UPCOMING EXHIBITION
BEATRICE SCACCIA: IS THERE AN OUTSIDE?
OCTOBER 18 – NOVEMBER 21
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Beatrice Scaccia grew up in Castelmassimo-Veroli, a small town in central Italy. The artist’s process begins with letting go of rational thought; only images, never concepts, are to be trusted. Solid appearances then become malleable shapes, emerging in monochrome dimensions where color seeps back in cautiously and eloquently. This exhibition presents examples from four distinct series that embody Scaccia’s visual poetics as it navigates between large- and small-scale mixed media works, animation, and immersive installation. It also highlights the artist’s penchant for crafting silent narratives through variations on a theme, as well as her connection to theater and intertextuality.
© Gloria Baker, New York, 2017
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Closing Soon
“Working Girls”
An American Brothel, Circa 1892
September 13 – October 13
Included in Artforum’s “Must-See” Exhibitions
Presenting a collection of never-before-seen photographs taken by William Goldman in an American brothel in Reading Pennsylvania during the late 19th century (approximately 15 years before Bellocq). This exhibition opened in conjunction with the release of a fully illustrated book published by Glitterati Editions—including essays by Robert Flynn Johnson, Dennita Sewell, Dita Von Teese, and Ruth Rosen.
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NEWS
“William L. Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography” curated by Susan Mitchell Crawley opened on September 22 at the Figge Art Museum.
See the exhibition catalog and this video by PBS.
“Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor” curated by Leslie Umberger opened on September 28 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
See the exhibition’s accompanying monograph.
Opening in conjunction with the premiere of “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts,” a documentary film by Jeffrey Wolf and Jeany Wolf.
In October, the Billboard Creative will transform 31 Los Angeles billboards into public art. Gerald Slota has been selected to participate.
More info on the artist’s billboard here.
ANDREW BLYTHE
Andrew Blythe (b. 1962) is a self-taught artist who has worked daily for the past 18 years at the Toi Ora Live Art Trust, a community arts center in Auckland, New Zealand, which provides gallery space for people who have experienced mental illness. Blythe was recurrently hospitalized in his adolescence, and it was at this time when he started making art. The artist sees his paintings as an ongoing dialogue of free expression and catharsis, saying: “I am an empty vessel when I paint.”