In MIST, four artists are brought together to take the inspiration of summer, and find a way to break through the heatwaves that have recently hit New York. There is a dialogue between the artists and their various takes on works on paper, bringing forth summer sensibilities, airiness, freshness, and a feeling of being free. … Continue reading "MIST – Fleeting moments and Summer Sensibilities at Helm Contemporary"| Art Spiel
Water Way, Mary Heilmann’s newly opened show at Guild Hall in East Hampton and her first large-scale museum show on Long Island’s East End, is a joyous celebration of 40 years of the artist’s career. The water-themed exhibition includes not only paintings and works on paper but also chairs, a small table, and ceramics, the … Continue reading "Mary Heilmann: Water Way at Guild Hall"| Art Spiel
The two-person exhibition Earth Suits and Beast Machines at Cove Street Arts in Portland, Maine, orchestrates a compelling conversation between Boston painter Jennifer Amadeo-Holl and Maine sculptor Mike Libby. This thoughtfully curated show rewards careful attention, presenting work that resists easy consumption and demands genuine engagement from viewers willing to slow down and look deeply. … Continue reading "Earth Suits and Beast Machines"| Art Spiel
An occult presence pervades the sylvan scenery of Comet Eater, a solo show from Terra Keck. In these nightswept graphite drawings, trees shimmer and sway. Leaves levitate and glow. Stars or fireflies illuminate ornate paths. Among other sources, Keck hybridizes the ghostly impressions of Anna Atkins’s botanical cyanotypes and the mystic geometry of Hilma af … Continue reading "Comet Eater: Terra Keck at Storage"| Art Spiel
Jonathan Syme paints like someone coaxing spirit from matter—a phrase that sounds mystical until you’re standing in front of the work, where it becomes simply descriptive. As restless as they seem, his canvases don’t argue or perform; they resonate, like a vibration passed through the soles of your feet. Thick skeins of paint are unearthed, … Continue reading "Jonathan Syme Coaxes Spirit from Matter at Royale Projects"| Art Spiel
Installation View, A Gathering: Gardens, Portals, Protests, Left to right: Lu Heintz, Kristy Hughes, Eva Zasloff, Kevin Umaña, Liza Bingham, Lu Heintz, Kate Holcomb Hale, Bhen Alan, Dara Benno, Damien Hoar de Galvan. Elizabeth Ellenwood Photography.| Art Spiel
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Installation image of Naomi Okubo: Resonance on a Surface, 2025. Photograph by Ken Lee When Naomi Okubo decides to begin working on one of her enthralling paintings, there is a multistep process that far proceeds the brush gracing the canvas. The careful preparation of materials, digital and physical, allow Okubo to consolidate her thoughts and produce an organic depiction of her personal experience. The authenticity with which this is depicted is a result of the forethought and boundless int...| Art Spiel
Zoe Beloff, Model for Drive-In Dreamland by Albert Grass (c. 1945), 2012, Wood, paint, plexiglass, found objects, 67 × 27 ⁵⁄₁₆ × 19 ³⁄₈ inches, 170 x 70 x 48.5 cm., photo courtesy the artist and Astor WeeksWhen my mother was very old, I wanted to tell her what it was like to be in the art world. I said, “It is a little like joining the carnival.” While not affording her much comfort, I tried to convey the disorderly balancing act of the ridiculous and the transcendent, ...| Art Spiel
Algernon Miller’s work bends space, time, and expectations, redefining what abstraction means when history isn’t optional| Art Spiel
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Jaqueline Cedar, Dusk, 2024, acrylic on panel, 10”x8”At Andrew Rafacz, Jaqueline Cedar’s Slide delivers small paintings with big temporal ambition. In her first Chicago solo show, the artist captures time not as a line but a loop—blurred, fragmented, and thick with atmosphere. Figures flicker in and out of clarity; gestures repeat like memories misfiring. The intimacy of scale invites close-contact peering, while layered forms resist quick comprehension. It’s a slow burn of perceptu...| Art Spiel
Installation view. Photographer Peter JacobsNanette Carter: A Question of Balance at the Montclair Art Museum is an extensive survey of 46 works from throughout the artist’s career curated by Mary Birmingham. Carter is known for her boundless abstractions and innovative works on mylar. This long-awaited show reflects Carter’s long history with the museum, the community, and the town itself. As one enters the show, the first piece is a video titled The Weight from the pandemic days, where ...| Art Spiel
Lauren Clark, Four Points Round, oil, acrylic, cotton mesh, copper, glass beads, iron, malachite, 40 x 20 inches| Art Spiel
ISammy Bennett, Above Grand (Echoes of Language as Code), 2025, photo courtesy of Flaneurshan StudioWhere Air Turns to Fog at Below Grand, curated by Ray Hwang, gathers Sammy Bennett, Anna Gregor, and Jesse Ng in a sometimes cheeky, but overall multivalent and sincere, investigation of visual perception and the machinery of capital-F/capital-A Fine Art presentation. With his characteristic casual abandon, Hwang exploits the gallery’s awkward architecture to its full potential, letting Benne...| Art Spiel
Bill Brown Raymond Saunders sure is having a moment. At the age of ninety-one. Last year, two Manhattan galleries, David Zwirner and Andrew Kreps, jointly exhibited Raymond Saunders: Post No Bills.…| In the Moment
Sung Tieu, 1992, 2025, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, February 15 – May 4, 2025 “…the question arises as to whether all social models of the modern era are not more or less successful attempts to delegate the horrors of exploitation to a majority in the interests of a minority or to various minorities in the name of a majority…”—Heiner Müller, “Das Liebesleben der Hyänen,” 1993* Over two floors at the KW Institute in Berlin, Sung Tieu’s exhibition 1992, 2025 of...| ARTMargins Online
Installation shot (photo courtesy of 57w57st Gallery)Willam Carroll’s newest painting series titled Trees has found a nice place to debut in 57w57arts. Each artist has their own room within the gallery space, the other artists include: Michael Voss, Steph Krawchuk, Seth Dembar, and Christopher Boyne. The rooms are also active office spaces where employees and clientele enjoy the work during appointments. Carroll’s series of seven new paintings on wood panels find themselves in the waiting...| Art Spiel
Illiberal Lives, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, April 22, 2023 – September 10, 2023 The group exhibition Illiberal Lives contributes to a rich and provocative debate on art both as a subject and object of liberal market logic. It is curated by Eva Birkenstock, Anselm Franke, Holger Otten and Kerstin Stakemeier, with works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Jordan Strafer. A...| ARTMargins