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While this list might introduce you to a few names who weren't formerly on your radar, its primary purpose is to further brighten the spotlight on a group of artists who are already being talked about - who are making a powerful entry into the new year with at least twelve solid months (in some cases, many more) of exhibitions and events behind them. Some are more established than others, but all are at a pivotal place in their careers, as the increased interest from collectors, curators and critics only serves to reinforce. Rather than offer my subjective opinion on their work, I thought it would be more valuable and educational to focus on their recent career achievements and upcoming projects, the combination of which more than underline why they are the ones to watch both in 2013 and for many years to come.
All images on the slideshow that follows are (c) the respective artists, galleries and institutions.
Written by Elisa Carmichael (Editor-in-chief, Tasj magazine)
25 Artists to Watch in 2013
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Ned Vena
Ned Vena
Based in: Brooklyn
Ned Vena mounted two very different solo shows in 2012: on display at Clifton Benevento in New York were a collection of ink blotter paintings and acid-etched security glass panels, while at White Flag Projects in St. Louis, a new series featuring steel doors opening out of the walls made a stark, minimalist statement. Vena also had a two person show with Josh Kolbo at Société Berlin in the Spring, and featured in group shows at Halsey McKay in East Hampton, Bugada & Cargnel in Paris, Brand New Gallery in Milan, Modern Collections in London, The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn, Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. He will participate in several group shows in London in 2013, at Massimo de Carlo (the Milan gallery officially opens its UK outpost in the Spring) and the Zabludowicz Collection.
Above: Ned Vena, Solo Exhibition, Installation View, 2012, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
Valerie Snobeck
Valerie Snobeck
Based in: New York
Valerie Snobeck had three solo shows in 2012: an eponymous exhibition at Le Consortium in Dijon, They Seem Removed at Thomas Duncan Gallery in Los Angeles and Grand Beauty Salon at Essex Street in New York. In each instance, she succeeded in transporting spectators deep inside her recurring dialogue between present, past and future. Group exhibitions in 2012 included New York: Directions, Points of Interest at Massimo de Carlo in Milan and I Think and That Is All That I Am at Thomas Duncan. She also exhibited at FIAC in Paris with Essex Street and NADA Miami with Thomas Duncan. American Standard Movement, a site-specific piece commissioned for the courtyard of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago (Snobeck's alma mater) in the Fall of 2012, will remain on view through October, 2013.
Above: Valerie Snobeck, Grand Beauty Salon, Installation View, 2012, Essex Street, New York
Lucien Smith
Lucien Smith
Based in: New York
Lucien Smith presented seven of his most recent rain paintings, a popular series of works by the artist famously created by means of a paint-filled fire extinguisher fired at the canvases, along with a wood chip and sound installation, at OHWOW in Los Angeles this past September. A month later, one of his pie paintings dominated Salon 94's booth at Frieze London. Smith showed another pie painting in It Ain't Fair, OHWOW's annual Miami group show, as well as a guitar piece not unlike those he exhibited at his solo at Half Gallery during Lower Manhattan's Hurricane Sandy-induced blackout. Coming up in 2013: a group show at Brand New Gallery in Milan, a book launch for Good Vibrations (the aforementioned Half Gallery show), and three solos, at Suzanne Geiss Company and Salon 94 in New York and Bill Brady Gallery in Kansas City, MO.
Above: Lucien Smith, Untitled (Black) Rain 3, 2012, OHWOW, Los Angeles
Adam Parker Smith
Adam Parker Smith
Based in: Brooklyn
Last summer, Adam Parker Smith coated the walls of artist residency Blue Sky Project in Dayton, Ohio with jelly beans, jewelry, plastic flowers and fruits for an installation piece entitled This Side of Paradise (I Lost All My Money in the Great Depression and All I Got Was This Room). His contribution to Post Acid at Small Black Door in Ridgewood in April: a cluster of shiny balloons inside an inflatable paddling pool floated to the ceiling, their strings bobbing down into the center of the space. At his solo at Gallery Zidouin in Luxembourg earlier in the year, a fan flapped the human hair of three identical women across their photo-printed-on-canvas faces. Highly diverse in his practice, the Brooklyn-based artist, who spent part of the year creating work at the AIRspace Residency at Abrons Art Center in the Lower East Side and the Wave Hill Winter Residency Program in the Bronx, gave work in all manner of media to group shows at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco, Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles and New York, and Meulensteen Gallery, Bobby Redd Project Space and Andrew Freedman House in New York, before returning to Ever Gold for a solo in November. Solos at Storefront Bushwick and LaMontagne Gallery in Boston and a group show at New York's Lu Magnus, which he also curated, are just some of the projects he has planned for 2013.
