DOMENICO GNOLI » CAPIGLIATURA (1965)

LELAND BOBBE » WOMEN OF FIFTH AVENUE

ROOF, NYC

CY TWOMBLY @ GAGOSIAN, LA

Gaeta, Italy…

CHARLES RAY @ MATTHEW MARKS, LA 

WALTER DE MARIA » THE LIGHTNING FIELD (1977)

The Lightning Field, situated in the high desert of New Mexico, is comprised of 400 steel poles that double as lightning rods, embedded in the earth at different levels but all achieving a uniform 20.7 feet in height, and spaced 220 feet apart in rows of 16 by 25. The poles run a mile East-West and a kilometer North-South through a plateau that De Maria chose for its frequent lightning storms, which occur roughly 60 times per year, and for the surrounding area completely absent of any visible development.

(via Art We Love)

JOHN BALDESSARI » EYEBROW

JEAN-PAUL GOUDE » SO FAR, SO GOUDE

BRICE MARDEN @ MATTHEW MARKS, LA

“Ru-Wear” 

The legendary Ru ware is the rarest of all ancient Chinese pottery. Considered amongst the finest ceramics ever made, only 79 complete pieces have survived. Marden saw an exhibition of Ru ware in Taipei in 2007, where he traveled after his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York. When he returned home, he began work on this painting, trying to paint from memory the colors of the 11th century glazes, once described as “the color of the sky after rain”.

ALICIA MARTIN

Spanish artist Alicia Martin has created a sculpture in Madrid which depicts a cascade of books streaming from the Casa de America. Made from over 5000 publications, the sculpture “gives life to previously inanimate objects,” this is furthered by the fact that pages from the books can be lost and blown around in the wind. So far Martin has created three of these site-specific installations, which she calls Biografias, and the work she exhibits in galleries also revolves around books.

(via HUH)

JOHN HINDE

BRIDGET RILEY 

Op Art

MARIANNE KIOLNER

JERRY HSU

JONAS WOOD » DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY, LA