Nicola L, an Overlooked Female Pioneer of the Pop Art Movement, Has Died at 81
Artnet News
Jan 3, 2019
Conceptual French artist Nicola L., whose feminist work has been experiencing newfound recognition in recent years, died on Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Her shape-shifting art, which spans sculpture, painting, performance, and furniture, often explored the human (and mostly the female) body.
Nicola L. Leaves Behind a Legacy of Fearless, Offbeat Sculpture
Artsy
Jan 3, 2019
Artist Nicola L., best known for her anthropomorphic, functional sculptures, died on December 31, 2018, at age 81. From a white, foot-shaped sofa to a curvy yellow cabinet with a round face and suggestive, nipplesque drawer pulls, L.’s artwork cheekily merged principles of art, design, and furniture.
Nicola L's Functional Sculptures Are as Relevant as Ever
Architectural Digest
Nov 19, 2018
"It would be perfect for jewelry," says a gallery visitor at New York's Arsenal Contemporary to the woman next to him, tugging open the nipple drawer of Nicola L.'s La Femme Commode and contemplating its obvious use: storage.
Pop Artist Nicola L Wants Us to Wear Her Skin and Younger Artists Are Into it
New York Magazine, Bedford + Bowery
Nov 13, 2018
Nicola L was making art around the same time as other household pop art names like Andy Warhol. But while Warhol has a huge exhibition at the Whitney right now (with a sick gift shop), Nicola L. didn't get her first major retrospective until last year.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite at Arsenal Contemporary NYC
Art Viewer
Oct 30, 2018
Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present the Brazilian, Brooklyn-based artist, Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s first solo presentation in New York, Until Different. The exhibition opens 13 September and runs through 4 November, 2018.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite reformulates physical presences and absences in the world and body, negating the mere reassertion of subjects and their environments through acts of pivotal transformation.
People, Places and Things to Know: Feminist Art That’s Also Furniture, Patterned Bags and More
New York Times - STYLE Magazine
Oct 12, 2018
There was a “Saturday Night Live” sketch not too long ago in which Kate McKinnon pretended to be Brigitte Bardot responding to the #MeToo movement. “Why does woman have breast? It’s for a man to grab and pull!” she said, taking a drag on her prop cigarette. “A drawer has a knob. A woman has two knobs!”.
Of Earrings, Tears and Jewellers: The Sculptures of Vanessa Brown
By Anna Kovler
Oct, 2018
Resting somewhere between dream and reality, Vanessa Brown’s sculptures test the boundaries of the familiar. What we normally encounter on a small scale, like a pair of earrings or a cigarette, take on impossibly strange proportions in her metal and glass works.
The Bodybuilder
Office Magazine, by John Martin Tilley
Oct 6, 2018
Breasts stacked like frog’s eggs; the imprint of the artist’s arm or legs in motion as it progressively deconstructs the very sculpture representing it; plaster that captures the memory of her body leaning on or sitting in the confines of a space exploration habitat—these are the discoveries that await you in the uncanny world of Brazilian artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite.
45 Can’t-Miss Gallery Shows in New York This September
Artnet, by Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein
Aoû 30, 2018
In her new sculpture series, inspired by Mesoamerican funerary urns, Brazilian artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite has cast her own body in clay to make life-size vases with vaguely unsettling organic qualities.
A Kiss Under the Tail’ at Arsenal Contemporary, New York
Artnews
Aug 27, 2018
Today’s show: “A Kiss Under the Tail” is on view at Arsenal Contemporary in New York through Sunday, September 2. The group exhibition presents work by Ana Mendieta, Dena Yago, Abbas Akhavan, Latifa Echakhch, Maskull Lasserre, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Isabelle Cornaro, Michael Assiff, and Julia Feyrer.
Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
Artnet news
Aug 27, 2018
It’s your last chance to catch this summer group show, featuring Abbas Akhavan, Maskull Lasserre, Ana Mendieta, and more. The theme is folkloric rituals associated with witchcraft.