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Last week to see Rachel Niffenegger and Aya Nakamura // OAF opening in New York City // two new shows up at the gallery next week
1. This is the LAST WEEK to see:
in gallery one
Rachel Niffenegger: Opia
For her fourth solo exhibition with Western Exhibitions, Opia, Rachel Niffenegger braves familiar faces in curious and experimental new media. Specters the artist previously conjured through paint pours are now generated through an obsessive digital breeding process, which combines artificial intelligence and sublimated aluminum. These wraiths are suspended amongst haunted furniture, pulled from the folds of psychedelic clay, and spiraled through mirrored metalwork. A precarious steel and brass tête-à-tête chair and uncanny rug divide the gallery. The psychological seating presents a space to ponder our unbecoming, and observe the haunted underscores of ourselves and our homes in the process.
Visit the exhibition page here.
in gallery two
Aya Nakamura: Wayfaring
For her first solo show with the gallery, Wayfaring, Aya Nakamura presents 10 new abstract works. The drawings are colored pencil on handmade paper of different sizes and shapes, which have a physicality and assert themselves during the drawing process. Aya Nakamura borrows the show’s title from Tim Ingold’s Lines, a book that proposes a taxonomy of lines across different cultures and time. For Nakamura, abstraction is a way of relating intention in the moment. It is a kind of wayfaring, or of following the signs and guideposts that reveal themselves along a path in order to arrive at an end point. Nakamura works in pencil, as this slows down time enough for her to deliberate while drawing. She thinks of each element in the drawing as a consciousness that engages directly with its neighbors and aggregates into a larger entity, like an anthill. The result is a series of encounters, a permeability of space and form, embedded sensitivities, and touch.
Both current shows will end with a closing reception, to take place
this Friday, March 4th, from 5 to 7 pm.
The last day to see the shows will be Saturday, March 6, from 11 am to 6 pm.
Western Exhibitions is thrilled to present new work by Courttney Cooper, Jenny Crowe, Andrew Hostick, Michael Pellew, and Cathrine Whited
at the 30th anniversary of the Outsider Art Fair,
March 3 to 6, 2022 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC.
March 3 to 6, 2022
at the Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street, NYC
Fair Hours:
VIP & Press Preview
Thursday, March 3rd: 12 - 4 pm
Vernissage
Thursday, March 3rd: 4 - 8 pm
Open to the Public
Friday, March 4th: 11 am - 8 pm
Saturday, March 5th: 11 am - 8 pm
Sunday, March 6th: 11 am - 6 pm
Visit our online viewing room for a selection of works that will be at the fair. Live on March 2, 2022. Linked here.
3. Opening NEXT WEEK at the gallery:
in gallery one
Lilli Carré
For her fourth solo show with Western Exhibitions, Lilli Carré presents a new body of work consisting of loose ink drawings, ceramics with custom pedestals, stone mosaics, and animations.
visit the exhibition page here
in gallery two
Figures, Grounds
with:
Dan Attoe
Elijah Burgher
Julia Schmitt Healy
Leasho Johnson
Robyn O’Neil
Lauren Roche
Frances Waite
visit the exhibition page here
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