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🎉Thank you all for coming out to the season opening & a talk at @sarasotaartmuseum ! Would like to thank the amazing team at SAM, Virginia Shearer, Christa Molinaro, Lacie Barbour @lacielovegood , Rangsook Yoon @rangsook , Colette Fenker, @ringlingcollege , and @shoshanawayne & @dcmooregallery for bringing all these works together going back all the way to 2004. Pics by @joefig2000 @altfestival @katlarks656 @shavens88 @jackaction23 + video of the installation + some details 🙏🏽☀️

The exhibitions will be up until 4/4/2027 🌴

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Calling all artists in an hour so drive from Hudson, NY. We have an open call with a stipend for five artists to join the first ever LOOM Plein Air Invitational taking place the weekend of October 23-25. We will be hosting artists to paint in the town of Philmont on the 23 and 24 and then presenting on the 25th. Join artists @altfestival @boogiebrowntown @johnnycakesdefeo, painter Ying Li @ying.art4 and curator @natothompson as we work to reflect and pay attention to the world around us. Link in the LOOM programs page in bio. Pls follow and share as well!

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Had a really enjoyable visit with Ellen Altfest and Rob Colvin this week. Both doing inspiring and great work. Visited with a sculpture I made of Ellen’s “studio” in the woods back in 2014. It’s hard to photograph as the leaves camouflage a lot of the details. It was a fun piece to make and questioned what is a “studio”. Ellen has a show coming up in NY in January and Rob has been creating ArtSensei an AI tool that gives meaningful feedback on paintings and drawings. Thanks Rob and @altfestival

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ELLEN ALTFEST
I'm thinking about details and what it means to paint or draw something "in detail." What details? And how?

@altfestival

#painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #landscape #landscapepainting

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@thealdrich — 🍕— thank you for including me in your inaugural decennial, ‘i am what is around me’. turns out connecticut is sexy as hell! (xoxo) it has been a pleasure connecting with so many extraordinary people and artists. i look forward to returning for a closer inspection of this heavy hitting muscle car powerhouse of a show. a few pics to start.

@amy_smithstewart @cmonachino @dianabowes2 @edevoe @kaiya.mccormick @annabelfkeenan @kholzbach , cybele, holly— (tell me if i’m forgetting anyone, it’s a great big beautiful crew)— thank you thank you thank you ❤️

and @susanjlundy — my hot date — so special to have you there.

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Thanks to everyone, friends old and new, who made Saturday’s open studio and dinner such a blast. ♥️ @longmeadowartresidency

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Beginning this week’s Codex focus with a modern master

Spanning over 3 decades Ellen Altfest has dedicated her career to painting.

Ellen’s unwavering depiction of truth through multiple painted layers, skew and take pleinair to a level of rigour that is arguably unmatched - analogous to a swordsmith folding a blade, Altfest folds time.

Her completed works exude a sense of calm, meditative reflection of those hours clocked up, almost as though the reference itself has been topographically absorbed through looking and then transplanted back on to the painted surface.

Altfest's Sketchbook, currently on display @centre_for_recent_drawing depicts a more direct and urgent side of her practice.

This personal insight and clear devotion to observation reveal the weight, power and body of her line work ranging from self portraits, sketches of friends, family, environments to Yale life classes.

Accompanying her sketchbook is a study for painting Sugigoke she made in the moss garden of a Buddhist temple while on a residency in Kyoto in 2022

Codex is open Wed - Fri 10-3pm
Sat 12-6pm

#sketchbook #groupshow #whitecube #londonart #islington #newyorkart #jerrysaltz #study

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It is with great pleasure to present the second Codex Exhibition.
With stunning contributions from:

Ellen Altfest
Gareth Cadwallader
Suleman Aqeel Khilji
Ruth Murray

Curated by Lyle Perkins.

Please join us for a glass on the 16th April 6-8pm @centre_for_recent_drawing and share in the incredible collection of works on display.
I am personally overwhelmed by what is on show and would like to thank all the artists, friends and family who have helped make this happen.

Enjoy x

#groupshow #contemporaryart #sketchbook #northlondon #islington #whitecube #joshlilley #standard_oslo #moleskine #contemporarypainting #londonart #newyorkart #lahoreart #manchesterart

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New Codex Exhibition

Preview:
16th April 6-8pm
2026

@centre_for_recent_drawing
#groushow #londonart #contemporarypainting #sketchbook #moleskine #islington #northlondon #whitecube #joshliley #drawing #newyorkpainting #realism

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Incoming April 16th.
The next chapter of Codex

#oilpainting #sketchbook #realism #figuration #londonart #groupshow #contemporarypainting #joshlilley #whitecube

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Today is the last day to visit 🔮Window Shopping @derekellergallery 🥚Happy Vernal Equinox 🌷and Happy Spring.
🙏Thank you to everyone who has visited the show, attended the talk and for sharing your thoughts🌟I ❤️ NY and i ❤️ being part this awesome art community.

𝐼𝓉'𝓈 𝒜 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹
Was on 39th street. I met Morris, the owner for 50 years. This window felt like a sequined ✨holy family at discount prices, with 💡divine light from a floor lamp.

Extra special appreciation 🙏for @derekellergallery @abbykatemessitte @goodwill.hunter, Cian Mesch, @bugloverphat @natothompson @mike.glier @altfestival @katyhamer @phong.h.bui @brooklynrail for supporting me and my work. I am eternally grateful.😘😘😘

🌱🌳🌺Wishing everyone a magical spring✨🌷🥚

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I'm thrilled to chat with these 3 luminaries @altfestival @mike.glier @natothompson who each have been long term influences on me; particularly on the subject of observation and attention as a counterbalance to how technology affects our bodies and sense of time. Please join us for this lively discussion. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday March 17, 5:15 pm @derekellergallery
38 Walker Street
Ground Floor

Nato Thompson @natothompson is a curator, writer, and cultural strategist, and the founder of The Alternative Art School, a global, artist-led platform for education and exchange. He is the author of several books on art and politics, and his forthcoming book In the Middle of Everything explores how artists build meaningful lives and practices within the complexities of contemporary culture.

Ellen Altfest @altfestival is represented by White Cube and has had solo exhibitions at the Wrightwood 659, Chicago, Illinois (2025); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee (2025); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2025); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2022); White Cube, Hong Kong (2019); MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (2015); New Museum, New York (2012); White Cube, London (2011); and Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2010).

Mike Glier @mike.glier draws and paints to explore topics of common interest. For the last two decades, however, he has focused on the human relationship with land. The Drawing Center, NY commissioned in 1992 the Alphabet of Lili and sponsored a national touring exhibition. In 1995 The Tyler Gallery, Temple University, commissioned Garden Court and sponsored another national tour. A ten-year survey exhibition was presented at Hallwalls, Buffalo NY in 1988 and a 35-year survey was offered in 2014 at the Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, which also traveled. In 2023 the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, presented, ”A Grammar of Animacy: Charles E. Burchfield and Mike Glier”, and published a catalog of the exhibition.

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