Above: Adam Parker Smith, Untitled (Kanye Shutter Shades), 2012, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
Dan Shaw-Town
Dan Shaw-Town
Based in: London, United Kingdom and New York
2012 was a busy year for Dan Shaw-Town, from the group exhibitions Into The Surface at Brand New Gallery in Milan, Inter ruption at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles and Drawing : Sculpture, organized by the Drawing Room at Leeds Art Gallery to participation in both NADA New York and NADA Miami (with Christopher Crescent at the former and both Christopher Crescent and Room East at the latter) to a two person show with Ben Schumacher at Room East in New York and Trojan Horses with Davis Rhodes and Ned Vena at Bugada & Cargnel in Paris. All of this transpired before the opening of ongoing exhibition Graphite at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at the end of the year. In 2013, see his work in the London leg of Drawing : Sculpture at the Drawing Room in February and a solo exhibition at Room East in New York in March.
Above: Dan Shaw-Town, Solo Exhibition, Installation View, 2011, Seventeen Gallery, London
Hugh Scott-Douglas
Hugh Scott-Douglas
Based in: Toronto, Canada
A Place In The Sun, on view at Clifton Benevento in New York in early 2012, showcased an exquisite series of cyanotypes on linen by Hugh Scott-Douglas. A month before, the Canadian artist had his debut US West Coast solo at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, where he augmented his cyanotype work with a series of large-scale linen laser-cuts. In addition to a solo project with Berlin gallery Croy Nielsen at LISTE 17 in Basel, Scott-Douglas participated in group shows at Croy Nielsen, Wallspace Gallery in New York, Brand New Gallery in Milan, Luce Gallery in Turin, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, deCordoba Sculpture Park and Museum in Boston, Cul De Sac in London and Plug In ICA in Winnipeg. Recently released by Mousse Publishing: Hugh Scott-Douglas: Cyanotypes, an 80 page collection of works created by the artist in the eponymous medium. In 2013, Scott-Douglas will follow up The Cabinet of Dr. Calighiri, his highly anticipated debut solo at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles in January, with a group exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan and a solo booth with Jessica Silverman at Art Statements during Art | 44 | Basel.
Above: Hugh Scott-Douglas, A Place In The Sun, Installation View, 2012, Clifton Benevento, New York
Olve Sande
Olve Sande
Based in: Berlin, Germany
The recipient of numerous grants in 2012, from the Arts Council Norway and City of Oslo, amongst others, Olve Sande, who has lived in Berlin for the past year, returned to his home country last summer to mount Flats, an impressive solo exhibition of sculpture, photography, paintings and silkscreen prints at Akershus Kunstsenter in Lillestrøm. Group shows throughout the year took place at Das Gift, 401 Contemporary, Kreuzberg Pavillon, L'Atelier-Kunst(spiel)raum, Fichte Bunker, PSM-Gallery and HBC in Berlin, Carmichael Gallery in New York, Musee departemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, and Herrmann Germann Contemporary in Zurich, where Sande will have a solo exhibition in 2013.
Above: Olve Sande, Flats, Installation View, 2012, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrom
Dan Rees
Dan Rees
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Dan Rees exhibited a strong selection of photographs, sculpture and paintings from his Artex and Vacuum series at his April 2012 solo at Albert Baronian Gallery (formerly Baronian Francey) in Brussels, just a month after Merthyr, a solo at New Galerie in Paris whose works were inspired by the events and history of the town of Merthyr Tydfil. The Welsh artist, who participated in group exhibitions at Quad Gallery in Derby, Galeria Nuno Centeno in Porto, Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, Galerie Andreas Huber in Vienna, Young Art in LA, Francesca Minini in Milan, Galeria Miejska Arsenal in Poznan, Cul De Sac and Jonathan Viner in London, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico in Rome, Dienstgebaude in Zurich last year, also created an installation with Francesco Arena at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, an event that was sponsored by the Foundation MIA - Congregation of the Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo in collaboration with GAMeC, The Blank Bergamo Contemporary Art and the Foundation Credito Bergamasco. In 2013, Rees will have solo shows at the Goss Michael Foundation in Dallas and The National Museum of Wales; work will also be included in a group show at Jonathan Viner.
