While the days may be getting shorter and darker as winter approaches, the Artnet Gallery Network is alight with new artists to watch and galleries to explore. Browsing and discovering artworks and exhibitions from around the world has never been easier, as the Artnet Gallery Network is always open and available from the comfort of your own computer or device. Here, we’ve rounded up five artists we’ll be keeping our eye on who are having a true moment—and these reflect just a few of the hundreds that can be found on our website.
Sarah Sense at Bruce Silverstein
Sarah Sense, Montclair Dots Study (2024). Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein.
American Chitimacha/Choctaw artist Sarah Sense (b. 1980) taps the tradition of weaving in her large-scale works, made from photographs, maps, and other two-dimensional ephemera. Currently the subject of her second solo show with Bruce Silverstein gallery in New York, “I Want to Hold You Longer,” Sense’s recent work explores the histories, uses, and meanings behind weaving in Chitimacha and Choctaw culture. The result are visually intricate compositions that operate as conduits of memory—and hope for the future.
Xinran Liu at YveYang Gallery
Xinran Liu, the endless sticky noise and inertia coming out from the bud (2024). Courtesy of YveYang Gallery.
On view through December 21, 2024, London-based artist Xinran Liu is the subject of a solo show with YveYang Gallery in New York, “On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon.” The artist’s large-scale paintings use a single color tied to a personal memory as a starting point from which to investigate ideas around memory more broadly, and the myriad ways these may be translated visually. Liu’s compositions defy easy categorization, and invite prolonged looking, paralleling the act of psychological reflection we undertake when reconsidering the past.
Oliver Bak at Sprüth Magers
Oliver Bak, Violets Banquet (2024). Courtesy of Sprüth Magers.
Danish artist Olive Bak (b. 1992) frequently draws inspiration from fiction, mythology, and the subconscious as well as elements of lived reality. Bak’s paintings convey an otherworldly, psychologically charged atmosphere that blurs the boundary between the real and the imaginary. Recently, Bak had a solo show with Sprüth Magers, Berlin, “Ghost Driver, or the Crowned Anarchist,” which explored universal dichotomies, namely beauty and horror, through the lens of Greek god Dionysus and accompanying mythology.
Yongqi Tang at Latitude Gallery
Yongqi Tang, The Blood (2024). Courtesy of Latitude Gallery.
Seattle-based Chinese artist Yongqi Tang crafts intriguing paintings that show as much as they obscure through carefully crafted vignettes and bold color palettes. Her debut solo in New York, “The Open Venus,” highlights Tang’s distinctive approach to exploring concepts of identity, cultural norms, and transformations of the body. Alluring yet uncanny, Tang’s paintings allude to a world or story just outside of our own, reflecting universal preoccupations and anxieties centered around contemporary existence.
Cinta Vidal at Galerie Zink
Cinta Vidal, Camp (2024). Courtesy of Galerie Zink.
Recently the subject of her first solo show in Germany with Galerie Zink, Waldkirchen, entitled “MELT,” Spanish painter Cinta Vidal (b. 1982) continues her unique practice that draws on her early training as a theater painter. Using both reality-based and fantastical forms of perspective, Vidal’s paintings collapse traditional notions of perceived space, and carry on the tradition of imagined reality akin to M.C. Escher. Themes of architecture and landscape, as well as social interactions and activities coalesce into fascinating vignettes that invite the viewer to explore Vida’s creative worlds through the mind’s eye.
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