Gallery chats, artist publications, and shows on the road. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Chris Johanson, Ants, published by Nieves, 2025.

Chris Johanson has a new publication, Ants, available through Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. Johanson’s work was also featured prominently in ASG’s booth at the recent FOG Design + Art Fair.

Ester Partegàs, knead, penetrate, let go (cat spaceship donut), 2024 from STEADY, April 17–September 8,2024, Ballroom Marfa. Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa. Photo by Heather Rasmussen.

Ester Partegàs and Michelle Lopez’s exhibition, STEADY, originally exhibited at Ballroom Marfa, has traveled and recently opened at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. Partegàs will be in conversation with Stephen Lichty on February 8.

Giasco Bertoli, Roses Tatoués No. 22, published by deplore & co, 2025.

Giasco Bertoli published Roses Tatouées No. 22 with Delpire & Co. on January 23.

www.genesdispensary.ca/next

Joshua Abelow will exhibit Gene’s Gold at Gene’s Dispensary in Los Angeles February 1-March 8.

Sebastiaan Bremer, Sous Bois, 2023, relief/screenprint, 27.75" x 21.5"

Sebastiaan Bremer’s three-print series of silkscreens, which he has called “guilty landscapes,” have been acquired by the National Gallery of Art’s print collection.

Anya Kielar, Witchtress, 2024, Acrylic on cotton fabric, 45″ x 38″

Work by Anya Kielar is on view at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami through February 15.

Marcel Dzama, self-portrait with artwork Drawing on a revolution, mural painting located in Spain at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, acrylic paint, approximate size 4.57 × 6.1 metres. Courtesy the artist.

Marcel Dzama was featured in the January 2025 issue of Border Crossings, where he discussed his experience of the “Francis Picabia: Femmes” exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery.

Lizzi Bougatsos will perform with her band I.U.D. at Union Pool on February 7.

Johannes VanDerBeek, Mooner, 2025, Museum board, aqua resin, silver leaf, ink, 18 x 9 x 7 inches (45.7 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm)

Work by Johannes Vanderbeek is on view at Halsey McKay Gallery through February 17.

Work by Lucky Debellevue is on view at Stokker Jaeger in Amsterdam through March 16.

Patricia Cronin, The First Democracy, installed at The NED, Washington D.C.

Patricia Cronin was commissioned to design the wallpaper for the recently opened NED Club in Washington D.C.

Simon Bill, Dover

Simon Bill released a new book, Dover, about “the value of this well-known but neglected and widely misunderstood town” in England. He has also been giving informative and personal walking tours throughout the town.

Agathe Snow, Fish Net and Toe Jam Collage, mushroom paper, junk mail, tattoo inks, colored sharpie, psylocibin spores, psylocibin photocopies, 19” x 19”, 2024

Work by Agathe Snow is on view in “100 East End Artists: 1 Year Anniversary Show” at North Fork Art Collective through February.

A life of love letters, festival sculptures, and years in retrospect. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Brooklyn ARTery's Uncivilized Festival, @thebrooklynartery

Sculptures by Johannes Vanderbeek will be exhibited during Uncivilized Festival at The Brooklyn ARTery on January 5.

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS The new Royal Art Lodge exhibit at the School of Art gallery at the University of Manitoba on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. For Martin Zeilig story. Winnipeg Free Press 2024

The University of Manitoba is currently showing an extensive exhibition of works by Royal Art Lodge through January 17.

Drue Langlois photo, The Dudes of Hazmat, created by Drue Langlois.

Speaking of RAL, Winnipeg Free Press profiled former member Drue Langlois and his success as a popular indie cartoon animator. Check out his popular series Dudes of Hazmat on YouTube.

Sarah Staton, Gertrude Stein

Did you know Sarah Staton was the first artist to exhibit work at the original Soho House in London? As the global private member’s club celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025, we can thank Staton for being the harbinger of its ever-growing art collection.

Jonathan Horowitz' Self-Portrait in "Mirror #1" installed at his and Rob Pruitt's aPalm Springs home. Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson

Work by Jonathan Horowitz was spotted in recent spread from Architectural Digest.

Wade Guyton and Tomohiro Masuda. Photo by Tokyo Art Beat

Wade Guyton was interviewed by curator Tomohiro Masuda about his current exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, on view through March 16.

Margaret Lee in her studio. photo and pictured artwork by Lee

Margaret Lee’s April 2024 Cultured Mag article was named as one of the pub’s top profile of 2024. Revisit it here.

