Lost in the Flood

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66 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
October 22, 2015 – December 19, 2015

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There isn’t much time left to check out this intriguing group show at Galerie Frank Elbaz in Paris. Creating a dialogue between the long-deceased Wallace Berman and contemporary artists Will Boone and Virginia Overton, Lost in the Flood revolves around Berman’s Crater Lake home and gallery which was destroyed in 1964 by a mudslide. There are a number of his Verifax collages on display, as well as a surreptitious recording of the late artist in conversation made by Hal Glicksman, that serves as the show’s soundtrack. The sculptural work from both Boone and Overton provides an interesting minimalist juxtaposition of collage and structural elements, relying on fragments in much the same way as Berman did. Experience this exhibition in person if you can, before it closes on December 19th.

—Galerie Frank Elbaz

Chance Encounters curated by Jonathan Anderson

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110 NE 39th Street
Miami, FL 33137
December 2, 2015 – January 17, 2016

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As part of Art Basel Miami, Loewe's creative director, Jonathan Anderson, has curated a group show entitled Chance Encounters to mark the opening of the brand's new store in the city's Design District. The exhibition runs until January 17th and features Anthea Hamilton, Paul Nash, Lucie Rie and Rose Wylie. Displayed in and around an 18th century granary building, which was shipped from a small town bordering Galicia and Portugal, the works create an unexpected dialogue between past and present.

—Via Amuse
—Loewe

Anne Schwalbe Analogue C-Prints

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Elbe (rosa) – The Pink River
21 x 21cm (24 x 30cm paper)
Signed and numbered
Edition of 22

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Berlin-born photographer Anne Schwalbe recently put a pair of new prints up for sale on her website. Her work is very serene, capturing the simplicity of nature's small beauties and putting them through subtly altered states as part of the printing process.

—Anne Schwalbe

Hoyland, Caro, Noland at Pace London

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Pace London
6 Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3ET
November 20, 2015 – January 16, 2016

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Pace London has recently opened an intimately interrelated group show by three of the 20th century’s great abstract artists. Featuring the work of John Hoyland, Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland, it examines the friendships and connections between the trio and how, through exposure to one another’s art and process, they explored similar concerns of colour, form and material. The exhibition is open until January 16th, leaving plenty of time to stop in and experience these striking works in person.

—Pace Gallery

Richard Tuttle Editions at Gemini G.E.L.

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Looking for Love I, 2015
Three colour aquatint
55.88 x 76.52 cm
Edition of 28

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I couldn’t tell you why, but I’ve always gravitated towards artists admired by their peers; those applicable to the artist’s artist descriptor and that whole idea. Richard Tuttle is one such example, and having compulsively read about his output, I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Gemini G.E.L. website, lost in the sublimely beautiful editions he's created for the influential Los Angeles printmaking shop. I never imagined owning a piece of his work would be a possibility, but the site offers a relatively affordable way to acquire a signed creation by Tuttle, and many other certifiable masters – in the grand scheme of art collecting that is.

—Available from Gemini G.E.L.

Matt Paweski – New Sculpture

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South Willard
8038 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
November 8 – December 10, 2015

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New Sculpture is a series of recent works from the LA-based sculptor Matt Paweski, which opened this weekend, and is the latest in a long line of in-store exhibitions at South Willard. The show consists of a range of geometric and abstract sculptural works, utilizing European beech hardwood, steel, aluminum rivets, and acrylic.

—South Willard

Cy Twombly – Sculptures

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Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130 
Until February 2016

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"Taking cues from the Dada movement and from the work of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly created poetic objects whose serene white surfaces and allusive forms seem to recall remote worlds of myth and the ancient past. After reaching an indisputable maturity in his early sculpture, created from 1946 to 1959, Twombly returned to working in three dimensions in the mid-1970s and continued to cast new works up until his passing in 2011. When asked shortly before his death whether any of his sculptures might be considered companions to his masterful series of ten paintings Fifty Days at Iliam of 1978 (installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989), the artist responded by choosing a selection of extraordinary bronzes, five of which are on view in this installation.”

—Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mary Heilmann – Geometrics: Waves, Roads, etc.

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303 Gallery
507 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
November 5 – December 19, 2015

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“Wryly poking around the history of abstract painting from both within and without it, Heilmann's imaginative approach to the geometries of spaces, things, and thoughts has made her one of the foremost painters of her generation. Adopting waves and roads as inspiration for many of the works in this show, Heilmann's deft perceptive logics suggest simultaneously intimate and expansive experiences.

In Heilmann's paintings, waves and roads each generate their own sources of life. They move and travel and interlock. Positive and negative space inhabit alternating roles, as colours riff on memory in vibrant undulations as well as protracted expanses. Heilmann's geometrics abut forms and steer the eye backward between them and seemingly through them. In San Andreas (2012), a glowing red core pokes through chunks of earthy green glazed ceramic, its tactile surface bubbling with tension. In The Geometry of a Wave, a tiny painting on paper suggests an entire universe in two colours. Pigment pools in the paper's irregular crevices, as a wave's fragile surface is rendered with a penetrating directness.”

—303 Gallery