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Michael Rakowitz Shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London

Michael Rakowitz, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, 2016. A recreation of the Lamassu, a winged bull and protective deity, which was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. Photo: James O. Jenkins, courtesy of the artist.

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz  is one of five artists shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, London, the most talked about contemporary art prize in the UK. Shortlisted artists also include, Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha, Mexican artist Damián Ortega, British artist Heather Phillipson, and Delhi-based trio Raqs Media Collective.

 Rakowitz's proposal is a 14ft long reconstruction of Lamassu, a winged bull and protective deity that stood in the entrance to Nergal Gate, leading into the city of Ninevah from about 700 BC until is was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. Made from empty date syrup cans, the sculpture represents a huge Iraqi industry destroyed by wars.

"The hope is that this project intersects not only the cultural tragedy but the human tragedy and the ecological tragedy, so it becomes an effigy for all those things and it haunts. It is supposed to be a ghost  more than a reconstruction."

Two winners, whose works will be installed in 2018 & 2020 respectively, will be announced in March 2017. The shortlisted proposals will be on view at The National Gallery, London through March 26, 2017.

 

Jane Lombard Gallery at Untitled San Francisco, January 12 - January 15, 2017

Booth A8

Pier 70, Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA

SAN FRANCISCO  - For Untitled San Francisco’s inaugural fair, Jane Lombard Gallery will exhibit Squeak Carnwath, Sarah Dwyer, and Carmen Neely: three generations of outstanding painters who continue to drive the medium forward by offering new discoveries, insights, and possibilities through their works and practice. Please join us in San Francisco from January 13 – 15, 2017 at Pier 70, booth A8.

Squeak Carnwath has been a leading figure in the Bay Area art world since the 1970s, with a signature style that incorporates meticulously applied layers of oil paint with text, repeated symbolic iconography, and abstract patterns, to create complex works which gradually reveal her personal exploration of representation and memory. Featured in the booth will be a salon-style hang of her notebook paintings, which offer witty and insightful commentary on painting, art, and the human condition, done in her masterful “trompe l’oeil” style.

Sarah Dwyer draws inspiration from art history and literature as well as her own personal history and childhood spent in Ireland. At Untitled San Francisco, we will debut four new paintings, including a companion piece to Protrero, which was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016. Dwyer’s paintings reveal traces of memory through fragments of found imagery. Her rigorous process results in works that offer viewers a lush and nourishing experience, demanding careful viewing and re-viewing as new nuances and moments slowly reveal themselves over time. Possessing elements of both figuration and abstraction, they are a result of an intimate relationship between the act of painting, the unconscious, and intuition.

Carmen Neely is obsessed with gesture. Every stroke and splatter in her work—a combination of painting and found objects—is imbued with deep intention and awareness of her identity as a young black woman making art in the twenty-first century. “The mark”—revered and mythologized as the purest form of artistic intention by her (mostly) white, male predecessors in the art historical canon— becomes an act of subtle subversion in Neely’s paintings. Her attention to her own context in the broader sense is skillfully complemented by the fact that her work is also deeply personal and self-reflective, imbued with a lively sense of marvel and joy. 

Jane Lombard Gallery has a rich twenty-year history with an established reputation for supporting artists who work within a global perspective and aesthetic relevant to the social and political climate of today. The gallery promotes both emerging and mid-career artists in a variety of media - painting, sculpture, installation and film - in the US, Europe, and Asia. Formerly Lombard Freid, the gallery re-opened as Jane Lombard Gallery in 2015 with an expanded roster and continued commitment to providing a platform for some of the most exciting artistic talents working today.

21c Museum Hotels Oklahoma City Presents an Interview with James Clar

21c Museum Hotels presents an interview with "River of Time" artist James Clar. Inspired by the history of assembly-line production, "River of Time" uses conveyor belts whose top surfaces are replaced with semi-transparent colored sheets of acrylic to create moving panels that flow along the conveyor paths like an animated river.

James Clar gives a sneak peak of his permanent site-specific installation River of Time at 21c Museum Hotels Oklahoma City.

"Inspired by the history of assembly-line production, River of Time uses conveyor belts whose top surfaces are replaced with semi-transparent colored sheets of acrylic to create moving panels that flow along the conveyor paths like an animated river. The ‘river’ flows up and over the center of the installation like a waterfall...[mixing] digital technology and mechanical components to create a dynamic sculpture of a flowing river, animating the movement of time and the transformation of the built and natural world, throughout the past, present, and future."

Yuko Mohri in Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016

Yuko Mohri, installation view, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, India.

Yuko Mohri, installation view, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, India.

Forming in the pupil of an eye, the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale opens Dec. 12 across several venues in Fort-Mattancherry and Ernakulam. Curated by Sudarshan Shetty, the largest and longest art biennial in South Asia will feature works by 97 participating artists, including Yuko Mohri, who will present a series of new site-specific installations. 

Shetty's vision for the biennial draws from mythical accounts of India as the "land of seven rivers" in an attempt to question "What does it mean to mean to be together in time - to be contemporary?"

On view through March 29, 2017.