Moira Roth in La Jolla, 1984. Photo: Max Kozloff. June 25, 2021 at 3:05pm
Pathbreaking feminist art historian and author Moira Roth, who taught at Mills College for more than forty years, died June 14 at the age of eighty-seven. The news was announced by Mills College president Elizabeth Hillman, who described Roth, who came to the college in 1985 and retired in 2017 as the Eugene E. Trefethen Professor of Contemporary Art History, as a “bright light.” Her essay collection
Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp, and John Cage, published in 1998 and investigating the construction of masculinity and conflicting identities, continues to be lauded for its engaging style and critical accessibility.
Exhibition presents for the first time Sean Scully s new Mirroring series
Sean Scully, Star, 2021. Oil on linen, 160 x 160 cm (63 x 63 in). Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.
PARIS
.- Entre ciel et terre is Sean Scullys first exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac, opening in the Paris Marais gallery on April 24th. Created for the most part during the pandemic, the paintings suggest a connection with nature and an inner world of memory in troubled times.
The exhibition will present for the first time Sean Scullys new Mirroring series. Painted in oil on aluminium, the large-scale works are divided into two sets of colour stripes that mirror each other with variations. Between each colour field, the artist has left the metal surface apparent. The overall composition with the rhythm of the horizontal bands bring to mind the pages of a book or a musical score. In the Wall of Light works the bands of colour are interlaced. They are painted in a warm or grey palette in different sizes and materi
Eva Chimento joins Telluride Gallery of Fine Art as Director
Eva Chimento came to the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art after closing her own five year old Los Angeles gallery.
TELLURIDE, CO
.-The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art announced the appointment of former Los Angeles gallerist Eva Chimento as its new Director. Chimentos first major exhibition as Director of the gallery will be the upcoming Ed Moses Saving the Best for Last, the only 2020 solo show of the iconic L.A. painter who passed away two years ago.
In addition, Allison Cannella joins as Gallery Associate from New York where she was a member of the David Zwirner sales team and founding member and curatorial advisor of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.