LOLA SHEPARD | Curatorial Projects + Gallery

A BLOG SHOWCASING CONTEMPORARY ART & PHOTOGRAPHY www.LolaShepard.com 

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To This World She Returned.

Paintings by Sandrine Kern.

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GARRY GRANT DIMENSIONAL CITIES July 26 - August 15, 2018

Join us at North of History gallery on Thursday, July 26, 2018 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. for the art opening reception of DIMENSIONAL CITIES, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Harlem based abstract artist, GARRY GRANT. This exhibition will run from July 26 - August 15, 2018.

DIMENSIONAL CITIES feature Garry Grant’s two series of works: The Detroit Industrial Complex Series and The Fortification Series. Grant’s body of work focuses on diverse urban landscapes, local and world affairs, and the evolution of our culture. He often includes geometric shapes, vibrant color, and repetition as a way of conveying rhythm in his compositions.  Read more....

Curated by Lola Shepard

— NORTH OF HISTORY 445 Columbus Ave. (@81st St) New York, NY 10024 www.NorthofHistory.com

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Off-World.

Paintings by English artist, Billy Childish.

Billy Childish’s paintings generally revolve around the figure isolated in landscape. Heavily outlined and bursting with unusual color, his works are reminiscent of the previous turn of the century artists: Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt, and Schiele. Childish is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression and co-founded the 'Stuckism' art movement in 1999 to 2001, which promotes figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art.

Childish is represented by Lehmann Maupin & Carl Freedman gallery. 

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Lotus Rising.

Paintings by Janet Filomeno.

This Lotus Rising series are based on a Chinese poem by Cao Zhi (192-232) titled ‘The Nymph of the Luo River.’ The artwork combines the gestures of Abstract Expressionism, the serial qualities of Pop, the operatic gesture of the Baroque, the movement of the Japanese Gutai, and influences of ancient Chinese Landscape Painting, all infused with past and present personal histories.  These multi-cultural influences inspire a collective referral to the history of art and allow her own personal expression to align with the cultural context which we live in today. (Text Source)

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Wherever I Go.

Photography by Iranian artist, Niloufar Banisadr.

Banisadr is represented by 55 Bellechasse Gallery.

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Blocking the Scene.

Installations and paintings by Ryan Wallace.

Wallace is represented by Mark Moore Fine Art.

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Back In Those Days.

Carol Crawford's artwork incorporates a mix of painting and photographic images within a three-dimensional constructed frame that extends the landscape they enclose. She makes both real and dream cities, fantasy environments with and about people. Strange worlds, perhaps, but they are the worlds we inhabit daily. (Text Source)

Crawford is a member of Atlantic Gallery and President of LIC Artists in NYC.

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Winter Is Coming.

Landscape photography by Snorri Gunnarsson, Jan Machata, and Evgeni Dinev.

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Home Is Where the Heart Is.

Photography by Eleonora Costi.

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I Remember.

Artwork by French artist, Fabienne Rivory.

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Entwined.

Installations by Chiharu Shiota.

Shiota is represented by Arndt Fine Art.

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A World Unto Itself.

Artwork by Turkish artist, Ahmet Günestekin.

Günestekin is a self-taught visual artist whose body of work can be briefly described as the interpretation of the oral narratives, legends, and mythology from Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Greek civilizations. He creates optical and vibrant works, with the solar disc as one of his occurring motifs. The figurative way of expression is present in all his oeuvres, even though in an abstract stylized way. In all of Günestekin's contemporaneous works, the characters, symbols, and scenes are taken out of ancient times, and these characters are symbolic, woven in symbolic tales about the essential questions of mankind. (Text Source)

Günestekin is represented by Marlborough Gallery.

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This Is England.

Street Photography by Bruce Davidson.

Images are from Davidson's book, England/Scotland 1960.

Davidson is a member of Magnum Photos.

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A Passage in Time.

Land art by Spencer Byles.

Byles spent a year designing temporary land installations throughout three unmanaged French forests - La Colle Sur Loup, Villeneuve Loubet, and Mougins. Utilizing only natural and found materials, each sculpture blends seamlessly with the environment.

These art works are not intended to last, as they will eventually be reclaimed by the environment that helped Byles shape it. This full circle gives the organic pieces a powerful poetic and philosophical touch.

To preserve the forests ecosystem, Byle will not disclose the exact location for any of his sculptures. The only means of seeing any of these works in person is to wander one of the three forests and stumble upon them. (Text Source)

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We the People.

Photography by Yanne Kintgen.

Kintgen is represented by the Parisian gallery, Envie D'Art.

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The Human Condition.

Narrative paintings by Vincent Desiderio.

Desiderio is represented by Marlborough Gallery.

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Preservation.

Born in Australia and raised in Nigeria, NNENNA OKORE’s work focuses on the concepts of recycling, transformation, and regeneration of forms. Her materials are biodegradable and comprise largely of old newspapers, found paper, ropes, thread, yarn, fibers, burlap, dye, coffee, starch, clay, etc. Through manually repetitive techniques, she systematically deconstructs and reconstructs the medium into gestural sculptures. And much like impermanent earthly attributes, Okore's organic and twisted structures mimic the dazzling intricacies of fabric, trees, barks, topography, and architecture. (Text Source)

Okore is represented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery.