Opening: Zak Smith

Zak Smith’s latest solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser gallery opens this Friday, October 10. From the press release:
Midnight in the Empire features compulsively dense abstract works, a grab bag of drawings and paintings on different subjects, as well as the latest installments of “Girls In The Naked Girl Business”–Smith’s ongoing series of portraits of […]

Lichtenstein at Gagosian Gallery

Through June 28, Gagosian Gallery is displaying 12 Roy Lichtenstein paintings featuring female subjects. Titled “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls,” the exhibit is another testament to Lichtenstein’s continuing relevance and ability to surprise the most jaded viewer of Pop Art. A retrospective at SFMoMA in 2005 transformed me from a passive admirer to a fervent, thrilled […]

Fritz Welch at Cueto Project

From January 17-February 16, Cueto Project presents the work of Brooklyn-based artist Fritz Welch.
Welch’s solo show, entitled “Under Your Wet Blanket,”:
deals with two ongoing conceptual themes for the artist: Revolution Blues and Vampire Blues. The former refers to a fundamental interest in activist occupation of space and direct political action. The latter is concerned with […]

Newman Popiashvili Gallery: I Died for Beauty

Independent curator, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, has put together the group show titled I Died for Beauty, which opens tomorrow night at the Newman Popiashvili Gallery:
The underlining concept of the show is based on the idea of personal transformation as a liberating, powerful change from one state of being to another.
The process of transformation requires the […]