CHICAGO – As part of not cancelled, a week-long online showcase for Chicago galleries, Corbett vs. Dempsey is delighted to present a selection of new work by Rebecca ShoreRead More
ELKINS PARK –The main sanctuary of the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Beth Sholom Synagogue was reimagined by artist David Hartt for The Histories (Le Mancenillier).Read More
SEATTLE –Congratulations to David Hartt whose work was included in a gift of fifty-one works of art from Seattle philanthropists and contemporary art collectors John and Shari Behnke to The Henry Art Gallery.Read More
CHICAGO – Congratulations to Carol Jackson on being included in the exhibition “With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters” at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Read More
CHICAGO – Congratulations to Magalie Guérin on being one of six curators of the exhibition “With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters” at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Read More
NEW YORK – Congratulations to Diane Simpson on her inclusion in the Whitney Biennial 2019, curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley. The exhibition opens on May 17 and will be on view through September 22, 2019. . Read More
LOS ANGELES – The exhibition, LA – NY 73 – 74, is Wright’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is comprised of works on paper and Mylar from the artist’s five-decade career and have never before been shown in Los Angeles.. Read More
RICHMOND – The exhibition includes film, video, and sculpture with the thematic core of the exhibition featuring two new films: “Pilgrim” (2017) and “Sojourner” (2018). Read More
SEATTLE – The exhibition, Magalie Guérin: The Marfa Paintings” is open through November 30th with an opening reception on October 20th from 12-3pm. Read More
CHICAGO – Dominick Di Meo is interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist on the Monster Roster, artistic influences, and Chicago history, among other topics. Read More
CHICAGO – David Hartt served as the Exhibition Designer for African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race at The Chicago Cultural Center. Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Tang Museum exhibition, curated by John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, and Ian Berry is reviewed for its historical weight and visual charm. Read More
OHIO – Rebecca Morris was interviewed by curatorial assistant Marisa Espe on WexCast at The Wexner Center for the Arts. The podcast discusses Morris’ studio practice, writing, and Morris’ work in The Wexner Center for the Arts current exhibition “Inherent Structures.” Read More
CHICAGO – Corbett and Dempsey discuss elevating Midwestern Art, why collectors should be obsessive and fall in love with art, and more in conversation with Stephanie Strasnick. Read More
CHICAGO – Corbett vs. Dempsey announced the first winners of the Instant Award in Improvised Music. The Chicago Reader featured the announcement. Read More
NEW YORK – Corbett vs. Dempsey is proud to participate in Condo 2018, at Bortolami Gallery, in New York City, with a solo exhibition of new works by Rebecca Morris and a historical work by Edward Flood. Read More
NEW YORK – The exhibition, the Seam, the Fault, the Flaw, opens June 28th through August 3rd at Greenspon Gallery, NYC and draws on Roland Barthes’ 1973 work The Pleasure of the Text, in which he argues for text that is as powerful, unpredictable, and textured as the human body, which should be consumed to the point of orgasmic bliss Read More
PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania awarded David Hartt the Pew Center fellowship. In addition to the fellowship, Hartt was also awarded a Pew Project grant to create a site-responsive, multimedia installation at Philadelphia’s Frank Lloyd Wright designed Beth Sholom Synagogue for September of 2019. Read More
CHICAGO – Barbara Rossi’s exhibition “Slippers” was praised as “a unique cocktail of chance and meticulous craftsmanship…disorienting slippage between abstraction and figuration is wholly familiar.” Read More
NORTH CAROLINA – Arlene Shechet is featured in the article Uncommon Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artists Combine Craft Tradition with Boundary-Pushing Creativity. Read More
HOUSTON – Sicardi Gallery proudly presents the upcoming exhibition, John Sparagana: Breather, which marks the artist’s first solo show at the gallery. This new series of paintings, exhibited here for the first time, underscore Sparagana’s analytical entanglements with modernist doctrines.Read More
CHICAGO –Ahead of the openings of EXPO Chicago and the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, a guide to the best exhibitions around town By Sara Cluggish Read More
