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05/06/25

Josh Faught: Sanctuary @ Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Josh Faught: Sanctuary

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Through August 3, 2025

JOSH FAUGHT (U.S., b. 1979)

Sanctuary [detail], 2017

Hand-woven, hand-dyed cotton, hemp,

and gold lamé, scrapbooking stikers;

the entire 1999 season of the soap opera

Passions (DVD); the sheet music for

Peter Hallock's "A Song of Deliverance";

advertisements for The Monastory

(The Sanctuary); issue six of Pot Pourri,

a sexual questionnaire for the "new age";

an adverstisement for The Date-Record;

giant clothespins, nail polish, and pins.

Henry Art Gallery, Gift of William and

Ruth True, originally commissioned in 2016

for Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, 2020.5

Image courtesy of the artist

JOSH FAUGHT (U.S., b. 1979)

Sanctuary, 2017

Installation view:

Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA, 2017

Image courtesy of the artist

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington presents an exhibition featuring the work of JOSH FAUGHT (born 1979, Missouri, based in San Francisco, CA). Know for his evocative multimedia creations that blend weaving found objects, and ephemera, Josh Faught examines craft traditions, queer culture, and personal history in ways that challenge systems of classification and highlight structures of support, visibility, and identity.

This exhibition highlights Sanctuary (2017), a monumental tapestry commissioned by Western Bridge for Seattle’s Saint Mark’s Cathedral and now part of the Henry’s collection. Drawing from Faught’s personal collections and local Seattle archives, Sanctuary reflects on how queer communities have created spaces of safety and connection, and how these practices intersect with themes of faith, devotion, and desire. The tapestry features a rich array of found and archival materials, weaving together spirituality, history, and pop culture. These references evoke stories of connection and isolation in queer history as a means to address ongoing questions about safety, belonging, and well-being.

Accompanying Sanctuary is a selection of Faught's recent basket works. These intimately scaled pieces complement the sprawling height of Sanctuary and highlight the artist's exploration of everyday objects as vessels for human emotions and memories.

This exhibition celebrates Josh Faught's ability to intertwine personal and collective narratives, offering visitors an opportunity to reflect on themes of identity, community and memories.

JOSH FAUGHT explores the conjunction between various histories: the history of textiles, sociopolitical histories, and the artist’s personal history. Recent solo exhibitions include Look Across the Water into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2022); Both Things are True, Koppe Astner, Glasgow (2019); Casa Loewe, London (2019); Sanctuary, commissioned by Western Bridge, St Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle (2017); Siyinqaba, US Embassy in Swaziland, Mbabane (2015); BE BOLD for what you stand for, BE CAREFUL what you fall for, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at the Neptune Society Columbarium, San Francisco (2013); Snacks, Supports, and Something to Rally Around, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (2013). Josh Faught has exhibited in group exhibitions at NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Yerba Buena Center for Art, San Francisco; The New Museum, New York; ICA Boston; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Pakville Galleries, Ontario; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. He is a professor of textiles and fine arts at the California College of the Arts.

Josh Faught: Sanctuary is organized by Nina Bozicnik, Senior Curator, with Em Chan, Curatorial Assistant.

HENRY ART GALLERY

University of Washington

15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, Seattle, WA 98195

henryart.org

Josh Faught: Sanctuary

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

March 8 - August 3, 2025

16/02/19

Les Lalanne @ Kasmin Gallery, New York

Les Lalanne
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Through March 9, 2019

Kasmin presents a new exhibition of work by French sculptors Les Lalanne. Designed in a unique collaboration with world-renowned landscape architect Louis Benech, the presentation kick off the year’s programming at Kasmin’s recently opened flagship gallery in Chelsea, New York (509 West 27th Street).

Over forty sculptures by Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, each hand-picked by Louis Benech, transform the interior of Kasmin’s newest gallery space in an installation featuring passageways reminiscent of the artists’ studio garden in Ury, France. The exhibition includes one of Claude’s rare chandeliers, Structure Vegetale avec Singes (2012), as well as a Miroir (2010)—a work from a series famously collected by Yves Saint Laurent for his “room of mirrors” in Paris. Francois-Xavier’s iconic monkeys (including Babouin (1984/1990) and the large-scale bronze Singe Avise (grand) (2005), a herd of the artist’s sheep, and his Oiseaux de Marbre (1974) chairs (originally made for legendary art dealer Alexander Iolas) explore the contrasting solidity that can be found in the natural world.

