These threads are queer

“Let the threads be articulate.” – Anni Albers

Guest Contributor Clarity Haynes / The wall text at the portal to the exhibition "Queer Threads," currently at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in Manhattan, bluntly states, “Is this work ‘gay?’ You bet.” The show, with its confluence of queer and feminist sensibilities, is the perfect subversive, fuzzy, neon, rainbow, glittery storm. Transgression has never felt so friendly.

[Image at top: Larry Krone, Then and Now (Rainbow Order); 2008; yarn, wood, and hanging hardware; 44 x 39 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Pierogi Gallery, New York]

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Loren Munk's world view

We are all in the process of spinning invisible webs, tied together by geography, ideas, cyber connections, and imagery. In "You Are Here," Loren Munk again presents a thought-provoking group of intricate map paintings that illuminate an intimate yet sweeping inter-generational New York art world. Munk's spirited and inevitably subjective work reinforces the notion that we each have a unique point of view and that we all understand and organize facts differently. Artists who have lived in the neighborhoods Munk depicts or participated in the movements he chronicles can't help but look for names of other artists, seeing who makes the cut and who doesn't.

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March 4: Andrew Ginzel's list of NYC shows and events

SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / February 15, 2014  / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his students at the School of Visual Arts. Note: Images have been selected by Two Coats of Paint.

Donelle Woolford @ Wallspace

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2014 Whitney Biennial: Curators' statements, painting links

I'm looking forward to the opening of the Whitney Biennial this week because the selection includes a surprising number of painters, including a special nod from Michelle Grabner toward contemporary abstract painting by women. Perhaps reflecting the wide range of approaches artists engage today, the Whitney rejected a team approach and selected three separate curators: Anthony Elms, Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Stuart Comer, Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA; and Michelle Grabner, artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; to organize their own independent sections of the show. Here are curatorial statements from each, and a list of participating artists with links to most of the painters.

[Image at top: Laura Owens. Courtesy of artist's website.]

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Good news: "Some of this work is quite good"

"Right now the 'consensus' is that serious art involves raw canvas, a smattering of paint, possibly an exposed stretcher bar, and a 'who the fuck cares if it looks done' attitude - some of this work is quite good, by the way. The 'context' that this work is presented in is the hippest galleries and art fairs in the world. And collectors who do more listening than looking are lapping it up in large amounts and at absurd prices." Via Steven Zevitas in The Huffington Post.

"Categories are only generalizations; what is important are the specifics of the artwork and the relationships in question." Via Brian Dupont in a new essay responding to the ongoing debate about Provisional/Casualist painting.

Related posts:
The Casualist tendency
Quick Study: Enough already, what's next?

Image courtesy of Utrecht's Art Supply.

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Speaking Deborah Brown's language

For several years, Deborah Brown translated the world around her Bushwick studio into paint. Celebrating the neighborhood's metal scaffolding, makeshift welded architecture, abandoned cars, fenced compounds, and ubiquitous graffiti, Brown's paintings, through her vivid use of color and loose paint handling, evoked French Romantics like Eugene Delacroix and Flemish masters such as Peter Paul Rubens. In her new paintings, on view at Lesley Heller through March 9, Brown appears to have segued from Bushwick to art history, translating old master portraits and historical paintings, like Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, into the robust language of tangled line and vivid color that she developed in the Bushwick paintings.

 [Image at top: Deborah Brown, Napoleon Crossing the Alps , 2014, oil on canvas, 70 x 80 inches]

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25 hours in New York: Jenny Zoe Casey

Guest contributor Jenny Zoe Casey (Orlando, FL) / Art critic Jerry Salz says that "vampires need to be with vampires." With this vivid advice in mind, I planned my late January hit-and-run to NYC.

It began at the Newark International Airport mid-day Monday, after some creative re-routing for reasons I won't go into. I headed straight for a printmaking workshop run by Fumiko Toda, a wonderful artist who shows with Susan Eley Fine Art and whose work I had seen online. At the workshop, I created several monotypes and experienced a heady mix of nostalgia for art school, some challenges a little out of my comfort zone, and an atmosphere of collaboration and camaraderie. I was thrilled; I love printmaking and share an interest with Toda in combining narrative and abstraction.

[Image at top: Jenny Zoe Casey, Venn, 2012, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches.]

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Quick Study: Enough already, what's next, a new painting blog and more

Who knew painting (and art writing) still had the power to evoke such outrage? Some artists and writers, unhappy with the provisional and casualist approach that I've been observing for the past few years, have been wondering why this type of work has gotten so much ink and pixels. Abstract Critical, a UK publication that has complained endlessly about this direction, both in long form and on Twitter, published an essay by Alan Pocaro arguing that Raphael Rubinstein and I are to blame for inventing the whole damn thing. Franklin Einspruch agrees. Thanks, guys, that's flattering, but really? Jessica Snow wrote a note after I recently reposted the Christie's article (The Casualist Tendency) to suggest that I'm flogging a dead horse. Well, the provisional/casualist approach isn't dead--I see it embedded everywhere--but artists and writers who don't like it can't seem to stop despairing. I suggest if they want to change the conversation, they should write about all of the other aesthetic phenomena that they imply are prevalent, claim to prefer, but fail to articulate--that is, what they see going on in artists' studios and how it reflects contemporary culture.

