Every Day's Journey

  Amanda Valdez here nor there HONG KONG November 12 to December 23, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12th, 2-5 pm "Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce here nor there, a solo exhibition of new work by Amanda Valdez which will be her first with Denny Dimin Gallery in its Hong Kong location. The exhibition will be on view at our space in Wong Chuk Hang from November 12 to December 23, 2022 following major international exhibitions and her recent acquisitions by the Heckscher Museum of Art and the United States Art in Embassies program. Amanda Valdez is known for her bold abstract paintings which incorporate quilting, sewing, dyeing, weaving and painting. Her process begins with small scale drawings, which she refers to as “somatic release” in the sense of them being akin to an intuitive physical response to an emotion, experience or idea. “It evokes the moment of pencil on paper, of hands moving and responding to both materials…[and] the release o

               Ann Shelton i am an old phenomenon NEW YORK November 4 to December 22, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, November 4th, 6 to 8 pm "Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce Ann Shelton’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, i am an old phenomenon open from November 4 to December 22, 2022. Shelton is recognized as one of New Zealand’s leading photographic artists and will have her first institutional solo exhibition in the United States  in 2024. For more than a decade, Ann Shelton has explored the micro, marginal, bleak and  traumatic counter-histories of plants through her photographic and performance-based art work. Linking gender politics and the climate crisis in a critical moment,  i am an old phenomenon bears even greater significance as she reinvestigates lost knowledge pertaining to plants and their relationship to female ontology through the figure of the witch. Her previous exhibition jane says looked at plants with abortifacient and/or fertility-