LACMA Presents Exhibition Devoted to Last Three Decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Work

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Renoir in the 20th Century, an exhibition focusing on the last three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career, until his death in 1919. The exhibition presents approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Renoir, interspersed with select works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, and Pierre Bonnard, to illustrate the developing avantgarde’s debt to the older master. Curated by LACMA curator Claudia Einecke and Chief Curator of European [...]

Kunsthalle Bielefeld to Revisit the 80s with Exhibition from The Bischofberger Collection

BIELEFELD.- The spirit of the 1980s was marked by many contradictions. Many young artists felt the lack of a home base, and yet they were full of energy. In their works, cool abstraction existed side-by-side with a strong Neo-Expressionism. No one was more intensively involved with this fierce, young generation than Swiss gallerist Bruno Bischofberger, who assembled the most important collection of 1980s art ever. After almost thirty years, a re-examination of these pictures’ powerful aesthetics makes it easy to [...]

Vibrant Scenes of Italy by Maurice Prendergast on View at Houston’s MFA

HOUSTON, TX.- Prendergast in Italy, the first exhibition devoted entirely to the Italian watercolors, monotypes, and oil paintings by the American modern artist Maurice Prendergast, will open at the MFAH on February 14, 2010. Featuring more than 60 views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri, Prendergast in Italy also includes the artist´s personal sketchbooks, letters, photographs, and guidebooks from his two trips to Italy, in 1898 and 1911. Prendergast was born in St. John´s Newfoundland (Canada) and moved to Boston [...]

Celebrated Icelandic Painter Louisa Matthiasdottir Exhibits at Tibor de Nagy Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents its second exhibition of paintings by the celebrated Icelandic painter Louisa Matthiasdottir. The artist is known for her realist paintings that employ a vibrant palette and a strong geometric structure. The exhibition will comprise a selection of small, loosely painted landscapes, some of which were created as studies for larger paintings. Now considered a national treasure in her native Iceland, the artist was a prominent younger member of country’s first avant-garde. [...]

Tampa Museum of Art Unveils New Facility with Landmark Exhibitions

TAMPA, FL.- Executive Director Todd Smith announces the new Tampa Museum of Art schedule of exhibitions in conjunction with the public opening of the new building. Designed by noted architect Stanley Saitowitz of San Francisco-based Natoma Architects, Inc., the 66,000-square-foot glimmering metal mesh-clad structure is dynamically situated atop the new Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. The new museum building is named the Cornelia Corbett Center in honor of Cornelia Corbett, whose family provided the lead gift to the institution’s multi-million capital [...]

Center for Fine Arts Presents the Image of “the Mexican”

BRUSSELS.- Mexican Images is the centrepiece of the Mexico Festival. The exhibition presents the image of “the Mexican “, As seen through the eyes of Mexican and foreign artists. Portraits of unknown and powerful Mexicans, images of ethnic minorities, and satirical works illustrates the artistic heritage and political and social aspirations of an ever-changing country, from the pre-Columbian era to the 20th century. Mexican Images spans the four great periods of Mexican history: the pre-Columbian era, the colonial period, independence, [...]

Cheekwood Opens Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art

NASHVILLE, TN.- On display through May 3, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art. Selected from Cheekwood’s permanent art collection, these paintings and works on paper form a survey of abstract art from the second half of the 20th Century. Once a revolutionary development in art, abstraction now has a distinguished tradition stretching back almost one hundred years. Around 1910, a number of artists stopped painting the world of recognizable objects and embraced [...]

Merry Karnowsky Gallery Presents Show by Two Barcelona-Based Artists

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Merry Karnowsky Gallery presents Victor Castillo: Strange Fruit and Miss Van: She-Wolves. The two Barcelona-based artists unfold their unique personal perspectives on subjects like seduction, temptation, innocence, desire, and cruelty. A moral allegorist, Chilean artist Victor Castillo pairs classical painting with cartoon-like characters. He paints children in dark secret gardens, where they innocently reenact violent media images with brutality and indifference. Victor Castillo, The Infinite Complexities of Christmas, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 24” Most of [...]

New Body of Work by James Krone on View at Country Club

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Country Club presents a new body of work by James Krone. The Wilderness is the Witches Leash features new sculptures and paintings from this Berlin-based artist. The significance of the black monochrome painting to the narrative of modernism means that anybody making one now is, to some extent, qualifying an existing sign. It is the monolithic image of the 20th Century Avant-garde. James Krone’s black paintings are not strictly black monochromes but a complex layering of violet, [...]

Exhibition Featuring 30 Artists Explores Hair as a Subject and Medium

JERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jersey City Museum presents Hair Tactics, an exhibition guest curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and on view at Jersey City Museum through August 22, 2010. Hair Tactics features over 30 visual artists whose artworks explore hair as subject matter and medium. Increasingly, artists have begun to use both real and synthetic human hair to create works of art. Some use synthetic hair because it is widely and inexpensively available in urban neighborhoods, others because it is laden with [...]

Christopher Stone and Peter Morris to Exhibit at The Forge Gallery

WEST SUSSEX.- In Western art the most powerful icon has always been the human figure, and this is the element which has connected the work of the two artists exhibiting at the Forge Gallery, Walberton, England, later this year. Both artists take the idea of the figure but then that idea goes through the process of figuration, or formalization, but each uses a different process and each naturally comes up with different results. Christopher Stone deliberately avoids making any preparatory [...]

The Paintings of Peter Vincent to be Presented at the Cape Ann Museum

GLOUCESTER, MA.- The Cape Ann Museum will present an exhibition of paintings by marine artist Peter Vincent. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held in the Museum’s Maritime Wing on Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. Peter Vincent has lived and worked in Rockport since 1955 and is one of New England’s most highly regarded contemporary marine painters. He received artistic training at the New [...]

Orel Art Uk Shows Stephen J. Shanabrook’s Project “In Pills We Trust”

LONDON.- Shanabrook is constantly crossing the thin line dividing comfort and pain, beauty and death. The visual qualities of his work and the materials he uses have a calming effect on us. The apparently cute Easter bunnies remind us of our childhood, of the sweet taste of chocolate these forms are associated with. Seen from a distance, the trees and flowers from his ‘The Danger is all Mine’ series (2009) are of serene beauty. Yet Shanabrook’s work has a deeply [...]

Eighth Gwangju Biennale Announces Title and Dates

GWANJU.- The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and Director Massimiliano Gioni announced the eighth edition of the Gwangju Biennale, opening September 3, 2010. Titled 10,000 Lives, the Biennale will develop as a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. With works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts are brought [...]

Vauxhall Motors Presents a Groundbreaking Reinterpretation of the Blueprinting Process

LONDON.- London based duo Studio Glithero present a cutting edge collection of ceramics for the Vauxhall Collective. In a contemporary take of the Blueprint, chemically infused ceramic surfaces react to ultraviolet light capturing the ghostly impression of botanical specimens, including those of weeds taken from social housing projects across the UK, bringing the theme of Reinventing British Classics right up to date. Asked to reflect on the Vauxhall Collective’s theme, the Anglo-Dutch design studio found inspiration from the Victorian period [...]