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In Focus: Helen Pashgian, Installation view, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York 2019, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin

ART CITIES:N.York-Helen Pashgian

Born in 1934, Helen Pashgian is a pioneer and pre-eminent member of the California Light and Space Movement. Her signature forms include columns, discs and spheres in delicate and rich coloration, often with an isolated element suspended, embedded or encased within. Pashgian’s innovative application of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins …

Chiharu Shiota, Black Rain, 2019, Mixed media, Installation view at Galerie Templon-Brussels, 2019, © Chiharu Shiota, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Templon

ART CITIES:Brussels-Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota is best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of …

Josh Smith, Turtle (Detail), 2019 © Josh Smith Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner

ART CITIES:N.York-Josh Smith

Josh Smith works with painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of …

Left: Gina Beavers. Smoky Eye Tutorial. 2014. Acrylic and wood on canvas panel. Courtesy the artist. Right: Gina Beavers. Who Has Braces? 2014. Acrylic and wood on canvas panel with wood frame. Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:N.York-Gina Beavers

In her paintings, Gina Beaves transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on …

Sean Scully, Human 3, 2018, Oil on aluminium, Each panel 215.9 × 190.5 cm, Private collection (SS3357), © Sean Scully. Photo: courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:London-Sean Scully

One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Sean Scully’s work draws on the traditions of European painting, invigorated with the distinct character …

Tetsuya Ishida, Search, 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 112.1 x 162.1 cm, the DAI-ICHI Life Insurance Limited, © Tetsuya Ishida, Photo: Takemi Art Photos, Curtesy Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co, Ltd

ART CITIES:Madrid-Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”, a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the …

Left: Rónai Moscow, DADA, 1986, Serigraphy 65 x 50 cm, Courtesy the artist. Right: Rudolf Sikora, Exclamation Mark VI, 1974, Ofset, paper, 69 x 43,7 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Budapest-SIGNAL

The arrival of conceptual art in the early 1970s was associated with the shift of interest from aesthetic and material qualities of …

Mircea Cantor, Untitled (unpredicteble future), 2004 Light box. 60 x 80 cm, © Mircea Cantor, Courtesy of the artist

PHOTO:Mircea Cantor-Înainte

Mircea Cantor’s work knows no borders. Originally from Romania, he defines himself above all as an artist who “lives and works on …

Paola Pivi, Untitled (donkey), 2003, Inkjet print on PVC, 1020 x 1230 cm, Photo Hugo Glendinning, Courtesy Massimo De Carlo-Milan/London/Hong Kong

ART CITIES:Rome Paola-Pivi

Paola Pivi’s works are authentic experiences of wonder, enterprises that mould and personalise the context surrounding them, transforming it into a pure …