ArtSpectrm

“I care about form more than anything else,” Morteza Khakshoor told us recently, “Color is important, but it’s secondary for me. When things are not working in my paintings, I know something is wrong with the shapes and forms. Things are much easier when the shapes are good in my eyes.” This felt relevant in looking at Morteza’s new show, an online presentation with London’s Taymour Grahne Projects. Diving Into Oblivion is a “haunting new series of works on paper that explore the complexities of selfhood, psychological tension, and the past, through fragmented narratives and dreamlike figures. Each piece could be part of a larger story—but also exists independently, within its own self-contained universe.” The color used by Morteza captures a…

Rolankay’s paintings have evolved to the point where they seem to be time-traveling to keep up with themselves. They arre alluring and they are timless, and the Chilean painter captures something that is rare in this world of hyperspeed: a quiet and poetic slowing of pace. Now in Madrid, his once vibrant oils are now a different sort of reverberation and touch, a more muted yet fully geometric and color patterned exploration of people in a space. The new solo show at HAGD Contemporary’s The Den in Aalborg, Denmark feels like a fresh new direction for the painter, literary in storytelling but with a sense of mythical dimension. —Evan Pricco

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Julien Nguyen, the next exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition includes twenty new paintings.