Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness at Gray Gallery, New York →

Judy Ledgerwood
September 10 - November 1, 2025 | Gray Gallery, New York

Twilight in the Wilderness debuts four large-scale canvases that continue Ledgerwood’s career-long exploration of radiant color and architectural scale through a feminist reworking of the painterly grid. 

For over forty years, Judy Ledgerwood has pushed the boundaries of abstraction. Her chromatic language subverts and reimagines historically male-dominated traditions of Color Field painting and Minimalism, transforming visual pleasure into a critical investigation of beauty and representation. Her large scale paintings often appear like textiles, pinned from the top and painted edge-to-edge, and feature repeating quatrefoil patterns rendered with intentional irregularity. These immersive, optically charged compositions envelop the viewer, turning the act of looking into a fully embodied experience of beauty, color, and space. “For me,” Ledgerwood states, “the painting happens between the painting and the viewer.”

Titled after Frederic Edwin Church’s 1863 painting of a sunset, Twilight in the Wilderness presents four new paintings inspired by the drama and color of refracted light just before nightfall. Monumental in scale, these works blaze with hot pinks, golden yellows, burnt oranges, teals, and vivid greens—colors that heighten the works’ radiance and emotional intensity. Of the largest canvas, Vitamin C, art historian and curator Helen Molesworth writes: “A riot of tangled paint strokes, a filigreed layer of beachfront-hotel seafoam on top of an Orange Julius® ground? Whatever grid once held the substrate together has gone all akimbo.” 

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Kirsten Everberg in Surface Streets, curated by Russell Ferguson at Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles →

Kirsten Everberg
September 6 – October 18, 2025 | Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles

Surface Streets presents recent paintings by artists working in Los Angeles. The title of the exhibition is intended to evoke both the specificity of the local environment and the tactility that is integral to the medium. Curated by Russell Ferguson, the intergenerational group chosen for this exhibition trace a variety of aesthetics, strategies, impulses, and traditions, and yet at the same time each engages deeply with the physicality of the painted surface.  

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Jonny Niesche: Lava Lamp at 1301SW →

Jonny Niesche
August 14 – September 20, 2025 | 1301SW, Melbourne

Jonny Niesche, Zig Zag Wanderer (Wax Ballet), 2025

Jonny Niesche’s third solo exhibition with 1301SW continues the artist’s playful and profound engagement with the sublime. Lava Lamp, where amorphous movements of a psychedelic vessel become static… to produce static. An exhibition of forms containing distorting sunsets.

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Kiran Nadar Museum of Art Artist Talk: Rirkrit Tiravanija - Making Without Objects →

Rirkrit Tiravanija | Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

For several years now, renowned contemporary artist Rirkrit Tiravanija has been teaching his students at Columbia College of the Arts in New York a course titled "Making Without Objects." According to Tiravanija, this undergraduate sculpture course does not teach students to produce anything. It is, for him, a way to explore how a young artist in an art school experiences what is happening in the world at large. Students, as part of the course, have made films for YouTube, done projects on Instagram, and Tiravanija even rented a plot in Second Life, inviting them to create sculptures virtually. He says, "I am more interested in encouraging my students to think conceptually and create things in their heads than in any material." This pedagogic approach is in close alignment with his multidimensional approach to art that emphasizes the conditions and relations art could potentially generate rather than an object-oriented outcome.

In this conversation, Rirkrit Tiravanija will discuss with Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi how his approach to art influences his teaching practice and vice versa.

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OCMA Artist Talk: Diana Thater with Heidi Zuckerman →

Diana Thater | Orange County Museum of Art

Join acclaimed Orange County Museum of Art collection artist Diana Thater in conversation with the museum’s CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman on Sunday August 3rd as they discuss the importance of time, what it means to perform with and for an artwork, memory, and human nature.

Thater was recently awarded a Milestone Grant from the Trellis Art Fund, adding to an impressive list of accolades.

