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“Kathleen Ryan: Pink Hook Iron Eyes” at Arsenal Contemporary
Kathleen Ryan’s first New York solo show is like Shel Silverstein’s poemabout the man who planted a diamond come to life: giant, cast-iron queen palm seed pods bear fruit of rose quartz and jade. Other works include a massive pearl necklace made from bowling balls and a pink granite block, carved as if an invisible figure was perched on her throne.
If August tends to be a sleepy time for New York City, the art world in particular can seemingly come to a standstill.
Read MoreHannah Perry’s densely layered photo-based works at Arsenal Contemporary also addressed this never-ending stream of images. Pictures of eyes, palm trees, and hands, all sourced from the Web, are superimposed on each other in these silkscreened pieces, along with text that hints at violence, both emotional and physical. “Get out of my life,” reads one.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary Art presents a series of major works by Jon Rafman.
Read MoreThis exhibition views the human body through its dehumanization. The show’s title alone, “Sticky Fingers,” evokes all manner of flesh, tainted and tantalizing. Caroline Mesquita’s carnival of sheet-metal monsters, displayed here as sculptures, also surrounds the artist in her video The Ballad, 2017, where they engage in standoffs and sexual acts.
Read MoreMartha Kirszenbaum has curated this group show, featuring Meriem Bennani, Elizabeth Jaeger, Wanda Koop, Piotr Łakomy, An Te Liu, Elizabeth McIntosh, Caroline Mesquita, and Louise Sartor, by bringing together works that “evoke the fragile tangibility of the human body, intertwining materiality with theatrical playfulness” to “ultimately disclose the vast disconnectedness and loneliness of modern existence.”
Read MoreAs soon as the summer show was mounted at Arsenal Contemporary in Toronto, concerned neighbors began calling the police. They were worried about two people sitting on the roof of the building, a sheet thrown over their heads. Despite their perch atop an art gallery, and their obvious lack of movement, onlookers were convinced these were real people.
Read MoreThe Finiliars are awfully cute. Genderless, possessed of pastel-hued Teletubby bodies and gumdrop heads, they live in a verdant valley where they adorably play soccer, blow bubbles, and roll about in the grass.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary is proud to present Viruses Worth Spreading, an exhibition of new work by Hannah Perry on view from May 3 through July 2. The exhibition also comprised of Erotic Discourse 4, a performance by the artist, in collaboration with composer and musician Adam Bainbridge, performance curator Richie Shazam Khan, and clothing designer HYDRA.
Read MoreBritish artist Hannah Perry took over Manhattan during Frieze New York this year, with a solo show that opened on 3rd May at Arsenal Contemporary entitled Viruses Worth Spreading (on until 2nd July 2017).
Read MoreHannah Perry‘s “Viruses Worth Spreading” is currently on view at Arsenal Contemporary in New York. On view until July 2, the exhibition of new work is set up as an experiences for the senses.
Read MoreDuring the performance at her new solo show, British artist Hannah Perry is seen sitting on the floor, hunched over her laptop and typing while smoking a cigarette. In the dark room around her, a group of performers bounce off contorted white blobs in plastic and foam scattered on the ground, momentarily enacting postures of affect such as longing, despair, anger and desire.
Read More“Hannah Perry: Viruses Worth Spreading” at Arsenal Contemporary Arsenal has transformed their main gallery into a multi-sensory installation for Hannah Perry’s work, which deals with the so-called working aesthetic and its ties to culture and ritual.
Read MorePerry makes multidisciplinary work that probes gender, the internet, and social class, often tapping into the working-class aesthetics of auto-body shops common to her hometown in North West England. For this exhibition, Perry conjures heartache and trauma through a multisensory installation of video, sculpture, and music.
Read MoreEd Fornieles’s latest art project could just as easily be the next hot craze among tweens. It’s called “Finiliar,” and it’s a new species of cute, Tamogotchi-like digital creatures who have invaded the Bowery’s newest art center, the first American outpost of Canada’s Arsenal Contemporary.
Read MoreThe inaugural exhibition at The Arsenal Contemporary New York, “Finiliars”, presents adorable animated characters who react to complex data systems. In the case of this exhibition three cartoons are linked to the real-time value of different currencies:
Read MoreL’artiste réputé Marc Séguin est actuellement en vedette à L’Arsenal dans le quartier Griffintown de Montréal.
Read MorePar où commencer pour découvrir l’œuvre riche et variée du peintre, auteur et cinéaste Marc Séguin? En allant faire un tour à l’Arsenal, qui présente une sélection de ses créations en trois temps, chacun évoquant l’univers de ses trois romans
Read MoreInaugurating the Canadian art space’s New York venue, British artist Fornieles presents an exhibition of sculpture and animated videos that envisions the circulation of global capital through endearing animated characters he’s created. Inspired by Japanese Tamagotchi creatures and kawaii culture, each is tied to a real currency.
Read MoreLe 12 janvier 2017, avait lieu à L'Arsenal, le vernissage de Marc Séguin, Atemporalités. Au total 29 oeuvres de l'artiste, des extraits de ses livres. J'y ai retrouvé la "patte" Séguin qui m'a tant séduite il y a longtemps.
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