London Art Fair
19-23 January 2011
www.londonartfair.co.uk

This January over 100 leading Modern British and contemporary art galleries will be brought together for the 23rd edition of the London Art Fair – the UK’s largest Modern British and Contemporary art fair – at the Business Design Centre, Islington. There will be works to suit all budgets – prices range from around £50 to over £1million. The Fair is a great place to see what’s up and coming in the art world, and includes curated sections of contemporary work, including Photo50 (50 photographs selected by a distinguished panel, all for sale). Major artists have been exhibited at London Art Fair early in their careers, such as Jeremy Deller, Mark Titchner, Darren Almond, Jake and Dinos Chapman. This year, contemporary artists including Yoko Ono are also donating works for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, and these will remain on view for the entire fair.

Photo LA
14-17 January 2011
www.photola.com

With a rapid growth of contemporary art galleries along with an expansion of local museum programs highlighting emerging art, Los Angeles has become a required destination for curators and collectors. photo l.a. 2011, celebrating its 20th Anniversary, is the longest running art fair west of New York and is the largest photo-based art fair in the country with over 10,000 attendees. It brings together photography dealers from around the globe, displaying the finest contemporary photography, video and multi-media installations along with masterworks from the 19th century.

Tracey Moffatt: Plantation & Other
13 January – 26 February 2011
Tyler Rollins Fine Art
New York
www.trfineart.com

This exhibition by Tracey Moffatt features her recent photographic series, Plantation, as well as Other, the final work in her video series inspired by Hollywood films. Moffatt is one of today’s leading international visual artists working in photography, film and video. Many of her photographs and short films have achieved iconic status both in her home country of Australia and around the world. Her photographs play with many different printing processes and have a filmic, narrative quality.

Oliver Clegg: Berceuse
15 January – 19 February 2011
Nolan Judin
Berlin
www.nolan-judin.de

Oliver Clegg is a multifaceted artist, capable of producing brilliantly conceived and meticulously executed works in a broad range of expressive disciplines. He often incorporates and reworks found objects with a history to them, like heavily inscribed and paint-splattered ex-art school drawing boards or pages from old diaries and books. His paintings with their rich surfaces and haunting subject matter have a dark brooding tension that evoke ambiguous narratives, transient dreams and shadowy childhood memories. In this exhibition, his first solo show in Berlin he presents 10 new paintings.

Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience
20 November – 1 May 2011
MCA
Chicago
www.mcachicago.org

Over the past fifty years, artists have increasingly engaged the presence of the audience in the conception, production, and presentation of their work. Without You I’m Nothing comprises works drawn from the MCA’s Collection that demonstrate a cultural shift towards a greater engagement for the individual in the public realm, from Richard Serra and Carl Andres in the 60s, to Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, and Bruce Nauman who also emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, right up to artists such as Liam Gillick, Dan Peterman, Andrea Zittel, and Aernout Mik who came to prominence in the 1990s and 2000s.

Phoebe Unwin
13 January – 6 March 2011
Wilkinson Gallery
London
www.wilkinsongallery.com

New work by the young British artist known for her multiylayered paintings in which she explores the physical and psychological. As Unwin says about her own work: ‘I don’t work from photographs – for me photographs provide too much information; too many details. I often aim to get to the essence of a subject, going on a hunch that there is more to that familiar moment or thing than itself. How colours work with form, scale and subject fascinates me; tension that materials can create. I never know how a painting will look when it’s finished and I consider this a vital means of giving a painting energy. Memory is a useful filter for me because it’s never an isolated phenomenon: it’s not just about what something looked like but also what it felt like, how big I felt in relation to it, its temperature or environment – painting the feeling of something rather than its appearance. I paint things I have experienced in some way.’

I Believe in Miracles: 10th anniversary of the Collection Lambert
12 December – 8 May 2011
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
www.collectionlambert.com

The exhibition “I Believe in Miracles” brings together a number of artists that have been invited to take part in thematic exhibitions and have marked the venue over the last 10 years, with for instance “Artists Collections” in 2001, “A fripon, fripon et demi” in 2003, “Figures of the Player, the Paradox of the Actor” in 2006, or invited artists who have had their first large scale exhibition in France, including Andres Serrano, Candice Breitz, Francis Alÿs and Christian Marclay, as well as Cy Twombly, Sol LeWitt, Miquel Barceló and Douglas Gordon.

Nigel Cooke
8 January – 12 February 2011
Blum & Poe
www.blumandpoe.com

Nigel Cooke’s paintings, “hybrid theatrical spaces” as he has calls them, often depict fantastic graffiti-strewn architecture and supernatural landscapes. Rendered in a naturalistic style that bounces back and forth between affirmation and complication of the canvas surface, Cooke’s paintings hover in the vicinity of landscape, still life, portraiture, and narrative tableau without ever touching down. His current paintings similarly flirt with and confound another painting tradition, the “figure in the landscape as allegory.”

Wijnanda Deroo: Inside New York Eateries
9 December – 29 January 2011
Robert Mann Gallery
New York
www.robertmann.com

Continuing her long-term exploration of the architectural interior as a genre of photographic investigation, artist Wijnanda Deroo has scoured New York’s five boroughs documenting the full spectrum of the city’s culinary institutions. From Café des Artistes to Papaya Dog, the Russian Tea Room to Yonah Schimmel’s Knishes, Deroo’s viewfinder alights on diverse sites (and sights) where we New Yorkers sit (or stand) to consume our daily bread. Composing an atlas of the city’s restaurants and cafes, Inside New York Eateries is an important addition to the photographic history of New York.

Curtis Mann: everything after
23 October – 30 January 2011
Kavi Gupta
Chicago
www.kavigupta.com

In Curtis Mann’s most recent works, found photographs of conflicted and historically complex places throughout the Middle East are subjected to a process of selection and erasure. By painting on portions of enlarged color photographs with a clear varnish and then bleaching away unprotected portions of the image, new and abstract meanings are sought from appropriated snapshots, travel photographs, and casual documentations. The photograph is physically and contextually altered; as a result, the work oscillates between image and object, photography and painting, real and imagined. This is Mann’s first U.S. exhibition since his inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.