Carrie Secrist will be closed for the holidays between December 17 and January 1, 2024.

IMAGE:

Hilma’s Ghost
KING OF SWORDS, 2021
Gouache, ink, and colored pencil on Fabriano Murillo paper
17 x 9¾ in

On the occasion of the new publication EARY REFILLS by Andrew Holmquist and Tyler McKeel, CSG Office will be having a book signing on Saturday September 20 from 2-4PM.

EARLY REFILLS
Written by Tyler McKeel
Artwork by Andrew Holmquist
Risograph printed, 74 pages, perfect bound
First edition of 100

Tyler McKeel’s debut collection of short stories and humorous musings is a celebration of real and imagined worlds in all their outrageous absurdity. Andrew Holmquist’s artwork goes tit for tat in absurd dexterity, stretching the boundaries of the body from head to tip-tapping toe with a playful wink and a nod. Printed in velvety fluorescent pink, teal, and yellow, this book features 29 retina-burning drawings that compliment the whimsically twisted tales within.

Tyler McKeel is a writer based in Northfield, Minnesota. Andrew Holmquist is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Andrew and Tyler have been friends since childhood, collaborating on several high school musical productions before graduating to book-making in adulthood. This is their third, and longest, artists’ book to date.

Today, April 22, 2023, is the reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts after their extensive renovation.

The AMFA selected gallery artist Anne Lindberg as its inaugural installation artist.

The immersive installation ‘passage’ is now on view.

Anne Lindberg: passage is presented by Terri and Chuck Erwin with additional support from the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation. Theresa Bembnister, curator museum expansion and renovation by Studio Gang

passage, 2023, cotton thread, staples, 4 x 24.5 x 4.5 feet. Commissioned project, up thru 2026

Anne Lindberg’s new solo exhibition at The George Washington Museums and The Textile Museum, what color is divine light?, is currently on view.

Check here for programming and other information.

IMAGE: Anne Lindberg, what color is divine light?, 2023. Cotton thread and staples, 5 x 55 x 14 feet. (Photography by Derek Porter)

Andrew Holmquist and Brendan Getz will be a part of the next platformart.com presentation. The website will go live on Feb 1, 2023

The gallery will be closed Wednesday, November 23rd and Thursday, November 24th for Thanksgiving. We will reopen Saturday, November 2nd.

[Image] Oli Watt, Brotchen, 2022. Bread, 7 x 3.5 x 4 in.

Carrie Secrist Gallery will be opening a new temporary exhibition space in early October at 1637 W. Chicago Avenue.

More information will be forthcoming.

The gallery will be closed for the remainder of the summer. Stay tuned for more programming this September!

IMAGE: Diana Guerrero-Maciá, The Job of the Sun, detail, 2022. Courtesy of Nathan Keay

RADICAL SPIRITS: Tarot, Automatism, and Feminist Histories

Hill-Stead Museum

June 25 to November 1, 2022

June 11, 2022 – September 4, 2022

This Saturday, February 19 at 4PM EST/3PM CST please join us for a virtual conversation between artist Brendan Getz and noted writer and cultural critic Lynne Tillman on the occasion of our current exhibition when the after-image is the image. This conversation will revolve around images, memory and writing, and the menagerie of considerations within art-making & life-living where the power of objecthood can speak to it all.

Zoom link here.

To view the OVR for when the after-image is the image please visit here.

Brendan Getz is an artist who works with painting, writing, installation and sound to slow down and attend to a subtle multiplicity of meaning between objects, images and form – honing in on a politics of attention and the nuance of close looking, while proposing care as a radical act. Brendan has exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the US including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, the Contemporary Art Center in Las Vegas, and the LeRoy Neiman Center in Chicago.  His current solo exhibition, when the after-image is the image, is on view at Carrie Secrist Gallery through February 26th. Brendan holds a BFA from Belmont University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works out of Berkeley and Los Angeles and is the co-founder and current co-director of the project space take care in downtown Los Angeles.

