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As 2017 opens there is a sense that all bets are off—that it is time to roll the dice and keep a hand open to all possibilities.
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Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews.
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10 Group Shows Opening This Week
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Trudy Benson’s canvases are brash, smack-you-in-the-face abstractions, thick-painted love children of Jonathan Lasker and Charline von Heyl.
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Artworks jumping out of their frames, a body artist who will paint art onto your fingernails and a gallery in which food and art are offered in equal
Read MoreArtworks jumping out of their frames, a body artist who will paint art onto your fingernails and a gallery in which food and art are offered in equal
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Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show, hosts a nightly program at the Oceanfront, organized by Creative Time.
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Sue Tompkins: Expressions Tompkins’ practice is lead by an enquiry into language and personal expression, through the spoken, sung, and written word.
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Born in 1971 in Leighton Buzzard, Scotland, Sue Tompkins lives and works in Glasgow. Tompkins is an artist and a musician. Using a range of media including collage, painting, performance and typewritten text, her visual practice explores the subtleties of language, relying on an approach akin to concrete poetry. Tompkins’ works have been described as "strung-out exercises in associative free thought: performance poetry that moves from the page to the voice, from speech to song, from song to signal, from signal to pure sound." The delicateness and ephemerality of her paper works suggest the fleeting nature of words – ungraspable entities at the core of our system of representation. Her collages seem to diffuse a subtle sense of nostalgia, silently intimating open narratives. Since 1997, Tompkins has often collaborated with different practitioners, including the cross-disciplinary artist collective Elizabeth Go (with Hayley Tompkins, Cathy Wilkes, Victoria Morton and Sarah Tripp), to produce performances, installations and short films.
Sue Tompkins has recently presented solo exhibitions at mima Soundspace, Middlesbrough (2010), the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis (2009), The Showroom, London (2007), Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam (2007) and Spike Island, Bristol (2007). Her work has also been shown as part of the 29th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo (2010), “In the Days of the Comet”, British Art Show 7 at the Hayward Gallery, London and touring (2010-11), “The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination” at MACBA, Barcelona (2009), “Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.” at ICA, London (2009), “Heaven”, the 2nd Athens Biennial (2009), “Word Event'” at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2008), “Learn to Read” at Tate Modern, London (2007) and “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” at De Appel, Amsterdam and Artists Space, New York (2006). She was short-listed for the Beck’s Futures prize at ICA, London (2006).
Sue Tompkins is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin and Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
