Monday, March 22. 2010
Wes Lang: Smile, It’s a Grey Day
March 25 – April 24, 2010
Reception for the Artist: Thursday, March 25, 6-8 pm
Wes Lang’s latest exhibition “Smile, It’s a Grey Day” consists of 17 new paintings. Meditating on the recent loss of several loved ones, the artist professes a sometimes veiled reverence for life through his tattoo-inspired imagery. Combining the same deft maneuvers of brush as he has long-employed with the skin-artist’s needle, Lang translates masculine tattoo templates and works from within the confines of stylized graphics of flash art, continuing the tattoo tradition of valuing appropriation over unique imagery. The tattoo tropes and one percenter’s dismissal of social constraints is consistent with Lang’s approach to art and life.
Unafraid of influence, Lang channels Philip Guston, Martin Kippenberger, Cy Twombly and Basil Wolverton — a celebration of disparate forebears, re-combined in an alternately cantankerous and nostalgic American stew. He also finds solace in sources as wide ranging as self-help manuals to country and rock song lyrics. In the end, Lang often expresses his outsized optimism openly in titles like “Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands,” “Don’t Tell Me There’s No Hope At All,” and “The River of Golden Dreams.”
With the keenest eye toward our ephemeral fringe — Lang champions human faults, celebrating the patterns in our rapacity—a familiar vernacular comfort becomes the voice of longing for a world without anchor.
This is Lang’s fourth solo exhibition at ZieherSmith and the first to feature solely painting on canvas. His work has also been seen in shows at Alexander and Bonin and Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Dealim Museum, Seoul; Peres Projects, Berlin, and V1 Gallery, Copenhagen among many others. He was named one of 2009’s top fifteen young artists by Interview Magazine. A new publication featuring the work of Lang and Donald Baechler, entitled Skulls and Shit , is available from Ajax Press.
Image: Wes Lang, Let It Snow, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 108 inches
ZieherSmith / 516 West 20th Street / New York, NY 10011 / 212-229-1088 / info@ziehersmith.com / www.ziehersmith.com
Monday, March 15. 2010I need a 007 and some throwing starsground control to major tom about to play tv pixFriday, March 12. 2010drawing by my friend Philly CustomsBoss Status In Post-Deitch NYC, Kathy Grayson Steps In
NEW YORK—When Jeffrey Deitch was named director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art this January and declared he'd be closing his gallery in June, the news left the art world with more questions than answers. First and foremost, what would happen to his roster of more than 30 artists? Since Deitch’s announcement that he’ll dissolve his operation — a requirement to limit the myriad possible conflicts of interest when he takes over MoCA — the dealer has hinted that at least part of his mantle might pass down to one of his trusted deputies. Now this is indeed the case: Kathy Grayson, the 29-year-old director of Deitch’s Wooster Street space, plans to open her own gallery with a sizable chunk of her former employer’s stable.
"There's no going back now," Grayson told ARTINFO
Read on
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34110/in-post-deitch-nyc-kathy-grayson-steps-in/?page=2
Tuesday, March 9. 2010Don't FearThursday, March 4. 2010Devin & Ian Flynn Exhibit at The ARM gallery in Williamsburg march5th 6-9
THE ARMORY SHOW 2010
March 4 - 7
Pier 94, Booth 1216
FEATURING
Michael Bevilacqua
Todd James
KAWS
John F. Simon, Jr.
Leo Villareal
José Mª Yturralde
Current Exhibition:
JOSÉ Mª YTURRALDE HORIZONS
February 26 - April 17, 2010
Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10019
Tel 646 336 7183
Fax 646 336 7185
Hours Tue-Sat 10-6
info@geringlopez.com
www.geringlopez.com
Photo: TODD JAMES, Don't Stop Get It Get It, (detail), 2009, Gouache & graphite on paper, 289 x 289 inches (variable) Courtesy of Gering & Lopez Gallery.
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