The New Contemporary Irish Arts Centre, Los Angeles (CIACLA) is a dedicated space to showcase Irish art and culture. Opening this month, the gallery hosts an exhibition and live performance by Amanda Coogan title ‘The Ladder is Always There’. In July, mural artist Maser will mount an installation entitled ‘Mirror Door’ . Image: Amanda Coogan
Amanda Coogan: 15 June – 4 July; Maser: 27 July – 24 August
Kathy Prendergast’s ‘Atlas’ at the Kunst-Station St Peter in Cologne explores notions of settlement, migration and displacement using over 100 modified road atlases. The artist has taken a humble, everyday resource (the AA Road Atlas of Europe) and transformed it into a complex and compelling visual statement. Through overpainting with black Indian ink, all geographical details, except cities and towns, have been eliminated with these conurbations appearing only as small, unadorned dots in a sea of black. Collectively, the atlases provide a complete (if oblique) map of Europe.
Kathy Prendergast: 16 June – 25 July
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame hosts a celebration of Irish Art, marking recent donations and important loans to the university’s collections. Irish art including works by Jack B Yeats, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy shows alongside photographs of Irish country and city life by Alen MacWeeney; a celebrated group of James Barry prints, part of the museum’s own works, and loans from the collection of Pat and John O’Brien from Chicago. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame. Image: Alen MacWeeney
Snite Museum of Art: 17 August – 14 December
Five artists represent Ireland at the 12th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut. The competition and exhibition is limited to works that are no more than four square inches. The Irish representatives are: Margaret Mannion Kallen, Bernadette Madden, Margaret McLoughlin, Gráinne Dowling and Pauline Kinehan. Image: Margaret McLoughlin (detail)
Centre for Contemporary Printmaking: 2 June – 1 September
Prints by Aoife Layton are included in the Fifth International Mezzotint Festival, taking place at the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. Human/animal interaction lies at the centre of Layton’s artistic practice. Her prints consider the mutability of human-animal relationships and the inconsistencies in our perceptions of, and engagement with them. Image: Aoife Layton
Aoife Layton: 15 August – 30 September
Curated by Hollis Heichemer, ‘Unforeseeable Thereness’ at the Stanek Gallery was inspired by Heichemer’s visit to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Mayo. The exhibition celebrates the connection between the arts in Ireland and America bringing together nine artists from Ireland including Cian McLoughlin, Helen O’Leary, Helen O’Toole and Donal Teskey. Image: Cian McLoughlin
Unforeseeable Thereness: until 29 June
The Centre Culturel Irlandais presents ‘En attendant’ from Tomi Ungerer, the Alsace-born artist who has lived in Ireland for over forty years. A draughtsman and satirist of international renown, Ungerer’s work has been greatly influenced by his experience of World War II. Over the last sixty years he has produced over 140 publications and 40,000 drawings that reflect his passionate abhorrence of violence and war. This exhibition showcases a selection of his most recent collages and sculptures created in his West Cork studio.
Tomi Ungerer: 16 March – 5 July
