Sean Kelly Gallery

Though her work refers to historical practices, for Shahzia Sikander it ‘never was a decision to be a traditional artist.’ The exhibition ‘Weeping Willows, ...Liquid Tongues’ at Sean Kelly Gallery continues and extends the efforts of the artist to develop an iconography which ‘counters a very narrow definition of the other, whatever the other may be.’ Watch the full film on frieze.com https://www.frieze.com//shahzia-sikander-questions-opposit

Shahzia Sikander, Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues opens today! For her inaugural exhibition at Sean Kelly, Sikander questions the opposition of the traditional and the avant-garde. Though her work refers to historical practices, for #ShahziaSikander it ‘never was a decision to be a traditional artist.’ Her question, as she explains in this video, was rather ‘who determines what is tradition.’ The exhibition comprises painting, video, mosaic and her first freestanding sculp...ture, all continuing and extending her efforts to develop an iconography which ‘counters a very narrow definition of the other, whatever the other may be.’During her upbringing in Pakistan during the country’s second period military rule, art ‘became like a fuel’ says Shahzia Sikander. New series of paintings in this exhibition, inspired by the technology of oil extraction in the Persian Gulf, offer, she says a ‘counter-narrative’ of abundance, creativity and imagination to ‘something that is extractive’. Growing out of her efforts to develop movements from iconography, Sikander describes the kinetic forms in her most recent video animation,Reckoning(2020), as inspired by ‘the idea of struggle’ between categories, ‘whether it’s power and powerlessness, whether it’s migrant and the local.’ Not passively accepting these as simple oppositions, Sikander instead seeks to ‘actively engage’ them. ‘You have to pull apart those categories’, she says. @shahzia.sikander @frieze_magazine #WeepingWillowsLiquidTongues #SeanKellyNY #FriezeFilms

Join us tomorrow to hear Shahzia Sikander and Sean Kelly in conversation, Thursday, Nov 5, 1pm https://us02web.zoom.us//1216045/WN_RjTMD1rcTg-53MpYmI02Jw

Happy Birthday to Julião Sarmento! This work is featured in Architecture into Art: A Dialogue at the Centro Botin, on view through March 14, 2021 The work of Modernist architects have inspired a series of works by Juliao Sarmento, who trained as an architect before turning to art. ‘In his painting, architecture has a very strong presence, and not only on a literal level but also in relation to the construction of his pictorial space,’ says Benjamin Weil. For instance, the tit...le of the canvas Neutra Blue Lilies (2011), one of a specific series of works begun around 2009-10, refers to the Austrian architect Richard Neutra, a major contributor to the shaping of the Los Angeles landscape as a mecca for a laid-back lifestyle in contact with nature, pioneering the use of new materials in residential architecture, something that Sarmento incorporates almost as an image in his painting. Many of the Los Angeles houses that captivated Sarmento with their morphology, their organic construction, the purity of their lines and their Minimalist aesthetic have become authentic icons, and some have had a significant cinematic presence as film sets, such as the Neutra house we see in Curtis Hanson’s 1997 L.A. Confidential, based on the neo-noir novel of the same name by James Ellroy. Neutra Blue Lilies, 2011, Polyvinyl acetate, pigments, acrylic, acrylic gypsum, Chinese ink, graphite, and serigraphy on cotton canvas 195 x 185 x 6 cm

It’s Election Day! Make sure you go out and Vote! For @wmag’s New Originals issue, they invited 18 artists of color to envision a new kind of political poster. Artwork: @shahzia.sikander W VOLUME FOUR, THE NEW ORIGINALS ISSUE

Sean Kelly is delighted to participate in TEFAF Online New York. The gallery will present Shahzia Sikander’s first ever free-standing sculpture, Promiscuous Intimacies. November 1 - 4, 2020 With its sinuous entanglement of the Greco-Roman Venus and the Indian Devata figures, Sikander’s first sculpture in bronze explores the ‘promiscuous intimacies’ of multiple times, spaces, art historical traditions, bodies, desires, and subjectivities. The two female protagonists are modele...d on the goddess in Bronzino’s, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid and an Indian Devata figure in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work takes its title from an essay by Gayatri Gopinath in the forthcoming monograph, Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities, in which she writes, In their suggestive embrace, the intertwined female bodies bear the symbolic weight of communal identities from across multiple temporal and geographic terrains. They evoke non-heteronormative desires that are often cast as foreign and inauthentic and instead challenge the viewer to imagine a different present and future. This backward glance demands that we understand ‘tradition,’ ‘culture’ and ‘identity’ as impure, heterogeneous, unstable, and always in process, disrupting taken-for-granted national, temporal, and art historical boundaries. Promiscuous Intimacies will be featured in Shahzia Sikander’s solo exhibition Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues on view at the gallery from November 5 December 19, 2020. #TEFAF Online New York 2020

