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Liz Magor, Seasonal, 2018. Courtesy of Private collection, Montréal, Québec.

ART-PRESENTATION: Liz Magor-Blowout

Liz Magor’s work finds its center in the peripheral, often replicating the overlooked trappings of daily life and re-presenting them in new …

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 …

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 …