious creations of paint and masking tape.
Miami, Florida— once only thought of as a source of sun, sand, and sea offering winter refuge from cultural centers in the northern cities of New York, Boston, or Chicago— has become one of the fastest growing art markets in the country.
A celebrated Pop artist in the 1950s and '60s, Marisol faded from the limelight in the 1970s and '80s as her style changed and the art world embraced new movements. When she passed away in 2016 at age 85, she left her estate, including artworks, photographs, library papers, and even her New York City apartment to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Museum), which was the earliest museum to acquire her work in 1962.
San Francisco-based artist Chelsea Ryoko Wong and her multi-colored paintings might mark the close of Jessica Silverman’s summer season, but their figurations are a timeless reminder of what it feels like to remain in a “summer state of mind.”
The first thing to know about Matthew Barney’s new project, SECONDARY, is that it has been divided into four parts. Each is being shown respectively at Regen Projects (LA) commencement, Galerie Max Hetzler (Paris) object impact, Sadie Coles HQ (London) light lens parallax, and Gladstone Gallery (NY) object replay.
Mary Cassatt’s oil painting, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, was rejected for the Paris Exposition of 1878. Cassatt later said that the rejection was “by a jury of three people, of which one was a pharmacist!” Her good friend, Edgar Degas, approved of the painting and had even advised her about the background light from the far window.
Established in 1966 and housed in the historic Button Mansion on State Street at Prospect Avenue, The David Barnett Gallery is one of Wisconsin’s oldest and largest purveyors of fine art. This collection of over 6,000 works by more than 600 artists was started on a shoestring by the indomitable David Barnett, who now, at the age of 91, is still the driving force behind this laudable enterprise.
Lauded Austrian graphic designer and longtime music scene collaborator Stefan Sagmeister is receiving a retrospective in his honor after many years of being an instrumental figure within his community. There’s a chance you’re more familiar with Sagmeister than you might realize, as his work may sit on your shelf in a beloved vinyl collection or on the cover of your Lou Reed lyric book.