[Image at top:  Rosa Bonheur, Arab and a Dead Horse, 1852, oil on canvas, 20x 34 cm, National Museums Liverpool.]

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The Casualist tendency

This essay, which builds upon an essay about contemporary abstract painting that I wrote for The Brooklyn Rail in 2011, was just published in the January/February 2014 issue of Christie's Magazine.

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A few years ago, having operated safely within traditional painting strictures for decades, I found myself embracing a paradoxically purposeful inattention to detail, nuance and craft in my work. Noticing that many other painters were moving in this direction and, after extended discussion on my blog, Two Coats of Paint, I wrote about it in a 2011 Brooklyn Rail article, labelling this trend The New Casualism. The work I had in mind related conceptually to wabi sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of imperfection and impermanence, featuring abrupt shifts, cross-currents and a deliberate lack of formal cohesion that constructively agitates the viewer, challenging one to look harder if a painting seems poorly constructed or amateurish.

There is more to the studied, passive-aggressive irresoluteness of these canvases – which often leave large sections unpainted – than meets the eye. They reflect a concern with imperfection, extending beyond traditional Bauhaus principles of good design to the unfinished, the off-kilter, the overtly offhand, the not-quite-right. And, to my mind, they refreshingly embrace almost anything that seems to lend itself to visual intrigue – including formal artistic failure.

[Image at top: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung]

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Dustin Hodges: Rational bluff

In his first solo show, at Miguel Abreu, 2012 Bard MFA grad Dustin Hodges presents a series of compelling architectural drawings, some gestural paintings of houseplants, an architectural model made of Styrofoam, and a kiosk constructed from stretched canvases. At the entrance of the gallery, a large piece (I hesitate to call it a painting), made of stretched linen, hangs to the left. Looking closely, I began to see that the linen isn't blank; in fact, a faint image of what appears to be a partial axonometric projection grid is lightly drawn in pencil across the surface. Unlike the linear perspective grid more commonly used by artists, the lines in such projections don't converge at the horizon, so images created with them may seem less realistic on the page, but they are more precise in terms of scale and measurement. Although Hodges titles the piece Axonometric Projection, the name isn't accurate--for axonometric projections, the grid would be at a 45-degree angle. The architectural reference, promising a rational outcome, is a bluff--don't fall for it.

[Image above: Dustin Hodges, Axonometric Projection, 2013, graphite on linen, 67 x 67 inches]

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Architecture as muse at Union College

If readers are up near Union College in Schenectady, NY, please check out "blueprint," a three person exhibition in The Atrium Gallery curated by Brece Honeycutt, artist and writer of the terrific blog on a colonial farm. In her blog, Honeycutt chronicles life on her colonial-era farm in western Massachusetts, researching and imagining what life was like for the women who lived there before she bought the property. Naturally, when Honeycutt discovered The Glass Room, a 2009 novel by Simon Mawer that tells the compelling and tragic tale of a Modern house built in Czechoslovakia before World War II, she was drawn to the story, and she decided to use it as the basis for this exhibition. Featuring work by Peter Dudek, Victoria Palermo, and me, the show considers architecture as a muse.

Honeycutt writes in her curatorial statement that

throughout Mawer’s book, the concepts, structures and images from the three artists' works are made manifest. It is almost as if Mawer had the vibrant planes of Palermo's structures, or layered architectural shapes of Butler’s canvases, or the three-dimensional constructivist landscapes by Dudek in his mind’s eye as he wrote. Mawer: “Steel will be as translucent as water. Light will be as solid as walls and walls as transparent as air. I conceive of a house that will be unlike any other, living space that changes functions as the inhabitants wish, a house that merges seamlessly into the garden outside, a place that is at once of nature and quite aside from nature."

 Please join us this coming Thursday, February 20, at 3:30  when we'll be having a gallery talk and reception.

My wall of paintings references urban architecture, HVAC units, security gates, exhaust vents and other rooftop structures.

Peter Dudek built a Modernist tabletop village with corrugated cardboard and plywood. Lookout: One of Dudek's signature plaster clouds hangs overhead.

Installation view: Palermo's meticulously-built plexi-and-wood objects in foreground, my wall of paintings in the background.

One of Victoria Palermo's plexi-and-wood structures. This one appears to be tumbling off its supports.

"blueprint," curated by Brece Honeycutt. The Atrium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY. Through February 27, 2014. 

Related posts: 

Brece Honeycutt's book report (2013) 

Peter Dudek: Challenging murals in North Adams (2013)

 

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February 15: Andrew Ginzel's list of NYC shows and events

SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE /  February 15, 2014  / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his students at the School of Visual Arts. Note: Images have been selected by Two Coats of Paint.

