The Armory Show: Booth 228

Nengi Omuku’s first solo exhibition in New York features a new body of eight oil paintings, each uniquely realized on the traditional Nigerian textile sanyan, developing Omuku’s vision of painting as a constant and sustaining force in a perpetually changing world. Nengi Omuku: Wild Things and Perennials coincides with the artist’s ongoing solo museum exhibition, The Dance of the People and the Natural World, at Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom.

The second solo exhibition of work by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) at Kasmin concentrates on her late-career collages from the 1980s and 1990s. Celebrating the multidisciplinary spirit of her work, Encyclopedia: The Late Collages of Dorothea Tanning delves into the artist’s universe where literary devices, from humor and irony to paradox and repetition, combine with her personal visual lexicon to inspire, as she once wrote, “Art as metaphor for language.”

Kasmin presents Cologne-based painter Jan-Ole Schiemann’s (b. 1983) third solo presentation at the gallery, If There Was A Letter For It. On view will be new canvas paintings that index a careful process of gestural mark making, featuring Schiemann’s first series of paintings to incorporate oil paint. With oil, Schiemann intensifies the expression of velocity within his work, capturing a range of motion in thick gestural marks that glide across the canvas in assertive colorways. Returning to the grid as a guiding compositional strategy, Schiemann imparts a distinct geometric character in these paintings, expanding his singular visual vocabulary.