Kaveri Nair

Hydrometry, 2007, acrylic on paper, 11" x 14"

Untitled, 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 15" x 11"


Lagoons, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16"


Untitled (Grey Clouds), 2007, acrylic on panel, 9" x 12"

Messy Machine, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 55" x 43"
Untitled, 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 20" x 19"

Untitled (Yellow and Copper Sun), 2007, acrylic on panel, 7.5" x 11.5"

Green Drapes, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16"

I was happy to get to do a studio visit with Kaveri Nair recently...here are a few pics I took and some others from her site. I really like how many of these refer to and borrow from to landscapes, but they don't go all the way there.

This Saturday night Kaveri's work will appear in Thingy @ Occasional Projects: 1182 Flushing Ave. 3rd Fl, 7-9 PM, Brooklyn. Also see her website here.

Some Things

Patrick Brennan, Symbol of a New, 2009, acrylic and popsicle sticks on wood panel, 10"x8"

Patrick Brennan FAZES opens this Saturday night from 6-9PM at 103 Reade St. No. 2, NYC. Also at 103 Reade and opening the next weekend, Dec. 12: Outrageous Fortune, curated by Rachel Hayes with Cece Cole, Gabriela Galvan, Emily Hall, Rachel Hayes, and Kazue Taguchi.


J.D. Walsh in the Dec. Artforum's Best of 2009. See the discussed collaboration with Ben Coonley on a Dr. Zizmor commercial.

Apartment Show's Happy House @ Printed Matter. Jesse Hamerman's iwillhearyounow@hotmail.com will be available. Other notables include Gina Beavers, Patrick Brennan, Cleopatra's, Ariel Dill, Stacy Fisher and many more. More at the Apartment Show website.

Jesse Hamerman (anotherday,anotherword) and Liz Linden co-curated Double Take, now up now at Metro Tech, Brooklyn.

Ned Colclough, Say You Do, 2009, wood, plaster, bronze, 30" x 6" x 45"

Ned Colclough has a nice new blog of his recent work.



This looks like a good show coming up next weekend...stay tuned for more Kaveri Nair here.



Christian Sampson and Ariel Dill Inglenook at Southfirst through Dec. 20.

Upcoming: Patrick Brennan FAZES

History in Parts (cross painting), 2009, 20"x 16"

Patrick Brennan
FAZES

12/5-12/12/2009
opens 12/5 6-9PM
103 reade st. #2
nyc 10013

If you've been following this blog for a little while, you know that I am really into Patrick Brennan’s work. It’s gone through a lot of interesting changes over the last few years and the work is really at an exciting point. With “FAZES”, Daily Operation presents Brennan's first solo show in New York. It includes a selection of works that highlight his distinct approach to abstract painting. Hints of moons, crosses, stars, and galaxies appear but the viewer is compelled to collect their own narrative.

His work has recently been seen at Artists Space, Heskin Contemporary, Kent State University, Mississippi State University, Apartment Show, and the Deli Storeroom. For more about Patrick Brennan, check out of my previous posts and especially our interview.

Contact me to see the show after opening night: lutzjon [at] gmail [dot] com.

Jaya Howey

Untitled, 2008, oil on canvas, 70” x 72”


Who Trampled the Flowering Arbutus Beneath the Library Window, 2009, oil on canvas, 71" x 67"

Untitled, 2009, oil on jutte, 20" x 16"; Who Trampled the Flowering Arbutus Beneath the Library Window, 2009, oil on canvas, 71" x 67"; Untitled, 2009, oil on jutte, 20" x 16"


Happy Hardcore, 2009, oil on canvas, 71" x 67"

Untitled, 2009, oil on jutte, 20" x 16"; Untitled, 2009, oil on jutte, 20" x 16"; The Sassiest Boy in America, 2009, oil on canvas, 71" x 67; Untitled, 2009, oil on jutte, 20" x 16"; The Pan Gets Its Close-up" (#2), 2009, acrylic on canvas, 71" x 67"

Untitled; The Sassiest Boy in America

Goodbye Future, 2008, oil on canvas, 70” x 72”

A Clear Expression of Mixed Feelings (1-4), 2008, oil on canvas, 25” x 22”

Jaya Howey is definitely one of the most exciting painters out there right now. I really enjoyed stopping by his studio and talking to him about what he's been doing. Hopefully we'll do an interview in the future, so look for that. Also check out his blog and more here.

Check out his work in Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gestures @ The Kitchen, which opens this Friday, November 13 and runs through January 16, 2010. The complete artist list for the show is: Richard Aldrich, Polly Apfelbaum, Kerstin Brätsch, Ana Cardoso, Jessica Dickinson, Cheryl Donegan, Keltie Ferris, Wade Guyton, Jaya Howey, Alex Hubbard, Jacqueline Humphries, Jacob Kassay, Jutta Koether, Nate Lowman, Seth Price, R.H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne, Davis Rhodes, Cheyney Thompson, Patricia Treib, Charline von Heyl, and Kelley Walker.

Studio: Letha Wilson

Partially Buried, 2009, c-print on wood, 24" x 24" x 3"

Untitled View, 2009, c-print, aqua resin, paint, 16" x 20" x 8"
Sailor's Delight, 2009, c-print, wood, aqua resin, paint, 48" x 10" x 45"

Prism-Pyramid, 2009, xerox transfer, graphite, c-print on paper, 22" x 22"

Stained Glass Acadia, 2009, c-print, 24" x 20"

Golden Cairn, 2009, spray paint and c-print, 14" x 11"

Walden Pond Advent, (in progress), cut and folded c-print, 11" x 11"

I had the chance to stop by Letha Wilson's studio and check out what's she's been doing lately. Here a a few pics from my visit. Check out her show Lines Through the Wilderness, which opens at Hofstra University's Rosenbeg Gallery on Nov. 11 and runs through Dec. 14. Also see her website for more.