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Kay Rosen, “Prismism”, 2020, colored pencil on paper. Now on view in our @friezeartfair Viewing Room! • ’s investigation into the visual possibilities of language has been her primary focus since 1968 when she traded in the academic study of languages for what she describes as her endless study of language-based art. Through paintings, drawings, murals, prints, collages, and videos, Rosen has sought to generate new meaning from everyday words and phrases by substituting scale, color, materials, composition, graphic design, and typography for the printed page.  • Rosen considers language to be found material, placing her in the more passive role of a cognitive observer who enables language through minimal intervention. @kayrosenstudio

We are very pleased to present “Morning”, Louis Fratino’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, on view ‪October 9 through November 14.‬  For your health & safety, the gallery is open by appointment only – please book via our website, we look forward to welcoming you.   • makes paintings and drawings from specific memory and art historical references. Fratino synthesizes visual languages sampled from antiquity to modernism to describe the contemporary body, landscape, and interior spaces. New paintings of still lifes and interiors explore the tonal and emotionally evocative qualities of morning light, and the quotidian routines associated with that time of day. • Searching for a sense of queerness in the gestures of everyday life, Fratino considers the nuanced interactions of light with form, space, and surface as potential realms for discovery. Influenced by the writings of Italian poet and works by artists and , Fratino looks for an essential queerness that lies parallel to the body, extending outward into a more complete world. • Louis Fratino, “The Sleepers”, 2020, oil on canvas.

Presenting new work by for @friezeartfair’s Online Viewing Room! Now on view through October 16th. • Gibson’s multimedia practice explores the intersections within his own identity as a gay, Native American artist. Integrating vivid geometric abstraction and text with materials such as glass beads and artificial sinew, Gibson synthesizes the cultural and artistic traditions of his Cherokee and Choctaw heritage with themes from contemporary popular and queer culture. • Image: Jeffrey Gibson, “CONSCIOUS LIBERATION”, 2020, acrylic on deer hide, glass beads and artificial sinew inset into wood frame.

Vik Muniz, “Blue Nude, after Matisse, Surfaces”, 2020 ~ We are pleased to present this new work by as part of @friezeartfair Online Viewing Rooms, opening tomorrow! For his Surfaces series, @vikmuniz begins his process with the traditional act of painting, which he then photographs, prints, cuts, and layers into a collage. The resulting work exists as its own autonomous image, with a physical form distinct from the painting it represents. His newest works are based on ’s cut-outs, originally constructed from pieces of cut, painted paper. While mirroring Matisse’s method, Muniz’s “Blue Nudes” incorporate the translation of painted surface to photograph before being cut and collaged. This distance between the original painted surface and the final representative object invokes both a “material gain and virtual loss” for the viewer, as their experience of the physical work of art is recontextualized by additional modes of image production and representation. • Image: Vik Muniz, “Blue Nude, after Matisse, Surfaces”, 2020, mixed media.

We look forward to participating in @friezeartfair’s Viewing Rooms opening ‪Wednesday, October 7‬! Our presentation will include this vibrant new wall sculpture by , who constructs installations and sculptures that evoke organic systems.  Drawing on traditional Brazilian methods of rope-weaving and straw braiding, Nepomuceno (@maria.nepomuceno) sees her process as a way of “trying to hold the time with my hands so it does not go so fast.” The progression of time—as experienced chronologically, culturally, emotionally—is visualized as a three-dimensional microcosm of abstract structures, natural materials, and bodily forms. • Image: Maria Nepomuceno, “Vai ficar tudo bem”, [It’s gonna be okay], 2020, wood, fabric, acrylic paint, beads, clay, paper, Scotch tape, braided straw, resin.

