Carol Wainio at Arsenal Contemporary Art New York
ARTnews - Francesca Aton
May 1st, 2024
As art fairs flood New York—starting with Frieze and followed by Independent—with a myriad of notable auctions, as well as the Whitney Biennial, the scene is definitely bustling this spring.
Carol Wainio: Recent Paintings and Drawings
The Brooklyn Rail - Ann McCoy
May 1st, 2024
In Carol Wainio’s pictorial realm the fabled creatures of Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop, haberdashery-clad rabbits, and children plucked from Victorian illustrated postcards dwell in forests that are part Gustave Doré, part Jean-Antoine Watteau, and are expressionistically rendered.
Carol Wainio: Recent Paintings and DrawingsThe Brooklyn Rail - Ann McCoy
The Brooklyn Rail - Ann McCoy
May 1st, 2024
In Carol Wainio’s pictorial realm the fabled creatures of Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop, haberdashery-clad rabbits, and children plucked from Victorian illustrated postcards dwell in forests that are part Gustave Doré, part Jean-Antoine Watteau, and are expressionistically rendered.
Caroline Monnet Grew Up Flipping Houses. Now, She Explores Home and Architecture in Her Art
BY SOPHIE LEE - CULTUREDMAG.COM
SEPT 6, 2023
In her first U.S. solo exhibition, the artist takes a critical look at the building of cityscapes and their implications on everyday life.
L’artiste montréalais Chih-Chien Wang à Arsenal New York
L’artiste montréalais, Chih-Chien Wang, présente sa première exposition solo aux États-Unis, une rétrospective baptisée A Bright Circle réunissant ses œuvres des 18 dernières années.
What to Cook This Week
By Sam Sifton - New York Times
Dec 11, 2022
‘‘Now, it’s nothing to do with headcheese or tofu skins, but The Times’s Blake Gopnik put me on to this Corri-Lynn Tetz show at Arsenal Contemporary in Manhattan. Blake’s right. The paintings are terrifying.”
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now
Roberta Smith, Blake Gopnik, Will Heinrich and Max Lakin - New York Times
Dec 1, 2022
‘‘Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start in the Upper East Side with Lynne Drexler’s paintings. Then head to Chelsea for Rudolf Stingel’s Conceptualism with a sense of humor. Afterward, see Nicky Nodjoumi’s “Miami” paintings in NoLIta, and Corri-Lynn Tetz’s terrifying images of girlhood in TriBeCa.”
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
The Art Newspaper, by Daniel Cassady and Gabriella Angeleti
June 3, 2022
‘‘From Esmaa Mohamoud at Arsenal Contemporary to the Flag Art Foundation’s group show curated by ex-football player and arts patron Keith Rivers.”
« Surrender »: à New York, le voyage symbolique de Geneviève Cadieux
Le Devoir, by Nicolas Mavrikakis
Mar 19, 2022
« Cela faisait plus de 20 ans que Geneviève Cadieux n’avait pas exposé à New York. La dernière fois, c’était en 2000, à l’Americas Society, pour une exposition commissariée par Stéphane Aquin, devenu depuis directeur du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. »
Objects as Narrators at Arsenal Contemporary: This Sacred Vessel (Pt.3), NYC
Arte Fuse, by Nina Mdivani
Oct 8, 2020
‘‘The exhibition presents a very eloquent portrait of where we currently are as a society, wavering between mimicry and stand-off, wallowing in the nostalgia of good pre-digital times, and looking at meaning outside of ourselves.”
Énigmatique galerie de portraits chez René Blouin
Artnet, by Caroline Goldstein
June 26, 2020
As galleries around the world begin to slowly reopen, we are spotlighting individual shows—online and IRL—that are worth your attention.
The Female Painters Exploring Our Relationship to the Bodies of Others
Elephant, by Emily Gosling
Apr 21, 2020
A look at what the female gaze really means in the time of Coronavirus, as seen through the eyes of eight artists, tackling subjects from loneliness to ageing to disease.
In the Studio with Shelley Adler
By Anna Kovler
Apr, 2020
Shelley Adler’s portraits of women are striking. With a deft economy of forms she captures the enigmatic quality of the human gaze, loaded as it is with the sorrows, pleasures, and hopes of individual experience.
Review: Suzy Lake
Canadian Art, by Tausif Noor
Mar 9, 2020
“The first truth is the form,” instructs a deadpan, disembodied male voice in Suzy Lake’s 1975 video The Natural Way to Draw, in which the artist, caked in a layer of white paint, shades lines and contours across her face, pausing briefly to take puffs of her cigarette.
This Sacred Vessel (Pt. 2): Arsenal Contemporary Curates Wonderful Collection of Emerging Painters
Juxtapoz
Mar 17, 2020
With so many of the galleries we love closed for the forseeable future, many by appointment only, we are just catching up and reminding people that some great curated shows were happening recently that deserve attention.
In the Studio with Janet Werner
By Anna Kovler
Mar, 2020
Janet Werner has spent decades exploring the form of the portrait. Culled from fashion magazines, her women peer through thick mascara, don elaborate outfits, and inhabit bodies Werner has stretched and warped in paint.
In the Studio with Walter Scott
By Anna Kovler
Mar, 2020
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon as I head across town to Toronto’s east end and Walter Scott’s studio - a bright room with high ceilings where his works in progress seem camouflaged amid the studio furniture.
Artist Talk: “This Sacred Vessel (pt.2).” at Arsenal Contemporary
NADA
Mar 7, 2020
Join artists Bambou Gili, Eliza Griffiths, Nadia Waheed, Janet Werner, and the curatorial fellow at the New Museum Jeanette Bisschops for a conversation in conjunction with the exhibition “This Sacred Vessel (pt.2).”
Suzy Lake
ArtForum, by Zack Hatfield
Mar, 2020
One of the first things Suzy Lake did after moving to Montreal in 1968 from her native Detroit—a city whose fiery upheavals had recently jolted her into political consciousness—was enroll in mime school at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous.
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020 : This Sacred Vessel (pt.2)
Hyperallergic, By Valentina Di Liscia
Mar 2, 2020
The first iteration of this group exhibition explored the ways in which climate change is influencing the firmly-entrenched tradition of landscape painting.