NEW YORK – The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation announced, during its Annual Conference & Meeting, the 2017 recipients of its Awards for Excellence, the organizations’ annual prize dedicated to recognizing groundbreaking new scholarship in the field. Read More
WARSAW – This exhibition, the first ever of this scale to discuss the siren, aims to portray and activate her potential as a symbol. It combines different takes on hybridity, national identity and mythology. On view March 25 – June 18, 2017. Read More
CHICAGO – After her first feature screened at Sundance, Cauleen Smith lost patience with the film industry’s conservatism and devoted herself to art; her work is currently in the Whitney Biennial and Migrating Forms at BAM. Read More
NEW YORK – As artists and also activists, Deana Lawson, Maya Stovall, and Cauleen Smith are challenging the dominant gaze by reexamining representation relating to the lives of people of the African diaspora. Read More
NEW YORK – The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy-eighth installment of the longest-running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics. On view March 17–June 11, 2017. Read More
CLEVELAND – Since the 1980s, Albert Oehlen has routinely deployed the tree as a programmatic conceit, a rudimentary scheme that has allowed for mischievous invention within the language of painting. Read More
LONDON – Presenting works made between 2008 and 2017 in various media, including sculpture, painting, film, installation, photograms and posters, the exhibition asserts McElheny’s view that ‘reconstructing history’ can be a creative process itself and that aesthetics are always political. On view March 1 – April 13, 2017. Read More
LONDON – Blain|Southern presents Amy Feldman’s first solo exhibition in Germany. Breath Myth comprises a group of entirely new paintings by the New York-based artist. On view February 11, 2017 – April 8, 2017. Read More
NEW YORK – Homer, Kenny, Donald, Mickey: Joyce Pensato’s painterly masticating of these American cartoon icons—distilled in black-and-white enamel—have been seducing audiences for decades. Read More
PORTLAND – A room-size installation, titled Asterisms, 2016, is the most ambitious work to date by Cauleen Smith, an artist steeped in structuralist filmmaking and Afrofuturism. It conjures a future that is bright for all bodies. Read More
NEW YORK – The Chicago artist Diane Simpson’s magical sculptures crisply demonstrate the multiple time-traveling identities of certain art objects. Read More
NEW YORK – “I’ve always wanted to make art that trashed up a good white-cube gallery. I need to work in a place where the stuff and I basically become one.” Read More
CHICAGO – Diane Simpson’s sculptures, which are made from planes she cuts and scores when she wants to curve them, always begin with a drawing. Read More
NEW YORK – Diane Simpson’s group exhibition Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection on view at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, from June 25 to September 18, 2016. Read More
NEW YORK – Philip Hanson’s recent solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, New York reviewed by Barry Schwabskyin the latest issue of Artforum. Read More
CHICAGO – Window Dressing, a solo exhibition of artist Diane Simpson at the MCA Chicago, receives a review by Sarah Rose Sharp in Hyperallergic. Read More
CHICAGO – Exhibitions “Barbara Rossi: Poor Traits“ at the DePaul Art Museum, and “Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago” at the Smart Museum, receive a review by Lori Waximan in Chicago Tribune. Read More
CHICAGO – notes (8 pieces): source a new world music: creative music by Wadada Leo Smith was originally self-published in 1973 in a run of 200 copies. The current edition was reprinted in an edition of 1000 by Corbett vs Dempsey to accompany the exhibition Wadada Leo Smith – Ankhrasmation: The Language Scores, 1967-2015 presented October 11-29, 2015 at The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. Read More
LOS ANGELES – Artist Cauleen Smith receives one of five Herb Alpert Awards. Since 1994, the award, a collaboration between the Herb Alpert Foundation and the California Institute of the Arts, has honored five exceptional mid-career artists on an annual basis. Read More
NEW YORK – Exhibition Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago at Smart Museum selected as Critics’ Pick by Jason Foumberg on Artforum. Read More
NEW YORK – James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present It is too difficult a Grace an exhibition of new paintings by Philip Hanson at their Lower East Side gallery. Read More
