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Michela Martello, in “The Divine, The Passion, and the Magic”
Visitor Center, Newburgh, New York, June 24 to August 19, 2023
I was given a tour of the Visitor Center by the director Eva Zanardi, an eloquent advocate of the Center. It was a group show, but I attended to see the incredible installation by Michela Martello.
This installation is a collection of pieces she worked on during a fellowship in Taiwan, working on these divinities on large scale filter paper. The works subject and style is a riff on the local religious traditions, and feminine divinity, but worked across large sheets of luminous filter paper. The resulting light-soaked space formed by shaping the papers into a circle is at once monumental and ephemeral, spiritual and fleeting.
The effect combines a fascinating level of detail and inventiveness, which also shifts to larger architectural scale as an installation shaping the space. The enclosure and filtered light were gorgeous.
Martello is a surpremely gifted draftsman, she has a lovely sense of line and balance of detail to large gesture. The portraits of the figures receive the most careful and nuanced attention with line, with other areas rapidly worked to describe texture or pattern.
Martello is from Grosseto, Italy but now based in New York City. I became personally acquainted with her work through its representation by Pen and Brush, where she has contributed beautiful and inventive work.
“Slip Tease” at Kasmin Gallery
Kasmin Gallery, New York, October 26 – December 22, 2023
Shawanda Corbett, Francesca DiMattio, Sharif Farrag, Paz G, Karin Gulbran, Marie Herwald Hermann, Elliott Hundley, Julia Isidrez, Clementine Keith-Roach, Se Oh, Brian Rochefort, Jennifer Rochlin, Anders Herwald Ruhwald, Adam Silverman, Krzysztof Strzelecki, and Elif Uras.
Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks, 1900-1959
Pace Gallery, New York, November 10 – December 23, 2023
A fascinating show of Picasso’s sketchbooks ranging through his career at Pace.
From the Gallery’s site:
Organized in collaboration with the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid (FABA)—with whom our gallery has maintained a longstanding relationship—this exhibition of Picasso’s sketchbooks will offer a unique and intimate view of the ways in which the artist worked, tracing the evolution of his observations and ideas into plans for his compositions across painting and sculpture.
“Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Raffish Vulnerability and Profane Ambivalence”
Pen + Brush, New York, June 15 to August 26 2023
“‘Bodies’ represents the authentic and earnest ways in which these artists buck convention so thoroughly that the final product appears unabashed, even crude. The body is literally what binds us, yet here, and contemporarily, it also separates us as we inevitably react to this public and radical display. This show forces viewers to reckon with their own perspectives, values, boundaries, and biases” -Curator Parker Daley Garcia.