MARY DILL HENRY: LOVE JAZZ OPENS AT BERRY CAMPBELL
NEW YORK, New York
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Mary Dill Henry, Love Jazz, 1965, acrylic on canvas, 49 3/4 x 71 1/4 inches.
Berry Campbell is pleased to announce a rare exhibition of paintings from 1965 to 1970 by Mary Dill Henry (1913-2009).
In her mid-50s by this time, Henry created her signature style, synthesizing past and present art movements into bold and striking compositions. Oscillating shapes form kinetic patterns and Op Art illusions in works from this time. Influenced by her studies in the 1940s with the Bauhaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy, Henry also maintained the utopian ideals associated with Constructivism, as well the principle behind the de Stijl movement, that art and life are inseparable. This is Berry Campbell’s first exhibition of paintings by Mary Dill Henry after announcing exclusive representation in November 2020.
Greg Kucera is bidding
adieu to Seattle and
bonjour to a literal castle in France: The founder and director of Seattle s blue chip gallery for the past 37 years will retire starting sometime this year. But the space isn t going anywhere. Jim Wilcox, Kucera s employee of the past 21 years, bought the gallery along with his wife, Carol. Wilcox and Kucera will be co-directors of the space for several years, then Kucera s ownership will slowly decrease with time. In a blog post, Kucera said the gallery continued to have good business during the pandemic, which is a good sign for our future. I ll have more on this later, but if you want to check out Greg s medieval new digs, watch this video (turn the volume all the way up for effect).
Artists making art right now is truly a blessing: Seattle poet, playwright, performer, and artist Anastacia-Reneé will present
(Don t be Absurd) Alice in Parts at the Frye Art Museum, running from January 30 to April 25. Grounded in the Black feminist and womanist tradition, Anastacia-Reneé explores gentrification and its detrimental effects on the body in the show, through the eyes of her character Alice Metropolis. The immersive installation allows viewers to walk through Alice s home, which we can t quite do just yet due to COVID restrictions. Instead, the Frye will host a virtual celebration and special performance this Saturday from 5-6:30pm. Viewers can expect a virtual tour of the show and a choreopoem inspired by Alice, read by seven artists and poets.
Duane Linklater,
The place I seek to go, 2014, coyote fur, garment rack, hanger, flatscreen TV, Mac Mini, HD video loop, cables, 132 x 66 x 20 . Photo: SITE Photography. Collection of Remai Modern, Saskatoon. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. January 14, 2021 at 12:51pm
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the fifty-one recipients of its fall 2020 grants, which total $3.9 million and are issued in support of visual arts programs, exhibitions, and curatorial research. Among the first-time grantees are several dedicated to creating opportunities for emerging and underrepresented artists and writers who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and who are living with disabilities. These include Philadelphia’s BlackStar, which prioritizes opportunities for filmmakers and critics, and Chicago’s Sixty Inches from Center and New York’s Wendy’s Subway, both of which focus on innovative arts publishing and archiving practices.