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Ghada Amer Portrait of a Girl in an Abstract Composition #2, 2014

© Ghada Amer. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York

 

Multi-media artist Ghada Amer’s ceramics exhibition is organized into four expressions of her sculptural work: slab-based ceramics, crumpled knots, whirling thoughts, and heaped scraps. Many of the ‘ceramic paintings’ portray images of erotically-posed women; sheets of clay chip away at the stigma and shame associated with female sexuality. These and other works highlight Amer’s bold work as a colorist, all while tackling crucial issues of womanhood with textured clay.

 

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Ian Davenport Untitled Circle Painting: Blue/Pale Grey/Blue, 2005

Courtesy of the artist and Waddington Custot Galleries

 

Ian Davenport’s exhibition Horizons explores the artist’s unconventional, process-led approach to painting: drips, puddles, pours, and splats. The survey show celebrates three decades of the artist’s work with color and repetitive mark-making. Interested in experimenting with the way we see, Davenport reinterprets the horizon line. Typically the place where the sky meets the earth’s surface, Horizons become the line where control and chance meet.

 

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Boris Mikhailov. Detail from Parliament, 2014–2017. Courtesy of the artist

 

Dallas Contemporary is pleased to present the United States debut of Boris Mikhailov’s photography series titled Parliament (2014–2017). The series’ relevance to ours and other countries feelings of unresolved political tension is evident—even heightened by his use of splintered images. The works are digitally photographed television moments, glitched European parliamentary debates, fractured intentionally by Mikhailov by adjusting his television’s antennae. Parliament serves as a method for understanding the state of society where media bias, fake news, and manipulation become not only tolerable, but trivial.

 

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