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Jennifer Guidi’s exhibition “Gemini” opened February 28th, 2020 at the Gagosian gallery in New York City. The exhibition was scheduled to close April 4th but was extended to May 30th due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Gemini is an ambitious large-scale exhibition, composed of paintings and a solitary architectural intervention.
POVarts was lucky to interview Melissa Capasso in her studio and see her show Transformer, a solo exhibition of expressive and formally robust paintings and drawings at Sweet Lorraine Gallery by Melissa Capasso.
The ambitious but uneven group show INTO THE WOODS starts with a quote from the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel:
“Early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest. …”
What living and dating in Hollywood has done to Eric White’s Art.
I think that there’s something about living in Los Angeles, as I once have, that breaks people. It hollows them out, and fills them with images that are not their own.
But is any of that in the art? Is Mark Benson in the art? Is there heart in the art? No. It’s all too cynical. There is too much about other people and their stuff, and their stories – those dead vanished people and their awesome weekends.
Jacqueline Humphries’ new large-scale paintings, recently on view at Greene Naftali’s new ground floor space, are an exploration of what we might call screen noise abstracted into paintings that I don’t want to stop looking at.
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