http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html Recent News from D'amelio Terras en-us Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.xml gallery@damelioterras.com gallery@damelioterras.com http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=721 Friday, July 16, 2010, page C26 Roberta Smith writes: "Despite the time of year, the title of the group show “Spray!” does not refer to the ocean. Its 11 works span four decades of aerosol-can painting, reaching back to a 1963 drawing by the sculptor David Smith. “Spray!” finds an excellent partner in a small show of recent works by Polly Apfelbaum and Nicole Cherubini — already a good pairing. The total energetically explores artistic process, color and abstraction in and around two dimensions. Most of the works in “Spray!” are 21st century. Keltie Ferris combines spray can, paintbrush and stencil in the radiant “KF + CM 4EVER,” which suggests an aerial view of a city bathed in search lights. Katharina Grosse uses horizontal lines of brown spray paint to add tension to Rococo swathes of blue and white that resemble both clouds and waves. Robert Moskowitz uses black spray to enhance the smoky reality of the nearly abstract silhouette in “Stack.” Sterling Ruby edges black clouds of spray with strips of photographs of darkened skies: nothingness frames nothingness. Somehow, Jacqueline Humphries ends up in the vicinity of a Rudolf Stingel painting kit. Stephen Prina’s “Push Comes to Love: Clear” is a white-on-white abstract silk screen on canvas; the only spray paint is a clear sealant applied at an auto-body shop. Rosy Keyser’s “Imagined Edenic” is a small patch of loosely woven linen festooned with spurts of red and blue, like bunting. Works from the 1970s by Jules Olitski and Yayoi Kusama fill in some spray-painting history, and Dan Christensen, who died in 2007, provides what must be one of its landmarks. His “Pavo” from 1968 is the result of spraying giant off-kilter circles in several candy colors on a very large canvas. This loopy tangle — seemingly pressured by the painting’s edges — resembles a stop-action image of several Hula-Hoops on the loose or the track of a spinning top seen from above. It confirms the ease and flair with which Mr. Christensen, who was something of an art star in the 1960s, assimilated Process Art into painting. Its Beach Boys brilliance would hold its own among works by Jackson Pollock or Sigmar Polke, to name but two. Speaking of Pollock, in the project space, Ms. Cherubini is showing new glazed-ceramic wall pieces that appear to have been squashed and then slurred with color. Their directness is a refreshing departure from her freestanding vessels that can sometimes seem overladen with historical references and eclectic materials. Ms. Apfelbaum has as usual commandeered the floor but is also trying a new tack. Working in a manner reminiscent of the colored-glass technique of milles fleurs, she has fashioned small, smooth, brightly patterned panels she calls Feelies from contrasting shades of polymer and plasticine clay. There is a cuteness factor here, but it is quickly overruled by the blazing colors, assorted stripes, dots, checks, swirls and grids and abstract intelligence evident in the 200-plus examples." Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=721 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=717 Heather Rowe is currently being featured in an offsite group exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. "Crystalline Architecture," curated by Josiah McElheny, will be on view through August 21st.


Heather Rowe
Bronzed Opening (for the house) 2009
mirrored glass, bronze mirror, wood, wallpaper
32 x 32 x 8 inches 81.3 x 81.3 x 20.3 cm
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=717 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=718 Cornelia Parker recently opened a solo exhibition at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition will include both new and rarely seen works from the artist's "Avoided Objects" series. Also on view will be Parker's 2004 "Perpetual Canon," to be shown in the UK for the first time. The show will be on view through September 5, 2010. Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=718 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=714 Google recently launched a new feature allowing users to personalize their Google homepage. This new addition allows you to customize your Google background with images of Polly Apfelbaum's work, along with Jeff Koons and Tom Otterness. Please see the link below.








Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=714 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=704 Jedediah Caesar has been invited by Bloomberg SPACE to participate in their ongoing series COMMA. For COMMA, Caesar has been commissioned to create new resin-cut wall sculptures, as well as inverted relief sculptures, similar in practice to his piece currently on view at Socrates Sculpture Park.


Installation View



Installation View



Installation View



Installation View
Wed, 26 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=704 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=706 Tamar Halpern has been chosen by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center to participate in its third iteration of "Greater New York." The exhibition, which will be on view through Fall 2010, focuses on emerging artists living and working in the metropolitan area.


Tamar Halpern
Sonny on Barbara 2010
ultra-chrome ink on paper
44 x 34 inches 111.8 x 86.4 cm
Sun, 23 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=706 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=701 North Drive Press is an annual publication founded in 2003 by Matt Keegan and Lizzy Lee. The project, originally purposed as a mobile exhibition for emerging artists, soon evolved into a non-thematic publication including interviews, texts and artists multiples. After publishing its fifth and final edition earlier this year, SPACE in London will be hosting a retrospective of North Drive Press featuring examples of texts and images from each of the publications. Curated by Matt Keegan and NDP art director Susan Barber, the show will be on view from May 14th through June 19th. Fri, 14 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=701 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=707 The titles of Halpern's impressive works on paper, like "Never Too Late But Always Too Early," reflect her formal approach, which is full of ruptures and switchbacks. Conflations of painting, printing, and photography, the pieces are the louche heirs to Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Christopher Wool. The show's press release, written by Richard Hell, claims that Halpern founded the Howists, a movement that contends all pieces of art already exist and only require a "physical means for revealing them most truly and effectively." The Howists are, it turns out, a complete fiction- a lie that tells the truth, like Halpern's own conjuring act. Through June 19. Fri, 14 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=707 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=712 Cornelia Parker, a 2009 Jupiter Artland's artist-in-residence, has created a 9 meter-long sculpture of a steel shotgun to lean vertically against a tree in the Gala Woods. Inspired by the gun present in Gainsborough's 18th century painting, "Mr and Mrs Andrews," and modeled on Jupiter Artland owner Robert Wilson's 19th century shotgun, the sculpture will be on view through September 12th.


Installation View: Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK; May 14 - September 12, 2010.



Installation View: Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK; May 14 - September 12, 2010.



Installation View: Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK; May 14 - September 12, 2010.
Fri, 14 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=712 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=705 In an exhibition dedicated to grunge icon Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, The Seattle Art Museum examines the influences of the musician's legacy. Dario Robleto will exhibit a work titled, "Not All Dead Rather Be Living," 2001-2002, in which he has recasted Civil War "pain bullets" (bullets given to Civil War soldiers to bit on during surgery) out of the melted vinyl of seven musicians, including Nirvana's "Lithium." Thu, 13 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=705