Paola Pivi "Ma'am" @ The Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, Texas

Paola Pivi’s first museum solo exhibition in the United States addresses the viewer as “ma’am.” Women, men, and children are greeted with this term of reverence and kindness along with its common, unintentional undertones of comedy and pretension. Ma’am brings together iconic past works with new commissions. Pivi’s feather-covered polar bears occupy the gallery in the company of an inverted Fiat G-91 fighter jet. Canvases of cascading real pearls converse with photographs of zebras on a snowy mountaintop. Spinning, feather-dressed wheels evoke dream catchers, while a giant inflatable ladder elicts wonder and aspiration. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Dan Colen "Oil Painting" @ Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, Texas

Dan Colen "Oil Painting" provides an unprecedented opportunity to track the major developments in the artist’s practice, beginning with his earliest works and continuing through his most recent. For the first time, viewers will be offered new insights into those developments through never-before exhibited preparatory drawings, source material, studies, and experimental paintings from the artist’s studio. The exhibition includes several pieces from 2001, the year Colen graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and began working toward his first gallery exhibition. Photographs and graphite-on-velum pieces from that year reveal Colen’s longstanding interest in and mastery of traditional painting—a practice that is explored, exploded, and returned to throughout the works that follow. This is particularly evident in several examples of his well-known “Candle Paintings”, which are paired with a suite of drawings that map the artist’s process, laying bare Colen’s attention to detail and composition. Additional paintings in the exhibition represent several of Colen’s major series, including Confetti, Trash, and Miracle paintings. Four large-scale Trash paintings, all made in 2016, show Colen’s newest painterly intervention into the pictorial plane—using detritus discovered on New York City streets as sculptural painting materials. Dan Colen "Oil Painting" will be on view until August 21, 2016 at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass Street Dallas, Texas  

Life's A Gasssss: Oliver Clegg Talks About His First Solo Exhibition In the US, Making Art For Sigmund Freud's Desk and The Information Age →

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10 Must See Art Shows Around The World That You Really, Really Need To Check Out

1. Consumption, sexuality, violence, voyeurism, discomfort, guilt, loss of control, and fantasy at Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Schinkel Pavillon – on view until November 22 in Berlin, Germany 2. Brad Phillip’s erotic Honeymoon Rehearsal at Rod Bianco opening on November 20 in Oslo, Norway 3. See Niki de Saint Phalle’s psychedelic world at the National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan – on view until December 14 4. Alex Israel’s cool, cool world at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas 5. See the late Dash Snow’s posthumous retrospective at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut 6. Misha Hollenbach and Cali Thornhill Dewitt team up for Hot Fire in Milan, Italy 7. Pablo Picasso’s sculptures are on view at The Museum of Modern Art In New York City, New York 8. The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, California 9. Josh Jefferson is putting his Head Into The Trees at Gallery 16, opening on November 13, in San Francisco, California 10. Gilbert & George’s subversive banners will be on view at White Cube starting on November 25 in London, Englan

Sightings: Alex Israel @ The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas

For his Sightings exhibition at the Nasher, Israel presents new sculptures and paintings, some related to his first feature length film, SPF-18, currently in production. The work explores the genre of the teen surfing movie, using visual and narrative conventions common to the after-school special, a series of made-for-TV movies for adolescents. Israel's installation combines new sculptural objects derived from Hollywood movies, his own and others', with self-portraits incorporating classic images of Southern California to create a quasi-narrative installation within the gallery. Israel has also made an intervention in the Nasher Collection Gallery upstairs, placing sky and decorative backdrops among the works. "Sightings: Alex Israel" will be on view until January 31, 2016 at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. photographs by Ouitney Lorin

Dallas Art Fair 2015 Highlight: Harlan Levey Projects

Brussels, Belgium based gallery Harlan Levey Projects shined at the 2015 Dallas Art Fair with a booth that explored American nostalgia and the dark under pinnings of memory and the soul. For instance, T.R. Ericsson's haunting silkscreen images of his mother and his childhood are silkscreened on canvas with ink, cigarette nicotine, and ash to represent the gritty minutiae and detritus that add up to the sum of our earthly existence. Other artists included Radek Szlaga, Willehad Eilers and Abner Preis. photographs by Whitney Loren 

Richard Phillips at Dallas Contemporary

In his first US solo museum exhibition – Negation of the Universe – Richard Phillips brings his exploration of contemporary culture to Dallas. His strikingly distinctive paintings address the complex web of pop themes in our media-saturated world – sexuality, politics, power and death among them. For Phillips, critique is as much an intrinsic material in the conception and staging of his work as the materials of their making. His conflating of subject and genre continues to provide challenging comment on the condition and reach of contemporary art. Negation of the Universewill be on view August 10, 2014 at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass Street Dallas Texas