On New Year’s Day, 2018, Chantal Joffe set herself the challenge of working on a self-portrait every day for the coming year. This daily practice has resulted in a series of characteristically unflinching works. On the opening of her solo presentation at Victoria Miro in London, the artist walks through her studio and process.
This body of work will be on view at Victoria Miro from 11 April to 18 May, 2019.
Whose stories do tattoos tell?
In 2018, at the height of the Black Panther motion picture excitement, Doreen Garner hosts Invisible Man Tattoo, a pop-up tattoo shop in Brooklyn's Recess art space. A noted sculptor and licensed tattoo artist, Garner swaps sculpture for skin, and inks iconic Black American heroes and imagery on those who identify as being of the African Diaspora.
Doreen Garner (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/doreen-garner/
Does the past have a sound? Celebrated for his material-oriented practice, Kevin Beasley juxtaposes sound, silence, and sculpture to examine the legacy of cotton in the American South. Set to the beat of his improvised drumming, the film shows Beasley at work in his Queens studio finishing his multipart exhibition, “A view of a landscape,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art—his most ambitious work to date.
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) lives and works in Queens, New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/artist/kevin-beasley/
Sue Williamson’s Messages from the Atlantic Passage (2017), on view here at Basel Unlimited 2017.
Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton discusses his first U.S. Survey, which is comprised of his works from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition is on view at the FLAG Art Foundation from September 23–December 16, 2017.
Group exhibition at Georg Kargl Fine Arts in Vienna featuring Andreas Fogarasi, Björn Kämmerer, Manuel Knapp, David Maljkovic, Wolfgang Plöger and Tobias Putrih. Curated by Fiona Liewehr.
Janek Schaeffer's sound and image installation piece, shown at South Hill Park during the Sound:Space event in 2007.
“Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea by Swoon is a floating art performance, a project that took the efforts of seventy-five collaborators and a year to produce. The boats, or floating sculptures, were assembled and shipped to Troy, New York, stopping by various towns along the river for impromptu performances.”
This video, timed to coincide with the opening of her newest exhibition in New York, features interviews with Swoon and with Jeffrey Deitch.