Tomorrow is the last day to view Parley for the Oceans x Vortic, a virtual presentation to bring together artworks and raise awareness in the fight against global climate change. A portion of the sales from this exhibition will be donated to support Parley’s global ocean protection initiatives. The exhibition is viewable on the Vortic Collecting app through November 2, 2020. For our presentation we will feature a carefully curated selection of works by artists the gallery rep...resents that draw attention to environmental concerns via a diverse range of media. We will feature work by James Casebere, Julian Charrière, Jose Davila, Hugo McCloud, Landon Metz, Mariko Mori, Sam Moyer, Shahzia Sikander, Alec Soth, Frank Thiel, Wu Chi-Tsung and Janaina Tschäpe. Vortic Collect is a complimentary app available on your iPhone and iPad from the App Store @parley.tvand@vorticxr#parleycollective #fortheoceans Image Caption: #JamesCasebere, Yellow House on Water, 2018, framed archival pigment print mounted to dibond, framed: 46 7/8 x 69 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches (119.1 x 176.8 x 5.7 cm), edition of 5 with 2 APs

James White and Anthony McCall are featured in Deceptive Images Playing with Painting and Photography at the Marta-Herford Museum, Germany through February 28, 2021 The seven artists featured in this exhibition examine established perception mechanisms. In the field of tension between painting and photographic techniques, they address the veracity of images and open up new interpretative frameworks. The exhibition explores the mutuality of photorealistic representation and ...pictorial illusory space, in which the real is only hinted at. @jameswhitestudio @anthonymccallstudio #JamesWhite #AnthonyMcCall @martaherford

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Shahzia Sikander’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery and her first exhibition in New York City in nine years. Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues is an expansive, in-depth look into Sikander’s recent work, featuring the artist’s dynamic large-and-intimately-scaled drawings, a captivating new single channel video-animation, luminous, intricate mosaics and her first ever free-standing sculpture. The artist will be present at the gallery on Sa...turday, November 7 from 12 - 4pm. Please join Shahzia Sikander and Sean Kelly in conversation on Thursday, November 5, 1 2 pm EST as they discuss Sikander’s inaugural exhibition at the gallery, the artist’s career, working in a new medium and her forthcoming monograph and exhibitions at The Morgan Library, New York in June 2021 followed by the RISD Museum, Rhode Island in November 2021, and MFA Houston, Texas, Spring 2022. @shahzia.sikander #WeepingWillowsLiquidTongues #SeanKellyNY November 5 - December 19, 2020

After a Minnesota inmate, C. Fauso Cabrera wrote to Alec Soth on impulse this year, the two began a freewheeling exchange of ideas on culture and isolation that developed into an astonishing new book.

The twenty second episode of Collect Wisely is now live! Tune in to listen to Jon Gray, one of the cofounders of the Bronx-based collective @GhettoGastro. Founded in 2012, Ghetto Gastro is a cooking advocacy collective that ignites conversations about race, class, and inclusion via the medium of food. The collective is committed to feeding, inspiring, and growing young entrepreneurs in the Bronx. https://soundcloud.com/collectwisely/episode-22-jon-gray I think of myself as a... custodian. You know because, collecting it seems like such a colonial concept, but I think if I'm taking care of works and preserving works for the next generation, I'm a custodian because it's like when I'm gone someone else is going to need to take care of it." - #JonGray . Subscribe to #CollectWisely on #Anchor, #SoundCloud, #Spotify, #ApplePodcasts and other podcast hosting platforms to be notified about forthcoming episodes as soon as they’re released. Join the conversation and leave a review. @ghettogray @ghettogastro #GhettoGastro #SeanKellyNY Produced by @michael_beharie

Sun Xun was commissioned to make this new work, July Coming Soon, by the Asia Society Museum, New York for the inaugural Asia Society Triennial:We Do Not Dream Alone, which opens today and is on view through February 7, 2021. #SunXun’s practice considers the lingering impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese society, the subjective nature of global history, and the disjunction between personal experience and officially recorded events. His surreal narratives, realized th...rough a broad range of mediums including animation, drawing, painting, and site-specific installation, deftly appropriate Song-dynasty and western-painting techniques to create animals and other allegorical characters that inhabit dreamlike alternate universes. July Coming Soonis a twenty-four-page folding album that was created for the Triennial as part of a special project by guest curator Susan L. Beningson, Ph.D., entitledWe the People: Sun Xun and Xu Bing Respond to the Declaration of Independence.Sun Xun takes inspiration from the Declaration of Independence to rebuke the current Administration of the United States and inventory the collateral damage caused by its policies. A winged monster featuring the visage of Donald Trump slinks away from an apocalyptic scene replete with an image of the Statue of Liberty in ruins and a globe hurtling to the ground in flames. Sun Xun, July coming soon, 2019, Ink and color on silk 43.5(H)*756(W)*0.5cm (in 24 pieces) | Fold 43.5*31.5*5.5cm (x 24 pieces) #AsiaSocietyTriennial, #WeDoNotDreameAlone #AsiaSocietyMuseum