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Contemporary Division

Contemporary Division

    The Art We’re Obsessed With in April 2024 - Artsy

    The Art We’re Obsessed With in April 2024

    Artsy, April 26, 2024
    At 92 Years Old, Photorealist Painter Audrey Flack is Having a Moment - ARTnews

    At 92 Years Old, Photorealist Painter Audrey Flack is Having a Moment

    Ars longa, vita brevis cautions the banner above Audrey Flack in her recent Self-Portrait with Flaming Heart (2022). The formidable nonagenarian artist, whose art career and life have in fact been enviably long (especially compared to the crowd of Abstract Expressionists she once rolled with), presents us with a Sacred Heart set afire. If one of her idols, Albrecht Dürer, could paint himself as Christ, then surely she can cast herself as the Virgin Mary, as she does here with her Star of David pendant symbolizing that she is also a Jewish mother. A crosshatched halo crowns her head and two Pre-Raphaelite women flank her in a sky of Marian blue, like saints.
    ARTnews, April 15, 2024
    Hi, art lovers! - CBC

    Hi, art lovers!

    And because we promised you eye candy ...
    CBC, April 7, 2024
    Marlborough Gallery to End Operations, Land Artist Fights Demolition of Work, Gaza Art Center Destroyed, and More: Morning Links for April 5, 2024 - ARTnews

    Marlborough Gallery to End Operations, Land Artist Fights Demolition of Work, Gaza Art Center Destroyed, and More: Morning Links for April 5, 2024

    THE KICKER
    ARTnews, April 5, 2024
    Exhibition inspired by Ukrainian artist John Graham occupies his own Brooklyn Heights home - designboom

    Exhibition inspired by Ukrainian artist John Graham occupies his own Brooklyn Heights home

    designboom, APril 5, 2024
    The Long History of Art Inspired by Solar Eclipses - Smithsonian Magazine

    The Long History of Art Inspired by Solar Eclipses

    For centuries, curious artists have been trying to make sense of the celestial event
    Drivers in Dallas earlier this year may have noticed a curious trio of billboards on the side of Highway 67. Instead of advertising for the nearest brisket or “the world’s most refreshing beer,” the signs depicted a black disc ringed by a nebulous, fiery red circle.
    Smithsonian Magazine, April 4, 2024
    10 Art Shows to See in New York This April - Hyperallergic

    10 Art Shows to See in New York This April

    This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more.
    Hyperallergic, April 1, 2024
    At 92, Audrey Flack Has a Juicy Memoir, a New Art Show, and a Lot to Say - Vogue

    At 92, Audrey Flack Has a Juicy Memoir, a New Art Show, and a Lot to Say

    In the early 1970s, the artist Audrey Flack traveled to the Basílica de la Macarena in Seville, Spain, to see a carved-wood statue called Macarena Esperanza, a polychrome depiction of a weeping Virgin Mary adorned with jewels, crystal tears, and false eyelashes. Flack is Jewish, but she was no less overcome by the Macarena’s sorrowful splendor: Here was a mother shedding tears for her child—Flack could relate—but she was also regal, grand, beautiful. Flack photographed the statue and, once back home in New York, made several paintings based on her pictures, capturing each resplendent detail in high definition.
    Vogue, March 30, 2024
    Public Art Celebrates the Female Gaze Amidst Male-Dominated Architecture - Cultbytes

    Public Art Celebrates the Female Gaze Amidst Male-Dominated Architecture

    Cultbytes, March 30, 2024
    8 New Books We Recommend This Week - The New York Times

    8 New Books We Recommend This Week

    Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
    The New York Times, March 28, 2024
    With Darkness Came Stars: A Conversation with Audrey Flack - Art & Object

    With Darkness Came Stars: A Conversation with Audrey Flack

    Art & Object, March 28, 2024
    With Bold Colors and Big Feelings, a Pioneering Painter Tells Her Story - New York Times

    With Bold Colors and Big Feelings, a Pioneering Painter Tells Her Story

     In “With Darkness Came Stars,” the photorealist Audrey Flack offers a vivid, gossipy chronicle of her career among some of New York City’s most famous artists.
    The New York Times Book Review, March 17, 2024
    Kick Off the New Year With These Five Standout Artists Featured on Artnet Gallery Network - artnet news

    Kick Off the New Year With These Five Standout Artists Featured on Artnet Gallery Network

    Artnet, January 25, 2024
    Rising Painter Osamu Kobayashi’s Ethereal Abstractions Evoke Spectral Visions - Artsy

    Rising Painter Osamu Kobayashi’s Ethereal Abstractions Evoke Spectral Visions

    In his Brooklyn studio under the Gowanus Expressway, painter Osamu Kobayashi fills notebooks with approximately two-square-inch sketches of abstract shapes. These small graphite doodles, lined up in grids in his sketchbook, are the blueprints for the color-drenched canvases that fill his studio, including Inner, Outer (2023), an expansive abstract painting resembling a figure eight. He closely references these drawings, placing checkmarks next to those he wants to paint. Then, Kobayashi uses huge brushes—some created by affixing almost 30 utility brushes to a single piece of molding—to translate these forms onto the canvas.
    Artsy, January 17, 2024
    Dana James: Pearls & Potions

