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Oculi, constructed from two reconfigured 40-year-old metal grain bins, is created by Aleksandr Mergold and his design practice, Austin+Mergold (A+M) in collaboration with artist Maria Park and structural engineers Chris Earls and Scott Hughes. The grain bins, which once stored string corn on a farm in Delphos, OH, now frame unobstructed view of the sky while tracking the path of the sun with the range of shadow patterns. The interior walls are painted with the colors of the daytime sky, inviting viewers to wander below the structure to find a moment when the paint and the sky colors become one.

Although many artists seem to languish or burn out at mid-career, Michelle Benoit is thriving. She has found a way to survive by working constantly, experimenting consistently and along the way she has gotten some very good advice, support and mentorship. Benoit is truly an inspiration to artists at any stage of their careers.

In the case of the paintings by Rainer Gross known as “Twins,” we are dealing with diptychs, i.e., two-part works which, when the two same-sized canvases are placed horizontally next to each other, yield an overall picture. At first glance, we encounter intense color and an enormous presence of the heavy application of layers of paint organized in flat planes. The spotty distribution of various colors conveys an impression of an organic proliferation of, say, colorful lichen, or of the weathering processes of the earth or other surfaces. Now and again, this assessment also applies to Gross’ paintings based on irregular strips of paint. 

Despite these first associations, the works do not depict anything. Color and its appearances are what determine the works, and hence, they are unequivocally classifiable as non-representational color painting.  But are we dealing with painting in the classical sense at all? No, and yes!

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) announced today that eighty artists and collectives from more than thirty countries will be participating in the Ninth Asia Pacific Triennial, which will be held from November 24 to April 28, 2019.

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Freddy Chandra: In Open Spaces 

7 July – 17 August 2018

Walter Maciel Gallery is pleased to present In Open Spaces by Freddy Chandra. The exhibition marks Chandra’s fourth solo show with the gallery and will include his signature light reactive works made out of painted transparent acrylic bars...

German Television Channel, WDR Fernsehen, interviewed gallery artist, Rainer Gross in-studio and during the installation of his early summer 2018 exhibition: TWINS. 

In 2017, Margaret Thatcher Projects had the great opportunity to work with NYU Langone's art program in which they commissioned a painting by Columbian American artist, Omar Chacon. Chacon’s largest work to date, Amazonica Operatica (50 x 180 inches, 127 x 457 cm) is placed in NYU Langone's newly built Science Building, among other extraordinary work. 

A distinguished jury has selected the winning design in the seventh-annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition: Oculi by Austin+Mergold in collaboration with Maria Park (Cornell) and consulting engineers Chris Earls (Cornell) and Scott Hughes (Silman). Pending approvals and fundraising, this temporary art structure will be assembled on Governors Island and open to the public for the summer 2018 season.

The annual competition is hosted by FIGMENT, the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY). The City of Dreams Pavilion, so named for its focus on the future of a world that faces strains on both economic and natural resources, aims to promote sustainability-oriented thinking amidst the architecture and design communities, requiring designers to consider the environmental impact of their designs from materials sourcing to disposal (or ideally reuse) of waste at the end of the season.

Oculi
The winning proposal will reuse old metal grain bins (silos), vestiges of the American agro-industrial age, hearkening back to how the medieval inhabitants of Rome reoccupied the remains of the Ancient Empire—with a bizarre combination of pragmatism and poetry. The grain bin is our contemporary spolia; as such these structures can be both useful and fanciful.

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Rainer Gross's Twins painting, Double Mickey, 2013, 183 x 366 cm was included in the Beijing Biennale 2017 in the China Art Museum in Beijing.

Congratulations to Maria Park and Branden Hookway for their collaborative exhibition on view through November 17, 2017.

Training Setting investigates social and control protocols using a diagrammatic language of flight cockpits and table settings. To train within a technologized environment is to mediate both formal and informal instruction — where a formal understanding of information and procedure coexists with a tacit knowledge of embodied action. In this sense, training is inherently an orientation toward both the actual and the virtual, as performance draws upon informal knowledge according to formalized protocols. The exhibition explores this hybrid state of training through a series of paintings, sculptures, and drawings.

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We are happy to announce that Jeff Morris' drawings are included in Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Drawing: The Beginning of Everything. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, October 15, 2017, in Buffalo, New York. 

