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Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, the first major U.S. retrospective of the renowned artist's work, will feature some fifty pieces from every aspect of Amer's career as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, garden designer, and installation artist.
These include the iconic Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie (1995), The Reign of Terror (2005), and Big Black Kansas City Painting (2005), as well as a generous selection of works never before exhibited in this country.
The exhibition will be on view from February 16 through October 19, 2008.
While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.
The submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love, the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty, constitute the territory that she explores and expresses in her art.
Organized in a chronological and thematic manner that reflects the stages of Amer's career over the past two decades, Love Has No End commences with her earliest sketchbooks that illustrate the genesis of her ideas about patterning and embroidery.
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Valentine Willie Fine Art launches into the New Year with HEADLIGHTS - an exhibition featuring exciting new works by leading figures in the Southeast Asian contemporary art scene.
The show will spotlight individuals who have continued to inspire and stretch the boundaries of artistic expression and process while seeking to challenge the way we see and interpret.
New emerging forces from a younger generation of artists who have begun to play active dynamic roles within their community will also be highlighted in what we hope to be an insightful showcase of Southeast Asia's most exciting talents.
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As one of the most acclaimed and influential living artists, Jasper Johns has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, many of which have explored his signature use of flags, numbers, and other emblems.
This exhibition emerges from broader studies of Johns's approach to form, examining for the first time the artist's use of gray in his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings from 1955 to the present.
Featuring more than 130 works and including major new works that have never been exhibited publicly, the exhibition tracks Johns's application of gray for more than five decades-an investigation that provides a framework for understanding the development of the artist's entire oeuvre.
Every one of Johns's major iconic, serialized forms has been, at one stage or another, articulated in gray.
The intellectual and emotional significance of this color in his work has changed remarkably since 1955, when he used it initially as a statement of skepticism, quietude, or anticipation.
Gray has since evolved in Johns's work as an agent in a profound examination of the very meaning of color itself.
The predominance of gray in his recent Catenary series, which self-consciously summarizes the artist's career, takes on new meaning in the context of this exhibition's thesis.
Gray is further considered as a material condition.
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SubmarineChannel launches a new series of video interviews with artists, filmmakers, and designers called Pretty Cool People Interviews.
Yesterday, they published the fifth interview in the series, the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, one of the most successful (and witty) contemporary artists.
The interview was shot during the preparation for Wurm's recent solo show in museum Het Domein in Sittard, The Netherlands.
Previous interviews include filmmaker Taika Waititi, the multi-talented director Anna Biller, who shocked and surprised audiences everywhere with her instant classic sexploitation flick "Viva"; Artist and filmmaker Miranda July, who talks about her Learning To Love You More project; and director and designer Mike Mills who directed music videos for Air and the feature film Thumbsucker.
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "In the Midst," a photography and video exhibition by SVA students exploring contemporary approaches to landscape.
Curated by Richard Brooks, assistant director of student galleries, the artists include Emily Bolevice, Kai-Min Hsiung and Sarah Palmer.
Emily Bolevice photographs nature intervening in urban landscapes.
Ranging from the picturesque to the abstract, her images work to both document how the organic integrates itself into man-made spaces and celebrate nature's resilience in the face of inhospitable conditions.
Bolevice is a current student in the BFA Photography Department.
Kai-Min Hsiung presents a meditation on nature and form in his two-channel video installation, "Floating Moon."
By simultaneously filming the full moon and its reflection in water, the artist uses an elegant and deceptively simple approach that invites the viewer to contemplate the space between nature and observer.
Hsuing is a current student in the MFA Computer Art Department.
Sarah Palmer's landscape photographs explore the relationship of humans to their environment in 21st-centruy America.
Using unpredictable planes of focus, Palmer creates photographs that reference modes of painting as well as the history of landscape photography.
Palmer is a current student in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
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