East Coast Finds: From the Boston MFA to Miami's ICA

Part I. MFA Boston

Wallpaper inspirations

Post-MTA project, I am intoxicated by this flower and lattice design  of glass.

Detail

Period rooms...

Bird and Flower

Women in Action at the MFA: Frankenthaler. "Building on recent scholarship, this gallery recognizes the contributions of Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine deKooning, and others to the formation and expansion of action painting of the mid-20th century, a movement typically credited to their mail counterparts." 

Elaine deKooning

Lee Krasner

Joan Mitchell

A suite of Frankenthaler prints shows the variety within her process.

Luchida Hurtado body scape

The great O'Keefe

Part II. New York, Tampa, Miami

Tokyo Lab's exhibition at Wayfarers BK. Here, Syuta Mitomo's installation of repeated elements. His cast lantern shadows follow later. Mitomo is both an artist and pharmacist, who directs Art Lab Akiba. 

Yoshia Hongo's Bleed Out (aluminum) and Remnants-for Bleed Out (wash paper, sumi ink), distilling his impressions of the 2011 earthquake that activated the Fukishima power plant. He writes, "the trapped darkness leaks out without us knowing it, it is connected to the world we live in." 

For Syuta Mitomo, art encapsulates life force and transmits it to future generations.  Art is made of simple means from elements that evolve.

Tesshin Linho collects toy figures like miniature Buddhas, and photographs figures in space to resemble statuary. His work features figurines in addition to these photographs; it is humorous, and moving, imbuing what we view as societal detritus with significance.
Completing this exchange, several Wayfarers members are in Tokyo now completing their exchange exhibition. That link is here: American Wilderness

At Foley, Karen Margolis' complex paper and map  constructions.

 In the Precipice, at Foley Gallery. Gallery Link

Another view of parts and whole, borne of profound meditative processes and philosophy. To see the new sculptural work, click on link above.

Works on paper by Roger Palmer at Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL. His unique fusion of Asian influence, political conviction and Southern culture is best documented here: Gallery LInk

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Roger Palmer, biting social and political critique, gorgeous drawing.

Materiality pervades at the Perez Art Museum Miami, where a brilliant Joan Mitchell tryptich never fails to inspire.

Paintings on wood: Dimus Hall, of Athens, GA: 1900-1987

Paintings on wood: OL Samuels, 1931-2017

Purvis Young, 1943-2010

At the ICA, Guadalupe Maravilla's Portals (now closed)  ICA Link

In New York, Philip Taaffe at Luhring Augustine (closed). Gallery Link

Detail

I thought they were painted, but are stenciled, sometimes printed

Another detail

David Rhodes writes about them in the Brooklyn Rail: Brooklyn Rail Taaffe review

This last painting catapulted me out the door to go see the show on a cold, dark night. 

Ongoing through January 18th, 2020: the spectacular 100 drawings at Matthew Marks. Starting from below: Gary Hume, Peter Cain, Mary Beth Edelson, Christina Ramberg, onward...the sheer number, availability, and quality of the work is its own reward. A great show. Gallery Link