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Pae White: Restless Color in Portraits of Creativity →

Pae White

Visiting Pae White in her studio in Lincoln Heights, Los Angles, we enter into her “zone of reflectivity” where the surfaces of the works on her walls and work tables reflect light and create their own ever-changing iridescence, which compels you to look again and see something new. Pae White works in many mediums, glass, clay, steel, textiles; she often takes on media that she has never worked with before. Her sense of experimentation—that sense of not knowing,—is a catalyst for discovery and creativity. She also uses a high-level technology to create her work. Her tapestry projects, in particular, require years of experimentation on the loom, as she explains, ”we try, we fail, we have success, we fail and we finally prevail.”

We have come to talk about her series of tapestries called Bugz and Drugs. Pae White says she is interested in psychopharmacology and plants that have a potential psychedelic effect for medicine. Her choice of metallic threads create what she calls “restless color” …a chromatic vibration that never settles, as you move around her piece or appreciate it in the morning or evening light, you may experience a different vision, a different array of colors. In her story telling, she is elevating these humble materials with gold and silver threads and a sense of luxury that celebrates movement and discovery.

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Blake Rayne in Accrochage 3 at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York →

Blake Rayne
July 23 – August 22, 2025 | Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

 accrochage 3 is a summer installation of paintings, photographs, and sculpture by artists at Miguel Abreu. Included in the show are works by Alex Carver, Liz Deschenes, Rochelle Goldberg, Kate Mosher Hall, Dana Lok, Scott Lyall, Beaux Mendes, Jean-Luc Moulène, Paul Pagk, R. H. Quaytman, Eileen Quinlan, and Blake Rayne.

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Jonny Niesche’s Paintings Balance Bold Colour and Abstract Minimalism →

Jonny Niesche | Broadsheet

Photo: Courtesy of Gucci and Truls Blaasmo

by Gitika Garg

Sydney artist Jonny Niesche spent a decade in New York’s electronic music scene before returning to home and turning his attention to art – at the age of 30.

“I helped my parents renovate their house and sell it, and just out of the blue, I decided to do a painting on the For Sale sign,” Niesche says. “It looked like a big canvas, so I just attacked it – and loved it.”

Since then, Niesche’s hyper-colourful abstract paintings have been exhibited across the world, from Los Angeles and Vienna to London, and most recently, at the Munich Opera Festival.

A musical sensibility still runs through his work. When recording music, “you’re creating a sonic landscape,” Niesche says. “You can push sounds really far back, or to the right and the left. It’s like constructing an audible image. "I think of painting in a very similar way. Warmer colours come forward, colder colours go back. Sharp images come forward. Blurriness goes back.”

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Jonny Niesche featured in Lucent Ground at GW Contemporary, Laguna Beach →

Jonny Niesche
July 19 - September 7, 2025 | GW Contemporary, Laguna Beach

GW Contemporary’s inaugural exhibition, Lucent Ground, features works by Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Gary Lang, Heather Hutchison, Mark Whalen, Rosalind Tallmadge, Matthew Allen, Will Cooke, Jan Maarten Voskuil, and Line Busch. Lucent Ground explores surface, form, and visual experience - foregrounding artists whose works reward close looking. Subtle shifts in material and structure offer new ways of seeing, revealing a world where surfaces become thresholds, dimensionality is in flux, and structure and spontaneity exist in quiet tension.

Informed by movements such as Light and Space, minimalism, and post-minimal abstraction, the exhibition evokes a heightened sensitivity to light, texture, and the act of perception. Optical phenomena hover and recede; compositions unfold slowly, inviting a slowed way of looking - one attuned to nuance, reflection, and the physical presence of each object.

