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Echoes of the Ocean: Maskull Lasserre at the Vancouver Biennale

By Anna Kovler
Jun, 2018

Standing on the western edge of the North American continent, by the boats docked at a Vancouver Marina, Maskull Lasserre’s enormous steel sculpture takes a shape that most viewers might hardly recognize. This monumental single-horn anvil, 25 feet long, and about 800 times larger than a normal anvil is perplexing and mysterious.

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Wanda Koop: A Lifetime Of Learning

Eyes Towards the Dove, by Katy Diamond Hamer
Jun 2, 2018

Artist Wanda Koop paints in a very lyrical way. She let’s the paint dictate the painting, not completely dissimilar from The Composition Series  by Kandinsky. Using acrylic in a watered-down format, Koop has been making work for forty years. In that time, she has inherently studied the medium, how it responds to various surfaces, and how to work in a way that is freeing and uninhibited. 

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The Colorful Activism of Wanda Koop

Office Magazine, by Evan Nicole Brown
May 21, 2018

Walking through the space, an intimate and cool respite from the busyness of Bowery just outside, I couldn’t help but think about the impact of color, both in painting and in cultural conversations. Koop, a Winnipeg, Canada native, explains her relationship to cultural color early on: as a young girl, her family lived in close proximity to the Indigenous peoples of Winnipeg, and embraced one Native woman in particular as family.

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Robin Meier and Kim Dorland at Arsenal Contemporary

Whitewall, by Pearl Fontaine
Apr 3, 2018

Arsenal Contemporary in New York is currently presenting a two part exhibitions of Robin Meier’s “Synchronicity” and Kim Dorland‘s “Same Old Future.” Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler and Jean-Michel Othoniel, it is presented in collaboration with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.

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From a Cy Twombly Celebration to Imaginary Cowboys: 39 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This March

Artnet, by Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein
Mar 1, 2018

The Edythe and Eli Broad Art Museum in Lansing, Michigan, has teamed up with Arsenal Contemporary to present two solo shows that respond to forests, both as a place of science and of human emotion. Up front Kim Dorland presents 12 paintings of groves of trees, while the back room is dedicated to Robin Meier installation that combines video, music, and light.

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Lou Dallas, New York Fashion Week's Most Exciting New Label, Exists Because the Designer

W Magazine, by Stephanie Eckardt
Feb 17, 2018 

At first glance, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a reason why the artsy crowd gathered at the downtown gallery Arsenal Contemporary during New York Fashion Week on Tuesday to watch a parade of models decked out in oversized bows and Renaissance-like corsets would have any connection at all to Bruce Willis.

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Lou Dallas Fall 2018 Ready-to-Wear

Vogue
Feb 13, 2018

Lou Dallas designer Raffaella Hanley presented her new collection at Arsenal Contemporary NY, an art gallery on the Bowery this afternoon. The look of downtown style has cycled through various modes over the years—CBGB, the nightclub widely recognized as the birthplace of New York punk, existed just a few blocks up. 

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