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#artcubeloves #SedrickChisom whose practice is rooted in world-building, constructing an apocalyptic, dystopian universe that fuses the iconography of the American Civil War, medieval mythology, Greek myth, and speculative sci-fi to confound racial origin myths and white supremacist narratives. His large-scale, unstretched paintings layer spray paint, acrylic, and oil through repeated washing and scraping, creating hazy, atmospheric surfaces where figures hover between legibility and illegibility in a palette of muddy blues and tropical pinks. Inspired by Octavia Butler, Francisco Goya, Color Field painting, and Japanese anime, his canvases serve as an ongoing, pro-Black mythmaking project in which history, fantasy, and prophecy collapse into one another. Chisom currently has a solo show at Matthew Brown in New York. @sedrickchisom @matthewbrowngallery Three terms that are themes in or have been used to describe Chisom’s work: medieval Christian iconography, mythmaking, unhinged humor #artcubepeople meet some of the tastemakers highlighting the artist and give them a follow if you haven’t already: + Edwin Oostmeijer (Collector, Amsterdam) @edwinoostmeijer + Karen Ziegler Smith (Collector, New York) kzieglersmith + Tabish Khan (Critic, London) @londonartcritic #artcube

#artcubeloves #Lisa Yuskavage who has developed her own genre of portraiture in which lavish, erotic, and angelic women inhabit fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors, blending pop cultural imagery, color theory, and Renaissance painting techniques. Her figures oscillate between liberation and objectification, their exaggerated nudity inspired by classical High Renaissance methods while probing the complicated gaze of contemporary sexual mores and gender politics. Color is her primary vehicle, used as a conduit for complex psychological states, with influences ranging from Bellini and Vermeer to Degas and Color Field painting informing her deeply layered approach to the female form. Yuskavage currently has a solo show at David Zwirner in New York. @davidzwirner Three terms that are themes in or have been used to describe Yuskavage’s work: angelic women, candy colors, mixed subliminal messages #artcubepeople meet some of the tastemakers highlighting the artist and give them a follow if you haven’t already: + Christopher Yin (Collector, Los Angeles) @christopheryin + Claire Gilman (Curator at The Morgan Library, New York) @clairesgilman + Tarka Russell (Art advisor, Miami) @tarkarussell #artcube

#artcubeloves a good discovery! Here are our top 6 discoveries at Frieze: 1. Beatrice Arraes @biaarraesc at @almeidaedale 2. Dabin Ahn @dabinahn at @francoisghebaly 3. Emil Sands @emil.sands at @victoriamirogallery 4. Libasse Ka @libasseka at @carlos_ishikawa 5. Livien Yin @livienyin at @tinakimgallery 6. Nada Elkalaawy @nadaelkalaawy at @lawrieshabibi Which artists did you discover at the fair? #FriezeArtFair @friezeofficial #artcube

#artcubeloves a good discovery! Here are our top 6 discoveries at NADA: 1. Effie Wanyi Li @effiewanyi.li at @foundryseoul 2. Esai Alfredo @esai_alfredo at @spinelloprojects 3. Kelly Tapia-Chuning @kelly_chuning at @milkmoongallery 4. Margaret R. Thompson @margaret_r_thompson at @redarrowgallery 5. TJ Rinoski @tj_rinoski at @meganmulrooneygallery 6. Yam Shalev @yam.shalev at @room57gallery Which artists did you discover at the fair? #NADA @newartdealers #artcube

#artcubeevents ‘MAKE IT MAKE SENSE’ at Room57 Gallery in New York presents a group exhibition featuring paintings by Callum Eaton, Daniel Roibal, Marco Paul Lorenzetti, and Olivier Souffrant. In a world where so little seems to make sense, we turn to art for joy, perspective, knowledge, and connection. This exhibition features works by Callum Eaton, Daniel Roibal, Marco Paul Lorenzetti, and Olivier Souffrant, four artists with distinct, signature styles that differ greatly from one another. These differences should be celebrated, not scolded. They are what create beauty in the world, and that beauty can be seen throughout this exhibition. While each artist’s work may not appear directly related to one another, they perfectly complement one another. From Callum Eaton’s photorealistic Tulip, dramatically blown out of proportion, to Daniel Roibal’s serene abstractions exploring beauty through color and motion, a connection emerges when viewed with imagination. Up close, Callum’s painting reveals details so clear and enlarged that the image begins to feel abstract. From afar, Daniel Roibal’s paintings evoke the feeling of looking out onto a lush landscape, and somewhere within that imagined landscape, the tulip exists. In contrast, Olivier Souffrant and Marco Paul Lorenzetti create lively, layered scenes filled with detail, drawing the viewer deeply into their worlds. Together, these artists remind us that meaning does not always come from similarity. Sometimes, it comes from contrast, imagination, and the beauty of things that should not make sense but somehow do. ‘MAKE IT MAKE SENSE’ opens today at Room57 Gallery in New York and is on view until July 3rd. Featured artists include: Callum Eaton (@callumeats ), Daniel Roibal (@daniroibal ), Marco Paul Lorenzetti (@_marcopaull ), and Olivier Souffrant (@0livier_ ). #Room57Gallery @room57gallery #artcube

