Kiki Smith at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome through Nov. 26

Installation view of tapestries Fortune (2014) and Guide (2013), published by Magnolia Editions, with other works by Kiki Smith;
courtesy Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
A special exhibition by Kiki Smith and Betty Woodman is on view at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in Rome through November 26, 2016.

Betty Woodman and Kiki Smith; courtesy Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
Friends for decades and showing together for the first time, Smith and Woodman's double solo show includes tapestry, sculpture, ceramics, painting, and drawing.

Installation view of work by Kiki Smith; courtesy Galleria Lorcan O'Neill
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill is located at Vicolo Dei Catinari, 3, 00186 Roma, Italy; for more information please visit the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill website.

More art by Kiki Smith from Magnolia Editions

News, Reviews, and Exhibitions

Kiki Smith - Guide, 2013
Jacquard tapestry, 116 x 75 in. Edition of 10
We were pleased to see that Artforum magazine chose "Kiki Smith: Woven Tales” at Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM as a Critic’s Pick. “Woven Tales” was the first exhibition collecting all of Kiki Smith’s tapestries to date with Magnolia Editions. Please visit Artforum to read the review.

Bruce Conner - DOUBLE ANGEL, 2004/1991
Jacquard tapestry, State 1: 105 x 115 in. Edition of 6
Meanwhile, following the recent exhibition of tapestries by Bruce Conner at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, work by Conner published by Magnolia Editions appears in "BRUCE CONNER: IT’S ALL TRUE" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

"IT’S ALL TRUE" is the artist’s first monographic museum exhibition in New York, the first large survey of his work in 16 years, and the first complete retrospective of his 50-year career. It brings together over 250 objects, from film and video to painting, assemblage, drawing, prints, photography, photograms, and performance, and runs through October 2, 2016; the show will then travel to San Francisco's MOMA in late October.

Bruce Conner at Magnolia Editions in the early 2000s.
The prolific Colombian artist Santiago Montoya also has work created at Magnolia featured in several exhibitions, including his third solo show at London's Halcyon Gallery and an upcoming show in Oaxaca, Mexico in October; please stay tuned for more details.

Heather Peters and Santiago Montoya in the Magnolia Editions paper mill.

New work in progress by Santiago Montoya.
More art by Santiago Montoya from Halcyon Gallery
More art by Kiki Smith from Magnolia Editions
More art by Bruce Conner from Magnolia Editions

Congratulations Chris Fraser, Awagami Artist in Residence 2016

Artist Chris Fraser with recent work; photos courtesy Fraser and Gallery Wendi Norris.
Congratulations to our friend and Magnolia Street neighbor Chris Fraser, who is currently in Tokushima, Japan for the 2016 Artist in Residency program at Awagami Paper Factory.

Fraser is represented by Gallery Wendi Norris. You may recall Awagami as the family-run handmade paper mill responsible for the giant (55.5 x 44 in!) sheets of handmade paper used in Chuck Close's 2014 watercolor edition Phil. Magnolia is pleased to continue its relationship with this historic yet innovative company, and to see them partner with the talented Fraser to create exciting new works involving handmade paper.

Congratulations, Chris!

Chris Fraser studio website

Awagami Paper Factory website

"Postcolonial Contemporary" closes Sunday 7/10

Enrique Chagoya - Untitled (After Edward Curtis), 2016
Etching with acrylic; 17 x 23.75 inches (paper size 22 x 29.75 inches). Edition of 12
Bay Area friends -- be sure to see "Postcolonial Contemporary" at San Francisco's Incline Gallery this weekend. The show will come down on Monday, July 11.

Curated by John Zarobell, "Postcolonial Contemporary" features thought-provoking work by artists including Lewis deSoto and Enrique Chagoya, whose Untitled (After Edward Curtis) (2016) was published by Magnolia Editions.

