Gallery Hopping on Thursdays: April 4, 2013

This week we’re exploring video art gallery openings around the world.

Whether layered by traditional media or driven by Conceptual principles, the two artists we’re looking at this week use film to set the visual landscape of their work. Morgan Paley in London presents a unique film by Morgan Fisher (American, b.1942) that combines Abstract scenes with Conceptual ideologies, while in New York, Leila Heller Gallery and Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art join forces to pay tribute to Farideh Lashai (Iranian, 1944–2013).

abstract film MORGAN FISHER will be on view from April 4 to 7, 2013 at Maureen Paley, 21 Herald Street, London E2 6JT UK.

( ) by Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher, ( ), 2003, Maureen Paley, London, UK

In New York, Leila Heller Gallery and Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art have collaborated to stage a tribute exhibition in honor of the recently deceased Iranian artist Farideh Lashai. The artist was celebrated for her influence on the aesthetic construction of Middle Eastern Contemporary Art, and for her fantasized paintings and videos that gave a transient nature to ideas of reality, time, and space. By layering painting with video and sound, the artist used visual markers of the past and present to comment on modern day Iran. In an installation presented at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art entitled When I count, there are only you…But when I look, there is only a shadow (2013), the artist created etchings inspired by Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) as a backdrop to her film installation El Amal (2011). The juxtaposition of the universal theme of war presented in traditional media along with new technology sheds a nostalgic light on the violent condition of modern Iran. At Leila Heller Gallery, the exhibition also highlights Lashai’s use of layered painting and film in its presentation of five works from the series Rabbit in Wonderland. Once again, by layering these diverse media, the artist references the political landscape and ideologies of Iran in the 20th century, while also keeping at the forefront the beautiful detail that now typifies Middle Eastern Contemporary Art.

Farideh Lashai: Thus in Silence in Dreams’ Projections will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery from April 4 to May 2, 2013 at 568 W. 25th Street, New York, NY 10001. Farideh Lashai: It is it, and it is only now…will be on view at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art from April 3 to May 8 at 37 W. 57th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10019.

I Come From the Land of Ideology by Farideh Lashai

Farideh Lashai, I Come From the Land of Ideology, (video still), 2010–2012, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY

Browse openings by city to see where art can be found in your town!

London, UK
WALLS AND BRIDGES: EDOUARD BALDUS A BICENTENARY EXHIBITION at James Hyman
April 4–7, 2013
16 Saville Row, London, W1S 3PL United Kingdom

New Canaan, CT
“Defining Line” paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Judith Trepp at Heather Gaudio Fine Art
April 4–May 28, 2013
21 South Avenue, New Canaan, CT 06840

New York, NY
Vertical Club at Bortolami
April 4–27, 2013
520 W. 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
Alyson Shotz: Fluid State at Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
April 4–27, 2013
534 W. 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

Carole Pierce: Intangible at J. Cacciola Gallery
April 4–27, 2013
537 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

Shelly Malkin|Mind Journeys at James Graham & Sons
April 4–May 4, 2013
32 E. 67th Street, New York, NY 10065

EDGE, ORDER, RUPTURE at Galerie Lelong – New York
April 4–May 4, 2013
528 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

Kenny Scharf: Kolors at Paul Kasmin Gallery
April 4–May 4, 2013
515 W. 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
Darned Bodies by Josefina Concha | Solo Exhibition at Praxis International Art
April 4–May 4, 2013
541 W. 25th Street, New York, NY 10001

 

San Francisco, CA
The Time is Now at John Berggruen Gallery
April 4–May 5, 2013
228 Grant Avenue, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94108

Seattle, WA
David Byrd – Introduction: A Life of Observation at Greg Kucera Gallery
April 4–May 18, 2013
212 Third Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bullet Proof by Viktor Mitic at Gallery Moos
April 4–28, 2013
622 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1Y9 Canada


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