http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html Recent News from D'amelio Terras en-us Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.xml gallery@damelioterras.com gallery@damelioterras.com http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=685 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=685 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=682 The Indianapolis Museum of Art has commissioned Heather Rowe to construct a large-scale installation for the Efryomson Family Pavilion. The new sculpture, which Rowe has constructed using found objects from architectural remnant shops in Indianapolis, will be on view in the main entrance from February 19th through August 1st, 2010. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=682 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=678 Tony Feher's recent solo exhibition titled, "Blossom," was reviewed in the February issue of Artforum. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=678 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=679 Leslie Hewitt is currently being featured in the February issue of Artforum in an article written by Huey Copeland. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=679 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=677 Cornelia Parker is currently featured as a "Critic's Pick" on Artforum.com. Her recent "Bullet Drawing" series will be on view at D'Amelio Terras through February 13, 2010. Cameron Shaw writes: "If every .44 Magnum belonged to Cornelia Parker, the world would be a better place. In this exhibition, the British artist finds beauty not simply in the mundane but in the murderous. Using the lead from a lone melted bullet, she creates an elegant, spidery wire drawing. Each work is then suspended between panes of glass to cast spindly shadows against its white backdrop. (Like a skeptical child at a magic act, I craned my neck and squinted, desperate to decipher the tricks of her process.) In the nine small drawings, Parker develops a minimalist schema—the flat grid—extracting a rhythmic vitality in the successive irregularities and progressions. Her interest in 1950s encyclopedias is apparent in the works’ seriality; she is scientifically charting possibility: a single material, a single length, innumerable variations. Parker maintains an improvisational quality in this exercise, as if even she were not privy to what form the material will take next. One drawing appears like a fence smashed in; another looks torn apart. One seems to be growing and another shrinking. Knots at the corner of interior squares recall those in a string of pearls; if a portion breaks, the whole is not lost. The .44 Magnum itself is laden with pop-cultural associations from Dirty Harry (1971) to Taxi Driver (1976). Parker decontextualizes the object, thus divorcing the material from both mythic and actual violence. With multiple layers to strip, she explores the point at which any idea or object becomes completely abstract. A heavy bullet with a high velocity becomes something light and deceptively static. Fear is made material, only to dissolve into quiet meditation. This is surely an exhibition about dualities, but instead of black and white, Parker seems to relish the multitude of grays." Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=677 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=676 Leslie Hewitt's 2008 "Riffs on Real Time" series will be on display at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to mark the completion of the artist's yearlong fellowship. "Each of the photographs in the series presents a documentation of a three-layer collage or a temporary sculpture. Intentionally using the most direct and seemingly neutral means to present the information, she works with an even hand, like an archivist documenting evidence. Hewitt has a strict editing process, leaving her with a distinct visual language that could parallel a poet writing a haiku. In this case, her three phrases become a stack of three visual layers. The first and closest layer in the composition usually presents a found snapshot, followed by an intermediate layer that usually features a common object like a book, a map, or a page torn from a magazine. The final layer in each of the photographs is a hardwood floor on which the two other objects rest creating a trompe l’oeil visual effect. This series uses found objects as a way to describe the way photographs and other historical objects at once document our lives and shape our understanding of the world. Hewitt’s photographic variations prompt viewers to consider associative power in art."


Leslie Hewitt
Riffs on Real Time (10 of 10) 2008
c-print
40 x 30 inches 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=676 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=671 Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari announce the artist list for the 2010 Whitney Biennial, which includes gallery artist Roland Flexner. The biennial will be on view from February 25 through May 30, 2010. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=671 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=672 New York, NY – The Joan Mitchell Foundation is pleased to announce the twenty-five recipients of the 2009 Painters & Sculptors Grant Program in the amount of $25,000 each. The Painters & Sculptors Grant Program was established in 1993 to assist individual artists. The grants are given to acknowledge painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality. The Foundation selected nominators nationwide dedicated to supporting artists who are under-recognized for their artistic achievements and whose career would benefit from the grant. The candidates’ images were viewed for consideration through an anonymous process by a jury panel, which convened in November at the office of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Nominators and jurors include prominent visual artists, curators, and art educators. Additional programs undertaken by the Foundation include free art classes for New York City youth, grants to MFA graduates to aid in their transition from academic to professional studio work, and support to painters and sculptors in the Gulf Coast area. The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in April 1993 as a not-for-profit corporation following the death of Joan Mitchell in October 1992. The Foundation strives to fulfill the ambitions of Joan Mitchell to assist the needs of contemporary artists and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities. For more information on the Joan Mitchell Foundation and its recipients, please see the below link. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=672 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=667 Noah Sheldon is featured in his second solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition is on view from November 11 through December 12, 2009 and will feature sound installation, sculpture, and photography. From the Cherry and Martin website: "Interested in synesthesic environments—meaning an environment that invokes all the senses in their totality, but not necessarily in their expected roles—Noah Sheldon presents works that allow a free association of sound and vision, memory, landscape and bodily sensation. An artist New York Times critic Roberta Smith has described as “skilled at separating beauty from the material world, while reminding us it is just about everywhere,” previous works by Sheldon have included a photographic exploration of the rainbows that appear continually in the mist surrounding Niagara falls; an upright piano in which the reverberation of each tone played was modified by successive reverberations; and a motorized wind chime sculpture made from perfectly chiming fence post caps. The results of Sheldon’s work are simple, yet deep-seated."


Noah Sheldon
Untitled 2009
c-print
35 x 28 inches
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=667 http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=665 The latest installment of MOMA’s annual “New Photography” exhibition is the best one in years, and not just because it’s the biggest. By including six young photographers, the curator Eva Respini ups the odds that there will be interesting work on the walls, while exploring “what it means to make a photograph in the twenty-first century.” For the artists here, it means pushing the medium to its breaking point and leaving conventional images behind. They make photographs about photographs—pictures that are at once painfully self-conscious and wildly experimental, brainy, and brash. Walead Beshty, Carter Mull, and Sterling Ruby favor collagelike abstractions and spectacular digital or darkroom displays. Leslie Hewitt, Daniel Gordon, and Sara VanDerBeek photograph ephemeral arrangements or constructions full of subtle personal, political, and art-historical references. Some of this stuff is way too arty, but it all looks damn good together, and it’s a big step toward regaining “New Photography” ’s former heft and purpose. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.damelioterras.com/news.html?id=665