Now/here   Cadogan Contemporary is delighted to present Now/here, a solo exhibition featuring new work by the acclaimed British artist Sam Lock. A key inspiration for Lock is the written word, in particular the work of the dramatists Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. As the latter famously said, ‘Underneath what is said, something else is being said,’ and the ideas invoked in that observation – notions of double meanings, loss, discovery and the overlapping of past and present – are key to understanding Lock’s entire oeuvre; in essence, each work is a mediation on the ambiguities of life r ..read more

Pushing Painting Curated by Ian Alden Russell   Pushing Painting presents three concurrent exhibitions of new and recent work by painters living and working in New England. While differing in terms of subjects and techniques, the work of Elise Ansel, Nicole Duennebier and Duane Slick all demonstrate the vitality of contemporary painting in New England and the ever-present potential for the painted image to attract, engage and prompt reflection on how we view the world and our place within it.   Elise Ansel interprets historical paintings through the lens of contemporary practice ..read more

Irony and Presumption by Manfred Klimek The photographer Josef Fischnaller is an Austrian. Do we have to mention that? Yes, because it is the Austrian mentality which lends these photographs their irony – even in years to come, when the photographer, his models, buyers and collectors, and the writer of these lines, are all no longer among the living. Irony will stand out as Fischnaller’s most significant form of immortality, as his essential feature – in the same way we are struck by the characteristics and ironies of classical painters when we look at their work. Josef Fischnaller is a ..read more

Chance Encounters By Randy Garber Ilana Manolson’s landscape paintings slice through time, space and geography to reveal compressed and complicated after-images that only memory and imagination can conjure. Her processes, developed over years of studying botany and exploring the natural world through hiking and kayaking while being an accomplished painter, reflect a generous perspective on how direct experience evolves when taken into the studio. Like so many of her predecessors, Manolson sketches en plein air and returns to her indoor sanctuary to literally reframe her initial sensory ob ..read more