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Assa Kauppi, Frozen Fright sculpture series, Galleri Andersson/Sandström

ASSA KAUPPI

Frozen Fright

6.4 - 13.5 2017

Assa Kauppi’s breakthrough came in 2011, when she won over viewers and critics with her enduring sculptures. The Race is Over (2011) and In Search of A Winner (2013) addressed contemporary issues, such as competitiveness and the pressure to perform. In this third solo exhibition with Galleri Andersson/Sandström in Stockholm, she once again calls attention on tendencies in today’s society. The series Frozen Fright, consists of eleven different characters with unique individual faiths, but all share a universal feeling of angst and seriousness.

Placed on the floor, the eleven bronze figures range in ethnicity, age, and represent various segments of the world population. The arrangement invokes a similar feeling of an aerial photography and a snap-shot of people laying down, gazing up towards the sky.

Hanging from the ceiling are hand-stitched parachutes made from synthetic silk, the largest of which is nearly one meter in diameter gives the appearance of glass. Like the tentacles of a jellyfish, the parachute’s cords are in a temporarily resting state. A clear message is communicated, a sense of ambivalence increases, is there a potential danger or is help on the way?

PASSION PLAY

By the time you finish reading this article, you'll discover Antonio Pessoa's secret to reaching the peak Art and Life performance level. This secret at this point of his life is responsible for generating successful gigantic projects and innovative amazing artistic concepts, each and everyday. So what's the contemporary Great Master's mindset that makes his Art and Life route extremely easy? This question has been reviewed over and over again and the multiple rewarding results in the artist's life, that's all one needs to accept the fact that after all it's a matter of positive attitude and his supreme master key, imagination. On the whole, his most important thinking is his infinite beliefs that everything is possible. This Passion automatically sets his creative juices in motion and effective action to play right here and right on time the ultimate role, where invention is the light bulb, Pessoa's magical inner device which connects him anywhere, anytime with the universe of multiple possibilities and opportunities, making way for for him and his team to actually live an exciting and rewarding experience everyday. Antonio Pessoa's Passion-mindset has brought him the lifestyle of perfect abundance he is living and sharing with his friends, co-workers and public, feeling how wonderful it is and it feels to make Art and enjoy life his way and doing the things he desires and is so passionate about. The artist quality mindset keeps brightening his outlook, raising his emotions, and increasingly allowing him to be more and more the magnet, mentor and model to artists and public, and in so doing also allowing them to experience the many benefits of how easy it is to skyrocket Art and Life, just by unleashing the power within, with Passion, joy, excitement, ready to step on the stage and play! The artist's method to attract this New World of infinite possibilities, in Art and Life, has become a Must - much asked for - magical combination of wise steps and master key attitudes. Realistic or not, he may even imagine to walk on water as he splashes colors onto the canvas, even walking on the moon, once he decides it's possible.

Angela Fraleigh, The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell, 2015, oil and silver metal leaf on linen, 90 x 66 inches

ANGELA FRALEIGH

THE BREEZES AT DAWN HAVE SECRETS TO TELL

March 24 - May 13, 2017

Daniel Sprick, Floating Heads, 2013-2014, oil on board, 30 x 20 inches

DANIEL SPRICK

RECENT WORK

March 24 -  April 15, 2017

 Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Enrique Martínez Celaya’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. With this new body of work, the artist inquires notions of ambition, loss, redemption, and the nature of painting.

Many of the paintings offer scenes of disrupted journeys or the aftermath of significant episodes: stairs abandoned in fields, snow globes as souvenirs from elsewhere, tattoos that historicize the body, a glass house lost in a cluster of firs, apples frozen and rotting in the tree, and the underlying structure of columns left unfinished. These moments of abandonment and failure also contain the seed of possibility and renewal whose hopefulness echoes the artist's informed but non-cynical approach to art in general and to painting in particular. In The Folktale (2017), marble stairs are isolated in a grassy clearing; they don’t appear to lead anywhere and a fire burns in the distance, but colorful wildflowers sprout, birds flutter, and sunlight ripples suggesting hope and rebirth.

Kent Monkman, St. Sebastian, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 38 inches

PETERS PROJECTS & GP CONTEMPORARY PRESENTS

KENT MONKMAN

New Work – VOLTA Art Fair Curated Exhibition
March 1 – 5 ny.voltashow.com
Pier 90, New York, NY

New Work – GP Contemporary
March 1 – 27 www.gpcontemporary.com
Gerald Peters Gallery, 24 East 78th Street, New York, NY