Filed under: Austin, Review | Tags: Brian Fee, Champion, Daniel Heidkamp, Freight and Volume, Wild Beasts
Daniel Heidkamp’s solo exhibition at Champion (on view through February 25th) in Austin, TX highlights his strengths as a painter. I write this with the embedded pun fully in mind. He is a master of capturing light—whether tempering a fireplace’s glow into this overall pulsing warmth or emblazoning a backyard with patterned tree-limb shadows. Heidkamp’s light is an emotive presence throughout the excellently titled Glow Drops At The Chill Spot. - Read more by Austin contributor, Brian Fee, after the jump!
Daniel Heidkamp | Narratrix, 2012, Oil on canvas, 36” x 36”, Courtesy the artist and Champion
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Filed under: Austin, Heart to Art | Tags: Austin, Brian Fee, Colby Bird, Jim Torok, Lora Reynolds, Mads Lynnerup, Pat de Groot, Susan Collis, Tom Molloy
Part two of my interview with Lora Reynolds on her namesake, cutting-edge, Austin, TX-based gallery. Find part one here. - Brian Fee, Austin Contributor
BF: You show a dynamic lineup of international artists working in various disciplines/mediums. How has the public responded to them?
LR: The gallery receives lots of support and kudos from our community, for which we are most grateful! And it is especially rewarding to see the gallery reach extend beyond Texas. For example when (gallery artist) Noriko Ambe’s exhibition was recognized as one of the Best Shows in a Commercial Gallery, Nationally, at this years AICA Awards Ceremony and when Tom Molloy was selected to represent Ireland in this year’s Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates.
Noriko Ambe | Spiritual America: Richard Prince, 2009, Cut book, 12 1/3 x 17 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lora Reynolds Gallery.
Filed under: Austin, Heart to Art | Tags: Benjamin Butler, Bradney Evans, Brian Fee, Ewan Gibbs, Francesca Gabbiani, Heart to Art, Karen Breneman, KEHINDE WILEY, Lora Reynolds, Lora Reynolds Gallery
Imagine my thrill as a seasoned New York art-goer thrust back into the unfamiliar Texas Hill Country this summer (I graduated from University of Texas at Austin but hadn’t visited the city but once since then), going totally off a strong recommendation from Big Apple friends to visit Lora Reynolds Gallery. Imagine that joy when stumbling into a clean, well-lit white-box, with its raw concrete floor and huge windows, which just happened to be showing former Armory Show artist Susan Collis (So it goes, May 14-July 16, 2011). Since then (and looking back at gallery archives proves it), Lora Reynolds’ eponymous space has consistently staged solo, duo and group exhibitions of local and international artists that challenge minds and emphasize the fortitude of a Texas-based gallery on the larger art world. - Brian Fee, Austin Contributor...Check back on December 28th for Part Two of Brian’s Heart to Art interview with Lora Reynolds!
photo: Alison Eden
Filed under: Art Market, Art World, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Must-Sees, New Jersey, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Philly, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle | Tags: December, Must-SEe
In the 300+ gallery exhibitions that we previewed for this post, we discovered a number of New American Paintings’ alumni on view in December. Jim Lutes continues to produce a substantial body of work and, once again, demonstrates why he is one of Chicago’s leading painters. And check out Dolphin Gallery’s group exhibition “Push” which features several NAP artists, including a favorite of ours, Michael Krueger. Other shows that stand out: Fernando Mastrangelo at Charest-Weinberg, Byron Kim and James Cohan Gallery, and Cordy Ryman and Eli Ridgway. Enjoy the list! Please check them out and let us know what you think in the comments section after the jump!
Cordy Ryman | Shadow Boxed, acrylic, enamel and graphite on wood, 38 x 33.5 x 3.5 inches
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Filed under: Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Must-Sees, New York, Philadelphia, Philly, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle | Tags: Editor's Pick, Must-SEe, New American Paintings, November
We reviewed upcoming November exhibitions at close to 300 commercial galleries from throughout the United States to compile this list. Once again, it is another extraordinarily strong month for the medium of painting. Highlights include the feverishly painted work of Alison Schulnik at Zieher Smith, Nathan Hylden’s complex meditations on the studio at Richard Telles, and Llyn Foulkes idiosyncratic landscapes at Andrea Rosen. - Must-See November painting shows after the jump!
