Tag: landscapes

Hayal Pozanti at Timothy Taylor Gallery

Although it’s their vibrant color that leaps out, Hayal Pozanti’s oil stick paintings of the natural world rely on shape to reinterpret the landscape as a conduit to emotional states.  Over many years, Pozanti has devised her own language of forms, here rendered in curving and organic masses as blushing, enormous pink flowers. Via her new, large-scale paintings at Timothy Taylor Gallery’s new Tribeca location, the artist not only celebrates her recent move to the Vermont countryside but explores how intense color can release strong feeling. (On view through May 27th).

Hayal Pozanti, Magic Music We Make With Our Lips, oil stick on linen, 2023.

Brea Souders at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Photography came of age in the 19th century western landscape and, more recently, the western U.S. has been transformed by the effects of climate change says artist Brea Souders, whose new series ‘Vistas’ at Bruce Silverstein Gallery explores representations of the region created using Google Photo Sphere.  Each found photo features a distorted shadow, Google’s algorithm having removed images of people.  As individual agency meets global dissemination of images taken in remote locations, the scale and experience of nature shifts dramatically.  (On view in Chelsea through Aug 20th).

Brea Souders, Untitled #22 (from Vistas), unique archival pigment print with watercolor, 40 x 56 inches, 2020.

The Boyle Family at Luhring Augustine Gallery

In their first New York solo show in 40 years, the Boyle Family (father Robert Boyle, mother Joan Hills and their adult children Sebastian and Georgia Boyle) considers relationships between humans and the environment with wall mounted mini-landscapes.  Meticulous recreations of sites chosen at random, each ‘earthprobe’ is a recreation of a segment of the earth’s surface in an urban or rural area.  How to interpret these slices of mediated reality?  The Boyles explain that they want to consider whether it’s possible to look at the earth and not think of ‘myths and legends, art of the past or present, art and myths of other cultures.’ Thankfully, it seems it is not, as each will prompt historical connections and personal memories. (On view at Luhring Augustine in Chelsea through April 24th).

The Boyle Family, Kerb Study with Filled in Basement Lights and Cobbles, Westminster Series, mixed media, resin, fiberglass, C 66 x 66 inches, 1987

John Kelsey in ‘Landscapes’ at Marlborough Gallery

A phenomenal landscape meets a monumental project to collect data at mind-boggling expense ($1b+) in John Kelsey’s pretty watercolor of an NSA Data Center in Williams, Utah. (At Marlborough Gallery through July 29th).

John Kelsey, NSA Data Center, Camp Williams, UT, watercolor, mounted on aluminum, 12 ¼ x 16 1/8 inches, 2013.
John Kelsey, NSA Data Center, Camp Williams, UT, watercolor, mounted on aluminum, 12 ¼ x 16 1/8 inches, 2013.

Simen Johan at Yossi Milo Gallery

New York based-Scandinavian artist Simen Johan’s latest photos from his ongoing series, ‘Until the Kingdom Comes’ are stronger than even, offering seamless images of animals inserted into landscapes that would be alien to them, as with these giraffes (shot in a U.S. zoo), whose heads are lost in the fog of landscapes from Turkey, Bali & Iceland.  (At Chelsea’s Yossi Milo Gallery through Dec 7th).  

Simen Johan, Untitled #172, digital c-print, 2013.