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“After Storm in the Fen”, 2024, Oil on canvas

"Squall Lines", 2024, Oil on canvas

For Rachel MacFarlane’s exhibition, Coming Events Cast Their Light Before Them, at Hollis Taggart, she has painted several dreamlike landscapes based on her travels to places impacted by climate events. She first creates maquettes from her observations (three are on view) and then uses them as the basis for the paintings.

From the press release-

At its core, MacFarlane’s work is about lamenting the loss of specific landscapes through creating and depicting new worlds where humans are no longer the protagonists. MacFarlane spends much of her time immersed in unique geographical environments – often ones that have been heavily impacted by climate change-related weather events. While working on her newest body of work, MacFarlane spent extensive time in places ranging from the Adirondacks to Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Maine, and from Prince Edward Island right after it had been hit by Hurricane Fiona to Clearwater, Manitoba during unprecedented flooding. As has always been her practice, MacFarlane does not document while she travels, instead preferring to absorb the atmosphere of a place and spend time really immersed in its sights and sounds. Upon returning to her studio, MacFarlane transforms her observations into three-dimensional maquettes created out of paper, paint, and plastic.

As MacFarlane describes it, a lot of play takes place at her collage table, as she manufactures new spaces based loosely on the spirit of specific ones, drawing on a myriad of influences from theatre and architecture to the world-building of science fiction literature and movies. The paintings in this show were specifically influenced by MacFarlane’s research into the Augsburg Book of Miracles, a manuscript depicting celestial and weather phenomena made in Augsburg, Germany in the sixteenth century. MacFarlane was moved and inspired by how these anonymous illustrators centuries before her were also dedicated to tracking warning signs in the landscape and to recording them in creative ways.

While she describes the model-building as a distancing method, it is also one that creates intimacy, as the scale shift to a shallow box model leads to the creation of a miniature world we can literally hold in our hands versus the enormity of the environment. After MacFarlane distills the memory of a place into an object, she further transforms it into its final form on the canvas, using bold colors and thick brushwork that highlights the painterliness and artifice of her landscapes. As art critic Barry Schwabsky notes in the catalogue essay, these multiple translations and transformations allow MacFarlane to “operate with and against flatness and depth, illusion and physicality, naturalness and theatricality… Her work gives pleasure but also warns that with all these unavoidable antitheses, the choice of one pole or the other would be hopeless, and we have to learn to live with the tensions between them.”

This exhibition closes 5/25/24.

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Alex Prager at Lehmann Maupin in Chelsea NYC.

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Kara Walker, Sikemma Jenkins & Co, Chelsea, NYC, 2024

Photo: Bruce Morrow

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Street art (FU 10) in West Chelsea - New York City, photo by Andreas Komodromos

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Korean artist can’t remember the name in Chelsea gallery, nyc

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© Peter Arkle 2024 ART GALLERY, 10TH AVENUE IN CHELSEA

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Tom Ashbourne

"Autumn"

Peach Alabaster, Black Marble Base

20" x 13"

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David Zwirner Gallery, Chelsea, NY

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Hope Gangloff’s painting MacDowell Cheney Cabin in the Winter Super Moon, 2019, was shown at her 2019 solo exhibition at Susan Inglett Gallery in NYC. 

It is one of several created during her residency at MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

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How Chelsea Became the Unlikely Center of the Arka World

THE NEW YORK arka dealer Pat Hearn was two days away from signing a fresh lease on her gallery space in SoHo when the phone rang on a snowy Sunday night in the spring of 1994. Paul Morris, a fellow dealer who knew she was restless, suggested that they open galleries in Chelsea. “Why would I move to Chelsea?” Hearn recalled thinking. The formerly industrial neighborhood was a better place to get…

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Albert Oehlen's monumental paintings at Gagosian. They are displayed with Paul McCarthy sculptures which are probably too edgy for Tumblr's TOS!

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Bruce Morrow, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC, 2024

Photo: David Cashion

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Prayer & Meditation (geometric) - Manhattan, New York City by Andreas Komodromos Via Flickr: Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra spent five months creating 18 technicolor murals around New York City. His “Colors of Freedom” series includes massive portraits of everyone from Albert Einstein and Michael Jackson to a New York firefighter.