With spring in the air and the weather warming up, it’s a great time to get out and visit a few galleries, see some new art, and check out the latest artists to follow. For our April list of artists we plan to watch, all of whom we discovered through the Artnet gallery network, each has an exhibition currently playing in New York or the tri-state area, offering the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the spring artistic season.
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And keep an eye out for our roundup of artists to review next month for inspiration and to help you further on your art collecting journey.
Seffa Klein at SFA Advisory, New York
Seffa Klein, WEB (Because 4, 5, 6) (2023). Courtesy of SFA Advisory, New York.
Living and working between Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, Seffa Klein (b. 1996) is known for her haunting abstract works that address themes of metaphysics and the nature of existence. Granddaughter of the founding artist of New Realism Yves Klein, Seffa Klein is the subject of her first solo exhibition, “WEBs: Where Everything Belongs”, at SFA Advisory in New York. Composed of eight paintings and six works on paper, the exhibition explores “the invisible or the unknowable of our universe”. The paintings are uniquely multimedia, with materials such as plaster, bismuth, and glass-woven webs working together to signify a “unified ontology,” accessible through elemental and compositional synthesis.
Daniel Rich at Weber Fine Art, Greenwich
Daniel Rich, Study for 909 3rd avenue, #17 (2022). Courtesy of Weber Fine Art, Greenwich.
Berlin-based artist Daniel Rich (b. 1977) has a practice rooted both in contemporary urban spaces and in art historical traditions such as geometric abstraction and color field painting. Rich received his BFA from Atlanta College of Art, his MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and has completed several prestigious fellowships and residencies, including at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and at the New York Foundation for the Arts. On view with Weber Fine Art in Greenwich, Connecticut, Rich’s current solo exhibition of recent works features his meticulous, technicolor paintings iconic of built environments. Devoid of figuration, the luminous works invite us to wonder about the parallels, and conversely disjointed, between architectural spaces and lived experiences.
Louisa Rabbi at Peter Blum, New York
Luisa Rabbia, Bird of prey (2022). Courtesy of Peter Blum, New York.
Originally from Turin, Italy, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Louisa Rabbia has a practice centered on the dichotomous relationships between man and nature, the cosmos and the spiritual. Using facets of the human body as a starting point, Rabbia’s is able to interact with microcosms and macrocosms simultaneously. The artist’s solo exhibition, “Inferno”, at the Peter Blum Gallery in New York presents his new series which makes visual allusions to the work of Sandro Botticelli. hell card (1480-1495) – one of the drawings commissioned to illustrate The Divine Comedy by Dane Alighieri. Rabbia’s work imagines the setting of hell as a landscape within the body and, in place of religious references, connects the works to individual, earthly human experience.
Zoe McGuire at the Gaa Gallery, New York
Zoe McGuire, pink star (2023). Courtesy of Gaa Gallery, New York.
Zoe McGuire (b. 1996) draws inspiration for her work from a range of art historical movements, such as the Transcendental Painting Group and Art Nouveau, creating otherworldly compositions that seem to radiate light. The Gaa Gallery in New York is currently presenting “Cambium”, McGuire’s solo exhibition of recent works. The title of the exhibition and the works presented refer to an anatomical layer of the trunk of a tree that generates bark as well as wood. Using elements of scientific study in combination with aesthetic compositional approaches, the works push the boundaries of abstraction as well as the meaning of nature-based art.
Ye Cheng at Latitude Gallery, New York
Ye Cheng, Anguish La Redousse 8 (2022). Courtesy of Latitude Gallery, New York.
New York-based artist Ye Cheng frequently explores themes of identity, heritage and globalization through her work. As a first-generation Chinese-American artist, she draws on her personal experiences and explores broader shared experiences around immigration and its effects on culture and community. Ye Cheng’s ‘Vista Flux’ exhibition at Latitude Gallery in New York features the artist’s most recent work, part of her ongoing ‘Angoisse La Redousse’ series, which she began in 2020 The series investigates the dichotomous relationship between the “angst” of experiencing the harsh outside world and the solace of “redoubt” through visual means such as contrasting organic and geometric shapes, degrees of opacity, and variations of line.
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