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her recent work includes the short story The Dead Live Longer, and a book-length autobiographical essay MOTHERCARE, coming in the fall 2022. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra.

“Stare intensely into something and then snap your eyes shut. What do you see? It’s called an ‘after-image,’ a retinal impression that remains after the stimulus is gone.”

Read the review here.

Carrie Secrist Gallery will be closed through January 3 for the Holidays. See you in 2022!

ID: Stephen Eichhorn, Hybrid Form X, 2021. Collage on archival paper, 17 x 14 inches.

We are excited to announce the launch of the second edition of Hilma’s Ghost’s ABSTRACT FUTURES TAROT deck! If you are interested in purchasing an ABSTRACT FUTURES TAROT deck, please visit the Carrie Secrist Gallery website here.

As a kickoff event for the new edition, please join Hilma’s Ghost for a conversation between the co-founders, Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray, on Hilma af Klint’s birthday, Tuesday, October 26, 3.00 – 4.30PM (EST). Tegeder and Ray will discuss the artistic process behind the creation of the ABSTRACT FUTURES TAROT deck and offer an inside look at their collaborative process. They will also be discussing other artists who have created Tarot decks, including Salvador Dali and Leonora Carrington. Additionally, they will be joined by professional witch and Tarot Reader Sarah Potter for a discussion on the rich history of Tarot, an explanation on reading Tarot, and how to use the ABSTRACT FUTURES TAROT deck.

The Eventbrite link is here. This session is free and open to everyone, but you must register to receive the Zoom link.

If you have the first signed edition, please bring your deck to this virtual session. If you are ordering the second deck, then this session will help you unravel the mysteries that await you.

Sarah Potter is a Tarot reader and professional witch based in NYC. Her writing about the occult is regularly featured in Cosmopolitan, Astrology.com, Bust Magazine, and other popular outlets. Her first book, The Cosmo Tarot: The Ultimate Deck and Guidebook debuted recently.

Acting as a team, Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray – the Brooklyn-based artists behind Hilma’s Ghost – created the 78 original drawings that comprise the ABSTRACT FUTURES TAROT deck. The project in its entirety was presented by Carrie Secrist Gallery at The Armory Show in September 2021 and was included in The New York Times review as one of the exhibitions to see.

You can learn more about Hilma’s Ghost by checking out hilmasghost.com or following @hilmasghost. They regularly post about their programs and profile womxn artists working with the occult.

Liliana Porter was recently featured in The New York Times by Ted Loos.

“There is a mixture of funny and dramatic,” Ms. Porter said of her work. “I like when contradictory things happen simultaneously.”

Hilma’s Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray) were recently featured in artnet.com and the New York Times for the gallery’s booth at The Armory Show.

“It’s inspired by Hilma af Klint—it’s about the rise of spiritualism and witchcraft and the feminist undertones of that,” Tegeder told Artnet News. “We used processes of spiritualism and divination, and called upon the spirits of women artists who are not alive to activate the work and work through us.” – Artnet.com

Gallery artist Diana Guerrero-Maciá is currently featured in the group exhibition High Touch at The John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI.

High Touch brings together six artists who embrace technology as a medium and tool to research, ideate, and assemble their intensely handcrafted, resolutely analog artworks. Whether sourcing images from the internet’s endless scroll or using digital processes to fabricate components of their works, they create highly tangible objects that transform the virtual into the physical.

High Touch is up through February 13, 2022.

Gallery artist Anne Lindberg is currently featured in the group exhibition AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY.

Utilizing a diverse variety of methods, styles, and forms, these artists uncover and co-opt textile traditions and material sources in order to re-assert their validity and relevance in an increasingly global-industrial culture. A prominent use of the hand looms large—through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more—and suggests an alternative mode of communication within today’s digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Abstranded is up through January 2, 2022.