Allison Schulnik | Yogurt Eater, 2011, oil on linen, 84 x 68 inches
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Filed under: Art World, Austin, Behind the Scenes, Q&A | Tags: Austin, Beili Liu, Brian Fee, Candy Cornbread, Cassandra Smith, Closed Mondays, Dameon Lester, grayDuck Gallery, Hector Hernandez, Identity Crisis, Jeffrey Swanson, Jennifer Davis, Jennifer Leigh Jones, Jessica McCambly, Jill Schroeder, Joseph Phillips, K.C. Collins, L. Renee Nunez, Melissa Breitenfeldt, Objectivity, Pattern Plan, Red Bluff Studios, Rock Paper Carbon, Sabra Booth, Satch Grimley, Schroeder Milk Co.
When I relocated to Austin from New York City this summer, I became inextricably attracted to grayDUCK Gallery and its consummate Austin vibe. Its location south of Town Lake puts the gallery in walking distance from “Keep Austin Weird” South Congress, and it shares a Zip Code with Torchy’s Tacos and indie record store End of an Ear — i.e. Austin all the way. Then there is grayDUCK’s rigorous monthly exhibition schedule and its strong roster of local artists. I met with Jill Schroeder, owner and director of grayDUCK, to discuss the gallery’s unique presence and her goals for the future. — Brian Fee, Austin Contributor
Jill Schroeder, photographed by Jefferson Harris
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Filed under: Austin, Review | Tags: Austin, Brian Fee, Jim Torok, Laura Reynolds, portraits, Walton
I keep thinking of Caroline. I have never met this Caroline in person, nor have I visited Walton, the town nestled in the Western Catskill Mountains in upstate New York where she resides. And yet, when regarding her portrait — the middle image of seven same-sized, intimately scaled paintings in Jim Torok’s Walton exhibition at Austin’s Lora Reynolds Gallery — I feel as though I “could” know her. Like I’ve seen that faintly sun-streaked brown hair, those indescribably blue-grey eyes somewhere before. Or I could know one of her neighbors, Yanna with her fuzzily textured tartan scarf and ice-water eyes, Iskander the kid, his T-shirt a mottled non-pattern like a painted Easter egg, whatever’s hanging from the string around his neck hidden beyond the boundaries of the painting. - Brian Fee, Austin Contributor
Caroline, 2011, oil on birch, 5″ x 3.875″ x 1″ Courtesy the artist and Lora Reynolds Gallery
Filed under: Austin, New York, Review, Sneak Peeks | Tags: Brian Fee, Champion Contemporary, Cory Arcangel, Daniel Heidkamp, Ezra Johnson, Joshua Abelow, Ryan Schneider, Ryan Trecartin, Schneider, Shara Hughes, Sonia Dutton
An oasis of kicked-up color blooms in the Hill Country, focused in the Wild Beasts exhibition at Champion Contemporary. While New York City’s museums have, of late, treated “painterly” and “young” as extreme opposites — the recently closed video-imbued exhibitions by Cory Arcangel (Pro Tools at the Whitney) and Ryan Trecartin (Any Ever at PS1) come to mind — some of the city’s talent prove otherwise. After meeting Champion’s director Sonia Dutton this past March, Brooklyn-based painter Ryan Schneider (NAP #74) assembled a potent group of young artists reveling in color and canvas and undaunted by formalism. - Brian Fee, Austin Contributor
Shara Hughes | Simon, 2011, oil on canvas, 36″ x 40″ Image courtesy the artist and Champion
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Filed under: Art World, Austin, Q&A | Tags: Austin, collage, Kate Singleton, Katy Horan, LACE
Katy Horan, Spinster #3, 2011 | Gouache, tissue paper and graphite on paper, 20 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artist and Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA.
If you’ve ever laid eyes on Austin-based artist Katy Horan‘s work (perhaps in the recent West edition, #90, of New American Paintings) you probably recall the ghostly, lace-laden women and women-creatures that are Horan’s signature. These mysterious and striking figures combine Katy’s interest in Victorian fashion, Renaissance portraiture and historical female archetypes, and I’ve always been curious to learn more about them.
Last summer I had the chance to meet Katy for coffee while she was in Brooklyn and just beginning a new body of work for her recent show at Swarm Gallery in Oakland, CA. Katy had a ton of work ahead of her and so we agreed to do this interview when she finished. I asked Katy, among other things, about her process of creating new work and the significance behind her female archetypes and their elaborate dresses. It turns out that, growing up, Katy wanted to be a fashion designer and studied costume design before transferring to art school. Given her obsession with historical dresses and their haunting, cultural significance, this makes perfect sense. Our conversation after the jump. —Kate Singleton, contributor
