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PASSING THOUGHTS AND MAKING PLANS from 04-11-2009 to 13-12-2009

Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN, T: (+44) 020 7654 0171. 'Passing Thoughts and Making Plans' is an exhibition that brings together artists who use photography as part of their thought process; as a tool for working out, following and shaping ideas that will develop into a finished work. The concept behind the exhibition comes from Yass's desire to reveal work in process and to consider that the experience of viewing preparations and sketches for art works holds complexities and interest in its own right. 'Passing Thoughts and Making Plans' features previously unseen work by Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Sarah Jones, Alex Katz, Sharon Lockhart, Cornelia Parker, Richard Wentworth and Rachel Whiteread.

KRISTIN BAKER, 'SPLITTING TWILIGHT' from 05-11-2009 to 00-00-0000

Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, New York, T: (+1) 212 343 7300. 'Splitting Twilight' is an exhibition of new paintings by Kristin Baker at Deitch Projects. Baker continues to push the contradictions inherent in the genre of painting while simultaneously celebrating its history. The new body of work playfully remixes the legacy of landscape painting within a modernist structure.

DAVID SHAPIRO from 05-11-2009 to 24-11-2009

Metivier Gallery, 451 King Street West, Toronto M5V 1K4, T: (+1) 416 205 9000. This exhibition of paintings and works on paper showcases David Shapiro’s distinct style of abstraction, borne from a desire to convey spiritualism through paint. The flowing, gentle imagery comes from a dialogue with the natural world and pulsates with light. The surfaces are complex and textured – from polished to earthen – and contain centrifugal images which resemble quasars or irises as well as knotted, curvilinear lines. His division of the picture plane into sections further increases the dynamic tension between organic and geometric forms.

CORNELIUS CARDEW from 05-11-2009 to 13-12-2009

The Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, Brunswick Wharf, 55 Laburnum Street, London E2 8BD, T: (+44) 020 7729 5333. This exhibition pays tribute to the work of the experimental British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981) and to the activities of the Scratch Orchestra. Cardew brought music and visual art closely together in his work. The Scratch Orchestra was formed in 1969 and reflected the breaking down of boundaries between the different disciplines which took place during that decade. Influenced by John Cage and Fluxus musicians George Brecht and La Monte Young, Cardew in turn exerted a huge influence on subsequent musicians including Brian Eno and Michael Nyman.

SUSAN HAMBURGER, 'MORAL HAZARD' from 05-11-2009 to 18-12-2009

Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, 555 Eighth Avenue, Suite 710, at 38th Street, New York, T: (+1) 212 722 1144. In 'Moral Hazard', Susan Hamburger continues to use both Victorian and French Colonial Period design motifs, specifically wallpaper panels and porcelain dinnerware, as templates to investigate contemporary politics. Having found an abundance of greed, hypocrisy and conflict of interest reflected in the most recent economic upheavals and sex scandals, the current show which centers on the term Moral Hazard, represents Hamburgers’ own desire to identify and learn more about the individual politicians, corporate executives and pundits responsible for setting the political, economic and social mores in the United States.

RICHARD KERN from 05-11-2009 to 19-12-2009

Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, 16, rue du Simplon, 1207 Geneva, T: (+41) 22 700 74 73. Recent photographic work by provocateur Richard Kern, who has never lost his boyish curiosity with girls and their secrets. Instead of posing them in sterile sets he follows them from backyard to kitchen to bathroom to bedroom, capturing every sexy and embarrassing moment.

ROGER BALLEN, 'BOARDING HOUSE' from 05-11-2009 to 23-12-2009

Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10075, T: (+1) 212 744 2313. 'Boarding House' is a new series of photographs by Roger Ballen taken between 2004 and 2008. Ballen applies principles of sculpture, drawing, and painting to the psychologically evocative environments depicted in his theatrical photographs. Working exclusively in black and white, he examines the core sensations of the human psyche, based as much in fact as in fiction. Both a continuation and advancement of themes in his earlier series 'Outland' (2001) and 'Shadow Chamber' (2005), Boarding House emphasizes the absence of human presence and features obscured bodies, animals and hand-drawn faces whose minimal identifying characteristics initiate an immediate, visceral response.

EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT, 'LITTLE DEATHS' from 05-11-2009 to 02-01-2010

Priska C Jushka Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 2nd floor, New York, T: (+1) 212 244 4320. 'Little Deaths' is Emily Noelle Lambert’s second solo exhibition at Priska C Jushka Gallery. Lambert’s new paintings and mixed media sculptures intuitively explore her personal experiences by extracting them, both consciously and subconsciously, from a visual language of impressions, recollections and desires. Lambert draws on imagery and observations that resonated with her during a recent visit to Rome—focusing on primal objects and emblematic figurines placed in her own imaginary “collections” that become Lambert’s individual versions of the alabaster busts she encountered in The Hall of Busts at the Vatican.

RYAN GANDER, 'THINGS THAT MEAN THINGS AND THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY MEAN THINGS' from 06-11-2009 to 12-12-2009

Mercer Union - A Centre For Contemporary Art, 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto M6H 1N9, T: (+1) 416 536 1519. In this recent video by Ryan Gander, the artist imbeds a work within a work. Key elements in the hall of mirrors include an interview with writer and filmmaker Dan Fox, art students sketching Francis Bacon paintings installed at the Tate Britain and several on-camera appearances by the artist himself. The sum of the parts is a double-edge flirtation with the romantic notions associated with art viewing and a love-hate relationship with the now ubiquitous genre of the televised artist profile.

LYNNE MARSH, 'CAMERA AND CALISTHENICS' from 06-11-2009 to 13-12-2009

Danielle Arnaud, 123 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SF, T: (+44) 020 7735 8292. 'Camera and Calisthenics' is an exhibition that brings together Lynne Marsh’s two latest video installations, 'Stadium' (2008) and 'Camera Opera' (2008). In these works Marsh pursues and reconfigures the complex borrowings and cross-fertilisations between artistic modernity and mass culture. Using codified cinematographic techniques, the works draw on the languages of digital animation, sports coverage, television broadcasting and the performance and cinematography of the early twentieth century. In precise choreographies -that oscillate between exercise and dance -the camera, the space and performers compete for the leading role.

ALEX HODA, 'PIPEDREAMS' from 06-11-2009 to 18-12-2009

Dickinson, 19 East 66th Street, New York, T: (+44) 212 772 8083. 'Pipedreams' is a new body of work by British artist Alex Hoda (born 1980) and will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the US. On display will be a series of reliefs and free standing figurative sculpture cast in resin. Hoda’s practice is founded on the principle of re-working. Objects, styles and motifs are conflated within his frieze-like reliefs, his haunting dog heads or his arresting interpretation of the Washington War Memorial, produced in battleship grey. His tools are pre-fabricated objects: toys, miniatures and fancy dress accoutrements – meshed together and unified through the casting process.

RUTH BEALE, 'WHAT I BELIEVE (A POLEMICAL COLLECTION)' from 06-11-2009 to 19-12-2009

SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH, T: (+44) 020 8525 4330. 'What I Believe (a Polemical Collection)' is a new project by Ruth Beale based around her artwork/collection of political and ideological pamphlets: 'Pamphlet Library' (2008 – ongoing). Each one a polemical address, the pamphlets included in the library exemplify the pressing issues and opinions of their time in a format now nostalgically attractive in its antiquarianism.

ALYSSA PHEOBUS, 'TO HAVE, HOLD' from 06-11-2009 to 23-12-2009

Tracy Williams, Ltd., 313 West 4th Street, New York, T: (+1) 212 229 2757. In 'To Have, Hold', Alyssa Pheobus continues her practice of investigating the conceptual and formal interplay between language and the marked line by creating large-scale, labour-intensive graphite drawings from enigmatic excerpts of text culled from sources both familiar and obscure.

TOMORY DODGE, 'WORKS ON PAPER' from 07-11-2009 to 19-12-2009

CRG Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, New York, T: (+1) 212 229 2766. For the first time Tomory Dodge exhibits a sweeping body of new works on paper; comprised of roughly forty watercolors and collages. The works will be shown concurrently at both CRG Gallery in New York and at ACME in Los Angeles. While watercolors and small studies in oil have long been integral to Dodge's process and have often served as a formative layer in the development of larger works, this recent undertaking constitutes gestures solely understood and determined within the medium of collage and watercolor. With passages that appear to revisit or reconsider his work anew from a clearly defined vantage, the images are characterized by the structural limitations and advantages within the medium of paper.

