Emily Kame Kngwarreye
What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
The New York TimesMartha Schwendener, Jason Farago, Will Heinrich and Jillian Steinhauer
June 20, 2018
Extract: 'Beyond the Veil’
Through July 8. Olsen Gruin, 30 Orchard St., Manhattan; 646-613-7011, olsengruin.com
Who gets to narrate history? Who gets to represent whom? These questions have been roiling the American art world lately, but they are nothing new in Australia — especially in regard to its indigenous population, who faced official efforts to erase their culture well into the 20th century through forced assimilation. Visual art has provided a crucial tool to help redress these erasures, and at this New York outpost of a Sydney gallery, the paintings by five women from central Australia, and one collaborative group, testify to the vibrancy of Aboriginal Australian art and the necessity of speaking for yourself.
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Arte FuseJonathan Goodman
9 June 2018
So, there is something that holds true in a show like this, which presupposes a different way of looking at society because of the long reach of the West's current obsession with money. Clearly, affluence is not a major interest of the women in this show, who live in the central desert of Australia and who work on paintings that, despite their abstraction, remain close to their lives. This is a different cry by far from the recent dot paintings of Damien Hirst, whose probable appropriation-we are not certain this is true-looks like very much like the theft of a venerable art coming from a culture some 100,000 years old. Hirst's borrowings do tend to look facile in light of the greater gravitas of the indigenous women's works, which can be understood by Western viewers-albeit on a level likely more superficial than the paintings themselves. In any case, the controversy raises real issues about the appropriation of other cultures-a hallmark of Western art practice since the beginnings of modernism, when Picasso made use of African masks for his work Les demoiselles d'Avignon.
BEYOND THE VEIL CURATED BY ADAM KNIGHT
May 16 ?? July 8, 2018
OLSEN GRUIN NY
-Jonathan Goodman
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Three Sentence Reviews of Marlene Dumas, Dan Colen, and 11 Other Art-World Big Shots
Vulture.comJerry Saltz
May 31, 2018
To coincide with several big art fairs and last week’s massive auctions, many larger galleries mounted shows of their bigger artists. So let’s read the tea leaves on the upper end of the food chain.
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Beyond the Veil
Curated by Adam Knight
Olsen Gruin
No doubt many of the bigwigs in town for all the art stars, megagalleries and super-auctions, missed maybe the best secret show in New York at the moment, this six-artist exhibition of Australian Aboriginal women painters curated by the president of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia — a show that gives us a breathtaking small survey of what critic Robert Hughes (who in almost every case except this I disagreed with) called “the last great art movement of the twentieth century.”
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Blouin ArtInfoMay 29, 2018
Olsen Gruin is currently hosting a group exhibition titled "Beyond The Veil."
Until July 8, 2018, Olsen Gruin will host an exhibition that celebrates Aboriginal Australian artistic practices. ??Beyond the Veil? features a group of contemporary Australian artists. It has been made possible by the gallery??s collaboration with the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia. The group show will be on view at the gallery??s New York venue.
This group exhibition of Central Desert Paintings has been curated by the President of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia, Adam Knight. The anticipated show features select works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Evelyn Pultara, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Gayla Pwerle, Polly Ngale, and the Women??s Collaborative comprising Beverly Cameron, Kathy Marinkga, Imitjala Curley, and Tjangili George.
Featured: Untitled 1993 Emily Kame Kngwarreye Synthetic polymer paints on Belgian linen 23.6 x 35 inches (59.9 x 88.9 cm)
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www.artweek.comEmerald Gruin
13 May 2018
Olsen Gruin is pleased to present Beyond the Veil, a group exhibition of Central Desert Paintings curated by the President of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia, Adam Knight. The anticipated show features select works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Evelyn Pultara, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Gayla Pwerle, Polly Ngale, and the Women’s Collaborative comprising Beverly Cameron; Kathy Marinkga, Imitjala Curley, and Tjangili George, and will be on view from May 16 – July 8, 2018.
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the360mag.com7 May 2018
Olsen Gruin is pleased to present Beyond the Veil, a group exhibition of
Western Desert Paintings curated by the President of the Aboriginal Art
Association of Australia, Adam Knight.
The anticipated show features
select works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Evelyn Pultara, Gabriella Possum
Nungurrayi, Gayla Pwerle, Polly Ngale, and the Women's Collaborative
comprising Beverly Cameron; Kathy Marinkga, Imitjala Curley, and
Tjangili George, and will be on view from May 16 - July 8, 2018.
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Did Damien Hirst Rip Off Aboriginal Australian Artists's Work?
Frieze.comApril 3, 2018
Australian artists and dealers claim ??uncanny?? similarities between Hirst??s ??Veil Paintings?? and landscapes of the late Emily Kame Kngwarrey.
Damien Hirst??s ??Veil Paintings?? works ?? recently on show at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (ranging from USD$500,000 to $1.7 million) ?? have come under fire for their similarity to the work of female Aboriginal artists, including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who died in 1996.
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Is Damien Hirst's Latest Series a Ripoff of an Aboriginal Australian Artist? See the Works Side-by-Side
Artnet.comSarah Cascone
March 30, 2018
Damien Hirst's new work looks a lot like the paintings of famed Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
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November 2017
A painting by Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye has sold for $2.1 million, a record for the highest auction price for an Australian female artist.
A painting by the late Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye has sold for $2.1 million, marking a new record for the highest price achieved at auction for an Australian female artist.
Her contemporary painting, Earth's Creation I, was sold on Thursday night to art dealer Tim Olsen, who recently set up a gallery in New York.
The painting has an impressive exhibition record. It has been shown at the National Gallery Japan, National Museum of Osaka and the Venice Biennale, National Museum of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Fine Art Bourse and CooeeArt Marketplace organised the online auction, which had to be postponed when a server crashed as thousands of people worldwide tried to log in to watch the sale.
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