Art News

Attendees at the 2018 Fog Art+Design event.

The fifth annual edition of FOG Design+Art will take place January 11 through 14, 2019, at the Fort Mason Center, celebrating San Francisco’s history as a hub of all things art, design and innovation. The event features 45 of the leading visual and design galleries featured as well as a carefully curated set of exhibitions.

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West by Midwest

Ed Ruscha, Twenty-six Gasoline Stations, 1969, offset on paper; perfect bound, and softcover, 7 1/16 x 5 9/16”. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, National Endowment for the Arts Museum Purchase Grant and gift of the Men’s Council, 2012.84. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

West by Midwest seeks to tell the untold stories of contemporary art and its process through the lens of the artists. Revealing the social, artistic and social connections of these artists gives meaning to the five-sectioned exhibition of over 80 works, dated from the 1960s to the 2010s. The exhibition will be on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from through January 27, 2019.

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Incredible Vision

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, No Head for Violence, 2011, oil on canvas, 17¾ x 15¾”. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, © Lynette Yiadom-Boayke

Civil rights activist Peggy Cooper Cafritz, who passed away earlier this year, bequeathed a major collection of more than 400 works of art by contemporary artists of African descent to the Studio Museum in Harlem. Cafritz also left 305 works to Washington D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

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Holding Environment

John Houck, Rejoin, 2018, archival pigment print, ed. of 3, 34 x 26”. JOH.14745. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © John Houck

Marianne Boesky Gallery presents Holding Environment, an exhibition of new work by John Houck, who is noted for his deconstruction of accepted formal and conceptual boundaries. With intricate compositions, his work neither portrays reality or constitutes fiction. The exhibition remains on view through December 22.

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Survey

Zoe Leonard, Robert, 2011,10 suitcases, 72 7/8 x 21 ½ x 21”. Courtesy Museion Foundation, Bezen, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan and Collection of Enea Righi, Italy.

Producing work in photography and sculpture, Zoe Leonard’s lyrical observations of daily life coupled with a rigorous, questioning attention to the politics and conditions of image-making have made her among the most critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Survey at the The Geffen Contemporary is the first large-scale overview of her work and remains on view through March 25, 2019.

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Art Basel

From 35 countries, 268 leading galleries will show work at the 17th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Latin American galleries and artists will have a strong presence, reflecting the importance of Art Basel in Miami Beach for the region. Occurring alongside the event is Design Miami, the premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating collectible design.