Artillery Magazine
New York Art Week: The Armory Show and Photofairs
September 8, 2023
With the summer flying by, the fall art season is already around the corner and New York is abuzz with art fairs, exhibitions, and events. As the cornerstone of the fall fairs, The Armory Show has returned to the Javits Center, bringing with it over 225 top galleries from around the world exhibiting the best and most promising artists. Read full article>
Cultured
Six Artists To Watch From This Summer’s Group Shows
August 16, 2023
With a wealth of emerging artists presenting work at this summer's exhibitions, here are six CULTURED is keeping an eye on. Read full article>
Office Mag
"In Your Anger, I See Fear": Lydia Pettit explores themes of womanhood, horror, and trauma
August 14, 2023
Lydia Pettit, who hails from Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives and works in London, explores psychological spaces and themes of identity in her mesmerizing paintings.Her work was most recently shown in a solo exhibition entitled In Your Anger, I See Fear in Berlin at Galerie Judin, and her paintings are also present in the New York art scene in a group show at Dinner Gallery (on view until August 18th). Read full article>
Observer
Does NADA Foreland Indicate the Growth of an Upstate Art Market?
July 26, 2023
This past weekend saw the second edition of NADA Foreland, an art fair in Catskill, NY billed as “a collaborative exhibition cascading through Foreland’s historic Flagship Building, Waterfront, and Bookhouse” that began in 2021, and this year featured forty galleries and over sixty participating artists. Read full article>
Artsy
10 Contemporary Artists Painting Dreamlike, Fantastical Landscapes
June 29, 2023
Representing a three-dimensional landscape on a two-dimensional surface like canvas is always a give-and-take between the real and imaginary. But landscape painters who step into fantastical terrain have all the more choices to make when it comes to achieving that balance. Read full article>
Artnet News
On-the-Rise Artist Phaan Howng’s Lush Vegetal Paintings and Installations Imagine How Plants Might One Day Retake the World
May 26, 2023
Once upon a time, maybe in a not-so-distant future, a long-abandoned home found itself slowly swallowed in a camouflage of vegetation. Acid yellow shoots with bright orange markings crept over the home’s fireplace, mantel, and floorboards. Even the paintings lining the walls were subsumed, bearing now only these vegetal striations, their original subject matter obscured. Read full article>
FAD Magazine
5 Must See Exhibitions in NYC this week
March 14, 2023
From afar Belkin’s latest works look like paintings. Reality crystallizes up close, sort of. If you want to see the work before you know about it, then warning, there are spoilers ahead. Read full article>
The Vale Magazine
Slice of Water: A Conversation with Sophia Belkin
March 9, 2023
New York City’s Dinner Gallery is excited to present artist Sophia Belkin’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, titled “Slice of Water.” The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 9 to April 22, 2023, and an opening reception will take place on March 9 from 6 to 8 pm. Belkin’s captivating art is centered around exploring the interplay of energy between organic and inorganic materials in the ecosystem. She takes photos that are digitally printed on fabric and then creates collages with ink-dyed textiles. The finished products are images that resemble the specimens one would see when looking through a microscope lens. From a distance, Belkin’s work seems abstract. When viewed more closely, though, it’s easier to pick out images of tangible, everyday objects. Read full article>
Sound & Vision Podcast
Interview with Anna Ortiz
March 9, 2023
Listen to the full interview here. Also available on Spotify or Apple Music.
ARTFORUM
Critics’ Picks
February 3, 2023
According to legend, the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan—today known as Mexico City—was founded by the Mexica (the early Aztecs) when they left Aztlán, their former home, in search of a new one. To do this, they followed Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of sun, war, and conquest. The deity told his people that they should build their new kingdom upon a site with a particular sign: an eagle perched upon a cactus that is devouring a snake. Painter Anna Ortiz’s exhibition here, “Hacia Aztlán” (Toward Aztlán) is filled with reverence for the mysteries of the cosmos and a palpable longing for her ancestral home. Read full article>
El Dario NY
Agenda: Exhibition of Anna Ortiz, "Towards Aztlán"
January 12, 2023
Dinner Gallery opens this Thursday, January 12, “Towards Aztlán, an exhibition of new paintings by Anna Ortiz. Inspired by the architecture of Mesoamerican figures and the landscapes of Mexico, Ortiz's work serves as a reflection of her Mexican-American identity. Her practice explores the complexities that arise from being picked up on two distinct worlds and the journey to find belonging within herself. Read full article>