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Artist:  Anne Speier Venue:  Secession, Vienna Date:  September 14 – November 4, 2018 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Secession, Vienna Press Release: Many of Anne Speier’s works document the distensions and deformations that objects and figures undergo in order to both understand and transcend the limitations of the meaning ascribed to them, their potentials and interrelations. Yet the artist also subjects the media she works with to such stretching. Aesthetic qualities are one way to defy certain expectations; absurdity and otherness are another. In her exhibition in the Secession’s sublevel gallery, Speier intertwines painting and sculpture in a kind of utopian architecture, short-circuiting its spatial premises with its metaphorical purport. The show examines the challenges that teachers and students at art schools face along images and installat

Artist:  Hayal Pozanti Venue:  Jessica Silverman, San Francisco Exhibition Title:  Murmurs of Earth Date:  November 8 – December 22, 2018 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Installation view photos by John Wilson White; Individual work photos by Jeff Mclane. Press Release: Jessica Silverman Gallery is pleased to present “Murmurs of Earth,” an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Istanbul-born, LA-based artist Hayal Pozanti. Pozanti’s new paintings evoke the Rosetta Stone and other ancient tablets that commemorate and communicate the values of a civilization. The totemic works represent a utopian harmony of natural and manmade phenomena through both pictures and poetry, which is inscribed in the artist’s own abstract “Instant Paradise” alphabet, and captured in titles such as  A Lifetime of Lik