Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to present a selection of works for the 2022 edition of the Dallas Art Fair. Featured artists include Bo Bartlett, Whitney Bedford, Tomory Dodge, April Gornik, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Warren Isensee, Raffi Kalenderian, Markus Linnenbrink, Michael Reafsnyder, and Patrick Wilson.

Miles McEnery Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works by a selection of artists at the 2022 Edition of EXPO Chicago. Featured artists include Trudy Benson, Tomory Dodge, Beverly Fishman, Pia Fries, Raffi Kalenderian, Tom LaDuke, Markus Linnenbrink, Ryan McGinness, Douglas Melini, Liz Nielsen, Michael Reafsnyder, James Siena, and Patrick Wilson.

The gallery's inaugural presentation at ZONA MACO will feature works by gallery artists Tomory Dodge, Beverly Fishman, Monique van Genderen, Raffi Kalenderian, Markus Linnenbrink, Ryan McGinness, Jason Middlebrook, Michael Reafsnyder, Patrick Wilson, and Guy Yanai.

Established in 2002 by Zélika Garcia, ZONA MACO is the leading art fair in Latin America with four events that take place twice a year during February and August at Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City.

Returning for its second edition in January 2020, Taipei Dangdai is Taipei's global art fair featuring a world-class lineup of galleries, selected via a rigorous application process overseen by a committee of international gallerists.

Opening the fall art season each September, EXPO CHICAGO hosts leading international art galleries presented alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. 

We are delighted to be participating in the 2019 edition of Expo Chicago, presenting a selection of works by artists Tomory Dodge, Inka Essenhigh, Beverly Fishman, Warren Isensee, Raffi Kalenderian, Patrick Lee, Markus Linnenbrink, Ryan McGinness, Michael Reafsnyder, Daniel Rich, John Sonsini, and Patrick Wilson.

Booth #267, 19 – 22 September.

In the heart of the downtown arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries. Thoughtfully curated exhibitions and innovative programming encourage lively conversations and close looking in a robust and rapidly growing arts community.

The inaugural edition was a surprisingly big success. As year two kicks off, here's what to look for.

Last year, the fledgling new art fair Taipei Dangdai: Art & Ideas made mincemeat of the commonly held belief that it takes a fair a few years to build a solid art world following. The inaugural edition turned out big-name blue-chip galleries, famed global collectors (and Chinese movie stars), and, most importantly, robust sales. Oh, and yes, the fair even had its very own giant inflatable KAWS sculpture to draw in the crowds. 

Paraphrasing Dave Hickey, who wrote a great essay that accompanies Michael Reafsnyder's latest catalog for his solo show at Ameringer, McEnery and Yohe, Michael is considered a radical, not so much because of how we look at his paintings, but more because he is concerned with how we look at paintings in general. He is a radical who for many years has revived Abstract Expressionism painterly traditions, in his own way.

The canvases of California-based painter Michael Reafsnyder pulsate with energy. Layers of abstract marks bear the traces of their making as paint is directly applied from the tube, weaving together to create dense, intricate topographies. It’s not always easy to enter the work: one must follow multiple strands of color before a narrative opens up and the viewer is absorbed by the sensual space Reafsnyder offers.

Michael Reafsnyder's Floating is exhibited in "Paths and Edges: Celebrating the Five-Year Anniversary of the Escalette Collection" at the Guggenheim Gallery in conjunction with Chapman University. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

This exhibition brings together recently acquired works to the Barrick Museum and Las Vegas Art Museum collections. Many of the artists included in Recent Acquisitions have ties to the greater Las Vegas valley, helping to form the foundation of a heritage collection of works created in and inspired by the Southern Nevada region. As a cross section of the diverse practices pursued by contemporary artists this exhibition reaffirms the Barrick’s commitment to collecting art of the present. The vast majority of the works will be on display for the first time since entering the Museum’s collections.

Works of Paper II

opening reception: Saturday, March 21, 6-8pm

Dawn Clements, Doug Crocco, Daniel Cummings, Tomory Dodge, Natalie Frank, Gregor Gleiwitz, Iva Gueorguieva, Roger Herman, Anne McCaddon, Aaron Morse, Michael Norton, Demetrius Oliver, Yuval Pudik, Michael Reafsnyder, Dario Robleto, Brion Nuda Rosch, Adam Ross, Lisa Sanditz, Aili Schmeltz, Fran Siegel, Stephanie Washburn, Eric Yahnker

Roy Dowell, Iva Guerorguieva, Julia Haft-Candell, Rachel Lachowicz, Michael Reafsnyder, Jim Richards, Steve Roden, Tessie Whitmore

Opening Reception: Tuesday September 2, 6-9PM Claremont Graduate University 251 E. Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711 Gallery Hours: Monday- Friday 10am - 5pm

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to announce the gallery's first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based painter, Michael Reafsnyder.

Inspired by the CoBrA movement and abstract expressionism, Reafsnyder's paintings are thick with paint, exuberant gestures, and vibrant color. He uses indulgent amounts of acrylic to build compositions that prioritize the surface of the canvas; proposing an experience of painting that is as tactile as it is visual. Concerned with pleasure, joy, and frivolity, his work galvinizes sensory experiences and challenges historical cliches of the artist's psychic self-expression and metaphysical drama. 

Ceramics are undergoing a revolution in the contemporary art world - but nowhere more so than in Los Angeles, where clay has a particularly resonant history.

The Las Vegas Art Museum's Collections comes back "Into the Light"

So there it was. Amid the single-serving shrimp cocktails, bite-sized quiche, wine, hugs, polite conversations, photo-ops, artists, writers, gallerists and well-heeled art collectors, lived the one single truth: We've been given another chance.

Through careful negotiation, more that a year of planning and a major revamping of UNLV's Barrick Museum, the partnership between the Las Vegas Art Museum and the university's College of Fine Arts came to fruition Tuesday night at the reception for "Into the Light," featuring a large chunk of the Las Vegas Art Museum's permanent collection.

Michael Reafsnyder emphasizes the dynamic characteristics of acrylic paint with his masterful ability to manipulate the water-based medium in his recent work on display at R.B. Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla. He fills the canvas with layers of complex hues and expressive strokes of color that flow through the canvas, forming interesting clusters of colors at the intersections.

Echoing the multi-faceted properties of the paint, Reafsnyder uses multiple sizes of pallet knives and sometimes found objects, “I don’t like cleaning brushes…I use anything but a brush.” Amazingly, he is able to keep the colors from mixing or turning into a muddled brown.

R.B. Stevenson Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles artist Michael Reafsnyder. This is Michael Reafsnyder's 3rd solo exhibition at the R.B. Stevenson Gallery.

In Michael Reafsnyder’s joyously frenzied paintings, each rectangular picture, with its layers of drips, swirls, daubs, and arcs, in every hue imaginable, was also a map of its own creation. Together with his cacophonous multicolored, biomorphic ceramic sculptures, these works seemed primarily designed to energize their audiences.

For his showy topography, Reafsnyder used a variety of application methods: spreading the paint with a flat edge, allowing it to drip from above, applying it directly from the tube, touching it with his hand (or perhaps his arm), or, while the paint was still sticky, lifting it off the surface. The lush, thick surfaces put one in mind of cake frosting as much as they did Abstract Expressionism. Arguably Gerhard Richter’s spirit was being channeled—and challenged—as was Jackson Pollock’s.