Genevieve Quick of Temporary Art Review writes:

In Enrique Chagoya’s Untitled (After Edward Curtis) (2016), the artist inserts a billboard featuring an Apple iPad Mini and the all-seeing eye of the American dollar in the expansive and unspoiled Western landscape of Edward Curtis’s An Oasis in the Badlands (1905). The West and the American West, specifically the Bay Area, are places where money and corporate interests saturate the visual and physical landscape. Famously, Curtis attempted to capture an “authentic” picture of the “vanishing” Native American Indians, which was a somewhat problematically conceived and executed enterprise. Chagoya also includes a small, shadowy figure leaping across a small pool of water, a reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare St. Lazare (1932). Cartier-Bresson’s image embodies what the photographer termed the “decisive moment,” the creative point when a photographer acts upon the world to frieze a moment, rendering it magical. In juxtaposing Curtis and Cartier-Bresson, Chagoya presents two photographic paradigms: one where the photographer is in search of a specific picture and the other that waits for the world to unfold and operates on the serendipity of life. Chagoya almost poses the question about how we intervene on a world where corporate interests threaten the stability of place for those less powerful, when is the “decisive moment”?

Read the whole review here, and check out Incline Gallery's website for visiting information: the gallery is open 1-6 pm this weekend.

More art by Lewis deSoto from Magnolia Editions

More art by Enrique Chagoya from Magnolia Editions

Kiki Smith, Magnolia Editions at Peters Projects this weekend

Kiki Smith - Congregation, 2014
Jacquard tapestry with hand painting and gold leaf, 116 x 76 in. Edition of 10
"Kiki Smith: Woven Tales" opens this Friday, May 13th at Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM. This spectacular exhibition features all of Smith's tapestries to date (nearly a dozen), hanging together in one room!

There will be an artist talk with Kiki Smith and Donald & Era Farnsworth at Peters Projects on Saturday, May 14th at 11 am.

Kiki Smith - Visitor, 2015
Jacquard tapestry, 116 x 76 in. Edition of 10
Also opening Friday at Peters Projects is a traveling adaptation of the "Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration" exhibition first presented at the Sonoma County Museum of Art earlier this year.

"Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration" is curated by Randy Rosenberg and includes work from the last three decades by artists such as Robert Arneson, David Best, Enrique Chagoya, Chuck Close, Bruce Conner, Lewis deSoto, Donald & Era Farnsworth, Guillermo Galindo, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Deborah Oropallo, Mel Ramos, The St. Petersburg Travelers, and Richard Wagener.

Bruce Conner - ANGEL WALL, CANYON DE CHELLEY, 2003/1976
Archival pigmented inkjet on Rives BFK white, 17.75 x 23.5 in. Edition of 10
Peters Projects is located at 1011 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM. If you can't make it to the opening, check out the shows on the Peters Projects website!

More work by Kiki Smith from Magnolia Editions

Recent shows & events: Pace in Palo Alto, Close at Magnolia, Kala Auction 2016, and more

Donald Farnsworth shows Chuck Close new experiments with recreating quattrocento-era paper at Magnolia Editions.
Congratulations to Pace Gallery on the opening of their new location in Palo Alto, California.

Magnolia Editions staff were on hand at the opening of the inaugural exhibition last month, which featured work by James Turrell alongside a selection of Pace artists including Chuck Close; both Turrell and Close also attended the opening, with Close visiting Magnolia later in the week to review proofs of new works on paper (more photos here).

James Turrell, Chuck Close, and Era Farnsworth at Pace Gallery's new location in Palo Alto.

Chuck Close, Donald Farnsworth, Era Farnsworth, Nicholas Price, and Tallulah Terryll at Magnolia Editions.

Donald Farnsworth, Nicholas Price, and Chuck Close at Magnolia Editions.
Congratulations to Enrique Chagoya on a wonderful show at Anglim-Gilbert’s new gallery location on Minnesota St in San Francisco:

Prints by Enrique Chagoya (created at & published by Magnolia Editions) at Anglim-Gilbert.

