"I hated this area so much that I wanted to burn it down, and I have vomited on it many times. I recognize the area as a dumpsite of human desire — the nightly parties were full of madness ..read more

COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Mikey Yates, titled 2 Summers, on view through January 27, 2024. This is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery and taking place at their Chippendale location. Continuing a tradition of deeply emotional and resonant figurative painting 2 Summers is Mikey Yates love song to small moments of hope or peacefulness that encourage optimistic living. Painted during the artist’s time at the Skowhegan Artist Residency, and then finished in Yates studio in Kansas City, these artworks capture points in time imbued wi ..read more

How did this ice cream truck, purveyor of neighborhood nostalgia, drippy, daytime treats, and elemental, ear-worm melody, become the visual documentation of Ry Cooder's 2005 concept album, Chavez Ravine? He invited Vincent Valdez (creator of Stations, a series of large drawings depicting Christ as a boxer and the crucifixion as a boxing match) to create a painting that would parallel his recording, portraying a Los Angeles story of gentrification and discrimination, reminiscent of the epic style and colors of Mexican murals; so rather than canvas, they chose a vehicle to be the vehicle ..read more

“I started building this show by painting cropped figures carrying suitcases, which are a recurring theme in my work,” Angela Burson told Juxtapoz this fall ahead of her new solo show, Travelers, opening at Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles on December 9th. “The figures are going from place to place. Maybe they are meeting or passing, maybe they are leaving each other. It is like people watching.” Burson’s exploration of people moving, with an absence of faces, feels like a universality of the concept of how we can transport ourselves from place to place, memory to memory, or in the case ..read more

Carl Kostyál is delighted to present Down from the Mountain, a collection of large-scale works on paper by Matthew Palladino. Executed in acrylic ink, the paintings showcase a medium akin to watercolor, which the artist has meticulously explored for over a decade. Divided into two distinct themes, the exhibition delves into the world of organic natural plant-based forms and intricate, dream-like interiors ..read more

Artemizia Foundation Museum of Contemporary, Graffiti, and Street Art (AF), located in historic Bisbee, Arizona, is thrilled to announce an upcoming event that promises to champion street art in the Southwest. On December 16, AF will host street artist and filmmaker Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, for the opening of her solo exhibition, Eudaimonia.  The show is title, Eudaimonia – refers to the Greek word commonly used in philosophy that refers to the state of inner-contentment and prosperity. The opening includes a book signing featuring Swoon—The Red Skein, Curry’s recent monograph, w ..read more

In the comfort of his bedroom, New Hampshire-born artist George Condo contemplated his place and personal perspective on art criticism and history. Typing away on his laptop, he expressed how tired he had grown of critics comparing his work to Picasso’s, underscoring that he hoped to deconstruct misconceptions about his paintings by writing about the process himself. Condo wants viewers to know that he has his own viewpoint on art history. The artist posits that art bears no chronology; something created 30,000 years ago in a cave might look contemporary, while a modern artist could easily re ..read more

MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present (Up)Rooted, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Dominique Fung. The exhibition marks her first solo show in Europe. (Up)Rooted alludes to an allegorical journey where seashells metamorphose into blossoming flowers, enigmatic figures emerge from shadowy shores, sculptural rocks pulsate with life, and the atmosphere radiates with a warm, honeyed glow ..read more

Fandi Angga Saputra spent most of his childhood in Lampung, a province in the Southern tip of Sumatra in Indonesia, growing up in a modest family with a father who worked as a palm tree tapper and was surrounded by nature. He was also surrounded by advice; ways of looking at the world that went beyond just your normal parental or elder observations. Fandi recounts that his childhood was marked by Javanese proverbs, called “unen-unen”, which comes from the word “unen” meaning sound. Unlike the West, where the idea of proverbs seems to be an antiquated, if not distant, type of metaphorical advi ..read more

With a few textile works in a show at Rajiv Menon Contemporary, we wanted to showcase the works of Bhasha Chakrabarti in today's A Portfolio.  ..read more