Monthly Archives: January 2013

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Jan. 29, 2013: CHRIS MARTIN

Mitchell-Innes & Nash installation view 2012

Chris Martin was born in Washington D.C. in 1954. From 1972–75 he attended Yale University, and in 1992 attained a BFA, Certificate of Art Therapy from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Martin has lived and worked in New York City since 1976 and has been exhibiting actively in the United States since the early 1980s. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium; Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York City; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Joe Bradley & Chris Martin at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, 2010; and a one-artist exhibition of large-scale paintings and drawings at KOW Berlin, Germany, 2009. Martin’s works have also been included in many group exhibitions including Abstract America at the Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009; Shape Shifters at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC, 2008; The Painted World at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, 2005; and Current Undercurrents: Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1997. Martin has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2002, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, 1999.

CHRIS MARTIN AT KUNSTHALLE DUSSELDORF STARING AT THE SUN installation view 2011

More information can be found here:

Chris Martin at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York)

Chris Martin at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels, Belgium)

Chris Martin: Painting Big at Corcoran Gallery of Art (2011) — with videos

Art in America:  Wake-Up Call (2011)

Brooklyn Rail, In Conversation: Chris Martin with Craig Olson (2008)

NYTimes, Art in Review (2008)

Installation view of Chris Martin: Painting Big, 2011. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Photo by Denny Henry.

 

Jan. 22, 2013: LUCA BUVOLI

“Flight Simulation Laboratory” 2000

Luca Buvoli is an Italian-born artist working with animated film and video,
installation, sculpture, painting and drawing. Solo shows include the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, the M.I.T. List Center, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in
Greensboro, NC. Group shows include the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South
Africa, and Greater New York at P.S. 1. His animated films and videos have been
shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Lincoln Center in New York, the
ICA in Boston, and the British Library in London. A Fulbright and Guggenheim
Fellow, Buvoli has received grants and awards from NYSCA, NYFA, Creative
Capital and the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation. His works are in the
collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Guggenheim Museum
and other institutions around the world. His meditation on the illusions and
delusions of Modernism was presented in a large multimedia installation at the
2007 Venice Biennale, and a large outdoor project was installed at the Deutsche
Guggenheim Museum in Berlin in 2010.

More information can be found here:

www.lucabuvoli.com

What’s Left of the Future:  an interview with Luca Buvoli

Artforum.com Critics’ Picks

Modern Painters

Luca Buvoli Is Not a Superhero

“Trophy-I Remember” 2012