Henry Taylor | Gallerist NY

Gallerist NY has published an interesting article by Michael H. Miller on Henry's current mini retrospective at MOMA PS1.
Read it here.

Henry Taylor | MOMA PS1

Henry Taylor
On view January 29, 2012—April 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor (American, b. 1958) applies his brush both to canvas and to unconventional materials—suitcases, crates, cereal boxes, cigarette packs—offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material. While Taylor drew and painted in his youth, he studied art later in life, attending the California Institute of the Arts after working for ten years as a psychiatric technician at a state hospital. In the months preceding the exhibition, the artist will be in residency in one of MoMA PS1's former classrooms, using it as his New York studio to create new work for the exhibition.

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-2084
Hours12–6 PM, Thursday through Monday, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Tyler Vlahovich | Feature Inc NYC

Tyler Vlahovich: recent work
15 February – 18 March 2012
reception: Sat, 18 Feb, 6–8pm

FEATURE INC.
131 ALLEN ST NY NY 10002
212.675.7772
featureinc@featureinc.com

LA Contemporary Art Fair | David Hughes, Tyler Vlahovich

Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair
January 19-22, 2012.
The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405

John Tevis Gallery will be showing a two-person booth with Dave Hughes and Anthony Ocone, as well as work available by Tyler Vlahovich and Mary Weatherford.


JOHN TEVIS GALLERY
47 rue Chapon
Paris 75003 FRANCE
+33 (0)1 42 71 84 83 telephone
+33 (0)6 31 25 31 06 mobile
jet@johntevis.com
www.johntevis.com
www.artlosangelesfair.com

CUE Art Foundation | Michael Minelli

Michael Minelli: Curated by Sowon Kwon
CUE Art Foundation
January 26 – March 10, 2012
Opening reception Saturday, January 26, 6-8pm

“Michael Minelli’s work is carefully and singularly made...its modesty in this regard is as purposeful as its engagement with the big, the bang, the speed and polish of our world as mediated by mass culture. His work lays bare the extent to which we are irrevocably made, remade and struck dumb in mass culture’s wake.”
—Sowon Kwon

CUE Art Foundation
511 West 25th Street, Ground Floor
New York, New York 10001
Tel: 212-206-3583
Hours Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Closed Sunday and Monday

Re:Cut | Fil Rüting + John Pearson @ TAM

RE:CUT
Jan 21 - March 10, 2012
Opening reception Saturday, January 21st, 6-9 pm

3 Installations by
Mclean Farnstock, Michael Kelly, Fil Rüting

3 curated selections of video including work by:
Chris Coy, Valerie Green, Masood Kamandy, William Kaminski, Zach Kleyn, Owen Kydd, Lisa Madonna, Jesse McLean, John Pearson, Nicole Sloan, Joe Sola

RE:CUT features video artists that play with appropriation, cinema, and the imagined space created within video and film. By deconstruction and re-imagining footage that has already had a life in the world, these artists expand the familiar into new, multi-faceted installations and single-channel videos.

Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
310.618.6340

Tuesday - Saturday
From 11 am - 5 pm
FREE ADMISSION
Closed Sunday, Monday, and all major holidays

Amy Sarkisian | Morbid Curiosity + Eslov Wide Shut

Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection at the Chicago Cultural Center January 28 - July 8, 2012
Morbid Curiosity showcases collector Richard Harris’ nearly 1,000 works, including creations by many of the greatest artists of our time, which explore the iconography of death across a variety of artistic, cultural and spiritual practices from 2000 B.C.E. to the present day.

The two major components of this exhibition are the “War Room,” highlighting the atrocities of war in notable works from the 17th century to present day in the 4th floor Exhibit Hall; and the “Kunstkammer of Death,” a modern-day “cabinet of curiosities” housed in the Sidney R. Yates Gallery, featuring a wide-ranging survey of mortality across cultures and spiritual traditions.

The centerpiece of the “War Room” is Mr. Harris’ collection of five great war series featuring prints by Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Otto Dix, the Chapman Brothers and Sandow Birk, which he has acquired over the past 30 years. This exhibition marks the first time that all five series will be exhibited together in their entirety.

Related Events:

Friday, January 27 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. - Opening Reception


Saturday, January 28 at 3 p.m. - Gallery Talk with British artist Jodie Carey and Guerra de la Paz artists

Sunday, January 29 at 3 p.m. - Gallery Talk with collector Richard Harris

Friday, February 3, 12:15 p.m - University of Chicago First Friday Lecture
Plato the Poet: Socratic Visions of Afterlife
Claudia Cassidy Theater
Katia Mitova, Instructor, Basic Program, University of Chicago discusses the elaborate myths of the afterlife in Plato’s dialogues Gorgias (523a – 537e), Republic (614b – 621b) and Phaedo (110b – 114e), and the relationship between morality and poetic imagination.

January 13 – March 7 - Forever 27: Music Superstars Gone to an Early Grave
As a companion to the exhibition, Project Onward presents a new exhibition in the Garland corridor of the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibit will feature portraits of musicians who have died at age 27 such as Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, among others.