A selection of Robert Graham’s “Early Work 1963-1973″ at David Zwirner in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents a selection of early work by Los Angeles artist Robert Graham (1938-2008), on view at 519 West 19th Street. The exhibition brings together rarely seen works that span the years 1963-1973, providing an overview and reconsideration of the artist’s initial engagement with Minimalism and figurative sculpture. In the early 1960s, while he was still attending the San Francisco Art Institute, Graham made miniature objects during idle moments as a Woolworth’s counter-salesman. Although the prevailing attitude of [...]

John Ritter’s politically and emotionally charged works at Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space

NEW YORK, NY.- Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space presents a series of new original artwork and limited edition prints by award-winning illustrator John Ritter. Ritter’s politically and emotionally charged works utilize the vernacular of the information age to create vibrant images of politics, celebrity, crime, and catastrophe. By exposing the inherent anxiety of today’s world, these subversive works fashion unseen relationships and contexts through humor and clever juxtaposition. Ritter’s works are simultaneously complex and accessible, offering new political as well as artistic [...]

Ryan Hackett Wins $25,000 Sondheim Artscape Prize

BALTIMORE, MD.- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are proud to announce that Ryan Hackett is the winner of the 2010 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The coveted $25,000 prize was presented at this evening’s awards ceremony at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Works of art by the prizewinner and six other finalists are on view at the BMA until August 1. “There comes a certain point in your life when it is [...]

San Francisco Art Institute Presents On Kawara: Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Beginning in 1998, New York City–based Japanese artist On Kawara subtly minimalized his longstanding already-minimalist Today series, the date-painting project he began in 1966. Still ritualistically maintaining the self-imposed constraints of the project (principally, that the date on which the painting was begun be its alphanumeric subject and that it be completed before the end of that day and, if not, destroyed), Kawara opted to modulate the reception of a week’s worth of these works (January 1 [...]

Dolby Chadwick Gallery Presents New Paintings by John DiPaolo

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents “New Paintings” by John DiPaolo, on view from April 1 through May 29, 2010. Non-representational in style, the surfaces of DiPaolo’s canvases articulate a dramatic and varied physical topography. Areas of richly colored, densely applied paints are expertly counterbalanced by the enveloping strokes of blended, more muted hues; the relationships between the resultant forms produce an animated buoyancy that presages the stirring of something new. The arresting addition of silver enamel serves to [...]

George Krevsky Gallery Opens Exhibition from the Estate of Gordon Cook

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The George Krevsky Gallery announced that they have been selected to represent the estate of Gordon Cook. A well respected Bay Area Figurative artist, Cook was a close friend and peer of Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff, Manuel Neri, and Wayne Thiebaud, before his untimely death in 1985. Born in Chicago, Cook earned a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1950, before moving to San Francisco in 1951. Two major shows have been scheduled in March [...]

First Bilingual, Collaboratively Authored Guide to Chinese Contemporary Art Launches

NEW YORK, NY.- ArtSpeakChina (ASC), the first online, collaboratively authored bilingual encyclopedia of Chinese contemporary art officially launched today. Now online at both www.artspeakchina.org and www.tanyishu.cn, the Wikipedia-style reference guide provides both English and Mandarin speakers with hundreds of in-depth articles on Chinese artists and the world of Chinese contemporary art. ASC’s bilingual, collaborative character helps overcome the language barrier and is already improving the global availability, exchange and quality of information about Chinese contemporary art. ArtSpeakChina now contains well [...]

Berlin Art Projects Presents Megan Olson “Beyond the Chains of Illusion”

BERLIN.- With “Beyond the Chains of Illusion”, Berlin Art Projects presents the first-ever European solo exhibition of work by American painter Megan Olson. We look forward to welcoming you at the opening on Friday, January 8, 2010 from 7 to 9pm! The artist will be in attendance. Megan Olson is best known for her sweeping, graceful abstract paintings, the unusual power of which emerges from the use of unusual, thin color layers of organic, complexly interwoven lines. Her compositions are [...]

Larry Sultan, Photographer and Longtime CCA Faculty Member, Dies at 63

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The California College of the Arts reported that one of its most beloved faculty members, Larry Sultan, died of cancer on Sunday. He was a distinguished professor in both the undergraduate Photography Program and the Graduate Program in Fine Arts and had taught at CCA since 1988. Tammy Rae Carland, chair of the Photography Program, says, “Larry Sultan was one of the most compassionate, generous educators I’ve ever known. He was a great mentor, a great teacher, [...]

Peter Forakis, Originator of Geometry-Based Sculpture, Dies at 82

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The influential American sculptor Peter Forakis died Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, 2009 at Petaluma Valley hospital in Petaluma, California from complications of pneumonia. He was 82. Forakis was born in 1927 in Hanna, Wyoming to Greek immigrants. He grew up in Oakland and Modesto, California. After military service in Korea, he attended the California School of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1957. After a highly productive period in New York and Vermont, where he established his [...]