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Stolon Press and Chui Lee Luk: Live feed at 1301SW, Sydney →

Simryn Gill
July 19 –August 23, 2025 | 1301SW, Sydney

Stolon Press, Strainers, 2025 (detail view)

Live feed, a modest and preliminary collaboration between a publisher and chef, asks us to consider our need for daily nourishment. How do goods and foodstuffs reach the shop and the table, what are the distances travelled, and the means and processes that make this possible? What do we do with this fresh or aged or packaged or processed produce to make it palatable and consumable? What do we talk about over the meal? 

Preparing two shared meals five weeks apart, Chui Lee Luk attempts to lay bare the hierarchies of cooking and eating. The first meal is made from just-harvested and picked produce, the second from fermented, pickled, sprouted and growing ingredients. In the interim between meals, her processes will be visible in the space.  

Alongside, Stolon Press present their recent series of prints, Strainers (2025), made from cardboard boxes collected from shops around their neighbourhood in Sydney. In Small talk (2025-), they use a ledger typewriter as a poultice, drawing out memories of dinner table conversations and informal thoughts.

Stolon Press is an art and publishing collective whose work sits somewhere between art and book, image and text. In 2024, they published Shallow (Simryn Gill, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, and Selene Yap) and Hustle Culture (Tom Melick). Their forthcoming titles include new pocket books by Quentin Sprague, Trent Walter and Soucho Yao, and an Urdu translation of Hustle Culture by Nusra Qureshi. Recent exhibitions include the Lahore Biennale and Flat earth, with Khaled Sabsabi and Elisa Taber, at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). 

Chui Lee Luk is a chef who has run various restaurants in Sydney. Most notably, she was the chef and owner of the legendary French restaurant, Claude’s, for nearly a decade. She is also the author of the cookbook, Green Pickled Peaches.

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Diana Thater a Recipient of MCA Santa Barbara's 2025 Art Award →

Diana Thater | MCA Santa Barbara Art Awards

The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s Art Awards honor and recognize individuals or organizations that have made a significant impact on the arts and culture of the region.

Diana Thater is awarded this honor alongside composer Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and artists Gabriela Ruiz and Manjari Sharma.

Thater has pioneered the use of film, video, light, and sound, continually challenging the boundaries of time-based media and installation art. Her work explores the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds while critically examining the structures of mediated reality. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including literature, animal behavior sciences, mathematics, chess, and sociology, her evocative works directly engage their surroundings, producing an intricate relationship between time and space.

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Playfulness and Wonder: Ana Prvački for The Gorgeous Nothings →

Ana Prvački
March 15 – October 5, 2025 | Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England

Berlin-based artist Ana Prvački has conceived four site-specific performative pieces for this year's exhibition, The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth. 

The work takes inspiration from the goddess Flora and involves a live trail through Chatsworth's Garden and Park. With particular reference to the Ludi Florales or Games of Flora, the ancient Roman festival that honored the goddess of flowers, vegetation and fertility, Prvački leads her viewers into a realm of playfulness and wonder.

Intersections of science, folklore, spirituality, and human connection emerge in Prvački’s conversations with nature.

This first film, above, focuses on her findings on and around Flora. 

Ana Prvački's second film is set in the historic Kitchen Garden at Chatsworth House. 

It is a sensual and surprising meditation on the intelligence of gardens. Blending gentle humor with ecological insight, the film explores how gardens are not only sites of cultivation but also of deep resourcefulness and imagination.

With a focus on soil as a living, breathing body—hot, steamy, and craving cover—Prvački draws poetic connections between fertility, gravity, and the intimate choreography of growth.

This is gardening as performance, as philosophy, and as provocation.

Prvački’s next short film for Chatsworth unfolds in the high moors above the house, where the landscape becomes a stage for a quiet yet powerful ritual.

Set within a large bronze circle, the film loops like a meditation, round in form and spirit. Here, love, nature, humans, animals, power, and the heavens revolve in a gentle orbit.

The camera glides in seamless motion, capturing the ancient land. The result is a poetic, circular vision of interconnectedness, where everything belongs to everything else.

