The Fall Previews: U.S. Edition

ART WORLD GULLIVERS AND LILLIPUTIANS by ArtSlant East Coast Editor Trong Gia Nguyen The art world Gulliver, power-napping in the fantasy land of excitable Gallery Girl Lilliputians, reawakens after Labor Day to the trumpeting of purring, promising shows that will inevitably uplift the spirit ratings or go down deep dark waters with the centennial of Titanic’s sinking. Just as Swift’s traveler encounters the range of human goodities and lameassness, so too our subway sojourns take us from the west end taverns of Chelsea eastward on the limping L to the faraway lands of bearded Bushwick (if only to see the doppelgänger of Yahoo Luhring Augustine). We meet bent minds and spoons somewhere in the middle, with high hopes for roads well and less traveled. Here’s a quick look at five ports of call to get your autumn art hop started on the right island... ...Read more...
SPONSOR Klein Artist Works: Paul Klein offers online courses that empower artists by demystifying the the art world. In his live webinars, artists are introduced to art experts, such as Simon de Pury, Jerry Saltz and others, and are given the tools needed to develop a successful art career. Join the free introductory webinar on Monday Sept. 10th; the next course begins Sept. 24th.
INDIAN SUMMER by ArtSlant West Coast Editor Andrew Berardini Dip your fingers into the Southwestern paint box and if you run them through the sky across a smeary summer, you'll leave a trail that leads straight to autumn. Rust reds and creamy umbers, a flicker of primrose and pinks that might make a conch shell blush, all flow handily into the brown leaves of red October dusks. Out in California all those fingerpaints get seeped through smog and when they arrive under twilight, we're caught watching days turn to night like summer's children, skin still naked to a warmth that refuses to quit, heading to evening art openings in short sleeves and gauzy dresses. The summer's over and we all have to stumble back to work, or at least set our minds firmly away from that passing season’s sultry pleasures. Summer's over, but it doesn’t have to be. All that summer concupiscence ends up here in Los Angeles this autumn in the undulating sculptures of Ken Price (which would be downright pornographic if they weren't actually abstract) at LACMA. They end up with Salome dancing under the darting fingers of Gustave Moreau as the Hammer Museum spotlights the painting that mesmerized Des Esseintes in Against the Grain, as well as this writer everytime he sees it. Salome's sexual vitality enshrined in a jewel box and lusted over by the graying skeleton of Herod. Or it's in the clashing patterns and electric colors of Sarah Cain's fugitive paintings opening at Honor Fraser. It’s in the tie-dyed landscapes of Friedrich Kunath over at Blum and Poe.... ...Read more...
	TERESITA FERNANDEZ: Night Writing Lehmann Maupin Gallery September 12th - October 20th More NY Editor's Choice...
THOMAS LAWSON: In the Shadow of the Beast David Kordansky Gallery September 8th - October 20th More LA Editor's Choice...	Afterimage DePaul Art Museum September 8th - October 20th More CHI Editor's Choice...
JASON KRAUS: Edits Silverman Gallery September 7th - October 20th More SF Editor's Choice...	EMMETT MOORE: Surface Tension Gallery Diet September 7th - October 13th More MIA Editor's Choice...
	In April 2012, ArtSlant's Nicola Bozzi interviewed Dutch artist Guido van der Werve. In a highly anticipated two-gallery solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York this fall, a selection of Van der Werve's videos from the past nine years will be on view.  Despite the fact that the titles he picks for his pieces may sound tongue-in-cheek at times, Van der Werve seems to have an obstinate seriousness, grounded as far from the concept of “pop” as you can get: solitary physical exercise, Russian literature, classical music, the game of chess. All things that make culture a character-building, long-term reward, as opposed to the compulsively ironic trend that is dominant nowadays. But before you start picturing Van der Werve simply as a self-flagellating martyr to the cause of high art, which is really not the case, read what he had to say here and find out what he's about.
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Mark Mastroianni, Dandelion Field, 2011, mixed pigments on gessoed tarpaper, 71 x 71 inches; 180.3 x 180.3 cm Opening the Fall 2012 Art Season is Mark Mastroianni's "Natural Wisdom" exhibition at Woodward Gallery. Mastroianni returns to his unique gessoed tarpaper and mixed media paintings he had begun working with twenty years ago. Please join us to celebrate at the Champagne Reception: Saturday, September 8th from 6-8pm. The artist will be in attendance. Woodward Gallery, located in New York's Lower East Side, specializes in developing private and corporate art portfolios, and maintains a large inventory of art by Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, Richard Hambleton, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
HINTERLANDS is The Luggage Store’s first artistic exchange involving artists born, raised and based in Vietnam. The project consists of a three month residency in which four artists work in collaboration. This culminates in an exhibition of new works by two of Hanoi’s most exciting young artists, Nguyen Phuong Linh and Nguyen Tran Nam join Lu Yang, a video installation artist from Shanghai, and Gabby Miller from The Bay Area. The Luggage Store Gallery is a non-profit artist-run multidisciplinary arts organization, located on Market St in the Civic Center/Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
Seager Gray Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions in September: Claudia Marseille: Journeys in the main gallery and Gardner + O'Banion: 2 Here in the Book Room. The reception for Claudia Marseille will be held Sept. 8 from 6-8pm. Both exhibitions are on view until September 29. From October 2 - 31 the gallery presents Lisa Kokin:Raveling, with a reception on Oct. 6, 6-8pm. Seager Gray Gallery, located in Mill Valley, CA, specializes in book-related art, works on paper, painting, and sculpture.
TNC Gallery presents APP ART: Painted Paper, a dual exhibition by Peter J. Ketchum and Chris Georgalas, opening Sept. 11, 7-10pm, and running until Oct. 27. The two artists’ paintings, while stylistically different, are partly composed of material appropriated and repurposed from ephemera including advertisements, postcards, comics, matchbooks, manuals, and black & white found photographs. The result is graphically stunning and often unsettling in its social commentary. Open daily 12-8pm. TNC Gallery, founded 25 years ago by Crystal Fields, is one of the largest and oldest alternative galleries in lower Manhattan.
haleARTS S P A C E presents its $100 Art Sale from Sept. 21 until Oct. 3, with an opening reception on Sept. 21 from 5-8pm. Another $100 Art Sale will be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. Don't miss these limited time events! haleARTS S P A C E, in Santa Monica, CA,  is a gallery space that allows local artists an outlet to show & sell their works in a creative art setting in the Edgemar complex, designed by noted architect Frank Gehry.