CHICAGO – MakeItBetter.net named Magalie Guerin one of the “10 chicago artists you should know.” Magalie Guerin’s abstract oil paintings are colorful and playful, featuring various wonky shapes; they’re the type of paintings we could happily look at for hours, puzzling over their meaning.Read More
BOSTON – A survey of Simpson’s work, looking at her multifaceted practice spanning the past three decades. December 16, 2015 – March 27, 2016 Read More
NEW YORK – Nobody minds being called a genius. But the addition of “female” certainly complicates things. If you’re a genius, you’re a genius, no matter your gender. In his 1994 book Profiles of Female Genius, Gene L. Landrum portrayed 13 “creative women who changed the world,” including Estée Lauder, Oprah Winfrey, and Margaret Thatcher. Read More
LONDON – They say that the first walls were made of textiles, or animal skins. Buildings developed as a support from which these coverings could be suspended, to shelter early humans from the elements. English preserves the idea of wall/shawl architecture in the word ‘cladding’ (‘clad’: ‘clothed’, as in ‘scantily-’). Read More
WHITEWATER – Opening Monday, October 19, Crossman Gallery presents In the Realm of Innocents. This exhibition will include women artists whose work portrays a world of fantasy, fairytales or legends. Previewing at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee in January of this year, the exhibit will be expanded upon for the Crossman Gallery venue. Read More
PORTLAND – A group show that considers the mother, with work by Lutz Bacher, Susan Cianciolo, Sonya Hamilton, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eliot Porter, Aura Rosenberg, Diane Simpson, Barbara T. Smith, Frances Stark, and Rosemarie Trockel. It will also include new site-specific works by Cathy Wilkes and Anicka Yi, and a performance by Karin Schneider. Read More
NEW YORK – “Histories of Sexuality” situates Wynne Greenwood’s work in proximity to two programs from the New Museum’s past that focused on sexuality and gender in then-recent video works: “HOMO Video: Where We Are Now” (1986–87), curated by William Olander, and the video programs associated with Marcia Tucker’s “Bad Girls” exhibition (1994), curated by filmmaker Cheryl Dunye. Read More
NEW YORK – Barbara Rossi:Poor Traits, presents a selection of Barbara Rossi’s enigmatic graphite and colored pencil drawings from the late 1960s and her meticulously rendered reverse paintings on Plexiglas from the early 1970s. Read More
NEW YORK – Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of drawings, sculptures and paintings created by Karl Wirsum in the 1970s. That decade was Wirsum’s most restless period geographically and artistically, as he moved back and forth from Chicago to Sacramento and experimented with materials, formats, and visual languages. Read More
NEW YORK – Karl Wirsum and Jim Falconer’s recent group exhibition, What Nerve! at Matthew Marks Gallery, curated by Dan Nadel reviewed by The New Yorker. Read More
CHICAGO – Zhou B Art Center is pleased to announce –scape, an exhibition of works by Jon Cates, Mo Chen, Snow Yunxue Fu, Philip Hanson, Max Hattler, Alan Kwan, and Philip Vanderhyden. Curated by artist curators Mo Chen and Snow Yunxue Fu, the exhibition takes on the idea of abstract space both physically and metaphysically. Read More
LOS ANGELES – Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction. Read More
NEW YORK – Matthew Marks is pleased to announce What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present, the next exhibition in his three 22nd Street galleries. Read More
DIJON, FRANCE – Brian Calvin’s first museum solo show in France. Presented at Le Consortium in Dijon, End of Messages illustrates Calvin’s mastery of framing and color through portrait and landscape paintings from 1995 to the present. Read More
NEW YORK – Maccarone is pleased to present Bonsai #5, a group exhibition that pairs Roger Brown’s eponymous painting with the work of Carol Bove, Alex Da Corte, Peter Halley, Ken Price, and Diane Simpson. Read More
LOS ANGELES – LOUDHAILER is pleased to present Meanwhile in Lonesome Valley, organized by Sayre Gomez–featuring works by Liz Craft, Heather Guertin, Orion Martin, Barbara Rossi and Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen. The exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday, June 20 from 6-9 PM and continues through August 1. Read More
CHICAGO – The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), one of the nation’s leading art and design schools, welcomed contemporary artist Albert Oehlen to deliver the school’s 149th commencement address on Monday, May 11, 2015. The complete text of the speech is listed below. Read More
LONDON – Three paintings by Barbara Rossi are included in June: A Painting Show at Sadie Coles HQ, London. Other artists included in the show are: Helen Johnson, Jonathan Gardner, Sylvia Sleigh, Pieter, Schoolwerth, Ryan Mosley, Mernet Larson, Ahmed Alsoudani, Nicole Eisenman, Yamashita Kikuji, Jana Euler, Co Westerik, Rodel Tapaya, and Hayv Kahraman. Read More