Jessica Stockholder in Building A Collection: 2008 - 2025, Honoring Director Judy Larson →

Jessica Stockholder
July 10 - August 2, 2025 | Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara

Made of Three Elements by Jessica Stockholder. Photo credit: Josef Woodard

Building A Collection: 2008-2025 features a selection of notable works from the permanent collection of the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, added in the 17 years of bold and vibrant leadership of retiring Director Judy L. Larson.

Building a Collection showcases a curated selection of significant works acquired between 2008 and 2025, celebrating not only the Museum’s evolving holdings but also Larson’s profound and lasting influence. Each work on view reflects meaningful relationships cultivated with artists, donors, and community members.

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Diana Thater Awarded a 2025 Tellis Art Fund Milestone Grant →

Diana Thater | ArtCenter College of Design

The Trellis Art Fund provides financial support to artists who demonstrate a trajectory of excellence, regardless of career stage, age, education, location, or commercial representation.

Each year, The Trellis Art Fund award grants to artists who reflect a consistent, engaged practice. The Trellis Art Fund has a particular interest in artists from historically underrepresented groups, as well as those working outside the commercial art market.

This grant recognizes artists who have demonstrated a trajectory of creative excellence over the course of their career. Their work embodies a sustained professional commitment, as well as an engaged and evolving practice over time.

This award is an acknowledgment of an artist’s sizable contribution to their area of focus. As such, it’s intended to provide them with the additional resources to plan their future pursuits.

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Angela Bulloch in Network Paris Abstraction-Création 1931–1937 at Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck →

Angela Bulloch
July 5, 2025 – January 11, 2026 | Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck

Angela Bulloch, Heavy Metal Stack of Five: Sky Frame, 2024
© Courtesy of the artist & Esther Schipper, Berlin, Paris, Seoul, Photo: Andrea Rossetti

Between 1931 and 1937, an international network based in Paris fought against fascism for the freedom of art: the group Abstraction-Création, whose fluctuating membership numbered as many as ninety, including Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, and Piet Mondrian. This is the first exhibition on this pioneering association of artists since the 1970s.

As a center of the avant-garde, Paris became a last refuge as nationalist movements spread to every part of Europe. Since there was virtually no market for abstract art, the members of Abstraction-Création were forced to create their own organizational structures independent of the salons and galleries. This multigenerational, liberal, progressive, and visionary group set about uniting all the different strands of nonobjective art. The whole spectrum is on display in this exhibition, from rigid compositions and Purist grids to vibrant, organic-looking forms at play. And seven contemporary artists from around the world demonstrate that the topic is as timely as ever.

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SUPERFLEX's 'One Two Three Swing!' at the EU Parliament, Brussels →

SUPLERFLEX
July 3 - December 1, 2025 | Esplanade Solidarność, European Union Parliament, Brussels

Photographer: Alexis HAULOT. Copyright: © European Union 2025 - Source : EP

SUPERFLEX’s new installation of One Two Three Swing! is presented by The Office of the Commissioner for Europe and International Organisations of the Brussels-Capital Region (CEOI) and its partners as a call to unity and dialogue in a time of conflict and polarization.

As Denmark assumes the Presidency of the Council of the European Union this July, a powerful new artwork by the internationally acclaimed artist collective SUPERFLEX will be unveiled in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Stemming from a Memorandum of Understanding between the CEOI and the European Parliament, the installation is the result of a curatorial collaboration between The Artists’ Parliament, Creator Projects, and SUPERFLEX which will transform the Esplanade Solidarność into an engaging space for reflection, connection, and collective action. Designed as both a public installation and a symbolic intervention, the artwork aims to spark awareness, provoke dialogue, and reawaken a shared sense of responsibility.

One Two Three Swing is part of The Artists’ Parliament’s program, a public space exhibition project curated by Joël Benzakin and Jeanne Mouffe to mark the rotating presidencies of the Council of the European Union. The chosen European contemporary artists represent their country with an exhibition on the Esplanade Solidarność in front of the European Parliament and following the calendar of the rotating presidencies.