Above: Dan Rees, Artex Painting, 2011, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
Chadwick Rantanen
Chadwick Rantanen
Based in: San Francisco
2012 was the busiest year to date for Chadwick Rantanen, whose intriguing Walkerball-adorned aluminum poles and abstract drawings were featured in eight international exhibitions. The most significant of these was the minimalist More often and in more Places, his debut solo at STANDARD (OSLO) in February. Rantanen complemented this show with group exhibitions at Galerie Micky Schubert and Figge von Rosen in Berlin, Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, UNT/TLED and Family Business in New York, Thomas Duncan Gallery in Los Angeles, Frutta Gallery in Rome and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Essex Street and STANDARD (OSLO) also presented his works at art fairs over the course of the year.
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Above: Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole (PCTB/Fluorescent Yellow/02), detail, 2012, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Zak Prekop
Zak Prekop
Based in: New York
Zak Prekop deftly combines distinct shapes and forms with intentional randomness in his fluid abstract canvases. His 2012 included solo exhibitions at Thomas Duncan Gallery in Los Angeles and Harris Lieberman in New York, a presentation for Art Statements at Art |43| Basel with Harris Lieberman and the group exhibitions Modern Talking at The Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca and I Think and That Is All That I Am at Thomas Duncan. In 2013, Prekop will have a solo at Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, NC and feature in the group show Painter, Painter at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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Above: Zak Prekop, Solo Exhibition, Installation View, 2012, Harris Lieberman, New York
David Ostrowski
David Ostrowski
Based in: Cologne, Germany
David Ostrowski's raw works on canvas flow with an indulgence akin to literary free association, run-on sentences and improper punctuation, but always succeed in telling a complete story. The German artist's 2012 included the solo exhibitions From bad to worse at Ltd in Los Angeles, Dann lieber nein at Figge von Rosen Galerie in Cologne, Tried and failed at BolteLang in Zurich (who also showed his work at Artissima 18) as well as two person shows with Jack Henry at Nudashank in Baltimore and Harmony Korine at Jagla Ausstellungsraum in Cologne. Ostrowski also took part in several group shows last year, at September in Berlin, Knust x Kunz in Munich, Shoot The Lobster in New York, Rod Barton Gallery in London, Kunstverein Koelnberg in Cologne and Amstel 41 in Amsterdam, as well as the aforementioned BolteLang and Figge von Rosen. March of 2013 heralds the opening of solo exhibitions at both Artothek in Cologne and Peres Projects in Berlin.
Above: David Ostrowski, Dann lieber nein, Installation View, 2012, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
Jayson Musson
Jayson Musson
Based in: Brooklyn
New Yorker Jayson Musson is currently best known for two compelling, aesthetically disparate bodies of work – fragmented Coogi sweaters transformed into abstract canvases and Art Thoughtz, the satirical YouTube video series featuring the artist's alter ego, Hennessy Youngman. A True Fiend's Weight, on view through the end of January at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, showcases the former series, as did Halycon Days at Salon 94 in New York over the summer. The Lower East Side gallery exhibited both video and canvas at Frieze London 2012. Musson has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions of late, at Postmasters and FLAG Art Foundation in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art and Bodega in Philadelphia, David Castillo Gallery in Miami and West Galerie in The Hague, amongst others.