CHICAGO – The work of artist David Hartt investigates the specificity of place. By examining the culture and built environment of a given locale, Hartt observes how the needs and values of communities form, manifest, and change over time. Read More
NEW YORK – Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present Over & Under a group exhibition organized with the cooperation of Matt Keegan and featuring work by Tony Feher, Charles Harlan, Bill Jenkins, Matt Keegan, Babette Mangolte & Trisha Brown, Virginia Overton, Kay Rosen, Diane Simpson, and Haim Steinbach on view from June 4 through July 24, 2015. Read More
SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Tang Teaching Museum will be presenting works from Arturo Herrera’s recent body of work using familiar forms and bold colors to create compelling objects. Read More
CHICAGO – Rhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present Abstraction: A Visual Language, a group exhibition featuring work by Samantha Bittman, Magalie Guerin, Nancy Haynes, Kika Kardi, Jackie Saccoccio, Linnéa Spransy and Raycheal Stine. Read More
ZURICH – Kunsthalle Zürich presents Albert Oehlen in An Old Painting in Soul. This exhibition brings together a selection of Oehlen’s work from the 1980s and is accompanied by new works on display for the first time. Read More
NEW YORK – Luhring Augustine is pleased to present exhibitions of new paintings and sculptures by Christopher Wool in both the Chelsea and Bushwick galleries. Opening in both galleries on May 2 and closing on June 20 in Chelsea and June 21 in Bushwick. Read More
PHILADELPHIA – Fjord Gallery is pleased to present Greetings from Lake Zwenkau, a group show opening May 1st, curated by Cameron Masters and featuring works by Laura Brothers, Clement Valla, Lisa Sigal and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Read More
LOS ANGELES – David Hartt’s Interval exhibition at the Bonaventure Hotel with LAXART recently reviewed by Travis Diehl as an Artforum.com Critic’s Pick. Read More
NEW YORK – The New York Observer writer, Ryan Steadman selects Diane Simpson’s Window 4, Window Dressing: Apron VI as one of three standout works at the Independent Art Fair. Read More
NEW YORK – ARTnews has announced the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) nominees for its 2014 awards. Margot Bergman’s exhibition, Greetings, is one of eight exhibitions nominated in the “Best Show in a Commercial Space Nationally” category. Read More
LOS ANGELES – Situated in a street level suite of the Bonaventure Hotel, Interval contains a two-channel film work on LCD monitors, including original music by Mitchell Akiyama accompanied by seven photographs laminated as decals on the storefront of the space. Read More
NEW YORK – Opening February 19th, Petzel Gallery, New York will be presenting new paintings and drawings by Joyce Pensato and primiring digital c-prints of collages in her Brooklyn studio. Read More
NEW YORK – Gavin Brown’s Enterprise presents the work of 59 artists in dialogue, including the work of Rebecca Morris and Charline von Heyl. The exhibition is on view through February 28th. Read More
LOS ANGELES – A small-run arts publication edited by Matt Keegan, featuring Diane Simpson will be released January 29th at the LA Book Fair. ==#2 is a non-thematic arts publication contained in a box with a 96-page bound volume featuring artist-to-artist interviews, texts, and transcriptions. Read More
NEW YORK – The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) has awarded fourteen unrestricted grants of $35,000 each to individual artists and one collective in the United States. Nominated confidentially by prominent artists and arts professionals and selected by the Directors of the Foundation and noted members of the arts community, artist David Hartt is one of three artists awarded the visual arts grant. Read More
NEW YORK – Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present a three-person show with Jo Baer, Anne Neukamp, and Diane Simpson. This will be the gallery’s first time exhibiting work by these three artists and will include a range of paintings and sculptures from 1978 to the present. Read More
NEW YORK – Wallspace is pleased to present The Curve, a collection of works by six artists that broadly considers objects and their depiction, as well as how pattern and surface can be mobilized to wide-ranging, often delirious effect. A shared interest in geometric forms – in all of their attenuated, ribald permutations – pervades the show, as does a garrulous palette ranging from treacle to acid rain. Read More
