Joe Sheftel http://www.joesheftelgallery.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cindy Hinant at Gavlak Gallery http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/cindy-hinant-at-gavlak-gallery/ http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/cindy-hinant-at-gavlak-gallery/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:59 +0000 admin http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/?p=1828

Cindy Hinant is included in All Fucking Summer, a group exhibition at Gavlak Gallery. May 25 through August 1. Full artist list here.

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Joe Sheftel Gallery
Alex Da Corte
NADA New York | Booth 506
May 10–12, 2013
Basketball City
299 South Street, New York, NY
Details here.

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Alex Da Corte opens Bacon Brest, a solo show at Artspeak, Vancouver on May 3. Runs May 4 through June 8; Artist Talk on May 4, 2PM. Details here.

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Paint Hotel, Installation view
Lewis Baltz
Park City #35, 1980
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Lewis Baltz
Park City #41, 1980
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Lewis Baltz
Park City #61, 1980
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Lewis Baltz
Park City #88, 1980
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Nicolás Guagnini
Work #16, 2013
Oil on canvas
35 x 59 inches (88.9 x 149.9 cm)
Paint Hotel, Installation view
Carter Mull
Panther, 2012
Ink, gouache, pastel, and pasted paper on paper
63 x 46 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches (160 x 118.7 x 3.8 cm)
Carter Mull
Panther, 2012 (detail)
Ink, gouache, pastel, and pasted paper on paper
63 x 46 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches (160 x 118.7 x 3.8 cm)
Ross Bleckner
Untitled, 1991
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Ross Bleckner
Untitled, 1991
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Sherrie Levine
Black Mirror, 2004
Mirrored glass and mahogany frame
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Paint Hotel, Installation view
Daniel Buren
Paint On/Under Plexiglas on Serigraphy, Right Corner Up Out, No. 1 Black, Situated Work, 2013
Acrylic paint on Plexiglas over striped cotton canvas
98 1/2 x 82 3/4 x 1/4 inches (250.2 x 82 3/4 x .6 cm)
Alex Da Corte
Junior M.A.F.I.A., 2013
Enamel paint, mirror, clear film, Plexiglas, adhesive vinyl, Junior Baldwin's sweatshirt sleeve, anodized metal frames
56 x 56 inches (142.2 x 142.2 cm)
Paint Hotel, Installation view
Viola Yeşiltaç
Wenn das Sujet sich unwohl fuehlt, 2013
Ink on reverse of yellow vinyl
55 x 72 inches (139.7 x 182.9 cm) ]]> OPENING RECEPTION: SUN, MAY 5, 6-8PM
ON VIEW: MAY 5-JUNE 9

Lewis Baltz
Ross Bleckner
Daniel Buren
Alex Da Corte
Nicolás Guagnini
Sherrie Levine
Carter Mull
Viola Yeşiltaç

“[T]he potential for painting will emerge in the conjunctive deconstruction of the three instances that modernist painting has dissociated (the imaginary, the real, and the symbolic).“
Yve-Alain Bois, “Painting: The Task of Mourning”

“We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
Joan Didion, The White Album

Objects are inevitably images. As we nuance our terminology for reading imagery within artwork, generalities like abstract and realistic begin to lose their meanings. The image, inserted, referenced or transposed, may no longer be easily read, as layers of meanings, contexts and references hover over its surface and rest beneath its layers. Paintings become locations of temporary lodging where different forms of meaning live in longer or shorter stays – paying individual or corporate rates, at the bar, in the suite, or in the unused workout room in the basement.

Concepts that have been applied to the works at hand demand theories and philosophies that impose meanings onto artistic choices – choices that may be purely aesthetic, ideological, or perhaps unknowable. Rather than aligning and juxtaposing artworks by those theories, Paint Hotel seeks to destabilize fixed theoretical and genealogical narratives. The point is not to be anti-theory, but rather to allow for an immediate experience.

Perhaps it is time to accept the verdict that what we are looking at triggers human curiosity with its desire for a story, a moral and a resolution, and to replace these filters of viewing with more neutral filters that release the narrative.

The works in this exhibition explore how we filter the politics of what would be “interesting” for us to know in order to create coherence. They investigate the chasm between trauma and narrative in the space where artists can create works that may in fact “doubt the premises of all the stories.”

For press inquiries and images, please contact the gallery at mail@joesheftelgallery.com.

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Adam Henry will participate in XSTRACTION at The Hole, New York. Open May 3 through June 20. Information here.

]]> http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/adam-henry-at-the-hole/feed/ 0 Judith Braun http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/judith-braun-2/ http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/judith-braun-2/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:24:14 +0000 admin http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/?p=1751 Symmetrical Procedure OMI-25-3, 2009
Graphite on Duralar
25 x 25 inches (63.5 x 63.5 cm)" href="http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/12/wp-content/uploads/1-BRAUN-OMI-25-3_med2.jpg" rel="lightbox[dacorte]">
Judith Braun
Symmetrical Procedure OMI-25-3, 2009
Graphite on Duralar
25 x 25 inches (63.5 x 63.5 cm)
Judith Braun
Symmetrical Procedure BKI-13-1, 2009
Graphite on Duralar
13 x 13 inches (33 x 33 cm)
Judith Braun
Symmetrical Procedure BKS-16-2, 2008
Graphite on Duralar
16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Judith Braun
Symmetrical Procedure SH-9-3, 2009
Graphite on paper
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Judith Braun
Symmetrical Procedure TTC-16-6, 2008
Graphite on paper
16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Judith Braun
Symmetrical Procedure BKS-9-1, 2009
Graphite on Duralar
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)]]> RECENT PRESS
New York Times
Hyperallergic
The New Criterion
ArtLyst

]]> http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/judith-braun-2/feed/ 0 Judith Braun at the Indianapolis Museum of Art http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/judith-braun-at-the-indianapolis-museum-of-art/ http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/judith-braun-at-the-indianapolis-museum-of-art/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:15:02 +0000 admin http://www.joesheftelgallery.com/?p=1743

Judith Braun is included in Graphite at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Open through June 2. More information here. Catalogue available here.

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Judith Braun: May I Draw featured on ArtLyst. Link here.

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Judith Braun: May I Draw reviewed on Hyperallergic. Link here.

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