Gregory Coates

Gregory Coates with his works, Afro Series 1 and 2, 2018, feathers acrylic on luan, 4 feet diameter.

‘I pride myself on not being “labeled,” especially as an artist of color. On the one hand if you keep traveling across several art historical movements you never feel you fit anywhere, on the flip side I am proud of that too. I am not done exploring and asking questions of what’s there and what may be.’ Excerpt: ‘Gregory Coates, Claiming Feathers’ interview with Etty Yamiv, Art Spiel, 2018.

Big Cover ups, 2017 (Studio shot), ink on card board, 12 × 12'.

Monument to Civil Rights, 2017, installation, cardboard, door, various markings.

‘Coates exploratory studio practice and compositional experiments with found objects have established him as a prolific artist with a compelling and extensive catalog. He studied at Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world including, the Smithsonian Institute of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Galerie Denkraum in Vienna, Austria, and Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, Japan among others.’ Excerpt ‘Abstract Truths: A studio visit with contemporary artist Gregory Coates’ Sugarcane Magazine 2018

Made in Harlem at my AIR at the studio museum, 1996-97,
tape, pigment, rubber, paper on shipping skids, 96 x 96 x 4”.

Photos courtesy of the artist.

Gregory Coates at N’Namdi Contemporary Miami

http://nnamdicontemporary.com/portfolio/gregory-coates/

Blank Boards

Art Thoughts has been missing shows in the real. 

Spotted today on a walk a wall of billboards blanked out. 

Made me think of the paintings of Steven Parrino and Robert Rauschenberg when he erased a de Kooning drawing.

Information about the de Kooning drawing can be found at the SFMOMA website: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/

Billboards Melbourne

Billboards Melbourne

PiscinaComunale

Milan

'In 2013 I thought we don't use cotton tissues anymore but we all have them in the drawer and so I asked artist friends to send me a work on a tissue, it was a very beautiful exhibition and installed in an equally beautiful way by Marco Church' auto translated. Adriano Pasquali 

Selected images:

Art Thoughts goes retro ... with Adriano and Marinella

Louise P. Sloane

New Horizons
To March 28
Spanierman Modern
NYC NY

Gallery website: http://www.spaniermanmodern.com/

“The visual language of my paintings embraces the legacies of reductive and minimalist ideologies, while celebrating the beauty of color, and the human connection to mark making ...'' Louise P. Sloane, excerpt Spanierman Modern website.

Selected work:

Louise P. Sloane

Installation images via Louise P. Sloane

Untitled TZT043

Jan Hendriks and Evelyn Snoek

To March 22
BOS Fine Art
The Hague
Netherlands

Gallery website: https://bosfineart.com/en/

Selected work:

Jan Hendriks and Evelyn Snoek

Jan Hendriks and Evelyn Snoek

Evelyn Snoek

Installation images via Evelyn Snoek

Age Harsuiker

To March 30th
MFC It Maskelyn
Hurdegaryp NL


Drawing series: 'Belvedère & Ljocht yn e wâlden' Pastels on paper 190 x 140 cm

Selected works

Bram Bogart

Dutch born Belgium artist 1921-2012
To 7 March
White Cube Mason's Yard

 

White Cube: https://whitecube.com/

Bram Bogart Foundation: https://www.brambogart.eu/

'In these paintings colour is both subject and object, their heavy masses of paint swiped, dabbed, pushed or drawn across the canvas surface.... In a body of work spanning decades, Bogart has created sensual, organic paintings that sit somewhere between painting and sculpture: a fusion of colour, gesture and structure which breaks with pictorial tradition.' Excerpt White Cube 

Wit door zwart, 1971, Mixed media, 157 × 175 × 17 cm.

Yellow jubel, 1985, Mixed media, 210.5 × 180 × 18 cm.

Bram Bogart 

Images: White Cube and Bram Bogart Foundation

Steffen Schiemann

Evolution Negative
To April 5
Shoobil Gallery
Antwerp

Gallery website: https://www.shoobil.com/

Selected images:

Heidi Bucher

Swiss artist, 1926–1993

Untitled (Door to the Herrenzimmer), 1978, latex impression with mother of pearl pigment.

Official Website: https://heidibucher.com/

Nicolas Daubanes Jdp

France

Artist representation, Galerie Maubet https://galeriemaubert.com/artistes/nicolas-daubanes/

Selected images: wall drawings, iron powder on paper 

The process:

'Artist-Vandal, Nicolas Daubanes finds in the plastic precarious of his work a way to upset the power and authority of his subject. The drawing is not in proper drawing but rather laid, suspended from the paper, held by the only force of attraction of a magnetic surface. The pattern is first cut into a magnetic sheet, then placed on a metal plate and covered with white paper. The iron filings is then distributed to its surface and fixed by magnetization by mechanical marrying the form of the pattern. The weak balance of the material has the effect of making the drawing potentially ephemeral, itself trapped in a visibly fallible device, which cannot afford a second of release. The obvious non-durability of the building is supported by the irregularities of the line, which reveal more blurred surfaces, in a rendering close to an old postcard. The threatening impression left by the first sight then succeeds the feeling of an almost touching vulnerability to these buildings of the past, about to collapse.'
Florian Gaité, instructions for the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier (extract).