PORTLAND – Fourteen30 contemporary is pleased to present a group exhibition AllSummerInADay, with work by Matt Connors, Kristan Kennedy, Owen Kydd, Diane Simpson, and Erika Verzutti. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 21, and the exhibition will run through January 4, 2015. Read More
REGENTS PARK, LONDON – From 16 – 19th October Corbett vs. Dempsey & Thomas Dane Gallery present Rumble in the Jungle 1974. For their fifth collaboration, the third at Frieze Masters, Corbett vs. Dempsey and Thomas Dane Gallery propose to set their shared booth in October, 1974, exactly forty years ago. Read More
TORONTO – David Hartt is one of four artists who have been shortlisted to receive 2014 prize. The winner will be determined by a public vote. Read More
NEW YORK – Open until September 7, Rebecca Morris appears in a group exhibition at TSA Gallery, New York, along with Brian Scott Campbell, Rubens Ghenov, Rachael Gorchov, Lucia Hierro, David Humphrey, Julian Kreimer, Margrit Lewczuk, Dustin London, Dona Nelson, Devin Troy Strother, Christopher Ulivo, and Stephanie Washburn. Read More
NEW YORK – Opening June 26th, Rebecca Morris will exhibit new works on paper at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, along with Ben Berlow, James Bishop, Ilse D’Hollander, Raoul De Keyser, Suzan Frecon, Mary Heilmann, Paulo Monteiro, Ad Reinhardt, Al Taylor, and Stanley Whitney. Read More
LIVERPOOL – Opening July 5th, Christina Ramberg is featured in A Needle Walks into a Haystack, curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman. Read More
NEW YORK – Opening June 26, paintings by Philip Hanson and Rebecca Shore will be on view at David Nolan Gallery as part of a group exhibition of abstract paintings. Read More
MÜNCHENSTEIN, SWITZERLAND – Cauleen Smith and Joshua Mosley have been selected for the “Artist’s Choice” film series in conjunction with the Schaulager’s current Paul Chan exhibition. Read More
NEW YORK – Opening July 2, Anton Kern Gallery presents a group exhibition titled, Displayed featuring Diane Simpson and curated by Matthew Higgs. Read More
NEW YORK – David Nolan Gallery, New York, and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, are pleased to present Sun Ra: When Sun Comes Out, Ephemera 1956-1975.Read More
CHICAGO – My Hands Are My Bite features artists Diane Simpson, Lilli Carré, Laura Davis, and Carol Jackson in a group exhibition curated by Dan Gunn. Read More
CHICAGO – The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, in cooperation with Corbett vs. Dempsey, presents a retrospective exhibit of Chicago abstract painter Morris Barazani. Read More
SURRY HILLS, AUSTRALIA – Opening May 1st, artists Rebecca Shore and Gabrielle Garland are featured in Now Chicago!, an exhibition of work by contemporary painters connected to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Read More
PITTSBURGH – Stray Light, David Hartt’s exhibition of photographs, sculptures, and film opens Saturday, May 17th at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Read More
CHICAGO – Painter Margot Bergman included in Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, through October 5, 2014. Read More
MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS – Traveling from Kunsthalle Lingen, Rebecca Morris presents twelve recent paintings in the exhibition Southafternoon, through September 7th. Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Opening April 16, Diane Simpson’s work will be on view at George Washington University’s Luther W. Brady Art Gallery in What Not to Wear: Women Sculptors. Read More
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Curated by Carol Rhodes and Merlin James as part of Glasgow International, work by Christina Ramberg is on view at 42 Carlton Place, through April 21st, 2014. Read More
NEW YORK – On March 6th, artist David Hartt opens The Republic, an exhibition of new photographs, film, and sculpture, at David Nolan Gallery. Read More
CHICAGO – On Sunday, February 23rd, traveling from the Guggenheim in New York, Christopher Wool’s solo exhibition will open at the Art Institute of Chicago. Read More
COLOGNE – From Thursday, April 10th through Sunday, April 13, Corbett vs. Dempsey will present a booth in the “Collaborations” section of Art Cologne, with a myriad of work from the gallery’s inventory selected by artist Charline von Heyl. Read More
LOS ANGELES – On Saturday, February 1st, artist David Hartt will release his new publication, Belvedere, at the LA Art Book Fair. The book includes photographs by the artist, as well as a conversation with Berlin-based architect and writer Markus Miessen. Read More
NEW YORK – The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) has awarded fourteen unrestricted grants of $30,000 each to individual artists and one collective in the United States. Nominated confidentially by prominent artists and arts professionals and selected by the Directors of the Foundation and noted members of the arts community, artist Cauleen Smith is one of two artists awarded the visual arts grant. Read More