Above: Jayson Musson, Halycon Days, Installation View, 2012, Salon 94, New York
Oscar Murillo
Oscar Murillo
Based in: London, United Kingdom
From his solo projects with Stuart Shave/Modern Art at the INDEPENDENT art fair in New York and Isabella Bortolozzi at FIAC in Paris, to work, an exhibition of large-scale canvases created on-site at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami during a five-week summer residency and on view from December, 2012 (its opening coincided with Art Basel Miami Beach) through August, 2013, Oscar Murillo consistently impressed viewers with the intense force of his practice. Also in 2012: The Cleaners' Late Summer Party with COMME des GARÇONS, a performance commissioned for the Serpentine Gallery's Park Nights series, a Saturday Seminar with the Kensington Gardens-located institution, a group show at Brand New Gallery in Milan and Seven Postures, an exhibition organized by ARTES, the new cultural program of the Manuel Antonio da Mota Foundation, in Porto. 2013 will see another round of Murillo-style bingo with Ossie's Bingo Boutique at MAMA Showroom in Rotterdam, joint solo exhibitions at Carlos/Ishikawa and Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, and a solo at Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin.
Above: Oscar Murillo, Untitled (mango), 2012, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Sam Moyer
Sam Moyer
Based in: Brooklyn
Sam Moyer's solo project at Rachel Uffner Gallery's booth for NADA Miami 2012 was one of the strongest presentations at the fair. Her solo exhibitions earlier in the year, at Société in Berlin and Rachel Uffner in New York, showcased in even grander form the arresting nature of her monochromatic ink on canvas works. Group shows for Moyer in 2012 included Dark Garnaal at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels, Inter ruption at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, Home Again, Again at the journal gallery in Brooklyn, The Space in Between at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, Portrait of a Generation at The Hole in New York, Material Occupation at University of Albany Art Museum and Textility at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit. 2013 will see a two person exhibition with Elaine Cameron-Weir at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen.
Above: Sam Moyer, Slack Tide, Installation View, 2012, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Dashiell Manley
Dashiell Manley
Based in: Los Angeles
Dashiell Manley's solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman last summer, his first with the San Francisco-based gallery, comprised double-sided mixed media pieces and related video projections, a combination that was replicated on a smaller scale in the gallery's solo project booth at NADA Miami 2012. In addition to participating in the group shows This Is With It As It Is at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin and In The Making at Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles, the Californian artist contributed to the Hammer Museum's biennial, Made in LA 2012, with a presentation of works at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) at Barnsdall Park and a site-specific public billboard on Sunset Boulevard above the House of Blues as part of the Made in LA 2012 Billboard Project. To date, he has announced two solos in 2013, at LA><ART in Los Angeles and Luce Gallery in Turin.
Above: Dashiell Manley, Wax and Feathers (Falling), back, 2012, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Sean Kennedy
Sean Kennedy
Based in: Los Angeles
For his May 2012 solo at Thomas Duncan in Los Angeles, Sean Kennedy fashioned a series of clear acrylic glass panes that hung from the gallery's ceiling and upon which were placed all manner of objects, from cigarette butts and cell phones to plastic cups and cleaning products. Several months later, he exhibited a similar collection of works in a lauded two person show with Chadwick Rantanen at UNT/TLED in New York. Further exhibitions on Kennedy's 2012 cv include the four person show The Thing Itself, curated by Isaac Resnikoff, at Chapman University in Orange, Needles in the Camel's Eye, Thomas Duncan's summer group show, Pure Smoke Culture, curated by Nick Kramer, at Anthony Greaney in Boston and a three person show with Mathew Cerletty and Mateo Tannatt at Mary Mary in Glasgow; the latter two run through mid-January. One of his highly textured, painted security grates was also on view in Thomas Duncan's booth at NADA Miami 2012. This year, see Kennedy's work at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, Brand New Gallery in Milan and Albert Baronian Gallery in Brussels.
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Above: Sean Kennedy, Untitled, 2012, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
Alex Hubbard
Alex Hubbard
Based in: Brooklyn
BENT PAINTINGS (WHY HORSES PAINT), Alex Hubbard's solo exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, runs through January 19 and features a remarkable series of paintings more akin to sculpture and a video work that pulls more from the aesthetics of painting and performance than filmmaking. The artist had two other solos in 2012 - Eat Your Friends at Simon Lee Gallery in London and Hammer Projects: Alex Hubbard at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles – both of which continued his singular blend of abstraction with everyday household items and commonplace objects. Hubbard was also part of the imposing lineup for Painting... EXPANDED, which ran for eight months at espacio 1414 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Opening on January 12: On Creating Reality by Andy Kaufman, a group exhibition at Maccarone in New York that pays homage to the late great comedian.