#artcubeevents in New York this week (15 must-see shows and other events): 1. 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair @154artfair 2. Aiza Ahmed @aizaahmedstudio at @halfgallery 3. Emma Webster @emma_webstah at @petzelgallery 4. Esther @esther.newyork 5. Firelei Baez @fireleibaez at @hauserwirth 6. Frieze at @friezeofficial 7. Giuseppe Penone at @gagosian 8. Independent @independent_hq 9. Kelly Akashi @citizenbong at @lisson_gallery 10. Lindsay Adams @lindsaybriadams at @seankellygallery 11. Lisa Yuskavage at @davidzwirner 12. ‘MAKE IT MAKE SENSE’ at @room57gallery 13. Martin Wong at @ppowgallery 14.NADA @newartdealers 15. TEFAF @tefaf Did we miss an event? Let us know in the comments. #artcube

#artcubepeople our weekly feature of 10 individuals shaping the art world today (New York edition): 1. Alison Coplan (Curator) – Coplan is chief curator at Swiss Institute, building an intellectually wide-ranging program across ecology, institutional critique, and experimental publishing. @alicopes 2. Amy Griffin (Collector) – Griffin is a collector, Met trustee, and Gagosian board member whose cross-industry influence bridges art, philanthropy, and female-led entrepreneurship. @amygriffin 3. Claire Kim (Curator) – Kim is director of programs & exhibitions at Asia Art Archive in America, building a curatorial practice centered on diasporic identity, ancestral memory, and Asian art histories. @mediumrareclaire 4. Josh Fayer (Gallerist) – Fayer founded Room57 Gallery to democratize the gallery experience, showing art & design works in a home-like setting and providing emerging artists with exhibition opportunities. @jfayer @room57gallery 5. Lauren Wittels (Gallerist) – Wittels is a principal of Luhring Augustine, building its next chapter on long-term artist relationships and institutional depth. @laurenwittels 6. Megan Fox Kelly (Advisor) – Fox Kelly is an art advisor managing billions in assets for collectors, foundations, and estates, specializing in collection stewardship & artist legacy planning. @meganfoxkelly 7. Michi Jigarjian (Cultural entrepreneur) – Jigarjian is founder of WOAH, using art & community investment to drive social impact & equity across New York’s cultural institutions. @michijig 8. Sonya May Tamaddon (Curator) – Tamaddon is a curator & art advisor working across contemporary art and collectible design, bridging institutions & fairs with a cross-cultural curatorial lens. @sonyamay 9. Stephanie Sparling Williams (Curator) – Sparling Williams is a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, reframing the US art canon through Black feminist scholarship & collection reinstallation. @ssparlingwilliams 10. Tamsin Dillon (Curator) – Dillon is founder of Art in Public and one of the UK & US’s leading public art commissioners, with a practice spanning the London Underground to coastal commissions. @tamsindillon Give them a follow. #artcube

#artcubeloves #MatthewWong (1984-2019) who was a self-taught painter whose richly textured, dreamlike landscapes fuse Eastern and Western art history, with compulsive mark-making recalling the dotwork of Seurat and Kusama, while his compression of space draws on Chinese scroll painting traditions. Drawing on Van Gogh, Matisse, Bonnard, and Chinese literati painters like Shitao and Bada Shanren, his signature style blends radiant color, intricate mark-making, and motifs of solitude, featuring nocturnal scenes, winding paths, and lone figures. Loneliness, isolation, and mental health struggles marked his life and permeated his work, with painting functioning for him as what he called a ‘last resort,’ a deeply personal means of channeling emotional and psychological experience. Wong currently has a solo show at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi in Venice. matthewwongfoundation Three terms that are themes in or have been used to describe Wong’s work: dreamlike landscapes, vibrating Fauvist hues, emotional seismographs #artcubepeople meet some of the tastemakers highlighting the artist and give them a follow if you haven’t already: + Cris McCall (Art advisor, New York) @mccallartadvisory + Dennis Freedman (Collector, New York) @dennisfreedmannyc10 + Leslie Gerber-Seid (Art advisor, New York) @gerberseid #artcube