ST. LOUIS – Opening January 24th, Joyce Pensato: I KILLED KENNY continues on from the Santa Monica Museum of Art to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. An artist talk will take place in the galleries on Tuesday, January 21st. Read More
AUGUSTA, GA – Opening January 16th, the exhibition Painting in the Expanded Field includes Molly Zuckerman-Hartung along with Inna Babaeva, Cora Cohen, Nicole Cherubini, Liz Deschenes, Suzanne Joelson, Annette Lemieux, Jessica Stockholder, TM Sisters, Wendy White, and Tamara Zahaykevich. Read More
MILAN – Molly Zuckerman-Hartung will show new paintings in Shakti, a group exhibition, which opens January 23rd at Brand New Gallery. Jackie Saccoccio also has a concurrent exhibition, Portraits, in Gallery 2. Read More
NEW YORK – On January 26th in New York University’s galleries at 55 E. 10th Street, artist Diane Simpson will unveil Window Dressing, previously exhibited at the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin. Read More
GENOVA – On January 16th, Jackie Saccoccio will open an exhibition at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, her the first solo exhibition to be held in a European museum. Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – On January 9th, Rebecca Morris joins artists Maysha Mohamedi, Ruby Neri, and Laurie Reid in The Optimists at Stephen Wirtz Gallery.Read More
NEW YORK – For the Huffington Post, publisher Steven Zevitas (New American Paintings) names Rebecca Morris as one of 14 “Painters to Watch” in 2014. Read More
MIAMI – Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present work by David Hartt, Albert Oehlen, John Sparagana, Karl Wirsum, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. Read More
NEW YORK – In celebration of the exhibition Christopher Wool, an international cast including writer Richard Hell, musician and composer Arto Lindsay, Scandinavian free-jazz band The Thing, and legendary multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee comes together for an explosive night of art and performance. Read More
PORTLAND – This weekend artist Josiah McElheny speaks with writer and curator Lynne Cooke in conjunction with his artist project at Zena Zezza. Read More
NEW YORK – Diane Simpson’s solo exhibition at JTT Gallery recently reviewed by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine, Lumi Tam for Artforum, Andrew Russeth for Gallerist NY, Holland Cotter for the New York Times, and by Art in America. Read More
BOSTON – The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) presents the first solo museum exhibition of Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) in 25 years, curated by Jenelle Porter. Read More
NEW YORK – Karl Wirsum’s solo exhibition at Derek Eller reviewed by John Yau for Hyperallergic, Peter Plagens for the Wall Street Journal, and Andrew Russeth for Gallerist NY. Read More
CLEVELAND – I Work From Home, Michelle Grabner’s first comprehensive solo museum exhibition, includes work by gallery artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. The exhibition runs through February 16, 2014. Read More
CHICAGO – On sale November 1st, Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a 4-disc, box set edition of Joe McPhee’s Nation Time. A seminal spiritual-free-funk record, complete with all the recordings made during the 2-day 1970 session and two concerts from 1969. Read More
BIELEFELD – Arturo Herrera creates site-specific work for the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in a major group exhibition, For the Time Being: Wall Paintings, Painted Walls, open through October 20, 2013. Read More
NEW YORK – Diane Simpson will exhibit her sculptures and drawings in a solo exhibition at JTT gallery on the Lower East Side, opening October 27. Read More
TORONTO – Opening October 17th, Rebecca Morris shows new watercolors at Susan Hobbs Gallery in a group exhibition titled The Room and Its Inhabitants. Organized by Patrick Howlett, the exhibition also features Robert Bordo, Merlin James, Allison Katz, Sandra Meigs, Kim Neudorf, Justin Stephens, and Roger White. Read More
NEW YORK – Opening October 17, Corbett vs. Dempsey artist Art Green opens a solo painting exhibition, Certain Subjects, at Garth Greenan Gallery. Read More
PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, October 17th at 6:30pm, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung will give an artist’s talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia. Read More
ZURICH – Opening October 13th, Marina Leuenberger of Karma International has organized an exhibition of work by a selection of artists associated with the Chicago Imagists, including Ed Flood, Art Green, Phil Hanson, Robert Lostutter, Gladys Nilsson, Christina Ramberg, and Karl Wirsum. Read More