Photographs that the artist Joe Brainard included in a 1961 letter. Credit: E.G. Schempf

Joe Brainard’s collected love letters, “Love Joe,” was recently reviewed in The New York Times. Some of those letters can now be read on The Dirtyverse.

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Joshua Smith’s gallery, 839, will open a new show featuring Tran Truong on January 11.

Artful cocktails, holiday trinkets, and goddess vibes . . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Anya Kielar, Sand Face #2, 2010, Masonite board, mixed media, paint, sand, dimensions variable

Work by Anya Kielar will be exhibited by Rachel Uffner Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach through December 8.

Juan Gomez, Figure and Landscape, 2024, Oil on Linen, 36"x48"

Work by Juan Gomez will be exhibited by James Fuentes at Art Basel Miami Beach through December 8.

Sarah Staton, My Goddess Vibes

Sarah Staton’s new book, My Goddess Vibes, launches at Pipeline Projects in London on December 7. Work by Sarah will be on view in Fresh Window: The Art of Display & Display of Art at Tinguely Museum December 4-May 11, 2025.

Anicka Yi, Each Branch Of Coral Holds Up The Light Of The Moon, 2024, single-channel video. Courtesy: the artist, Leeum Museum of Art, Gladstone Gallery © Anicka Yi; photograph: Andrea Rossetti

Anicka Yi’s solo exhibition at Leeum Museum, on view through December 29, was recently reviewed in Frieze Magazine.

Dzama delivers an artist talk Saturday at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art for opening of Ghosts of Canoe Lake; MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS

Marcel Dzama’s Canadian traveling solo exhibition, Ghosts of Canoe Lake, finally hit his hometown of Winnipeg and is now on view at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. Check out recent press coverage about the show from New York Public Radio, Winnipeg Free Press, and CBC Radio Canada. Work by Dzama is also on view in Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design at The Legion of Honor through May 2025.

 

Lisa Kereszi, Junkyard office with TV, Trainer, Penna. 2001

Work by Lisa Kereszi is on view at Pierogi Gallery’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition, on view through December 22.

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Work by Lawrence Seward is on view in The Swell Is Coming at Hō’ikeākea Gallery in Pearl City, HI through February 2.

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Find the perfect Christmas goodies from Misaki Kawai’s web shop!

Sebastiaan Bremer, Schoener Goetterfunken XIXC, "Where the unknown reigns," (wo der unbekannte fronet), 2010, Unique hand-painted chromogenic print, 10 3/8 × 10 1/2 in | 26.4 × 26.7 cm

Sebastiaan Bremer’s Schoener Goetterfunken XIXC, "Where the unknown reigns," (wo der unbekannte fronet) served as inspiration for a cozy winter cocktail from cloudM in citizenM Tower of London Hotel in London.  

From left: Bill Komoski, Mary Clarke, Kerri, and Daniel Wiener; www.kerrischarlin.com/salons/

Photos from the most recent installment of Kerri Scharlin’s salon series featuring a panel on “Alternative News” are now on view on her website.

Spencer Finch, Cosmic Latte, 2017, 150 light fixtures and 417 incandescent bulbs, dimensions variable, one of 3 versions; Photo by Douglas Mason

Spencer Finch’s light installation, Cosmic Latter, is on view at MASS MoCA.

Brancusi sandwiches, bear chairs, and art on the campaign trail. . . A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Jonathan Horowitz, Harris '24; Patricia Cronin, Memorial To A Marriage print, Archival Pigmented Inkjet Prints on Innova Soft Texture Paper, 30” x 24,” 2002

Jonathan Horowitz donated his Harris ’24 poster print toward Kamala Harris’ fundraising campaign. Patricia Cronin also contributed to the fundraiser with a print of her Memorial To A Marriage.

Columbia University Press; Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1975. Mixed media on paper, 13 1/2 x 9 in

The new book Love, Joe - The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard is now available for purchase. The first solo exhibition of Joe Brainard’s work in Los Angeles is on view a Chris Sharp Gallery through November 30.

@art_emperor; @jumingmuseum

Momoyo Torimitsu’s Somehow I Don’t Feel Comfortable inflatable bunny sculptures are now on view in Fāng Wù — Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at Juming Museum in Taiwan through January 2025.

@spce.gallery

Joshua Abelow, in collaboration with Freddy Gallery, opens at SPCE Gallery in Maryland on November 16

Wade Guyton, Untitled (2022). © Wade Guyton. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Wade Guyton’s solo exhibition Thirteen Paintings is on view at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo through March 16, 2025.