Louis Benech, who has designed the exhibition in collaboration with Kasmin and Claude Lalanne, says of his long-standing relationship with the artists: “I often had to work in places with sheep grazing, I mean, Lalanne’s sheep grazing—in Meautry, La Mormaire, Montfort-l’Amaury. Thereafter, I rapidly met Claude and François-Xavier. They were designing with a friend the Jardin des enfants above the forum des Halles, right behind the church of Saint-Eustache. One day, we left ad lib to Ury for dinner. I thus discovered the grace of Claude’s garden, with dogwoods, hostas, and self-sowing hogweeds—which she uses for her sculptures and jewels. From that moment on, we consistently saw each other at least two times a year. Most of the time during a plant fair in Courson. It was there that Claude and François-Xavier usually found the plants flourishing in their garden, adorning Claude’s table or setting themselves in bronze or brass for an eternity of happiness. I miss François-Xavier, but Claude’s fantasy and voice lift my spirits up and bring back in memory the unique bond uniting them.”

ABOUT LOUIS BENECH

Over three decades, Louis Benech has designed, planted and maintained some of the globe’s most grand and historic estates including Paris’ Jardin des Tuileries and the Chateau de Versailles (the latter is the first new garden in the grounds since the 18th century). With over 300 projects in countries such as Korea, Panama, Peru, Canada, the United States, Portugal, Greece, and Morocco, Louis Benech has consistently managed to achieve a distinctive harmony between the new design and its architectural and natural environment. He is considered to be France's most revered landscape designer.

ABOUT LES LALANNE

Known individually and collectively since the 1960s as Les Lalanne, the couple have developed a style that defines inventive, poetic and surrealist sculpture. Having rediscovered the Renaissance art of casting forms from life, then employing contemporary electro-plating techniques, Claude Lalanne achieves a delicacy and sensitivity in her work unparalleled in cast bronze. François-Xavier Lalanne similarly found inspiration for his works in nature. In his words, "The animal world constitutes the richest and most varied forms on the planet." His subjects consist of a menagerie of animals, stylized forms oftentimes married with functionality.

Les Lalanne have exhibited in New York on Park Avenue and at the Getty Station; have been the subject of major retrospectives at Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris; included in the sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Jacques Grange; and are in major collections including the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the City of Paris, the City of Santa Monica, and the City of Jerusalem.

KASMIN GALLERY
www.kasmingallery.com

06/12/17

Azad Nanakeli @ XVA Gallery, Dubai - Highlighted Memory

Azad Nanakeli: Highlighted Memory
XVA Gallery, Dubai
Through January 9, 2018

XVA Gallery presents AZAD NANAKELI’s first solo exhibition in Dubai. The Iraqi artist shows works of a variety of mediums; painting, photography, video and installation.

An international artist and a citizen of the world, Azad Nanakeli has focused his visual pattern on a multi-layered artistic discourse, at the crossroads between an impressive variety of media – painting, photography, video, installation – and an equally powerful narrative, which gives all his work an almost spiritual touch of coherence and unity. Born in Erbil, today part of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq, currently living in Florence, Italy, Azad illustrated his trans-national mix of identity in around a hundred of international exhibitions, culminating in three editions of the Venice Biennale: the Kurdish pavilion in 2009, the Iraqi pavilion in 2011 and the Iranian pavilion in 2015.

Highlighted Memory, his current exhibition in Dubai, is an invitation to an overview of Azad Nanakeli’s major topics of reflection and a highly representative illustration of his innovative technique based on the overlapping of narrative and mixed media layers. The exhibition proposes a new frame where the artist can freely develop his own timeless connections between personal and trans-individual experiences, between the past and the present, between memory and identity. In Azad Nanakeli’s view, art becomes a recording and a critical process, able to contribute to a comprehension of the social role and the meaning of the artistic practice, proposing a series of reflections on how much art can contribute to the configuration of the modern world representation; interrogating itself at the same time on how the artist can make a correlation between the political reality and the social dramas through their artistic representation. In every layer of pictorial, or sound, or video matter of his works, the artist turns himself into a sort of archaeologist, able to dig and unveil the ‘ghost’ and unexpected faces of the personal and collective experience: it is as if, together with the artist, the viewer would enter his artworks from the back-door of the memory and have access in this way to a privileged and magical storytelling.

Claudio Scorretti
Collector, Art Advisor

XVA GALLERY
Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, Bur Dubai
www.xvagallery.com

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16/09/10

Sunday Art Fair London 2010 P3 Ambika

For the first time this October SUNDAY art fair will be held in London at the P3 Ambika space on Marylebone Road. Taking place from 14th to 16th October, SUNDAY is an international, gallery-led art fair showing a selection of 20 young galleries, exhibiting work by over 60 international artists at the fore of emerging talent.