NEW YORK – Derek Eller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Chicago-based artist Karl Wirsum, opening October 12. This will be his first New York show of recent work in over 25 years. Read More
HOUSTON – Rice University’s Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts will host an exhibit by internationally acclaimed German artist and musician Peter Brötzmann this fall. “Peter Brötzmann Graphic: Design Work 1958-2013” will be on display Oct. 8-Nov. 14 at the Rice Media Center’s Visual and Dramatic Arts Main Gallery. Read More
NEW YORK – This past month Artforum.com featured Rebecca Morris on her current exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Party Cut, and Josiah McElheny on his current exhibition at The Arts Club of Chicago, Two Clubsat The Arts Club of Chicago. Read More
LOS ANGELES – Rebecca Morris’ watercolors are on view at MOCA LA in the exhibition Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection, curated by Bennett Simpson. Read More
CHICAGO – Join artist Susan Giles as she speaks about her work in relation to gallery artist Diane Simpson for the Art Institute of Chicago’s Artists Connect series on Saturday, October 5th, at 2:00pm. Read More
MARFA – Arturo Herrera unveils a massive installation for Comic Future, an exhibition at Ballroom Marfa, featuring work by artists who employ the language of various and discordant approaches such as abstraction and figuration to twist representation of their immediate environment thereby imbricating a skewed, often apocalyptic vision of the future. Read More
CHICAGO – The annual Newcity list “Art50: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard” named gallery co-owners Jim Dempsey and John Corbett in the top ten of the city’s visual art movers and shakers. Read More
CHICAGO – Stephanie Cristello reviews Party Cut for New American Paintings: “If there is something that Party Cut propagates more than a visual language, it is its subversion.” Read More
BERLIN – On September 7th, 2013, Galerie Max Hetzler christens a new Berlin space with a group show featuring Corbett vs. Dempsey artists John Sparagana, Albert Oehlen, and Joyce Pensato, along with Markus Oehlen, Matthias Schaufler, and Rebecca Warren. Read More
MIAMI – On September 6th gallery artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung presents Chlorophyll Bluess, a solo exhibition of new paintings and installation work, at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery in Miami. The exhibition runs through October 31, 2013. Read More
CHICAGO – The Arts Club of Chicago is pleased to announce Josiah McElheny: Two Clubs at The Arts Club of Chicago (17 September – 14 December 2013). Read More
BERLIN – Galerie Barbara Weiss presents its third solo show by the Los Angeles-based American painter Rebecca Morris (*1969 in Honolulu). A selection of new paintings from 2010-2013 will be exhibited, which have been recently shown at the Kunsthalle Lingen and that will further be presented at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht in spring 2014. Read More
NEW YORK – David Hartt’s Stray Light exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem recently reviewed by Eva Díaz as an Artforum.com Critic’s Pick. Read More
CHICAGO – The DePaul University Art Museum opens a solo exhibition of 1960s–1980s work by Dominick Di Meo this week.
DiMeo was a member of the so-called Monster Roster—Chicago artists who in the mid-twentieth century developed a distinct approach to the human figure: disarticulated and often terrifying. Read More
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA – Artist and musician Peter Brötzmann is known as one of the most important representatives of contemporary improvised music. At the end of the fifties he studied painting in his native Wuppertal, collaborated with the Fluxus Movement and with Nam June Paik. Read More
VIENNA – Opening June 8 and running through October 20, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna (mumok) features a major solo exhibition of work by Albert Oehlen.
SANTA MONICA – Brooklyn-based gallery artist Joyce Pensato opens her first solo museum exhibition I KILLED KENNY at the Santa Monica Museum of Art on May 31, 2013. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, the exhibition runs through August 17, 2013. I KILLED KENNY features monumental enamel paintings and large-scale charcoal drawings rendered directly onto SMMoA’s gallery walls. Read More
CHICAGO – Opening, Friday, June 7, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art presents a solo exhibition of over two decades of recent painting and sculpture by gallery artist Thomas H. Kapsalis.
