Sean Layh, Antigone, 2022, oil on board, 391⁄3 x 55 in. Courtesy the 18th International ARC Salon.
ARC Salon Results
The Art Renewal Center has announced the winners and finalists of the 18th International ARC Salon Competition. A comprehensive list of the results can be viewed at www.artrenewal.org/18th-arc-salon#/introduction. In addition, a live exhibition of nearly 100 of the best works from the combined 17th and 18th International ARC Salon competitions is planned to open at Sotheby’s New York’s new flagship Madison Avenue location from July 17 to 27. The public opening will be on July 18 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Artist Sean Layh’s Antigone was entered into the Imaginative Realism and Figurative categories and won Best in Show and several other awards.+++
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1992, oil on canvas, 110¼ x 142 in. Shah Garg Collection; © Estate of Joan Mitchell; Courtesy of Cheim & Read; Photo by Brian Buckley.
New NMWA Exhibition
A groundbreaking exhibition showcasing the vital role of women artists in abstract art will be on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from February 27 through July 26. Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection presents 80 works by nearly 70 boundary-pushing women artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Andrea Bowers, Cecily Brown, Sheila Hicks, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Joan Mitchell, Faith Ringgold, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sillman, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pat Steir, Sarah Sze, Kara Walker and Zarina. The show features a mix of paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and mixed media works from 1946 to 2024.+++
Artist and educator, Dr. Leo Twiggs.
Leo Twiggs Retrospective
The world premiere of Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs spans six decades of work by the nationally acclaimed artist and is the first major retrospective exhibition in his home state of South Carolina. On view at the Gibbes Museum of Art through May 3, the exhibition features more than 40 works created by Twiggs between 1961 and 2020, and marks the 50th anniversary of the artist’s landmark solo show at the Gibbes in 1976. A half-century later, this new exhibition comes at a national crossroads as America commemorates its 250th anniversary. Twiggs was born in 1934, just 45 miles from Charleston, and will be celebrating his 92nd birthday during the run of the exhibition. The award-winning artist has created an indelible impact on American art in unprecedented ways. Most of the works on view are emblematic of the artist’s signature prowess in batik artmaking, a multi-layered and arduous wax-resist dyeing process. The deep saturation of colors onto cotton reflects his subject matter’s gravity and historic undertones, often intertwined with his prevailing messages of hope. “The whole point is that we are all on this boat together. We either sink, or we swim by making this experiment work,” says Twiggs. “At this 250th anniversary, when we have come so far together in this country, this retrospective is not just about me—it’s about us, our shared American experience.”+++
Adrian Cox, A Path Between Heaven and Earth IV, oil on panel, 18 x 24 in.
Adrian Cox solo show
Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles is hosting a new solo exhibition titled The Well of Dreams, featuring the artwork of figurative painter Adrian Cox. “My paintings are connected by a mythic narrative set in a world that I call the Borderlands,” says Cox. “For over a decade, I’ve cultivated this internal landscape and used my paintings to give it form. Each image that I create is an exploratory step leading deeper into a territory that exists at the threshold of the real and the imagined, the physical world and the world of dreams.” The Los Angeles-based artist and storyteller is known for crafting an intricate and epic mythology within his paintings, in which he explores questions of identity, spirituality and our relationship with the natural world. In creating his work, Cox draws inspiration from art history, science fiction, mythic archetypes and his own experience of growing up in a closeted queer family. The Well of Dreams showcases more than 20 new works and will be on view from February 21 to March 28. —Powered by Froala Editor