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Newly-Arrived “Autoeater” Represents Latest Public Art Project from Midtown Alliance

Autoeater is the newest addition to Atlanta's Midtown Alliance’s growing public art program that features temporary art installations throughout the district. The piece was brokered for Midtown Alliance by Marcia Wood Gallery and will be on display in Midtown for a three-year term. 

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Maria Park has been appointed the new AAP (Architecture, Art, Planning) Director of Exhibitions and Events at Cornell University. The director is responsible for all major events hosted by the college and especially for overseeing and curating all college-wide exhibitions. For more information click here.

The National: New Australian Art presents the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art, curated across three of Sydney’s premier cultural institutions: the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Gary Carsley has been selected to participate in this inaugural exhibition. 

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Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to participate in Art on Paper as it returns to downtown Manhattan's Pier 36 in March 2 - 5, 2017.

Art on Paper's medium-driven focus lends itself to significant projects - unique moments that have set the fair apart and established a new and important destination for the arts in New York City. 

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2 works by Cathy Choi will be a part of the group exhibition Red Matters, curated by Heather Cammarata-Seale, Ph.D.

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Curated by Paola Stroppiana, Ted Larsen is currently exhibiting his works in Torino, Italy at PRIVATEVIEW Gallery for his first solo show in Europe! The exhibition will be on view until December 24th, 2016. 

Maria Park generously donates a painting to the The CUE Art Foundation's 2016 Benefit Auction. The CUE Foundation creates essential career and educational opportunities for emerging and unrecognized artists through exhibitions, public programing, fellowships, mentorship, and publication opportunities. 

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Omar Chacon generously donated 2 works of art for the anual Art Auction for the Children's Museum of the Arts'. All Proceedes benefit CMA's Communinty Programs, which bring high-quality arts education to vulnerable children throughout New York City.  

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Allentown, PA – Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College presents the exhibition Natural Philosophy, featuring ten artists (David Mann) whose work explores various approaches commonly associated with scientific inquiry. Natural Philosophy will be on view Wednesday November 2, 2016 through Saturday January 7, 2017. 

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On view for one year, Sight Plan is a 150-foot mural by Maria Park for the construction fence in front of the new Chinatown Central Subway Station on Stockton Street at Washington. The mural is an attempt to create a window of sky at this site. It refers to the experience of traveling through San Francisco, whose typography often brings surprising vistas of sky into the city as though one's focus were elevated above the horizon line.

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Opening Reception: Sunday, September 25, 2 pm – 4 pm (Artist’s Talks 3:30 pm)

Lined Out is an immersive installation in Studio X fabricated from steel rods and salvaged automotive metal. The Santa Fe artist creates the installation by attaching a network of horizontal and vertical linear elements directly to the gallery walls. With patterns suggestive of Mondrian, the exhibition generates the experience of walking into a colorful three-dimensional drawing.

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Scenes from the Life of Paris is a single-channel video installation that in making an object of the subject of video theatrically bifurcates H Project Space while reflecting and adding to aspects of its interiority. Carsley is an artist known for hybridizing all manner of cultural forms and collapsing hierarchies of social significance or importance. 

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We are pleased to announce Cathy Choi and Maria Park's participation in 50 Shades of Red at the Herter Art Gallery at UMass Amherst in Amherst, MA.

50 Shades of Red is an exhibition curated collaboratively by Anne LaPrade Seuthe, director of Hampden Gallery, Kathleen Jacobs, Director of Blueway Art Alliance, and Trevor Richardson, Director of Herter Gallery. Together, they have selected a broad range of works (both abstract and figurative) from 50 artists, in which the color red - or some variant thereof - plays a dominant role in the creation of the finished image.

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Thatcher Projects was pleased to participate in eleventh edition of PULSE Miami Beach. The December the fair returned to its oceanfront home at Indian Beach Park with an airy layout and new dates, Tuesday, December 1 to Saturday, December 5, 2015. At PULSE, visitors discovered two adjoining pavilions housing a tightly-curated selection of more than 80 national and international exhibitors, representing work by over 200 artists.

Despite some unseasonably rainy weather, we were visted by many friends, both old and new. The fair received great press coverage, which we are excited to share.

