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Tuesday, August 24
Katherine Bradford Awarded 2021 Rappaport Prize
Katherine Bradford is the winner of the 2021 Rappaport Prize, which is presented annually to an outstanding contemporary artist with strong ties to New England. The annual prize is administered by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln and carries a $35,000 cash prize. Bradford, a self-taught artist who lives and works between New York and Brunswick, Maine, is known for her luminous paintings that often featuring ships or figures that are shown swimming or floating through space. She has exhibited widely at institutions such as MoMA PS1 in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and her work is included in collections nationwide, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Menil Collection.
Aichi Triennale Names First Batch of Participants for 2022 Edition
Japan’s Aichi Triennale has revealed the first group of artists lined up to participate in its forthcoming show, which is due to open in July 2022. Taking the theme of “STILL ALIVE,” in reference to a work by the artist On Kawara, who was born in Aichi, the triennial will this time be curated by Mami Kataoka. Among set to show there are Kate Cooper, Kaori Endo, Byron Kim, André Komatsu, Aki Sasamoto, and Chiharu Shiota. The full list of the first group of artists can be found here.
Courtesy Kavi Gupta, Chicago
Monday, August 23
Kavi Gupta Now Represents Tomokazu Matsuyama
Tomokazu Matsuyama, a New York–based painter known for his fantastical images of youths in natural environments, has joined the roster of Chicago’s Kavi Gupta gallery. Matsuyama’s art draws on visual traditions from his home country of Japan, in particular works from Edo and Meiji periods, and combines them with styles associated with the Italian Renaissance. In bridging Asian and European modes, Matsuyama aims to reflect “the struggle of reckoning the familiar local with the familiar global,” as the artist had previously said.
Proyectos Ultravioleta Adds Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Edgar Calel to Roster
Proyectos Ultravioleta in Guatemala City now represents Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Edgar Calel. Abbas and Abou-Rahme work together across sound, image, installation, and performance, and engage the intersections between each genre and the body. Their joint investigations highlight the material and political possibilities of the mediums, and performances often incorporate text, image, and sound. Abbas and Abou-Rahme are currently having a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago; they are also set to debut a new work co-commissioned with the Dia Art Foundation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Calel works in multiple mediums to explore the complexities of the Indigenous experience, drawing a link between Mayan tradition and spirituality with the prejudices faced by the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala today. His work appeared at the Berlin Biennale last year, and was recently acquired for the permanent collection of Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
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