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L INCONNUE gallery opens New York space Françoise Grossen, Installation view, 2015, Blum & Poe, New York. Photo by Genevieve Hanson. NEW YORK, NY .-LINCONNUE Gallery (Lain-co-nü) inaugurated its new permanent location in New York with a two-person exhibition showing new and existing works by Emily Ludwig Shaffer (b.1988) and Françoise Grossen (b.1943). With different mediums, both artists share an interest and background in architecture, an abstracted relationship to the body, representation of craft and a tangential relationship to science fiction. Emily Ludwig Shaffer and Françoise Grossen marks the first exhibition following the gallerys relocation from Montreal. ....
Woman, Blue (2021). Photo courtesy of Salon 94, New York. Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)
Installation view of “Raul Mourão Empty Head” at Nara Roesler. Photo by Charles Roussel. This show marks the artist’s first solo outing at Nara Roesler’s main New York space in Chelsea, and includes recent works that connect Mourão’s formal investigations to political critiques, including two series of sculptures created during the social isolation of the pandemic. The work ....
“What Fruit It Bears” is an exhibition project presenting works by artists whose practices are radically individual defying categorization, and yet together represent the present time. This exhibition presents approaches to figuration, which seek equilibrium in understanding both oneself and the collective path forward. Many of these works were made this year and respond to the tumult that every individual has experienced globally. As one emerges from isolation, this presentation proposes a future in which personal identity is both celebrated and supported by a renewed appreciation for community and solidarity. The selected works explore the force of the unutterable and the variances in what one does not have language to express. Employing diverse languages of figuration, text and abstraction, the artists presently expose the body, skin and landscape as contested sites, located across both natural and cultural categories. ....
Tied Up II lithograph edition, JRP Next returns with a new collaborative print with Brooklyn-based artist Emily Ludwig Shaffer and Galerie PACT. Titled The No-No Dance, the 24-color lithograph edition depicts two women statues coming out of a garden hedge. “The figures are frozen in a choreographed gesture of refusal. I imagine the two women as friends and guardians, protecting a private space beyond the hedgerow,” said the artist in a statement. Across her vivid figurations, Shaffer paints interior and exterior spaces that evoke metaphysical propositions or act as visual riddles and paradoxes. “My works are usually tightly rendered depictions of uncanny, intimate, interior spaces and gardens,” she said. “In the worlds I create, day and night sometimes exist at the same time, perspective falters, and the only figures who appear are stone statues of solid women. I see these compositions as theoretical explorations of space, light, and color, and as homages to the ....