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We are excited to share a collaborative project by David Mann and poet, Michael Sickler, which has been published by ArtFile, a curated online forum for art and culture founded by Alicia DeBrincat. The Poetry Project has been an online, ongoing collaboration conceived in 2013. Starting out with a poem that Sickler wrote in response to Mann's painting, Ring, the back and forth, poem and painting exhange has since continued. The project now consisits of about 30 pairs and continues to grow. According to Mann, "The paintings aren't intended as illurations of the poems nor are the poems descriptions of the paintings. The relationship has worked on a more intuitive and feeling level, the sensual, imagistic and the imaginative."

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We are very excited to announce Venske & Spänle's new solo exhibition at Silvan Faessler Zug in Switzerland, opening October 20, 2015. In addition to their exhibition, Myzot Nachtwächter, an incredible, large public installation will be installed in front of the gallery.

Die Anderen Myzot Nachtwächter
October 21 - December 23, 2015
Opening Reception: October 20, from 6 - 8 PM

Silvan Faessler Fine Art Zug
Vorstadt 18  6300 Zug

Thatcher Projects is excited to share a presentation of Rainer Gross' series Kabbalistic 72 Names of God at Gallery MC, a non-profit multicultural interdisciplinary art gallery committed to the research, production, presentation and interpretation of contemporary art.

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Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce Jaq Belcher's participation in Papercuts at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar. Culminating a 4 year - 12 venue tour, the exhibition Papercuts features exquisite hand cut paper works by an international roster of artists.

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Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Tad Mike at the Lamar Dodd Art Center of LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia. Sostenuto is on view from September 1 - December 15, 2015. There will be an artist's reception on October 9, 2015 from 6 - 8 PM.

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Thatcher Projects is excited to announce Heidi Van Wieren's participation in the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey exhibition, Adhere.

This exhibition showcases art that uses the distinctive and unconventional medium of adhesives.  The works on view, which include several site-specific installations, incorporate various tapes, glues and stickers utilized for mark making, shading, color and texture. Artists from across the United States, Europe, and Asia will present works that demonstrate the somewhat unexpected and incredibly technical aesthetic quality of this art form. The exhibition is curated by Katherine Murdock, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Assistant Curator.

Exhibiting artists: Tirtzah Bassel, Travis Childers, Hayt Hester, Ye Hongxing, Vandana Jain, Hong Seon Jang, Mark Khaisman, Sandra Ono, Johan Rijpma, Heidi Van Wieren

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A profile of Boston sculptor Bill Thompson by Anthony Penta.

A visitor to Bill's miniature industrial workshop might expect to see him making intricate machines or auto parts. Instead, what emerges are smooth, mesmerizing forms that never suggest the messy, labor-intensive processes he uses to make them.

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Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce the presentation of two large paintings and one work on paper by gallery artist, Omar Chacon at the Cynthia C. Wainwright Gallery of the Children’s Museum of the Arts in New York, on view January 22- May 3, 2015.

Curated by Children's Museum of the Arts Director of Fine Arts, Jil Weinstock, the exhibition, titled PIXELATED: SUM OF ITS PIECES, brings together emerging and mid-career artists whose work explores different means of perception. For better or worse, our lives are increasingly played out on a screen. From checking directions to playing a game on the latest bestselling app, digital technologies are a part of our everyday lives. Just as individual “pixels” are pieced together to create a larger image or message, this exhibition brings together visual artists whose works explore the intersection between art and technology, or who break down the very materials they work with into individual parts.

Exhibiting Artists: Aziz + Cucher, Omar Chacon, Christian Faur, Bradley Hart, Richard Klein, Daniel Rozin, Al Souza, and Devorah Sperber

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Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce an upcoming solo-exhiibition of artworks by Australian artist Gary Carsley at the Visual Arts Center, NJ. OpeningSunday, February 8, 2 pm – 4 pm. 

Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce the inclusion of gallery artist Adam Fowler in Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction, the seventh International Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition at the Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School.

Established at the Hartford Art School in 1994, The International Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition is a grand showcase for the work of internationally known artists featuring challenging themes and a week of lectures and discussions leading up to the exhibition.  Curated by Joseloff Gallery managing director, Lisa Gaumond, the exhibition explores works featuring paper as the central medium used to express the artists’ message and emotion.  Paper may be sliced by hand, torn, or laser cut; pieces may be traditional, flat, and decorative; they may be layered, reconstructed, and sculptural.

