Every Day's Journey

                                                    Sheida Soleimani Birds of Passage NEW YORK September 5 to October 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, September 8th, 6-8 pm Denny Gallery is pleased to present Sheida Soleimani’s  Birds of Passage . In the newest installation of her series  Ghostwriter , Soleimani “ghostwrites” her parents’ lives: as pro-democratic dissidents targeted by the totalitarian regime in Iran after ’79; and as stateless refugees forced to seek asylum across Europe and in pre- and post-9/11 America. In these photographic assemblages, Soleimani creates palimpsests of memories as a way to reckon with the narratives that she herself has constructed throughout her life from her parents’ stories, drawings, notes, and artifacts of the seismic events that continue to shape their lives. Portrait of Sheida Soleimani by Mel  Taing for Boston Art Review, 2022. Sheida Soleimani was born in 1990 in Indianapolis, IN and lives in Providence, RI. She received an MFA from Cran

              Jessie Edelman  BOOTH: A101 Dates September 6-10, 2023 Location COEX 1F, Hall A&B, Grand Ballroom, 513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul Jessie Edelman is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are windows into luscious, colorful and vivacious scenes which purposefully conjure utopian outdoor spaces bringing to mind memories of vacations and summer days. The artist is looking to tap into the aspirations and fantasies of exploring other places. Drawing from distant memories mixed with future facing desires the artist offers up worlds which are both familiar and yet unspecific. In her review of Edelman’s 2022 solo exhibition  Getaway ,  New York Times  critic Roberta Smith described the paintings as “clashing arrangements of gorgeous color; variations in paint-handling and distortions of style, space and scale. They contrast flattening patterns and plunging or tilted depths, modernist sophistication with gleeful naïveté.” The figur

Richard Mayhew: Natural Order May 6 – June 17, 2023 Opening: Saturday May 6, 6:00 – 8:00 PM Venus Over Manhattan 39 Great Jones Street New York, NY 10012 (New York, NY) –  Venus Over Manhattan  is pleased to present  Richard Mayhew: Natural Order , the inaugural presentation at its new gallery space at  39 Great Jones Street . This landmark exhibition, featuring some twenty paintings and works on paper, marks the gallery's debut exhibition with the artist, and features key loans from the collections of important supporters of Mayhew's practice. The only living member of the storied Spiral group, Richard Mayhew has achieved wide renown for lurid, improvisational paintings that render emotional visions of the American landscape. An artist of African American and Native American descent, Mayhew draws heavily on his relationship to his dual ancestry in his work, creating a unique visual language that explores the intersection of nature and culture, memory, an

               Sean Fader,  Sugar Zaddy , 2023, Archival inkjet print, 40 x 30 in/102 x 76 cm Sean Fader Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle New York May 19 - June 24 Opening Reception: May 19, Friday, 6 -8 pm   “ Dear Danielle Steel,   My name is Sean Fader. I am a queer artist and a professor at Tulane University. I am writing to you from Stove Works, an artist residency in Chattanooga Tennessee. I have been asked to produce a piece for a show at Antenna Gallery that will open as part of a multivenue triennial in New Orleans. The exhibition’s theme is sugar, and I decided to investigate the history of the sugar daddy, in particular the story of Adolph Spreckels and Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. I was immediately consumed by their story which eventually led me to you .” -Sean Fader   This exhibition,  Sugar Daddy: Dear Danielle , opening May 19 and running through June 24 at Denny Gallery, New York, is a culmination of the artist’s years of research into the life and in