dArt International Magazine – Page 32 – Fall 2024 edition of the making of art, its exhibition, and what we say about it

March 6, 2019February 24, 2020

Leah Oates: Photographic Monuments to the Ephemeral in Nature

by Steve Rockwell

Leah Oates, *Don Valley 2 # 15*, 2018-2019

Earlier in February photographer Leah Oates opened her Transitory Space # 9 exhibition at Black Cat Artspace, a small storefront gallery near Dundas and Roncesvalles in Toronto. Now a resident of the city, Leah Oates had founded and run Station Independent Projects, a Lower East Side gallery in New York City. Her recent work centers on Toronto’s Cedarvale Ravine and Don Valley, the ninth in the Transitory Space group of works. Continue reading “Leah Oates: Photographic Monuments to the Ephemeral in Nature”

February 17, 2019February 24, 2020

Four Outstanding Exhibitions at the Dorsky

by D. Dominick Lombardi

Angela Dufresne, Kerry Downey, 2016, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art stands as a consistent reminder that a regional museum can play a major role in the presentation and understanding of Contemporary Art, as well as offering a showplace for antiquity and Modern Art. Currently, the museum features four outstanding exhibitions that are presented thoughtfully and with a very high level of professionalism.

February 9, 2019February 24, 2020

Travel Light

by Christopher Hart Chambers

Mary Jones, Tinkering — *Mary Jones,* Tinkering, *oil, spray enamel, aluminum leaf, and acetate X-Ray print on canvas, 14″ x 11″*

My father had a brain tumor. His little sister, my aunt Peg, also had an acoustic neuroma. Her’s went malignant and she died. The fifth neurosurgeon screwed a specially built helmet onto Dad’s skull to blast his growth with radiation from 360 degrees. Continue reading “Travel Light”

January 10, 2019July 10, 2020

The 1947 Progressive Artists Group: Painters for a Newly Free India

by Siba Kumar Das

M. F. Husain, Yatra, 1955 — M. F. Husain, *Yatra*, 1955, oil on canvas, H. 33 1/2 x W. 42 1/2 in. (85.1 x 108 cm)
Collection Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi

It’s not often that a new art movement shoots into life just as a nation needs it socio-politically. This is exactly what happened in 1947, the year India threw off the yoke of British imperial rule, when a group of young artists banded together in Mumbai (then Bombay) to launch the Progressive Artists’ Group with a view to creating, in the words of its manifesto, a “new art for a newly free India.”

January 9, 2019February 24, 2020

Eozen Agopian at the Greek Consulate (New York)

by Jonathan Goodman

Eozen Agopian, Nicholas Space, 2018, acrylic, thread and fabric on canvas,
100 X 90 cm (39.37 X 35.4”)

Of Armenian descent but born in Greece, where she now lives (with regular visits to New York), Eozen Agopian was educated in the United States – at Pratt Institute for her master’s degree and at Hunter College for her bachelor’s of fine arts. Her recent show, expertly curated by the art historian Thalia Vrachopoulos, The Fabric of Space, at the Greek consulate in New York City, enabled visitors to experience her highly worked art, dependent on cloth and thread, nearly as luminous as a Russian icon but also dedicated to the complex vectors and planes of modernist painting. Continue reading “Eozen Agopian at the Greek Consulate (New York)”