#artcubeloves #HernanBas who creates paintings, works on paper, and installations that weave adolescent adventures with classical poetry, mythology, the paranormal, and literature, drawing on the Romantic era’s glorification of nature and the Decadent movement’s nihilism and excess. His androgynous male protagonists, suspended between adolescence and adulthood in a state he calls ‘fag limbo,’ inhabit lush, dreamlike landscapes charged with implicit eroticism, reinterpreting classical painting from a queer perspective. His process involves deep research through reading and film, after which he ‘remixes’ his influences, sampling literary and visual sources until they become entirely his own. Bas currently has a solo show at Ca’ Pesaro in Venice. @hernanbas @museocapesaro Three terms that are themes in or have been used to describe Bas’s work: male androgynous dandy, romantic nihilism, Southern Gothic tradition #artcubepeople meet some of the tastemakers highlighting the artist and give them a follow if you haven’t already: + Glenn Scott Wright (Partner at Victoria Miro, London) @glennscottwright + Jang-Uk Lee (Chief Curator at Space K, Seoul) @janguklee.art + Ralph Tawil (Collector, New York) @ralphtawil_ #artcube

#artcubeloves #ErwinWurm who came to prominence with his One Minute Sculptures, in which participants follow written instructions to pose with everyday objects, rendering sculpture ephemeral and blurring the line between performance and daily life. Humor is his primary material, using absurdity to comment on Western attitudes toward consumerism and philosophy, distorting familiar forms through skewed scale, anthropomorphism, and grotesque exaggeration. Inspired by Beckett, Ionesco, Freud, and Wittgenstein, his practice treats sculpture as a medium for exposing the arbitrary and farcical nature of social norms and everyday life. Wurm currently has a solo show at Museo Fortuny in Venice. @erwinwurm @palazzofortuny_venezia Three terms that are themes in or have been used to describe Wurm’s work: invented reality, human body as sculpture, wry humour #artcubepeople meet some of the tastemakers highlighting the artist and give them a follow if you haven’t already: + Antoine de Galbert (Collector, Paris) @antoinedegalbert + Jérôme Sans (Curator & Critic, Paris) @jeromesans + Matthias Arndt (Art expert & advisor, Berlin & Melbourne) @m.arndt #artcube

#artcubeloves #MichaelArmitage who paints on lubugo bark cloth, a sacred Ugandan material harvested from trees and traditionally used for ceremonial garments, whose inherent tears, sutures, and textures directly shape his lush, large-scale compositions. Drawing on news media, East African folklore, Greek mythology, personal memory, and the European painting canon from Goya to Gauguin, he weaves real and imagined histories into dreamlike, mythically charged scenes rooted in the sociopolitical realities of contemporary Kenya. His work holds together violence, spirituality, sexuality, and humor within a lyrical visual language that sits at the crossroads of East African modernism and Western art history, refusing to privilege one tradition over the other. Armitage currently has a solo show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. @michael_armitage_studio @palazzo_grassi Three terms that are themes in or have been used to describe Armitage’s work: dream states, phantasmagorical vision, sociopolitical tensions #artcubepeople meet some of the tastemakers highlighting the artist and give them a follow if you haven’t already: + Alexandra Munroe (Curator at Guggenheim Museum, New York) @alexandramunroe + Judith Benhamou (Curator & Journalist, Paris) @judithbenhamou + Leonie Booth-Clibborn (Director at Paragon Press, London) @leonieboothclibborn #artcube

#artcubeevents in Venice this week (10 must-see shows and other events): 1. Amoako Boafo @amoakoboafo at @museopalazzogrimani 2. Erwin Wurm @erwinwurm at @palazzofortuny_venezia 3. Hernan Bas @hernanbas at @museocapesaro 4. Lee Ufan @ufanlee at @smac_venice 5. Lorna Simpson @lornasimpson at Punta della Dogana 6. Lydia Ourahmane @emogirl4 at @nicolettafioruccifoundation 7. Matthew Wong matthewwongfoundation at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi 8. Michael Armitage @michael_armitage_studio at @palazzo_grassi 9. Sanya Kantarovsky @skantily at @istitutoveneto 10. Venice Biennale @labiennale Did we miss an event? Let us know in the comments. #artcube