Era Farnsworth at Anglim-Gilbert with Gallery Manager Shannon Trimble.
Congratulations also to Nora Pauwels and John DeMerritt, as well as to Rene Bott and Pam Paulson, for being honored recently at Kala Institute's 2016 Auction & Gala:

Nora Pauwels and John DeMerritt are honored as Artists of the Year by Kala Institute Executive Director Archana Horsting.

Nora Pauwels and John DeMerritt are honored as Artists of the Year by Kala Institute Executive Director Archana Horsting.

Audience of artists and art lovers at the Kala Institute 2016 Auction.

Pam Paulson and Renee Bott of Paulson Bott Press are honored for their contributions to the community by Kala Institute Executive Director Archana Horsting.
Check out many more photos of Chuck Close with new works in progress at Magnolia by viewing the full photo album at Magnolia's Facebook page!

Openings and Events: SF Art Fair, "PAPER" in Point Reyes, and more

Mixed-media works by Deborah Oropallo (created at Magnolia Editions) featured at artMRKT San Francisco.
Magnolia Editions is pleased to announce various events and exhibitions in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond:

As pictured above, the international SF Art Fair, officially known as artMRKT San Francisco, will be held April 27 - May 1, 2016 at the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

This Saturday April 30, from 1 - 4 pm please join us for the opening of PAPER, an exhibition curated by Inez Storer and featuring work by Storer, Enrique Chagoya, Donald & Era Farnsworth, Heather Peters, Tallulah Terryll, Andrew Romanoff, Carrie Lederer, and more! PAPER is happening at Toby's Gallery: 11250 State Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956.

Selections from Donald & Era Farnsworth's Art Notes project, included in the PAPER exhibition in Point Reyes.
Then on Sunday May 1 from 3 - 5 pm, Natalie Ng's "Maasai Women and Four Legged Friends" exhibition of oil paintings opens at the Robert Mondavi Winery with a reception and wine tasting: Robert Mondavi Winery, 7801 St. Helena Highway, Oakville, CA 94562.

Donald Farnsworth this Thurs. Jan 28 at the Art Museum of Sonoma County

Donald Farnsworth and Chuck Close at Close's New York studio, 2011.
Please join Magnolia director Donald Farnsworth this Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 6:30 pm for a special talk at the Art Museum of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, CA on the occasion of the museum's "Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration" exhibition.

The Art Museum of Sonoma County is located at 505 B St, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (click for directions). Please note that this museum is in Santa Rosa – not to be confused with the similarly named museum at 551 Broadway in Sonoma.

Donald Farnsworth and Rupert Garcia at Magnolia Editions with Garcia's 2010 print Obama From Douglass, on view now at the Art Museum of Sonoma County.
"The Magician Behind Magnolia Editions" will detail thirty years of collaboration and experimentation at Magnolia Editions and Farnsworth's work to introduce new techniques and technologies to some of the art world's biggest names.

Kiki Smith and Donald Farnsworth at Magnolia Editions, 2012.

The St. Petersburg Travelers (Donald & Era Farnsworth, Inez Storer & Andrew Romanoff) - Banquet at Gatchina, 2013
Acrylic and modeling paste on heavy linen. Image 47 x 71 inches; linen 56.6 x 82.5 inches. Edition of 3
(on view now at the Art Museum of Sonoma County)
Curated by Randy Rosenberg, "Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration" includes work from the last three decades by artists such as Robert Arneson, Squeak Carnwath, Don Ed Hardy, Enrique Chagoya, Chuck Close, Guy Diehl, Aziz + Cucher, Mildred Howard, William T. Wiley, Mary Hull Webster, Hung Liu, Richard Wagener, Doug Hall, Faisal Abdu'Allah, Kiki Smith, Donald and Era Farnsworth, Inez Storer and Andrew Romanoff, and more, representing a host of media ranging from etchings, collographs, and other more traditional printmaking technologies to Jacquard tapestries, UV-cured acrylic prints on handmade paper fabricated from clothing, and electronic mixed-media sculpture.

We hope you'll join us at the museum on Thursday evening!

Donald Farnsworth and Deborah Oropallo at Magnolia Editions, 2011.
Art Museum of Sonoma County website