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DON NICE (1932 - 2019)

Painter and Pop Artist Dies at 86

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the New York artist Don Nice. Nice was recognized for his Hudson River scenes, oversized still life images and non-traditional shaped canvases. In 1988, he created a special limited edition print of colorful musical instruments for Lincoln Center titled, Festival Predella. We appreciate his artistic contribution to our community and will miss him greatly.

TERRY WINTERS

 Facts and Fictions, Curated by Claire Gilman

Terry Winters has said that, as a young man mesmerized by Minimalism, he was led by the desire to draw “away from that blankness and toward developing an imagery that could play a role in my work.” This effort precipitated the atmospheric paintings inspired by scientific illustrations of organic specimens for which he first became known in the early 1980s. The seventy—eight works in this retrospective will follow Winters’s development from that time through the more fully abstract approach that has occupied him since the ’90s, with dense weaves of swirling, crisscrossing lines and scattered blips, and will include more recent drawings that reclaim shapes reminiscent of his earliest phase within the more complex spatial context he’s since developed—what he’s called a “vitalized geometry.” 

— Barry Schwabsky, Art Forum

Location: The Drawing Center, 33 Wooster Street, NYC

Dates: April 6 - August 12, 2018

BARBARA KRUGER

Exhibit: Belief+Doubt
Duration: Ongoing

Location:  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Independence Ave and 7th St, Washington, DC 20560

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CARLOS ROLÓN
Exhibit: Outside/In
Dates: March 16th – August 26th, 2018

Location:
New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

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ROBIN RHODE + VIA ART FUND

New York, NY

The VIA Art Fund, a non-profit philanthropic collective that works directly with artists, curators and cultural institutions to fund and produce a wide range of artistic endeavors, has announced the recipients of its most recent grants. Included on this list is former Vera List Project participant Robin Rhode, who received the grant in order to complete the production of his Performa 15 commission, Erwartung: A Street Opera, this past November. Alongside Rhode, artist Jenny Holzer, New York's High Line Art and the Underground Museum in Los Angeles were awarded grants through VIA. Read more: Artforum, VIA Art Fund

Robin Rhode participated in the Vera List Art Project in 2015 with his edition, Wall of Water, available for sale here.

Above: Image from the performance of Erwartung: A Street Opera. Photo courtesy of Times Square NYC

November 19 - December 23, 2015

Chelsea gallery Ameringer McEnrey Yohe celebrates its exhibition of new paintings by Wolf Kahn. The eighty-eight year old artist, perhaps best known for his paintings of wooded landscapes, meadows and barns, continues his use of memory, imagination and vivid color in his newest paintings. However, his recent body of work reflects a shift away the precision and accuracy of the image, and focuses more on inventive modes of working. The exhibition, which opened November 19th, will remain in the gallery through December 23rd. Read more about the exhibition here.

Wolf Kahn participated in the Vera List Art Project in 2003.

Left: Dark Green Foregrounf Stripe, 2015, Oil on canvas, 24 x 28 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Ameringer | McEnrey | Yohe.

November 7th, 8th, 2015

As part of the performance biennial Performa15, South African artist Robin Rhode transformed the public space of Times Square into an operatic venue. On stage, Rhode's rendition of composer Arnold Schönberg's Ewartung, a one act opera about love, loss, sorrow and grief. For Rhode, the protagonist of Ewartung, preformed by soprano Carole Sidney Louis, echoed the desperation and hardships faced by many South African women after the fall of the Apartheid as men were exiled or left home in search of work. Originally set in a moonlit forest, Rhode draws likeness to the artificially lit, towering space of Times Square, weaving layers of contemporaneity and allegory into an age-old narrative.  

Read more about the performance on Broadway World and the New York Times.

Robin Rhode participated in the Ver List Art Project in 2015 with his edition Wall of Water, available here.

Above: Robin Rhode, Arnold Schönberg’s Erwartung, A Performa Commission, 2015. Photo by Paula Court, courtesy of Performa.

On the heels of a visit to the Aspen Art Museum to accept the museums prestigious Aspen Award for art, artist Lorna Simpson offers the Paris Review an intimate look at her studio practice. In conversation, Simpson shares her inspiration behind a newer work titles, Moveableness, as well as her consistent use of found photographic imagery and colorful, effusive washes of ink in her process if collage. Coming off of two major exhibitions - the Venice Biennale and a traveling exhibition spanning two years - Simpson talks about her excitement and readjustment upon returning to her home and studio in Brooklyn. Read more about the studio visit in the Paris Review. 

Lorna Simpson participated in the Vera List Art Project in 2013 with her edition Double Portrait, available here.

Above: Lorna Simpson. Photo courtesy of Menelik Puryear.