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Above: Alex Hubbard, BENT PAINTINGS (WHY HORSES PAINT), Installation View, 2012, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Mark Hagen
Mark Hagen
Based in: Los Angeles
2012 was a pivotal year for the career of Mark Hagen, with the solo exhibition TBA de nouveau at Almine Rech in Paris, inclusion in Art Basel Miami Beach 2012's Art Public section at the Bass Art Museum in Miami (as well as eye-catching work at both Almine Rech's booth at Art Basel and International Art Objects' booth at NADA) and group exhibitions at LACMA (where he will participate in an artist conversation on January 13), International Art Objects, Night Gallery and Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles, Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco, Peres Projects in Berlin, Marlborough Chelsea in New York and the Torrance Art Museum. Hagen, whose work was one of the highlights of Made in LA 2012 at The Hammer Museum, will have a solo at Almine Rech's Brussels gallery in 2013.
Above: Mark Hagen, Succession & Simultaneity, Installation View, 2010, China Art Objects (now International Art Objects), Los Angeles
Liz Glynn
Liz Glynn
Based in: Los Angeles
After creating a stir by leading visitors blindfold through MOCA Los Angeles as part of her performance art piece, Like A Patient Etherized Upon A Table (MOCA Goes Dark), in 2011, Liz Glynn's 2012 included participation in Made in LA 2012, the Hammer Museum's first large-scale biennial survey of the work of Los Angeles-based artists, two solos at Redling Fine Art in Los Angeles, group shows at LACMA and Public Fiction in Los Angeles, Family Business and Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, UKS in Oslo and MASS MoCA in northwestern Massachusetts. Glynn also organized the multi-artist performance platforms Spirit Resurrection and Black Box as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative. Hear her speak at LACMA on January 13 alongside Mark Hagen and Ruben Ochoa about the exhibition Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection; several days later, she opens a four person show at Harris Lieberman in New York.
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Above: Liz Glynn, Made In LA, Installation View, 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken
Based in: Oslo, Norway
Matias Faldbakken enters 2013 following a busy year that included participation in dOCUMENTA (13), the solo museum shows Intervention #21: Matias Faldbakken, on view through January 27 at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and Portrait Portrait of of a a Generation Generation, which opened at the OCA in Oslo before moving to Wiels in Brussels, where it remains on view through March of this year, and gallery solos at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, Simon Lee Gallery in Hong Kong and STANDARD (OSLO). Faldbakken also contributed to over ten group exhibitions, including Oscar knows Gardar. Gardar knows Matias. Matias knows Fredrik. Fredrik sort of knows Gardar. Gardar knows Marius. And that Gardar knows Matias we already know. But Matias also knows Anders at STANDARD (OSLO), A Group Exhibition Featuring the Work of Robert Overby at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles, Bitume et astres dansent, parfois, dans la pure peur at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Paris, Gestures in Time at Qalandia International in Jerusalem, CONCATENATION. Signature, Seriality, Painting at Blain Southern in London, Painting Now at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, Remote Control at the ICA in London, The Devil's Fidelity at Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm and Painting...EXPANDED at Espacio 1414 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Above: Matias Faldbakken, Untitled (Locker Sculpture #01), 2010, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
Simon Denny
Simon Denny
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Nominated for the 2013 Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst and winner of the 2012 Baloise Art Prize, New Zealand-born Simon Denny's 2012 highlights included a solo at the Aspen Art Museum, group shows at Wilkinson Gallery and the ICA in London, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Neues Museum in Nürnberg and BFI in Miami, and a joint project with Joanna Fadyl at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster. The final three run through mid-January, which is when All You Need Is Data – The DLD 2012 Conference Redux opens at Kunstverein München. Further 2013 solos are scheduled to take place at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York and MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Siftung Ludwig in Vienna.