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Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce the inclusion of two gallery artists - William Betts and Maria Park, in That’s Where You Need to Be a group exhibition at Richard Levy Gallery, on view August 1 - September 19, 2014. Other artists in the exhibition include Xuan Chen and Willy Bo Richardson. Each of these artists expand the conventions of painting by executing their own unique styles and methods of application.

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Two major paintings by German American artist Rainer Gross, (Die Behauptung der Moderne I, 1982) and TV II Baroque, 1979) included in an exhibition of German Expressionist paintings at the Shanghai China Art Museum. Considered a movement with major influence on Chinese modern art since the 1980s, this is the first proper exhibition ever held on the Chinese mainland.

The Institute of Modern Art is pleased to present the new installation Sciencefictive by Brisbane-born, Sydney-based established artist Gary Carsley. This immersive project transforms two galleries into an interior garden, seen through apertures, or Moongates, that puncture the white walls of the gallery. As visitors follow a path laid throughout the galleries, they will encounter these Moongates, which serve as windows onto gardens from around the world. These are displayed in the IMA galleries in a physical relationship to each other that they would have if Brisbane were the centre of the world. The entire work therefore functions as a giant mappa mundi, and encourages us to contemplate the complex balance between social construct, geography, and flora that characterises gardens. While today’s gardens are typically produced by landscape architects, Carsley suggests an affinity between the process of conceiving and creating a garden and that of the artist—bringing land, sea, and sky together into evocative spaces that offer journeys and compel reflection.

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The gallery is pleased to announce Frank Badur's restrospective at the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken, Germany. On view from May 10-October 12, 2014. The exhibition, titled 'Frank Badur' is a focused presentation of his paintings and drawings whose basis is set on his use of color, line, space, light, dimension and structure. 

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The gallery is pleased to announce Gary Carsley's inclusion in It's Timely, a group exhibition at the Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown New Soth Wales, Australia. On view from April 29-June 28, 2014. 

It's Timely is framed by the two speeches Edward Gough Whitlam delivered in Blacktown in 1972 and 1974, rallying for racial and sexual equality. The artists images document the changes that completely transformed life and culture in the island continent.

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Support community programming and outreach programs such as Artists with Disabilities and Arc, the Young Scholars Program, SAGE Elder Care: Art from the Heart and The Connection for Women and Families at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey by participating in "For Art's Sake", a silent art auction and benefit on Saturday, May 3, 7:30 - 10:30 PM. The auction will include works by gallery artists, Omar Chacon and Adam Fowler. 

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The gallery is pleased to announce the inclusion of works by Nan Swid in Extending the Line 3D at Baltimore's C. Grimaldis Gallery. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, April 23rd and will be on view through June 7.

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Eclosión en Valencia 2014 is a sculptural project of artists Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle. This roject includes more than 70 sculptures in marble called Smörfs populating different parts of the city of Valencia, Spain. 

The exhibition is conceived as a journey begining in the Fondo Arte-AS gallery, continuing to the old Turia River, the Museum of Bellas Artes in Valencia, where the Smörfs discover Valencian Gothic painting of the permanent collection of the Museum. These sculptures were created by artists to interact, surprise and challenge the viewer with its organic forms.

This is the largest project Venske & Spänle after exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Sydney and Zurich among others.

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Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce that works by Maria Park will be included in "Beyond Earth Art" at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University. Following in the footsteps of the legendary 1969 Earth Art exhibition took place at Cornell University (curated by Willoughby Sharp), the exhibition is comprised of separate installations and exhibitions that address issues related to the representation of landscape, water supply, food justice, recycling, fair distribution of natural resources, and the nature/culture divide. 

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Herter Gallery is pleased to present: "Pouring it On"

Including works by:
Cathy Choi, Tomory Dodge, Robert Feldschuh, Matthew Kolodzeij, Jacqueline Humphries, Richard Allen Morris, Jill Moser, David Reed, Robert Sagerman, Bret Slater, Josh Smith, Leslie Wayne, and Summer Wheat

While the sense of historical necessity that once attended so many new developments in abstract art has unquestionably loosened its grip, nevertheless Abstraction in one form or another, still commands the allegiance of a great many of today's artists.