    Dana James: Pearls & Potions

    The Brooklyn Rail, October 31, 2023
    Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Shows in New York Not to Miss in October - Artnet News

    Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Shows in New York Not to Miss in October

    Based in Ridgewood, New York, Dana James believes that materials can “transcend their nature” and their seeming oppositions—such as opaque and sheer, geometric and organic, light and shadow—can create harmony.
    Artnet, October 14, 2023
    The big omissions at the renovated Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Washington Post

    The big omissions at the renovated Smithsonian American Art Museum

    The Washington Post, October 5, 2023
    André Hemer - Artforum

    André Hemer

    André Hemer’s paintings contain gobs and streaks of viscid acrylic and pigment—crimsons, golds, purples. Their surfaces are adorned with floral elements that encircle blue skies and peachy sunsets.
    Artforum, October 1, 2023
    Smithsonian American Art Museum Reopens Its Contemporary Galleries with New Stories to Tell - ARTnews

    Smithsonian American Art Museum Reopens Its Contemporary Galleries with New Stories to Tell

    ARTnews, September 27, 2023
    New York Lowdown 2023: 9 Must-See Autumn Exhibitions - Ocula

    New York Lowdown 2023: 9 Must-See Autumn Exhibitions

    Expect: vivid paintings that speak to the state of living in rapid motion, where time wraps, pieces go missing, and the backdrop of life becomes a flat plane.
    Ocula, August 30, 2023
    9 Overlooked Women Artists in Their Nineties - Artsy

    9 Overlooked Women Artists in Their Nineties

    Artsy, July 21, 2023
    Episode – 68 André Hemer - ArtBox DMV

    Episode – 68 André Hemer

    Podcast
    ArtBox DMV, July 20, 2023
    Anicka Yi, Sculptor of Air, Joins Esther Schipper. Other artists moving to new galleries in May include Hajime Sorayama, David Huffman, Brett Taylor, and Tomashi Jackson.

    Anicka Yi, Sculptor of Air, Joins Esther Schipper

    Other artists moving to new galleries in May include Hajime Sorayama, David Huffman, Brett Taylor, and Tomashi Jackson.
    Ocula, May 29, 2023
    Meet the Young Collectors Calling the Shots at the Guggenheim, a Highly Placed Art Worlder’s Anti-Woke Tweets, and More Art World Gossip - We Her - Artnet

    Meet the Young Collectors Calling the Shots at the Guggenheim, a Highly Placed Art Worlder’s Anti-Woke Tweets, and More Art World Gossip

    WE HEAR
    Artnet, May 2023
    André Hemer Studies the Sky - Surface

    André Hemer Studies the Sky

    An amalgamation of skyscapes captured in Sicily, Indonesia, Thailand, and New Zealand, the Vienna-based artist’s new body of ambient, fresco-like works serve as sensory portals into the skies above far-flung places.

    Surface, May 23, 2023
    Episode 842 - ICI Scott Vincent Campbell and Becky Nahom and John Knuth live from EXPO! - Bad at Sports Podcast

    Episode 842

    ICI Scott Vincent Campbell and Becky Nahom and John Knuth live from EXPO!
    Bad at Sports Podcast, May 11, 2023
    10 Must-See Shows during New York Art Week 2023 - André Hemer, “Troposphere” - Artsy

    10 Must-See Shows during New York Art Week 2023

    André Hemer, “Troposphere”
    Exploring the intersections of digital media and painting, Vienna-based artist André Hemer creates dreamy, atmospheric compositions that resemble portals to the sky.…
    Artsy, May 4, 2023
    The Artists Trending This April, Artsy Editorial - Dana James

    The Artists Trending This April

    Artsy, April 28, 2023
    La peinture figurative prend sa revanche à Montpellier - La Monde

    La peinture figurative prend sa revanche à Montpellier

    La Monde, April 24, 2023 (French-language Website)
    Studio Visit: Painter Dana James - Cool Hunting

    Studio Visit: Painter Dana James

    Cool Hunting, April 13, 2023
    Tim Kent at PILEVNELI, Istanbul, Turkey

    Tim Kent at PILEVNELI, Istanbul, Turkey

    'Tim Kent: Chronos and Kairos'
    25 October – 2 December 2023
    Smithsonian American Art Museum Reopens Modern and Contemporary Galleries With a New Installation - Hyperallergic

    Smithsonian American Art Museum Reopens Modern and Contemporary Galleries With a New Installation

    Hyperallergic, September 18, 2023

    Contemporary Division Mission Statement

    Hollis Taggart Contemporary was established in the summer of 2019 as an expansion of Hollis Taggart. Committed to presenting emerging and mid-career artists who reflect the dynamic contemporary field, the division showcases artworks that explore a spectrum of approaches, techniques and materials. The artists presented also demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the artistic movements that came before them. With over 40 years of experience, Hollis Taggart has built a reputation for its deep commitment to the artists and estates it represents. Continuing in this tradition, Hollis Taggart Contemporary's program is similarly characterized by a strong emphasis on erudition and discernment. The division implements a varied and rigorous exhibition schedule, as well as collaboration with curators and scholars to present museum quality exhibitions and didactic catalogues. With its recent expansion in Chelsea and regular participation in art fairs, the gallery continues to broaden opportunities to support its growing roster of contemporary artists. 

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