MARTIN GALLE, 'THUNDERDOME MMIX - MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE' from 07-11-2009 to 19-12-2009

ASPN Galerie, Spinnereistrasse 7, 04179 Leipzig, T: (+49) 0341 960 00 31. Painter Martin Galle began his artistic pursuits as a graffiti sprayer, tagging urban geography throughout Germany. Galle’s ongoing admirations for the art form as well as friends from the graffiti scene remain his influence. His works embody a dynamism and swiftness of rare quality, enabling him to create unique authenticity and presence with just a few strokes of chalk or acrylic.

TOMOO GOKITA, 'HEAVEN' from 07-11-2009 to 19-12-2009

Honor Fraser, 2622 S La Cienega Blvd., Culver City CA 90034, T: (+1) 310 837 0191. Exhibition of new works by Tokyo-based Tomoo Gokita. In past works Tomoo Gokita has drawn and painted from budget pornography, selectively rendering and partially obscuring – with his signature abstractions – the awkward posture of staged pleasure. While there is nothing awkward or contrived about the paintings, what they do have in common with pornography of any kind is their ability to provoke an intense emotional reaction from the viewer. More often than not the reaction is an invigorating intellectual discomfort derived from the attempt to reconcile the figurative and nonrepresentational forms on the canvas.

VITALY KOMAR, 'NEW SYMBOLISM' from 07-11-2009 to 24-12-2009

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, New York, T: (+44) 212 226 3232. Vitaly Komar will exhibit a new series of paintings at the Feldman Gallery that incorporates religious and political iconography to explore the meaning of visual symbols. The paintings juxtapose portraits that range from Christ to Lenin and depictions of objects including the hammer and sickle, an hour glass, and a serpent, from different eras. Contrasting the sacred and profane, these figurative forms are placed within abstract fields that suggest a greater cosmos suffused with celestial light. Proposing a New Symbolism, Komar evokes the existence of a spiritual dimension that is both invisible and timeless.

TOM WESSELMAN, 'DRAWS' from 07-11-2009 to 02-01-2010

Haunch of Venison, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, Between 48th and 49th Street, 20th Floor, New York, T: (+1) 212 259 0000. Haunch of Venison New York presents Tom Wesselmann 'Draws', the most comprehensive exhibition of drawings by the artist that has ever been assembled. the exhibition, which was originally organized by the artist in 2003, will cover drawings from his entire career 1959-2004. Most of the works come directly from the estate and the family of Tom Wesselmann.

JOSEPHINE HALVORSON, 'CLOCKWISE FROM WINDOW' from 07-11-2009 to 16-01-2010

Monya Rowe Gallery, 504 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, T: (+1) 212 255 5065. In 'Clockwise From Window', Josephine Halvorson presents us with a suite of intimate paintings, depicting everyday and often overlooked objects, such as a wooden shelf, the remains of a project, or a gravestone. Each painting evokes a memory, time, or place, and invites the viewer – like the artist – to have a direct relationship with the object itself. While these curious objects depicted demand introspection, the luscious, confident brushstrokes are a reminder of the physicality of the object itself. Painting on-site and in a single session, Halvorson’s practice is a conversation with an object in its own environment. Drawn to the physicality of the form, rather than its’ metaphysical holdings, Halvorson uses paint to attune our own perception. Her keen eye for nuances in the familiar allows for unexpected insights: we’ve all seen a panel door or a cast shadow, but it is through Halvorson’s acute observation that something new can be revealed.

BOB & ROBERTA SMITH, 'FACTORY OUTLET' from 07-11-2009 to 21-02-2010

Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London, SE11 6AY, T: (+44) 0207 582 6465. Since February 2009, Bob & Roberta Smith have been making the most of the spacious Beaconsfield premises, using them as a prolific site of production for one whole year. As the final months of this epic project approach, Bob & Roberta Smith will mark the end of their time at Beaconsfield with an extensive exhibition in all three gallery spaces, showcasing the mass output achieved during their time in residence.