NEW YORK – Corbett vs. Dempsey’s 2013 NADA New York booth will feature two artists, Jimmy Wright and Margot Bergman. The gallery will offer a contrast of four new paintings by Bergman, who has been working in Chicago since the late 1950s, with a series of 1970s and 1980s drawings and text works by Wright, who has lived and worked in New York since 1974. Read More
COLOGNE – Corbett vs. Dempsey’s booth exhibition at Art Cologne 2013 is titled Scar, Left Cheek, after a descriptive line in Duke Ellington’s c.1939 passport, which will be on display. The year 1939 was very good for the American bandleader, pianist and composer Duke Ellington. Read More
NEW YORK – Opening Thursday, March 28 at the Studio Museum in Harlem, David Hartt: Stray Light is a presentation of color photographs, sculptures and a video installation by Chicago-based conceptual photographer David Hartt (b. 1967) reflecting on the iconic headquarters of the Johnson Publishing Company in downtown Chicago. Read More
LONDON – Corbett vs. Dempsey is proud to present Limp Voyeur in a Humid Landscape, a solo exhibition of 1960s paintings and works on paper by gallery artist Dominick Di Meo at Thomas Dane Gallery, London. The exhibition opens on February 27 and runs through April 28, 2013. Read More
MINNEAPOLIS – At a time when artists may work without obligation to medium, why choose the materials of painting? What does it mean for an artist to assume the role of painter today? And just what is at stake for a new generation committed to painting?Read More
SALT LAKE CITY – Analogital is an exhibition of international artists who engage with concepts generated from the transitional space between analogue and digital. Specifically the notion analyzes the forms that emerge from our culture’s conversion from film grain to computer pixel. Read More
NEW YORK – Joyce Pensato is the recipient of the 2012 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, an annual award honoring an outstanding mid-career American painter. Brooklyn-based Joyce Pensato will receive the $25,000 award, administered by the Tribeca Film Institute, for her considerable contribution to the field of painting. Read More
LONDON – Corbett vs. Dempsey is proud to present Palimpsest, a joint booth at Frieze Masters, London, with Thomas Dane Gallery, featuring:Ralph Arnold, Morris Barazani , Dominick Di Meo , James Garrett Faulkner, Ed Flood, Llyn Foulkes, Art Green, Al Hansen, Robert Heinecken, Martin Kippenberger, Jiří Kolář , Nicholas Krushenick, Glenn Ligon, Albert Oehlen, Francis Picabia, Lari Pittman, Dieter Roth, Saul Steinberg, Peter Saul, Keiichi Tanaami, Christopher Wool , and Ray Yoshida. Read More
COLOGNE – Opening April 18, Galerie Daniel Buchholz will present a group exhibition titled ‘Automaton’ featuring a handful of Corbett vs. Dempsey related artists. Read More
NEW YORK – Corbett vs. Dempsey and David Nolan Gallery are pleased to present Christina Ramberg: Corset Urns & Other Inventions, 1968-1980, an exhibition of Ramberg’s paintings and works on paper. Held at David Nolan Gallery, New York, the exhibition runs from December 10, 2011 through January 21, 2012. Read More
Margot Bergman, Tim Berresheim, Brian Calvin, Dominick Di Meo, Philip Hanson, David Hartt, Robert Lostutter, Albert Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Rebecca Shore, John Sparagana, Christopher Wool & Richard Hell, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
CHICAGO – Presented in the Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and curated by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, Touch and Go is the largest and most extensive gathering of works ever devoted to the influential painter and collage-maker, Ray Yoshida (American, 1930–2009). Read More
CHICAGO – Chicago epitomizes the splendid diversity of American art. A central hub for art education in the United States, the city has retained an eclectic character across the span of a century and a half, welcoming divergences while cultivating stylistic debate. Read More
CHICAGO – Curated by Anthony Elms and Huey Copeland, Including works by the following artists: Matt Bakkom, Pedro Bell, Destroy All Monsters, Karl Erickson, Robby Herbst, Matthew Hanner, Alex Hubbard, Derek Jackson, Karl Heinz Jeron, Tim Kerr, Stephen Lapthisophon, Glenn Ligon, Dave Muller, Wangechi Mutu, My Barbarian, Senam Okudzeto, Joe Overstreet, Charlemagne Palestine, Adam Pendleton, Reverend Seymour Perkins, Mai-Thu Perret, Plastic Crimewave, Rob A. Read More
CHICAGO – Curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, and opening at the Hyde Park Art Center in October 2006 (5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago), this unique exhibition showcases a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra.