“We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz” is now open @thejewishmuseum! The exhibition looks at how artists have historically responded to the rise of authoritarianism and xenophobia— including racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of bigotry. Horowitz commissioned 36 protest posters, like the ones shown here by and , as well as Kara Walker, & brought together more than 70 artists to draw connections between historical oppression and the cultural and political challenges we confront in the world today. •
Now open with free admission through December 31, 2020. Installation view of “We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz” ‪October 1, 2020 - January 24, 2021‬, at the Jewish Museum. Photo: Kris Graves. @kayrosenstudio @jeffrune @kara_walker_official

Artists for Biden! 🇺🇸 In support of the Biden Victory Fund, Vik Muniz is offering an incredible opportunity - an exclusive commissioned original portrait, as part of his iconic Pictures of Chocolate series.  This unique portrait can originate from an existing photograph or a photograph taken by the artist, which will be rendered in chocolate before being photographed.  • One hundred percent of proceeds will be used to support Democrats in the lead up to Election Day. Artists for Biden is an online-only sale opening to the public ‪on October 2, 2020‬ hosted by David Zwirner’s Platform (@platform___art) to benefit the —a verified fundraising initiative to mobilize essential resources to help Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Democrats nationwide to win the 2020 elections. The sale brings together artwork donated by more than one hundred leading contemporary artists.  • Images: Selected images from Vik Muniz’s Pictures of Chocolate series, dated 1997 through 2009.

@artbasel: 🗣️ In dialogue 🗣️ For OVR:2020, @SikkemaJenkins brings together two powerful abstract artists: Cameron Martin and Arturo Herrera. Their work offers two different – but related – solutions for the essential problems underlying painting: how to navigate pictorial shapes and create space within a two-dimensional surface. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Learn more in ' virtual showroom, where you can also watch videos of the artists in studio. Link in bio to explore artbasel.com/ovr — Shown here: 's 'Rendition' (2020). Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. for

We are pleased to present dynamic new works on paper by for @artbasel OVR:2020, in conversation with recent paintings by Cameron Martin! In Herrera’s collages and ’s paintings, layering & degrees of transparency are central to pushing the boundaries of abstraction and dimensionality.  Material is built up – cut, composed, applied – in order to reveal. • View our special presentation for Art Basel OVR:2020 through September 26. • Image: Arturo Herrera, “Untitled”, 2020, collage and mixed media on paper.

We are pleased to announce our representation of artist Cameron Martin! • Martin's latest paintings will be featured alongside works by in the gallery's two-person presentation for @artbasel’s Online Viewing Rooms ‪from September 23rd‬ through 26th.  • Cameron Martin’s paintings feature overlapping and undulating transparencies, patterns, and geometries in a vivid chromatic palette. These forms are meticulously applied to the canvas using techniques that intentionally complicate the distinction between the handmade and the mechanical, working from the foundation of abstraction towards the possibilities of representation. • Image: Cameron Martin, “Mr.Mr.”, 2020, acrylic on canvas.

Join us this Sunday, September 20 for a conversation on Instagram Live with Deana Lawson & @kunsthallebasel Curator Elena Filipovic! “Centropy”, the largest institutional exhibition of ’s work to date, is currently on view at Kunsthalle Basel through October 11. • View the conversation live via Kunsthalle Basel’s Instagram channel. This will take place at 1PM EST.

Tonight! Join us virtually for the next live event in 's curated series of performances by artists to activate his project, ‘Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House‘ for the ‘MONUMENTS NOW‘ exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park (@socratespark) • Tonight's performance features new original work by dancer @emilyjohnsoncatalyst, which will be live-streamed - visit Socrates Sculpture Park's website for the Zoom link, it will also be streamed on their Facebook channel. • "Johnson’s site-specific dance work, ‘The Ways We Love and The Ways We Love Better – Monumental Movement Toward Being Future Being(s)’, stages pathways for regeneration, renewal and transformation.  The performance begins with a gathering at the shore of the East River estuary with words from artist and activist Nataneh River, and then moves to ascend Gibson’s monument. ‘The Ways We Love…’ incorporates storytelling, invocation, movement, and light to illuminate Indigenous presence and the histories held in the parkland, which is situated in Lenapehoking – homeland of the Lenapeyok people. • The evening culminates with the planting of tobacco, and the project continues this spring with the planting of Sehsapsing corn seeds — a tribute to the future and a commitment to Lenape return." Photograph of Emily Johnson by Jeffrey Gibson.