Young Space, no.4
Pools of light.
Hi, friends—
Happy Wednesday! Thanks for checking out this week’s roundup of exhibitions and opportunities for artists. This message is coming to you from Lima-en-route-to-Cusco, Peru, where I’m visiting with family—my first visit to the Southern Hemisphere, actually, and hopefully the first of many more. The sudden change in altitude notwithstanding, my head is spinning at how many great shows and opportunities are open at the moment. So here goes:
What you’ll find this week:
Feature: Matthew Mahler’s hypnotic screens
Recently on Dovetail: Anna Berlin’s Sisters
Five exhibitions on view this week in Montréal, Shanghai, Beacon, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam
Eight opportunities for artists with deadlines coming up soon
Have a wonderful rest of your week!
—Kate
Feature: Matthew Mahler
Matthew Mahler has been working on a series of minimalist paintings called Double Tap, nodding to the ubiquitous screens most of us have in front of our faces for hours each day. Unlike those, though, these beautiful color fields are hypnotically calming in a way that scrolling through news feeds doesn’t quite touch.
Mahler has a fantastic grasp of his palette, building up elegant gradients within overlapping framing devices, which he then layers with a thin sheet of tissue paper. The effect is a little like gentle ripples on a pool, or atmosphere through an open window.
Mahler has some work in the group show Currents, curated by Alex Feim, at MA/Morris Adjimi Architects’ 60 Broad Street office in Manhattan, open by appointment through December 22. Find him on Instagram.
From Dovetail: Anna Berlin
When Anna Berlin moved to Berlin, Germany, as a recipient of a 2021 Fulbright Research and Study Scholarship, she was inundated with paperwork. Familiar to anyone who has had to navigate visas, tax forms, and checklists for a major move, the process presented both a challenge and a loadstar for new work. “The visual-verbal governmental speech was sometimes fraught with confusion, as I shared my last name with the city, creating reverberations in my imagination of past and present, person and place, self and family, family history and cultural history,” she says.
Berlin’s solo exhibition Sisters continues at Olympia in New York through December 2.
Keep reading on Dovetail.
Exhibitions
SHANGHAI | LINSEED PROJECTS
Reading Stones
I love an intercontinental collaboration! Ginny on Frederick has teamed up with Linseed Projects for the group show Reading Stones in Shanghai, featuring Charlotte Edey (pictured above), David Flaugher, Justin Fitzpatrick, Paul Levack, Alexandra Metcalf, Jack O'Brien, Cezary Poniatowski, Hamish Pearch, and Gal Schindler.
Runs through December 28
MONTRÉAL | BRADLEY ERTASKIRAN
Preston Pavlis: Surrender
Halifax-based artist Preston Pavlis explores the rich relationship between double-sided painting and textiles, most often through portraits of Black figures that peer directly at the viewer from stage-like interiors or domestic settings.
Runs through December 22
BEACON | MOTHER GALLERY
Anders Hamilton and Jenny Morgan: The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care -
Tender sculptures by Anders Hamilton and expressive oil paintings by Jenny Morgan comprise this elegant, enigmatic show at MOTHER in Beacon, NY.
Runs through December 16
LOS ANGELES | OCHI PROJECTS
Dabin Ahn: Staged
Chicago-based artist Dabin Ahn’s oil paintings have an ethereal, dreamlike quality, capturing an eclectic array of moments from his earliest memories.
Runs through December 22
AMSTERDAM | GRIMM
The Painted Room
Artist-curated shows are such a pleasure, since it’s like getting a glimpse at the kind of work they like to look at—that we get to enjoy, too! Caroline Walker, whose own paintings often depict women in interior spaces, situates her work among fantastic group of work into The Painted Room by Gareth Cadwallader, Minyoung Choi, Andrew Cranston, Anna Freeman Bentley, Nick Goss, Hettie Inniss, Cece Philips, Elena Rivera-Montanes, and Mike Silva.
Runs through December 22
Artist Opportunities
Deadlines are coming up soon to apply for these grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
MyMA November Grant
Deadline: December 1
MyMA’s juried opportunity invites artists to apply for an unrestricted mini grant of $500. This month’s juror is multidisciplinary artist Jamel Robinson.
Submission fee: none
Gasworks London Residency for an Artist in Spain
Deadline: December 4
Gasworks invites artists based in Spain, who is in the early stages of their career, to apply for this opportunity opportunity for a fully-funded 11-week residency at Gasworks in London from April 8 to June 24, 2024. The selected artist will have 24/7 access to a private studio space, and Gasworks provides flights, single room accommodation, a weekly stipend of £150 for living expenses, a materials budget of £800, a prepaid London travel card, and numerous promotional and networking opportunities.
Submission fee: none
Culture Utopias 2024 Double Residency
Deadline: December 5
Wrocław Cultural Institute invites artists who are citizens of Poland, Romania, and Ukraine, to participate in a 2014 double residency, in Bucharest (June 3 to 30) and Wrocław (August 15 to September 15). Applications are encouraged from artists in dance and the visual arts, researchers, curators, and activists. Selected artists receive remuneration of 1,500 Euro for the stay in Bucharest and 1,000 for a residential stay in Wrocław, plus accommodations, transport between cities, mentoring, and local programming.
Submission fee: none
British School at Rome Fine Arts Award: Bridget Riley Fellowship
Deadline: December 11
The Bridget Riley Fellowship invites an artist at an early- to mid-point in their career whose work has a significant drawing element, to spend six months in Rome (September 2024 to March 2025). Applicants must be of British or Commonwealth nationality, or have been working professionally (after having graduated) or studying at postgraduate level for at least the last three years in the U.K. or Commonwealth. The selected artist receives £1,500 per month for 6 months; £500 towards a short pre-residency visit to the BSR and/or visa expenses and/or shipment of work at the end of the residency; and board and accommodation at the BSR.
Submission fee: none
British School at Rome Fine Arts Award: The Sainsbury Scholarship
Deadline: December 11
The Sainsbury Scholarship is an opportunity for an early-career artist (with under ten years of professional experience), working with any media, to spend six months in Rome. Applicants must be of British or Commonwealth nationality, or have been working professionally (after having graduated) or studying at postgraduate level for at least the last three years in the U.K. or Commonwealth. They must also be from groups currently underrepresented at the BSR (including, but not limited to, people from Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic backgrounds). The selected artist receives £1,500 per month for 6 months, a travel grant of £500, £400 to assist with visa and transport of work, and board and accommodation at the BSR.
Submission fee: none
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships
Deadline: December 13
NYFA Fellowships in the areas of Folk/Traditional Arts, Fiction, Painting, Interdisciplinary Work, and Video/Film are currently open for submissions. New York-based artists are eligible for unrestricted grants of $8,000 intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice at all levels of their artistic development.
Submission fee: none
Dovetail Call for Pitches
Deadline: December 17
Dovetail (Young Space’s sibling publication) is commissioning two new stories for January. Writers are invited to submit pitches for articles that explore connections between visual art and place, and are compensated $300. This opportunity is directly supported by you, as a paid subscriber to this newsletter. Thank you!
Submission fee: none
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Deadline: Rolling
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation provides one of the most substantial grants for international emerging artists working in a representational style. First grants are in the amount of CAD$17,000 with two subsequent grants of CAD$20,000.
Submission fee: none
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