CURRENTAugust 16–October 13
Other Beings: Four Painters Bringing Roughly 20 Unique Faces
Faces are generally divided between the familiar and the strange, One decides that “I know" or “I do not know” this particular combination of humanoid features. These four artists dodge that binary. They manifest the desire to enlarge a particular face into the realm of the mythic, and allow for a drifting into the unreal. Two, Butler and Ortiz start from faces they know evolving them into manifestations of other worldly realms, While Esber and Barrett conversely create mythic beings from broadcloth crafting memorable fictive entities These portraits are all unreal, mythically large and simultaneously truer than true.
Featured Artists
Hannah Barrett
Richard Butler
James Esber
Cruz Ortiz
CURRENTSeptember 3–October 27
Gerardo Rosales: Shape Shifting Landscape
@NADA House
Bill Arning Exhibitions is excited to announce that Gerardo Rosales will be featured in the 2024 NADA House exhibition on Governors Island, opening on September 3 and running through October 27. This collaborative show, the sixth edition of NADA House, includes twenty-one artists from seventeen galleries, utilizing the unique setting of a nineteenth-century military residence. Rosales, a Houston-based Venezuelan artist, will present "Shape Shifting Landscape," an installation addressing immigration issues and Venezuelan indigenous mythologies. His work combines Dibond cutouts and traditional paintings to explore personal and political themes, aiming to evoke empathy and raise awareness about Venezuela’s current crisis.