Above: Simon Denny, Der Neue LED TV 9090, 2010, Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg
N. Dash
N. Dash
Based in: New York City and Mexico
N. Dash most recently wowed art crowds with the work she contributed to UNT/TLED's booth in the Art Nova section of Art Basel Miami Beach 2012. Seven months earlier, she presented the first solo exhibition of her career at the gallery's Lower East Side space, and followed it up with a two person show with David Adamo at Sommer Contemporary in Tel Aviv. Dash also participated in ten group shows that spanned New York, Saint Louis, Turin, Milan and Los Angeles in 2012: Abstract Everday / Everyday Abstract, curated by Matthew Higgs, at James Cohan Gallery, Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process at Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Business Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, presented by Higher Pictures and Artie Vierkant, at Higher Pictures, Ghosts Before Breakfast at White Flag Projects, Hot White Flesh Ties at Favorite Goods, Architectural Dispositions at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Inter ruption at Michael Kohn Gallery, DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND at Peter Blum, Liminal Boundaries at Luce Gallery and Into The Surface at Brand New Gallery. Projects planned for 2013 include an exhibition curated by Shamim Momim at the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Downtown LA and Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show at the Abrons Art Center in New York.
Above: N. Dash, To Be Titled, 2012.
Nick Darmstaedter
Nick Darmstaedter
Based in: New York City
Nick Darmstaedter is a prominent member of influential Brooklyn artist collective, The Still House Group. Although he is one of the youngest artists on this list at just 24, his unique brand of Americana-influenced minimalism is imbued with maturity and potential. Darmstaedter had a busy 2012 with a September solo exhibition entitled Bells and Whistles Can of Worms at Ritter/Zamet in London and three group shows with Still House in Venice (at Workshop Arte Contemporanea), New York (at Mark Fletcher), and Miami (at a pop-up timed to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach 2012). 2013 will see another collaboration with the group, this time at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. Darmstaedter will also feature in a group show at Zach Feuer Gallery in Chelsea, opening January 17.
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Above: Nick Darmstaedter, Bells and Whistles Can of Worms, Installation View, 2012, Ritter/Zamet, London
Aaron Bobrow
Aaron Bobrow
Based in: New York City
Parsons graduate Aaron Bobrow's debut solo last May at Office Baroque Gallery in Antwerp featured a bright new series of large monochromatic tarps presented on canvas stretcher bars, the West Coast-born artist's unconventional signature medium of choice. Bobrow has showcased works of similar creation in a number of group shows over the past year and a half, including Into The Surface at Brand New Gallery in Milan, Challenger Deep, a two person show with Brooklyn/Brussels gallery C L E A R I N G at the M Building in Miami, Royal Rumble at Waffle House, thrown by C L E A R I N G and The Journal Gallery during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, a three person show at Martos Gallery in New York, the Ryan Foerster-organized Harvest Moon in Brighton Beach and a four person show with Richard Prince, Michael St. John and Rita Ackermann at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. Bobrow will have a solo exhibition at Andrea Rosen in February, 2013 and will feature in Office Baroque's booth at the INDEPENDENT art fair in March.
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Above: Aaron Bobrow, No Sleep in the Exit Row, Installation View, 2012, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Nina Beier
Nina Beier
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Of all the works presented at the 2012 edition of Art Unlimited, Art Basel's arena for non-traditional, often larger-than-life, artworks, Nina Beier's Tragedy, in which a dog plays dead on a Persian rug, was one of the more eyebrow-raising. The piece, which also formed part of her exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 2011, was performed again over the summer as part of canine-themed group show Dogma at Metro Pictures in Chelsea. It will become a permanent installation at Austria's Grazer Kunstverein from February 1. In addition to solos at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp (on view through 2016!) and Laura Bartlett Gallery in London, Beier also participated in many group shows in 2012, at Tate Modern, Jonathan Viner Gallery and The David Roberts Art Foundation in London, Frutta in Rome, Francesca Minini in Milan, Galerii Noorus in Tartu, Estonia, Clifton Benevento in New York, Thomas Duncan Gallery in Los Angeles, Galleri Opdahl in Stavanger, GAK in Bremen, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, Museion in Bolzano, Frac Lorraine, MARCO in Vigo and CCA Wattis in San Francisco, amongst others. 2013 includes January and March solos at STANDARD (OSLO) and Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City, a group exhibition at Paris' Centre Pompidou in May and the MOCAD leg of When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, while a 2014 solo at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel is already on the calendar.
Above: Nina Beier, Bleeding Clothes, Drowning Coins, Installation View, 2011, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo