Etty Yaniv

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Matthew Wong - Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort at Albertina

2 weeks ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Matthew Wong and Vincent van Gogh shared more than a self-taught path into painting. Both began relatively late, worked in compressed time spans, and turned to painting as a lifeline. The superb exhibition Painting as a Last Resort, now on view at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, brings their work into intimate and revealing dialogue. The exhibition presents approximately 44 paintings and 12 works on paper by Wong alongside a smaller selection by van Gogh.
Evidence of the Unexpected at The Crown Gallery in Bridgeport

2 weeks ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Evidence of the Unexpected at The Crown Gallery in Bridgeport, Connecticut combines the work of four artists who approach figuration and narrative in different ways. This group showconsiders the role of spontaneity in the studio—how works emerge through instinct, experimentation, and chance. The paintings and sculptures in this exhibition take shape when artists engage deeply with their materials and uncover something unexpected along the way. Curator Jane Dávila tells us about the show.
Adriane Colburn: Seeing by Mapping

2 weeks ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Artist Adriane Colburn lived in San Francisco for over twenty years. That time was formative—personally and creatively. At the same time, she maintained a consistent presence on the East Coast. She’s from Vermont and has always spent summers there, with a lasting connection to that part of New England and its relationship to the land.
Wherever I Lay My Head at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning

1 month ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Wherever I Lay My Head, now on view at The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning , began with an invitation to Indira A. Abiskaroon to curate the culminating ARTWorks exhibition. The offer came from Program Manager Sherwin Banfield and was formalized in conversation with Director of Program Operations Wendy Arimah Berot.
Naomi Lev and the Art of Process Curating

1 month ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Naomi Lev is a curator, cultural program director, and arts writer based in New York City. She works closely with living artists and calls her approach “Process Curating”—a method that follows a project from its earliest stages through final installation. It’s about long-term exchange and staying present as ideas shift. For over 15 years, Lev has organized exhibitions, public programs, and artist-led projects in the U.S. and internationally.
Into the microVerse - Micrographia with Shae Nadine|| SubtleFlux

1 month ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Inspired by scientist and illustrator Robert Hooke’s seminal book, Micrographia, published in 1665, into the microVerse – Micrographia invites viewers into an immersive interdisciplinary installation where projected and printed microscopy act as a vehicle to witness the beauty of nature and our environment through magnified images of plant cells, microorganisms, and organic structures to transform our perspective of the familiar.
Duae Lingua at the Romanian Cultural Institute

1 month ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

The group show Duae Lingua at The Brâncuși Gallery in the Romanian Cultural Institute began as a personal reflection on curator Daniela Holaban’s migration journey from Romania to the United States and gradually evolved into a broader curatorial inquiry into dual identity and cultural translation through the lens of Eastern European women artists.
West Chelsea Artists Open Studios 2025

1 month ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

The West Chelsea Artists Open Studios presents its 16th annual artists open studios tour on Saturday & Sunday, May 10th and 11th, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event offers a look inside the art studios at the iconic building at 526 West 26th Street. Art Spiel conducted brief interviews with three artists who will participate in the event. Arlene Rush Studio #302 Website @arlenerushWhat will we see in your studio? In my studio, I will be showing a range of works from an early period to the present.
Fellow Imaginaries: Carole d’Inverno and Susan Rostow at Atlantic Gallery

1 month ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Carole d’Inverno and Susan Rostow live a block apart. Over the past year, they passed sculptures between studios, texted images and material references, built paper maquettes, and revised their work without fixed goals. Fellow Imaginaries, now on view at Atlantic Gallery, result from this sustained exchange.
Night Shades - Art Spiel

2 months ago | artspiel.org | Etty Yaniv

Night Shades, a new exhibition presented by daphne:art Gallery and Advisory in collaboration with ODETTA, brings together three artists—Nancy Baker, Claire Seidl, and Geoffrey Parker—whose paintings and photographs explore the uneasy edge between perception and memory, hinting at alternative realities, and brushing against dystopia. Nancy Baker’s acrylic on wood panel paintings from a series she made in 2021 appear atmospheric and almost psychedelic sometimes.