Alan Kitching: London’s Building Blocks @ GRAGRA Gallery & Letterpress Studio, Madrid
This is a must-see for all type and letterpress fans out there: The veteran and influential English printer Alan Kitching is one of the few figures in the trade who has made the transition from a time when letterpress printing was an essential part of mass media to a current moment in which much of the appeal of this technique lies, on one hand, in the exploration of its plastic limits and, on the other, in the preservation of printing heritage. Kitching represents, at the same time, the tradition and the modernity of letterpress. He will open an exhibition, London’s Building Blocks at GRAGRA Gallery & Letterpress Studio, Madrid on March 28,…
Mark Mulroney's “Clark”
Mrs. is pleased to announce Clark, a presentation of new works by Mark Mulroney. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.
Modernica x Cleon Peterson Present “The Divide Collection”
Modernica and longtime collaborator and Juxtapoz friend Cleon Peterson have teamed up for a collection to support Cleon’s own family’s relief efforts after losing their home in the Eaton Fire in Altadena in January. In response, Modernica is releasing a special collection—The Divide—to directly support Cleon and his family. This limited-edition series features nine unique Upholstered Side Shells on Eiffel Tower Bases and an Upholstered Arm Shell Rocker, each hand-signed by Cleon. The collection embodies his bold and uncompromising artistic vision, transforming devastation into a testament of survival.
José Lerma: Bayamonesque
In a world where noise and commotion are increasingly prevalent, and where it seems out of fashion to not make one’s presence loudly felt, José Lerma gives a face to the bystanders and the silent witnesses in the back. But only in moderation—the faces he presents to us are, after all, stripped down to their most basic features. Highly stylized and rigid, they retain only the bare essentials of facial structure in what the artist calls “the summary of a portrait.” His paintings go beyond mere representation, teetering on the edge of abstraction.
Justin Cole “What’s Ripe Will Rot” @ Lyles & King, NYC
What’s Ripe Will Rot continues Justin Cole’s exploration of life and death’s cyclical nature. In this collection, Cole captures the enormity of time’s passage and surrenders it to the earth. Flowers burn, feral and untamed. Fading figures are conjured in desolate landscapes. In this world, there are no beginnings or endings, only the uncertain middle. With each passing moment, the subjects disappear further into the unknown.
Hilda Palafox: “una palma de distancia” @ Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Hilda Palafox is not merely painting; she’s crafting a dialogue—a response to both the beauty and the challenges present in her surroundings. When we first met her, years ago, it was about the mural as a means to communicate, presenting a nuanced but universal language as a pubic act. This kind of work, the public art, reaffirmed the power of art as a vital force for change, resonating in a world that sometimes feels divided. She was a fresh aesthetic in what was, and often is, a male space. And then, with each new project, Palafox continued to elevate the conversation, creating a personal bodies of work in the studio,…
Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse @ Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Victoria Miro is delighted to present new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The New York-based artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery comprises a body of work completed during the past year, featuring botanical, landscape and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness.
Aaron Gilbert: World Without End
Gladstone Gallery presents World Without End, an exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Gilbert. Known for his paintings that probe the distance between individuals and their communities, the private and the public, and the real and the conjured, Gilbert imagines the personal narratives that quietly unfold in the corners of our shared societal structures. Guided by myth, an uncanny sense of timelessness, and the artist’s deep interest in storytelling, these emotionally tender tableaux examine how individuals maintain their humanity in a historical moment punctuated by crisis, the looming peril of systemic collapse, and the increasingly totalizing velocity of consumer-driven desires.
Greg Burak: Psychologistics @ MARCH, NYC
Neuroscientists have posited that the conscious mind resembles a theatre. Input and memory coalesce in emotion and ideation. Scenes play out onstage, complete with embedded symbolism and an ever-evolving rationale. Greg Burak’s paintings, too, are not unlike theatre. Compositions are carefully constructed with their inhabitants in mind, methodically planned yet filled with paradoxes. One-point perspective draws attention center-stage while peripheral views fade.
DL Alvarez “Dormmagory” @ GGLA
GGLA is proud to present Dormmagory, Los Angeles-based artist DL Alvarez’s premiere solo exhibition in Los Angeles and with the gallery. The exhibition’s title is an amalgamation of the Italian “Dormire”, to sleep, and the non-gender specific name Magory, meaning knowledgeable and inventive. The combination of the two suggests a kind of sleeping knowledge: an emotional, intuitive or even subconscious intelligence. Relating to this idea of the subconscious, Alvarez crafts drawings whose source imagery is pulled exclusively from textbooks and yearbooks from the latter half of the 20th Century. Stripped of context, the images become a non-linear fever dream of graphite and colored pencil on paper, exploring themes of nostalgia, togetherness, absurdity…