One Two Three Swing! is co-curated by Simon Friese, director of Creator Projects. Creator Projects aims to foster impactful art projects that enrich public space. Based in Denmark and working globally, Creator Projects partners with visionary artists, cities, and institutions to realize bold, thought-provoking works in public environments.

Supported by The Jamil Collection; Albarrán Bourdais; Family Wandt, Château de Fontaine; MTAB; and a private supporter

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Pae White in Fictions of Display at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles →

Pae White
June 29, 2025 - January 4, 2026 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Pae White, Pantone Pony #284, 1997
Women’s size 10 cowhide shoes
Dimensions variable

Exploring the intertwined themes of theater, performance, and museum display—ranging from props, stages, and pedestals to actors, impersonators, avatars, and the ghostly image of the audience itself—this exhibition presents works from MOCA’s permanent collection. Through sculpture, video, photography, painting, and archival materials, Fictions of Display foregrounds performance strategies that permeate museum spaces and its modes of presentation.

Featured artists:  Eleanor Antin, ASCO, Ana Barrado, Math Bass, Joseph Beuys, Mark Bradford, Brassaï, Nancy Brooks Brody, Colette, Fiona Connor, Tania Pérez Córdova, Guy de Cointet, Raúl De Nieves, Lukas Duwenhögger, Thomas Eggerer, Victor Estrada, VALIE EXPORT, Ali Eyal, Peter Fischli, Dan Flavin, Robert Gober, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Félix González-Torres, Joe Goode, Dan Graham, Yaron Michael Hakim, Lyle Ashton Harris, Evan Holloway, Christian Holstad, Rebecca Horn, Roni Horn, Donald Judd, Brian Jungen, Tadeusz Kantor, Mike Kelley, Toba Khedoori, Martin Kippenberger, Terence Koh, Louise Lawler, An-My Lê, William Leavitt, Charles LeDray, Nikki S. Lee, Sherrie Levine, Los Carpinteros, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Ana Mendieta, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Senga Nengudi, Kayode Ojo, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Silke Otto-Knapp, Roxy Paine, Giuseppe Penone, Sondra Perry, Julia Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Monique Prieto, Reynaldo Rivera, Beverly Semmes, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Catherine Sullivan, Atsuko Tanaka, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cosima von Bonin, Marnie Weber, Johanna Went, Pae White, Hannah Wilke.

Fictions of Display is organized by José Luis Blondet, Senior Curator, with Paula Kroll, Curatorial Assistant.

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Charlene Von Heyl in Sky High Farm’s inaugural biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END →

Charlene Von Heyl
June 29 - Fall, 2025 | Germantown, New York

Charline von Heyl, Black Flowers, (2023). Courtesy the artist and Sky High Farm 2025 Biennial.

Sky High Farm’s inaugural biennial, TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER END, signals the start of a new chapter for the organization as it expands to a new 560-acre farm. Curated by the farm’s founder and board president, artist Dan Colen, and named after an artwork by its first staff member and farmer who passed away in 2014, the exhibition explores the connection between local ecology, history, and industry in the Hudson River Valley and their ties to New York City. Standouts include Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ billboard work Untitled (It’s Just a Matter of Time), installed on 24 billboards along the Hudson River from Troy to the New York Harbor; Anne Imhof’s industrial water containers that form a labyrinth, which holds other artists’s work; and Rudolf Stingel’s largest mirrored floor installation, serving as a pedestal for other works, including Pia Camil’s fountain made from joined dead apple trees that guides water into Imhof’s containers. Rooted in the farm’s community-centered mission to tackle issues like nutrition security and systemic injustice, the exhibition shows what can happen when art, agriculture, and activism come together, combining the transformative work of artists with the impact of a justice-oriented organization.

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