Brooklyn and Phila Painting Shows Upcoming

Brenda Goodman, “Self Portrait 4” (1994), diptych, oil on wood

So many good shows coming in February!  I really hope there isn't snow like we just had next Friday, February 5th when so many of these are opening.  To start with, in Philly here are a few.  (pictured above)

Tiger Strikes Asteroid 
319A North 11th Street #2H
Trembling Halves
Brenda Goodman and Kate Gilmore
Curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting
February 5 – February 28, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6 --10pm

"PHILADELPHIA, PA–Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to present a multi-generational show of video and paintings curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting. Please join us for our February exhibition Trembling Halves featuring the work of Brenda Goodman and Kate Gilmore..."

Great curators, one of my favorite contemporary painters.  Can not believe her paintings which were just on view in a living retrospective in Detroit will be here in what's likely to be a really interesting juxtaposition with Kate Gilmore's video work.  I love when artists continue to take on projects that are different and not just about a bigger venue. 

Sarah Gamble: Vibraspace
Jennifer Levonian: Shake Out Your Cloth

Another really interesting still painter/animated video combination will be at Fleisher-Ollman.  Two of my favorite Philadelphia makers are showing together:

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
1216 Arch Street, 5A
Sarah Gamble and Jennifer Levonian
February 5 – March 26, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6–8pm

"Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions featuring new work by Sarah Gamble and Jennifer Levonian. While different conceptually and in their chosen media, the artists make for an interesting pairing as they each explore the bookends of the human psyche. If Gamble plumbs the unconscious realm of dreams and self-created mythological worlds occupied by a range of strange characters and foreboding landscapes, Levonian delves into the quotidian where the mundane is transformed into the fantastical, or at the very least, the hilarious..."

 Philippa Beardsley, 2015, Meeting, Acrylic on Panel

Philippa Beardsley, Meeting, Acrylic on Panel, 23" x 29.5", 2015 - See more at: http://www.snyderman-works.com/exhibitions/personal-space#sthash.Wgii0tXG.dpuf

Philippa Beardsley, Meeting, Acrylic on Panel, 23" x 29.5", 2015 - See more at: http://www.snyderman-works.com/exhibitions/personal-space#sthash.Wgii0tXG.dpuf

 A friend and good painter in her own right, Leigh Werrell, is now using her discerning eye to curate what looks like a dream of a show of 11 artists:

Snyderman-Works Galleries
303 Cherry Street
Personal Space 
February 5  - February 26, 2016

Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5:30 - 9pm

"The space that we find most consistently present is that which we carry with us, serving as a buffer between ourselves and other spaces, people and objects. This bubble changes in size, shape, and texture depending on how we relate to what is around us. Our perception of our surroundings depends on how we view ourselves and correspondingly, we alter the locations we occupy in a similar manner. Through their individual understanding of place, the artists in this exhibit have created introspective self-portraits by considering personally important locations, interpretations of their own place in an environment, and how the memory, cultural significance, or content of a space can change its meaning."

Philippa Beardsley
Amanda Bush
Matt Colaizzo
Virginia Fleming
Julian Kreimer
SaraNoa Mark
Erin Murray
Matt R. Phillips
Giordanne Salley
Stuart Shils
Tiffany Tate

 

Ken Kewley, Bouquet I, acrylic on panel, 24 x 18 inches

Gross McCleaf Gallery

127 S 16th Street

Ken Kewley

New Paintings

February 3 - February 26, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5 - 7 pm

 And in Brooklyn...

Ginny Casey, Droopy Vase, oil on canvas, 2016

What's likely to be a really revelatory solo show of painter Ginny Casey, is happening at 106 Green, a gallery founded by really unbelievably excellent painters Holly Coulis and Ridley Howard.  A show I must figure out how/when to get to see in person.  Her work is so beautiful in the flesh.

106 Green

104 Green St, Brooklyn

Ginny Casey

Ghost Maker

January 24 - February 22, 2016

Opening: Saturday, January 30, 6-8pm

"Ginny Casey’s paintings play with space, color, and the idea of making. In her staged scenes, floating, disembodied hands hide under vessels, shape and tickle clay, break things, hang around. They blend in, taking on hues from their environment. The shifting, soft-edged vessels they interact with are as alive as the hands. We are invited into a curious world of clay, formed/unformed, broken, painted. This malleable material might even be responsible for the creation of its own surroundings. The paintings are a compelling puzzle, sometimes funny and sometimes sad."

Installation shot of The Swerve, Ortega y Gasset Projects (Sarah Peters, foreground, Caroline Chandler, right)

Finally, a group show that has so many interesting and favorite contemporary makers of mine.  I love the work of co-curator Jennifer Coates and the 3-dimensional work selected feels so strong and related to painting.  I really like when painters curate shows with multiple mediums.

Ortega y Gasset Projects

363 3rd Avenue, Ground Fl

The Swerve
January 24 -- February 21, 2016

Opening Reception: Sunday, January 24, 4-6pm 

"The title for the exhibition is based upon a book of the same name by Stephen Greenblatt, which touches on ancient atomistic theory, wherein atoms normally falling straight through a void are sometimes subject to a clinamen — a slight, unpredictable change. It is in this interruption of regularity where the action lies. According to Lucretius, if atoms were not in the habit of swerving, “nature would never have produced anything.” Taking this as a point of departure, The Swerve presents contemporary paintings and sculptures that explore the haptic and conceptual approaches to pattern: how pattern and its rupture are employed in service of meaning."

On view in the main gallery, Lauren Frances Adams and Jennifer Coates 

co-curate The Swerve, featuring works by:
Julia Bland
Caroline Wells Chandler
Glenn Goldberg
Bill Komoski
Joyce Kozloff
Bruce Pearson
Sarah Peters
James Siena
Barbara Takenaga

Gonna brave the cold and literally climb over mountains of snow in the street (which may be cars? unsure at this point) to get to these upcoming shows which are sure to be worth it.