SUNDAY Art Fair London

P3 AMBIKA

14-16 October 2010

20 Galleries – 60 International Artists

SUNDAY’s first outing was in Berlin during the 2009 Gallery Weekend where it was so well received the organisers decided to bring it to London during this year’s October art week. Housed in the P3 Ambika, a 14,000 square foot, triple height subterranean space, the fair aims to provide an easy going and accessible temporary platform for young galleries to exhibit their artists’ work.

Among the artists on show will be: Jesse Ash, Edwina Ashton, Francesco Barocco, Michael Bauer, Luca Bertolo, Armin Boehm, Wolfgang Breuer, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Liudvikas Buklys, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Kit Craig, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Chris Evans, John Finneran, Zipora Fried, Aurélien Froment, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Dagmar Heppner, Andy Holden, Judith Hopf, Takaaki Izumi, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Thomas Kratz, Deborah Ligorio, Anissa Mack, David Mackintosh, Chris Martin, Joseph Montgomery, Rosalind Nashashibi, Dominique Petitgand, Riccardo Previdi, Ruth Proctor, Mandla Reuter, Tina Schulz, Matthew Smith, Michael E Smith, Jack Strange, The Hut Project, Richard Wilson, Richard Woods and Katarina Zdjelar.

Independent contemporary bookshop and publisher Aye Aye Books (Glasgow) and publishing house Archive Books (Berlin) will also be at SUNDAY with a selection of journals and publications available to purchase. Raising funds for their Interaction programme, the Zabludowicz Collection will present a selection from their limited edition sculptures, photographs and prints.

SUNDAY is organised by three of the participating galleries: Limoncello - London , Croy Neilsen - Berlin and Tulips and Roses – Brussels and sponsored by the Zabludowicz Collection.

Exhibiting galleries: Arcade (London), BolteLang (Zurich), Circus (Berlin), Croy Nielsen (Berlin), Freymond-Guth (Zurich), gb agency (Paris), Laurel Gitlen (New York), KOW (Berlin), Tanya Leighton (Berlin), Limoncello (London), Lüttgenmeijer (Berlin), Motive Gallery (Amsterdam), Norma Mangione Gallery (Turin), Francesca Minini (Milan), TARO NASU (Tokyo), Neue Alte Brucke (Frankfurt), On Stellar Rays (New York), Galerie Schleicher + Lange (Paris), Tulips & Roses (Brussels) and Works Projects (Bristol).

Entry to SUNDAY is free and open to all, with a bar and café providing refreshments. Artist mixed cocktails from artists including Fiona Banner, Liam Gillick, Christian Jankowski and Bob and Roberta Smith will be available to purchase at Ryan’s Bar at allotted times throughout the fair.

Ryan's Bar is a project by Ryan Gander and Europa. Five artists have been asked to design a cocktail for bar and they will be mixing, shaking and serving them for customers at allotted times. The bar/café will also provide a variety of other refreshments during the fair.

A visitor drinking a Fiona Banner cocktail at SUNDAY art fair

Fiona Banner serving drinks at SUNDAY art fair
Photo (c) Joseph Popper

SUNDAY art fair Day 1

SUNDAY opened its doors at 12 noon with 2,000 people visiting the fair on its first day.

Sales have got off to a very confident start with SUNDAY welcoming through its doors collectors including: David Roberts, Nini Bonavoglia, Jill Bernstein, Bernard Soens, Anita Zabludowicz, Mimi Dusselier, Susan and Michael Hort, Vicky Hughes, Peter & Jill Kraus, Don and Mera Rubell, Louise Clark, Eliana & Marinella Guglmi.

And among the curators: Clarrie Wallis - Tate, Katherine Stout - Tate, Andrew Wilson - Tate, Carmen Julia - Tate, Ann Deemester - de Appel, Amsterdam, Helen Legg - Spike Island, Bristol, Johan Holten - Kunstverein, Heidelberg, David Gryn - Art Projx, London, Mryjam Vanadinis - Kunsthaus, Zurich, Benjamin Godsall - New Museum, Matthew Higgs – White Columns, New York, Lorenzo Benedetti - De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Jacob Proctor - University of Michigan Museum of Art, Vincent Honore - David Roberts Foundation, London

Ambika P3
(entrance via red metal gates opposite Baker Sreet tube station)
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS

SUNDAY art fair web site: www.sunday-fair.com

FREE ENTRANCE

Opening times: Thursday 14^th October: 12pm – 8pm / Friday 15^th October: 12pm – 8pm / Saturday 16^th October: 12pm – 6pm

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