Lizzi Bougatsos’ recent exhibition, Stage Exit, at Galerie Molitor in Berlin was reviewed by Artforum.

 

Marcel Dzama designed a scarf for Parley for the Ocean’s limited-edition scarves at Art Basel Paris 2024. Dzama also contributed illustrations for a new publication of modern interpretations of Aesop’s Fables.

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Anicka Yi released an exhibition film for There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, on view at Leeum Museum though December 29. The exhibition was recently reviewed by Elisa Carollo from Observer.

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Chair of the Department of Art, Professor; Nicole Eisenman, photo courtesy John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Paul Ramírez Jonas interviewed Nicole Eisenman for the Cornell Chronicle.

Sebastiaan Bremer, Inez And Vindooh 1, 2023. Unique hand-painted archival inkjet print on matte paper with pigment ink, 45 x 36 inches

Work by Sebastiaan Bremer is on view in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum through January 26, 205. The exhibition was organized in part by fellow Dikeou Collection artist Vik Muniz.

Chris Johanson, Unknow Know With What Is 12, 2021, Acrylic and house paint on recycled and stretched canvas, 66 1/2 x 103 3/4 in. Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts

Chris Johanson’s Unknow Know With What Is 12, currently on view at San Francisco’s De Young Museum, served as inspiration for new music by SFJazz Collective, among other works in the collection. Work by Johanson is also on view Marin Museum of Contemporary Art through December 21.

@mattituck.mushrooms

Agathe Snow will vend her Mattituck Mushrooms every Saturday at Twin Fork Beer Co. in upstate New York through the end of the year.

Sarah Staton, Endless Column, cast bronze. @clairegoes; Sarah Staton, Endless Column, 2002, Black Denim, Bleach, and Ink, 24” x 50”. Dikeou Collection

Sarah Staton’s exhibition The Masses (on view through November 3) was reviewed by @clairegoes on Instagram. Pictured is Staton’s sculpture Endless Column from the exhibition next to her denim anti-painting from Dikeou Collection.

@form_i_c_a

Visit Simon Periton at FORM-ica’s Open Studio Yard Party in Bath, UK on November 30!

Is plastic sexy? Does therapy make for better art? A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Anicka Yi, photo by Jae An Lee

Anicka Yi’s exhibition There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One at Lemur Museum in Seoul has received tremendous praise from critics and audiences alike. Yi was recently interviewed for Ocula and also has work on view in After Images at Julia Stoschek in Germany.

Lizzi Bougatsos and Lonnie Holley, Never the Same Song, installation view, photo courtesy Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg

Lizzi Bougatsos’ exhibition with Lonnie Holley, Never the Same Song, at Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg has been named “Best Mindbender of an Art Show” in the Best of Tampa Bay.

Chris Johanson’s solo exhibition, Navigation, is now on view at Nanzuka Underground is Tokyo through October 13.

Joshua Abelow, 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬, 2015, Oil on linen, 98 x 78 inches, @joshuaabelow

Work by Joshua Abelow is on view in Artists & Recipes at Marvin Gardens through October 6.

Patricia Cronin is a New York-based, award-winning interdisciplinary visual artist whose paintings, sculptures, and public art examine issues of gender, sexuality, and social justice.

Patricia Cronin was featured on a recent episode of the Bader and Simon Gallery w/ Friends Podcast where she discussed “how subversive art can change hearts & minds.”

Margaret Lee’s “LL 24” (2024). Courtesy of the artist

Margaret Lee received mention in a recent New York Times article about artists in therapy and mental health (*article discusses instances of abuse)

Installation view, Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama. June 27-October 27, 2024, Contemporary Calgary. Photo by Victoria Cimolini.

Marcel Dzama’s Ghosts of Canoe Lake exhibition, which has been making the rounds around Canada, was recently reviewed by University of Calgary’s The Gauntlet. A video tour of the exhibition can be viewed here

Work by Ester Partegàs is on view in Plàstic. Genial o pervers? at Museu Terra in Barcelona through July 2025.

Mothers and Sons, cover art by Lucky Debellevue, @luckydebellevue

Lucky Debellevue designed a cover for Terrence McNally's play, Mothers and Sons

Vik Muniz, "Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly), After Warhol," 1999, Digital C-Print, Fram Size 49.6 x 61.4 x 1.9"

Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary opens at New Britain Museum of American Art October 6 through February 2025.