Art Out: Frieze NY, Cig Harvey, Miles Aldridge
Dawoud Bey, A Girl with School Medals, 1988. archival pigment print; image: 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) paper: 34 x 44 inches (86.4 x 111.8 cm), edition of 4 with 2 APs © Dawoud BeyCourtesy: Sean Kelly, New York
Frieze New York
May 5-9 2021.
Frieze New York will introduce a new location in 2021, with New York’s leading art fair to take place at The Shed. Developed to produce and welcome innovative art and ideas across all forms of creativity, The Shed will provide the context and flexibility of space required to meet the needs of Frieze New York’s gallery community at this all-important time and realize the fair’s ambitious plans. Taking place from May 5 – 9, 2021, Frieze New York is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank, continuing a shared commitment to artistic excellence.
Frieze New York at The Shed will host more than 60 of the world’s leading galleries – and feature the fair’s much-celebrated section, Frame, devoted to younger galleries – alongside an anchor program of collaborations, special projects and talks. In addition, a dedicated edition of Frieze Viewing Room will run alongside Frieze New York at The Shed that will benefit from enhanced digital functionality and reach a global online audience. Frieze and The Shed are committed to the highest health and safety standards and will employ the appropriate policies and procedures to ensure the safety of visitors, galleries and staff.
Ideally situated in Manhattan, The Shed is located at 545 West 30th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, in close proximity to major arts destinations including The High Line and the Chelsea Arts District.
Cig Harvey. Poppies (floating), 2020 © Cig Harvey, Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery
Cig Harvey: Blue Violet
May 6 - June 26, 2021
Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce Cig Harvey: Blue Violet, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Harvey’s work is rich with the emotion and awe she is able to elicit through her depictions of the natural world and the magic within it. Her photographs, abundant with color, implied texture, and even scent, explore the five senses, bringing the viewer to the brink of saturation. This collection of photographs is both emotional and celebratory, filled with intense color, light and shadows.
The series, infused with flowers, speaks to the procession of seasons and transitional times. In the image, Scout & The Disco Ball, Harvey plays with dramatic, yet somehow gentle, atmospheric light. The lights from the disco ball appear to dance against the rustic wood walls. Poppies (floating) plays with the delicate line between life and decay. The viewer witnesses the vibrancy of the red and white poppies floating in the river, but is extremely aware of their fragility.
This exhibition opens in conjunction with the release of Harvey’s highly anticipated new monograph, Blue Violet. Blue Violet is part art book, part botanical guide, part historical encyclopedia, and part poetry collection all coming together in one rich volume.
3-D, 2010 © Miles Aldridge
Miles Aldridge - Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn. Photographs 1999 to 2020.
May 7 – October 2021
Opening on Friday, May 7th at Fotografiska New York, the exhibition will be Aldridge’s first museum retrospective in the US, comprising 64 works spanning the artist’s career. The show draws on Aldridge's highly composed and cinematically inspired tableaus, including his 2015 project (after Cattelan) in which the artist Maurizio Cattelan invited Aldridge to respond to his sculptures over the course of one night together in a Paris museum. Aldridge's unique style is also applied to portraiture and his subjects include Marina Abramović, Gilbert and George, Sophie Turner, Viola Davis, Michael Fassbender, Donatella Versace and David Lynch.
With so many diverse influences coming from the history of cinema, when everything was still shot on analogue film, Aldridge likewise prefers to shoot on film rather than digital. Every print in the exhibition was captured on Kodak Colour Negative. A recurring theme throughout Aldridge’s oeuvre is the false promise of luxury. Psychedelic interiors are furnished with the trappings of mid-century suburban comfort: gleaming kitchen appliances, candy colored telephones, and well-groomed pets denote success. The images of domesticity are often undercut with a bittersweet edge; a personal reflection of Aldridge’s childhood memories of his mother after a shattering divorce.
Aldridge's work conflates historic and modern motifs and makes subtle reference to the art historical canon. Only rarely does he allow the real world to encroach upon the imagined realm. Through his lens, even reality appears artificial.
Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn. Photographs 1999 to 2020 is curated by Nadine Barth, barthouse Berlin, in collaboration with Johan Vikner, Director of Global Exhibitions at Fotografiska International. This installment marks the second iteration of the show which debuted at Fotografiska Stockholm in September 2020 and ran till March 2021. The exhibition has been made in close collaboration with the artist and his galleries; Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London, Christophe Guye Gallerie, Zurich, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, and Casterline Goodman Gallery, Aspen.
Events:
Reimagining History: Dawoud Bey in conversation with Jason Moran and Sarah Broom
May 12, 2021- 6 pm EST
Online Zoom Event - Whitney Museum of American Art
On the occasion of the exhibition Dawoud Bey: An American Project, this conversation brings Dawoud Bey together with artist and musician Jason Moran and writer Sarah M. Broom to discuss their shared interest in specific histories and shared memories as the ground for their respective practices.
Inspired by Bey’s The Birmingham Project (2012)—a tribute to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL, in 1963—and Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2019), which imagines the flight of enslaved Black Americans along the final leg of the Underground Railroad, the three speakers reflect on how an artwork can become an act of commemoration and radical reinvention.
To learn more information or register for this event, click here.
MADISON AVENUE GALLERY WALK
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021
ARTnews and the Madison Avenue BID are once again organizing this season's Gallery Walk. This free event invites the public to visit over 30 participating galleries to view their spring exhibitions and, with a reservation, to attend talks led by artists and gallerists from East 57th Street to East 86th Street.
On view at the Gallery will be Witho Worms’ Polderland series. Addressing issues of land reclaimed from coastline, Worms’ divides the horizon into sea or soil and atmospheric Dutch sky. These minimal yet detailed contact platinum prints present a landscape manipulated by human intervention for the purpose of creating agricultural fields and sites of habitation.
Sign-up for a talk between gallerist and photographer, who will be joining via Zoom.
Reserve your space and learn more about the event here.
Curator's Corner with Audrey Sands
May 18, 2021- 5pm EST
Members Virtual Event- Center for Creative Photography
Members are invited to join CCP for the new monthly member series that will ask CCP Curators to explore one image from their essays written for the Center's current virtual exhibition Finding Meaning: An Offering of Photographs for an Uncertain Time. They will discuss their chosen image and their essay in depth with members.
To register, click here.
