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Aby Ruiz, La ley  2010. Oil and spray paint on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.

Sea un Payaso, at the Arecibo Museum of Art and History in Puerto Rico, gathers new paintings and drawings by artist Aby Ruíz, where he continues to pursue an ample exploration of the clown as an entertaining but deceitful character. Ruíz uses a combination of oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas to produce his works. In them, the clown is displayed in its typical attire and makeup, but something in their regard evokes sinister sentiments.

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Abraham Cruzvillegas, Untitled 2010. Wood, beer caps, bulbs, roots, fabric, iron Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel Photo : Florian Kleinefenn

“It is necessary to be an artist in order to be a citizen” – Raqs Collective, 2010.

Abraham Cruzvillegas, on his recent exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, draws from his experience living in Paris to speak to the contradictory fragments that compose an almost intangible personal identity. The artist approaches three and a half years living in the Parisian city, by focusing on a middle point between time and space. That moment where one’s sensations begin to arise and a personal narrative is constructed. In its entirety, the exhibition functions similar to an assemblage that investigates the cultural hybridity of the artist and the city in question.[...]

Felipe Arturo, Estación móvil para hamacas

Over the last decade there have a been a number of exhibitions dedicated to Miami artists. These have been excellent at presenting a generation of homegrown artists, and explaining its internal dynamics and its relationship to previous generations that migrated to, and continue to work in, the city. What these exhibitions haven’t done as consistently is place the work of Miami artists alongside that of their international generational peers in a concrete way–that is, by literally presenting the work side-by-side, on equal footing.[...]

Koen Vanmechelen, Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, photo courtesy Galerie West

Since 1998 Belgian conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen has been working  on a project titled the ‘Cosmopolitan Chicken Project,’ where he cross-breeds chickens and uses them to address issues related to multiculturalism, globalization, ethics, genetic manipulation and the meaning of life.[...]

X.J. Vadera, X, 2010. Metal, acrylic, and pigment, 103/4 x 9 x 3/4”

Catch it while you can or else bring it to a gallery near you.

On a long stroll up the Upper East Side of NYC I decided to finally pop into ELSE, the current exhibition at the Tilton Gallery, co-curated by Derrick Adams and Jack Tilton. After just a couple minutes in the exhibition space the eccentric hood poppin’ sophisticated mind of Adams was clearly visible.[...]

Myritza Castillo, Out of Oil, Light and sound installation, 2010

In Out of Oil, a sound and light installation currently on view at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (MAPR), Myritza Castillo addresses the pressing issue of the global dependance on fossil fuels. In it, Castillo delineates with LED lights the contours of a sugarcane plantation in Puerto Rico.[...]

Andy Hope 1930, Time Tubes. Installation View.

So who is Andy Hope 1930? Andreas Hofer’s alter-ego is at it again with a series of paintings and sculptures that “channel the evidence of art as a ghostly manifestation in a paranormal time and space.” The exhibition is comprised of paintings and three-dimensional works that once again place the artist’s work outside any type of definition or categorization.[...]

DAN COLEN: Poetry, Installation view. Photo by Rob McKeever

The most talked about and controversial show of the New York City Fall season: Dan Colen’s inaugural solo debut at Gagosian titled Poetry. Walking around Chelsea during the opening weeks of the season, it was hard to turn the other cheek to numerous conversations regarding Colen’s show. There was hype and tons of expectation.[...]

Gavin Brown just opened this past weekend a major large scale exhibition of new works by Rob Pruitt inaugurating a new exhibition space next door that expands the gallery to one entire city block. Titled Pattern and Degradation, the show comprises paintings, sculpture and installation.[...]

Omer Fast, Nostalgia, 2009. Video.

In an upcoming exhibition at GB Agency in Paris, Omer Fast will present two works; his video Nostalgia and the installation The Forlorn Lover’s Guide to the Underground and to Doubles. In these works, Fast continues his exploration of displacement and memory.[...]