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Alex Prager at Lehmann Maupin in Chelsea NYC.

#Alex Prager #Lehmann Maupin #contemporary art #sculpture #chelsea galleries

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ARCMANORO NILES

Got So Far from My Raising I Forgot Where / Come From (Spent My Youth among the Pines), 2023

oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas

#ARCMANORO NILES #The City Lights Can’t Shine Quite Like the Stars: Got So Far From My Raising I Forgot Where I Come From #Lehmann Maupin #African American artist #painting

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(via Translucent Textile Sculptures by Do Ho Suh Explore the Familiarity of Quotidian Objects | Colossal)

#do ho suh #translucent #textiles #lehmann maupin

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It’s hard not to be delighted by Alex Prager’s latest exhibition, Part Two: Run at Lehmann Maupin gallery in NYC. Upon arriving on the lower level of the gallery you are met with a pinball machine, brightly colored photos, and the sculpture of a woman’s body with her head crushed under a giant silver ball. In the next room, the short film Run sucks you in to it’s strange world.

From the press release-

Directly responding to a period of cultural ambivalences and uncertainties, the exhibition urgently examines human perseverance and explores the opportunities for empathy, participation, and action present both within art and everyday life.

Across her practice, Prager crafts rich, often ambiguous narratives that examine the cultural mythologies and archetypes that shape collective existence. As she deploys and deconstructs artistic and narrative conventions, Prager explores how both our senses of self and our engagement with others are often mediated by familiar stories and tropes. Occupying a tenuous relationship to time and place, the artist’s carefully choreographed figures remain suspended between the past and the present, and Prager gestures to a collective will to exist that not only transcends our immediate circumstances but persists despite them.

The foundation for Prager’s latest body of work is the artist’s powerful new film, Run. Featuring musical compositions by Ellen Reid and Philip Glass and starring Katherine Waterston, the film deploys cinematic archetypes and absurdist humor as it examines human resilience in the face of catastrophe. An otherwise ordinary day in an uncannily generic setting erupts into chaos when a massive, mirrored sphere propels itself through a community. Here, forward motion is countered by retrospection. Figures collide into their own reflections in the sphere’s surface, and Prager suggests a curative, collective reckoning with those forces outside of our control.

The New York exhibition presents Run in dialogue with photographs and sculptures that further complicate and enrich the film’s fundamental concerns. Prager’s photographic work Sleep (2022) shows the intricately staged mass of people from Run, as they momentarily lay on the ground, after each colliding with the accelerating mirrored ball. Sleep humorously deconstructs the conventions of the film still, and Prager unveils the absurdist potential of suspending a single moment in time. Dramatizing the scene’s ambiguities, the work offers a narrative with a multitude of possible conclusions. Directly engaging the film’s central image, Prager’s sculpture Ball (2022) shows a hyper-realistic figure of a woman, whose head appears to be crushed by the mirrored sphere. As viewers approach the object, they are likewise confronted by their reflections, and they, too, become enfolded within Prager’s lively narratives. Here, as throughout the exhibition, Prager invites viewers into her visually and symbolically saturated works, suggesting that they, too, have critical parts to play.

Part Two: Run marks the culmination of a multipart exhibition, which also included distinct presentations at Lehmann Maupin Palm Beach in November 2022 and Lehmann Maupin London in January 2022.

Make sure to head to the top floor of the gallery as well, where the exhibition continues with more photographs.

This exhibition closes 3/4/23.

#alex prager #lehmann maupin #lehmann maupin nyc #nyc art shows #photography #film #run #pinball #art #art shows #sculpture #art installation #chelsea art show #chelsea art galleries

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Liza Lou, "Kitchen" (1991–96), 

Glass beads, wood, wire, plaster, and artist's used appliances, 

96 x 132 x 168 inches.

Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London, 

Photo Tom Powell

#art #design #surreal #kitchen #liza lou #glass #wood #wire #mixedmedia #tom owell #lehmann maupin

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Do Ho Suh, Rubbing/Loving Project: Metal Jacket, 2014 Colored pencil on mulberry paper. 85.5 x 69 in. (217.2 x 175.3 cm). ©Do Ho Suh. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.

