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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

South Korea, Berlin, London, Hong Kong, and the good ol' U. S. of A  . . .  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, There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, Leeum Museum, September 5-December 29, 2024

Anicka Yi’s solo exhibition, There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, opens at Leeum Museum of Art in South Korea on September 5. Work by Yi will also be on view in a group show, After Images, at Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin opening September 12.

Lizzi Bougatsos, @baby_seal777

Lizzi Bougatsos’ first solo exhibition in Europe, Stage Exit, opens at Galerie Molitor on September 11. She and Sadie Laska (I.U.D) will perform at Gropius Bau on September 12 as part of Berlin Art Week 2025.

Juan Gómez received a New York Times Monthly Arts Review for his solo exhibition at James Fuentes Gallery, on view through September 7. 

Work by Johannes Vanderbeek and Joshua Abelow is on view in “The Twilight Zone” at Left Field Gallery in Los Osos, CA, through September 22.

Joshua Smith’s gallery, 839, is opening a solo exhibition by Olivia Gibian on September 7.

Margaret in her studio above 179 Canal project space in 2009. [A small white space cluttered with tools and material, and Margaret sitting at a table working.]

Margaret Lee did an in-depth interview with Charles Broskoski for “It’s Not Business, It’s Personal” about her early career, starting and leaving 47 Canal, and her new life in 2024.

Installation view of About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, de Young, 2022. Photograph by Gary Sexton

Work by Chris Johanson is currently on view in About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through November 2025.

Sebastiaan Bremer, The Sunken Forest, 2023, relief/screenprint, 27.75" x 21.5"

Work by Sebastiaan Bremer is available from Artspace with proceeds donated to meaningful nonprofit organizations like Human Rights Watch, Malaria Consortium, and Planned Parenthood.

Sir Neville Simms, Sarah Staton, John Bazalgette and Colin Brent in front of the 'Sybil' sculpture

Sarah Staton’s three sculpture commemorative installation at the Acton Storm Tank site for Tideway London were formally unveiled in August. See video here

Sarah Staton, Pool, 1999, Bleach on denim, 142 x 142 cm

Staton also has a solo exhibition, The Masses, featuring her large-scale denim paintings and sculpture on view at Gallerina in London through the end of September

Anya Kielar, Bracelet Cuff, metal base, repurposed beads, paper clay, copper leaf, interior of cuff measures 6"

Anya Kielar has unique jewelry and decorative pillows for sale from Bridget Donahue boutique in New York and online.

Marcel Dzama photographed in his Brooklyn studio.

Marcel Dzama did a deep-dive of his lifelong influences and recent obsessions, and shared some notes about his most recent work on a cross-Canada exhibition tour.

Vik Muniz, Magic Kingdom (Postcards from Nowhere), 2020, archival inkjet, 40" x 60"

Work by Vik Muniz is on view in Summer Album Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong through September 17.

Mermaids, ice princesses, and uncool artists . . .  A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past month, and what to look forward to next month.

Juan Eduardo Gomez, Figure and Landscape, 2024, Oil on linen, 108 x 144 inches

Juan Gomez’ solo exhibition, “ Dusky Rainy Sunny,” is on view at James Fuentes through September 7.

Lisa Kereszi, Mermaid swimming away, Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, 2002

Work by Lisa Kereszi is currently on view as digital projections at the Denver Theater District through August 4.

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Margaret Lee was profiled by Andrew Russeth for Artnet about her founding and recent departure from 47 Canal.

JT, City Cinderella, 2024

Lizzi Bougatsos created one of her signature ice sculptures for the cover of JT’s new album “City Cinderella.” She and Sadie Laska (I.U.D.) performed at The Watermill Center’s Annual Summer Benefit.

Work by Anicka Yi and Wade Guyton is on view in “Between pixel and pigment. Hybrid painting is post digital times” at Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design through October 11.

Mattituck Mushrooms

Agathe Snow has work on view in “Plant Life” at the Floyd Memorial Library through September 8. You can also sign up for a tour of her Mattituck Mushroom farm on August 4!

Art studios are now available for lease in the Colorado Building, home of Dikeou Collection, in Denver.

Sarah Staton with Heron in Flight, @_sarah_staton_ , @tidewaylondon

Sarah Staton completed another installation for her ongoing Tideway commission. Standing Heron and Heron in Flight are part of the future Carnwath Riverside Park. Also check out this video from UNICEF Innocenti where Sarah discusses her exhibition, “Wonderful.”

Wade Guyton, Vernissage TV

Wade Guyton curated an exhibition of work by David Armstrong, on view at Kunsthalle Zürich through September 15. Work by Guyton is also on view in “Yours Truly” at Nahmad Contemporary through September 14.

Sculpture by Johannes Vanderbeek, @johannesvdb

Johannes Vanderbeek created site-specific sculptures for Melides Art Villas in Portugal.

Chris Johanson, Suburban Night Painting #2, Latex paint on wood, 34.5 x 45.75 inches framed, 2010

Work by Chris Johanson is on view at Part 2 Gallery through August 31. Johanson will also have work in the upcoming “About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Save Gift” at the de Young, opening August 10.

Katya Kirilloff and Joshua Abelow for Uncool Artist

Joshua Abelow recently did an online talk with fellow artist Katya Kirilloff about his personal art practice and his work as a curator and owner of Freddy.