10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

Marie Bovo: How to Survive Abstraction
at California Museum Of Photography, UCR
Riverside, CA, USA
Dec 19, 2015 - Apr 16, 2016

CMP Projects presents the work of Marie Bovo in the Marseille-based artist’s first American solo museum exhibition. Threaded throughout Bovo’s practice is her interest in the human act of carving out a space for community within inhospitable urban landscapes, and more broadly, within the confinement of law, the logics of nations, and the systems of globalism. She variably employs the abstracting quality of her medium to give us openness or to construct more claustrophobic spaces. read more...

Contemplative Elements: Danae Mattes and Frances McCormack
at Sonoma Valley Musum of Art
Sonoma, CA, USA
Dec 19, 2015 - Mar 06, 2016

Both Danae Mattes and Frances McCormack meditate on nature’s elements that manifest a range of energies. Mattes combines materials and methods that are, in themselves, extracted from the earth and interacting in ways inherent to minerals, water, fibers and gravity. Combining landscape drawings, stark architectural elements and loosely interpreted botanical forms, McCormack’s paintings manifest a range of feelings reflected through the natural world in an invented space. read more...

Winter Solstice / Little Sun
at James Barron Art
Kent, CT, USA
Dec 19, 2015 - Mar 06, 2016

James Barron Art / Kent is pleased to announce a group exhibition entitled, “Winter Solstice / Little Sun.” Works will include paintings, drawings, and photographs by Angela Dufresne, Beverly Pepper, Cameron Martin, Cy Twombly, Dawn Clements, Jacob Kassay, James Siena, Jeannette Montgomery Barron, Jose Lerma, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Little Sun, Lynn Davis, Margherita Marchioni, Martine Bedin, Roberto Caracciolo, Ralph Gibson, Shirana Shahbazi, Sol LeWitt, Tristano di Robilant, and Yun-Fei Ji. “We would like to honor the achievement of Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun,” says James Barron, “during the Winter Solstice, the sun’s low ebb. read more...

Pop Art Design
at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Dec 19, 2015 - Mar 27, 2016

While we may think we know pop inside-out through the well-documented and widely discussed work of Andy Warhol and his peers, the spirit of pop not only manifested itself in Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans, it also influenced the look of chairs, sofas, lamps, and even architecture during the culturally ebullient 1960s and 1970s. Pop Art Design, an exhibition organized by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the preeminent furniture and design museums in the world, pairs iconic design objects with artworks from this celebrated era to show the cross-pollination between these creative worlds. read more...

Art Experiment. In the Studio
at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Moscow, Russia
Dec 19, 2015 - Jan 10, 2016

Each winter, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art transforms its galleries into an experimental laboratory for art. Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in hands-on experiences with artists, as well as innovative creative collaborations between peers. Since it launched in 2010, Art Experiment—the flagship initiative of Garage Education and Public Programs—has attracted over 35,000 students, parents, local residents, and Moscow visitors. read more...

Mirrors
at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Moscow, Russia
Dec 19, 2015 - Jan 24, 2016

Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Mirrors, a three-part project organized for the IX Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival and consisting of an exhibition of Nelli Fomina’s sketches for Andrei Tarkovsky’s films (Stalker, Solaris, The Mirror) and photos from the set; Timofey Kolesnikov’s Reflections project, connecting the past and the present in a series of photos, taken at the festival in 2015; and a video art program curated by Antonio Geusa. It was not only in cinema that Andrei Tarkovsky was ahead of its time. read more...

A New Look: 1960s and ’70s Abstract Painting at the AGO
at Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, ON, Canada
Dec 19, 2015 - Mar 27, 2016

American and Canadian artists of the 1960s and '70s changed the feel and appearance of abstract painting. They soaked pigment directly into the canvas, which enabled them to move beyond the thickly painted and dramatically brushed work of the previous generation. What resulted are two kinds of pictures: some with flowing, liquid colours and others with crisp, linear designs. read more...

Onrust
at Museum Arnhem
Arnhem, Netherlands
Dec 18, 2015 - Feb 14, 2016

Turmoil (Onrust) is the first exhibition in the series of collection presentations Marks, in which the collection of the museum is reacting on contemporary themes or new developments like immigration and ecology. Art gives an answer to developments in society. Turmoil presents work that is referring to societal unrest. read more...

MOBILITY
at Beirut Art Center
Beirut, Lebanon
Dec 18, 2015 - Jan 29, 2016

Naming this year’s edition of Exposure Mobility points to the possibility of movement, to displacement, and to processes of transformation. Operating within this rather extensive field, the members of the jury - Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Stefanie Baumann, Tony Chakar and Andrea Thal - have selected artists whose work deals with the instability and breaking-down of shapes, and who are furthermore involved in the evolution of definitions and categories. In their practice, the body is a condition and a site for activating artistic purpose, and for carrying out some transformations in symbolic orders and social life. read more...

When silence falls
at Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Dec 19, 2015 - May 01, 2016

When silence falls presents works by artists from across the globe who respond to the inherent violence of often unacknowledged events – massacres, ethnic cleansing, cultural displacement, political force – and provide a voice for those who have been silenced. With a considered rather than confrontational approach, these works highlight both the presence and the absence of the individual, exposing the shared nature of humanity – the pain and sorrow we feel knowing that one can inflict such sadness on another. read more...