#Do Ho Suh #contemporary art

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Cecilia Vicuña Thenar Eminence, 2021 Oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London

#Cecilia Vicuña

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Tammy Nguyen in her studio in Easton, Connecticut. Photo: Axel Dupeux, 2024; courtesy Tammy Nguyen and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London

#Tammy Nguyen #art by women #art #palianshow

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Check out Tammy Nguyen, I Pray to God That This Asian-African Conference Succeeds (2024), From Lehmann Maupin

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Liberty © Alex Prager - Courtesy Lehmann Maupin

#alex prager

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Gilbert and George at in Lehmann Maupin Chelsea

#Gilbert and George #contemporary art #Lehmann Maupin

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ARCMANORO NILES

We Used To Go Out in a Oldsmobile (For a Moment All We Did Would Never End), 2023

oil and acrylic on canvas

#ARCMANORO NILES #Lehmann Maupin #american artist #painting #african american artist

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cave, 2019, from Billy Childish’s 2020 exhibition remember all the / high and exalted things / remember all the low / and broken things at Lehmann Maupin’s NYC gallery.

From the press release-

For his fifth exhibition with the gallery Childish has created a body of work emblematic of his “radical traditionalist” approach. Pulling from themes found throughout art history—the bather, a lone figure in a landscape, a sunset—Childish presents intensely personal vignettes that feel archetypical, vibrating with the kinetic energy of a moment lived…

While working in a state of flow is essential to the creative process of any artist, for Childish this state represents the entirety of artistic production. Working intuitively and quickly, most of his highly gestural paintings are created in a single session without any revision. Childish is also an adept woodblock printer and he produces satirical and activist imagery with his London art cooperative, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop. His material approach to printmaking extends to Childish’s painting practice where color and line are emphasized through a flattening of each composition. His style is often compared to the expressionist painters of the early 20th century, such as Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Schwitters, or Edvard Munch, however, for Childish, it is the embodiment of these artists’ roles within society that is most compelling. An unabashed universalist, Childish considers artistry to be the inheritance of every human being, a method to capture the expressive impulse and visualize the powerful lure of beauty.

Utterly unironic and vividly familiar, a Childish painting can be interpreted the way one might interpret a dream. In one painting, a woman swimming underwater may represent the unconscious, while in another painting, a woman wading out to a cave could represent the dark entry into the unknown. For the artist, the conceptual should never replace the humanistic—Childish states “I make a picture in the same way a child does—something ‘out there’ interests me. Making a painting of that ‘something’ then joins me with the universal creator/creation in a more intent way than just being an observer.”

Childish is currently showing new work at Lehmann Maupin’s London location until 9/3/22.

#billy childish #nyc art shows #london art shows #Lehmann Maupin #art #painting #art shows

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TALL CANS & SMOKES ALL AROUND... "TREADING THE LINE BEYOND REALITY AND ARTIFICE."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on my favorite of all Alex's pieces -- Top image: "The Big Valley: Susie and Friends," by Alex Prager, c. 2008 © Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.

CAUSING A SCENE: "Growing up under the pristine skies of Hollywood Boulevard, the film industry’s greatest exporter in melodrama and fantasy, the line between reality and artifice was always something of a blur for renowned photographer Alex Prager.

Therefore it seems only natural that she would imbibe many of the same aesthetic codes through her work, but whereas Hollywood sells dreams, Prager interrogates them: using photography and film to examine the interplay between fact and fiction, light and dark, perfection and chaos. These are just some of the inherent tensions that lie at the centre of her ten year oeuvre and which now, on the eve of her first mid-career retrospective, she is breaking down and shuffling into order."

-- HERO-MAGAZINE, "Treading the line between reality and artifice with renowned photographer Alex Prager," by Finn Blythe, published June 18, 2018

Source: https://hero-magazine.com/article/124604/treading-the-line-between-reality-and-artifice-with-renowned-photographer-alex-prager.

#Alex Prager #Alex Prager photography #Beers #Budweiser #Photographic Art #Indie girls #L.A. #Los Angeles CA #Hero magazine #Fashion #Tall cans #American Style #Alex Prager Photography #Photography #Hollywood California #Hollywood #L.A. Style #Summer Mood #Hero Magazine #Hair and Makeup #Indie Sleaze #Hero-Magazine #Indie #Drinking #Drinks #Americana #Beer #Indie Style #Budweiser tall cans

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Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival., BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – TRAPPED/CAUGHT, 1985-1987 (COURTESY STUDIO K.O.S., LEHMANN MAUPIN. PHOTO: MATTHEW HERRMANN)

Tim Rollins was a teacher in the South Bronx who had his students read classic literature and create art based on it.

#tim rollins #kids of survival

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Cecilia Vicuña

MoreLlaverito (Blue), 2019, after the lost original 1979 work. 

 Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London..

#Cecilia Vicuña