 Austin Thomas @ Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden

LOWER EAST SIDE
Shawn Powell / Chapter NY / 127 Henry / thru 2/16
Jane Kent; Daniel Wiener; Danielle Dimston / Pocket Utopia / 191 Henry / thru 2/16
Jennifer Watson / R.Jampol (S&J Projects) / 191 Henry / thru 3/2
Interior Dialogue: Karen Hagle; Lonnie Holley; Sarah Kurz; Matvey Levenstein / Sargent’s Daughter / 179 East Broadway / thru 2/23
Taiping Tianguo: Ai Wei Wei; Frog King Kwok; Tehching Hsieh; Martin Wong / e-flux / 311 East Broadway / thru 3/15
Ken Okiishi / Reena Spaulings / 165 East Broadway / thru 3/23 Opening 2/16
Brendan Lynch + / Still House Group: +1 / West side of Forsyth bet. Division & E.Broadway / thru 2/15
Tamara Gonzales / Sometimes / 83 Canal #301 / thru 3/?
Gregory Edwards / 47 Canal / thru 2/23
Timothy Tompkins / DCKT / 21 Orchard / thru 3/9
Without Volition Under Language: Wallace Berman; Lee Maida; Joe Zorrilla / Sheftel / 24a Orchard / thru 2/23
Vince Contarino; Jenna Ransom; Kenny Rivero / Stoyanov / 29 Orchard / thru 2/23
Kour Pour / Untitled / 30 Orchard / thru 2/23
Michael Alan / Gasser Grunert / 33 Orchard / thru 2/15
Daniel Domig / 33 Orchard / 33b Orchard / thru 3/9
Natasha Bowdoin / Rowe / 34 Orchard (new location) / thru 3/9
Half Drop / Schuss / 34 Orchard / thru 3/16
Dustin Hodges / Abreu / 36 Orchard / thru 2/23
Time and Again curated by Maddy Rosenberg / Central Booking / 21 Ludlow / thru 3/30
Wayne Herepich / Blackston / 29c Ludlow / thru 2/20
Emily Noelle Lambert / Lu Magnus / 55 Hester / (temporarily closed due to flood)
Alain Kirili; Vivid Painting: M. Lerner; R. Norton; R. MacArthur; J. Gilbert-Rolfe; Awkward x2 curated by C. Haub / Terrazzo / 81 Hester / thru 2/23
Dennis Congdon / Horton / 55-59 Chrystie / thru 3/2
Rusty Shackleford / Rucker / 141 Attorney / thru 3/9
Sarah Szczesny / Ludlow 38 / 38 Ludlow / thru 3/30 Opening 2/15 (6-9 PM)
Anne Eastman; Sara Ludy; Yuri Masnyj / Nichtssagend / 54 Ludlow / thru 3/9
Sally Tittman / Holman / 65 Ludlow / thru 2/15
Davide Balliano / Room East / 41 Orchard / thru 3/9
Marta Jovanovic / Bosi / 48 Orchard / 1/29 thru 3/1
Michael Buhler-Rose / Scaramouche / 52 Orchard / thru 3/30
Deborah Brown; Misrepresentation curated by Nick Ghiz; / Heller / 54 Orchard / thru 3/9
Lori Ellison / McKenzie / 55 Orchard / thru 2/16
Henrik Eiben / Pablo’s Birthday / 57 Orchard (new location) / thru 3/16
Charles Mayton / Lewis / 88 Eldridge – floor 5 / thru 3/2 Performance, Reception 2/23
Kazuko Miyamoto / Invisible Exports / 89 Eldridge (new location) / thru 3/2
Sean Micka thru 3/16; Manon Harrois; Maria Lynch; Avelino Sala thru 3/9 / Abrons / 466 Grand / Reception 2/13
Margaret Weber; Nolan Hendrickson; Charlotte Hammer / Ramiken Crucible / 389 Grand / thru 2/23
Personal Space / Essex Flowers / 365 Grand / thru 2/16
Thomas Bangsted; Martha Mysko / Straus / 299 Grand / thru 2/16
Nurured Nature: Esther Traugot; Sara Frantz; Marie Yoho Dorsey / Guepin / 83 Orchard / thru 3/9
Jenna Ransom / Artifact / 84 Orchard / thru 3/2
Julien Bismuth / Subal / 131 Bowery / thru 2/16
Park McArthur / Essex Street / 114 Eldridge / thru 2/23
Hong Seon Jang / Munch / 245 Broome / thru 3/9
The Silent Way: Robert Breer; Matthew Buckingham; Jenny Perlin / Preston / 301 Broome / thru 2/23
Ned Colcough / Beauchene / 327 Broome / thru 3/9 Opening 2/12
Margaret Lee / Hanley / 327 Broome / thru 3/9 Opening 2/12
Red Grooms / Marlborough / 331 Broome (new third NYC location) / thru 3/? Opening 2/19

 Katherine Bernhardt @ Canada

Katherine Bernhardt / Canada / 333 Broome / thru 3/3
June Crespo; Phillppe Van Snick / P! / 334 Broome / thru 2/23
Ulrike Muller / Callicoon / 124 Forsyth / thru 2/16
Between Levels: Rachel Beach; Ariane Lopez-Huici; Ann Pibal; Joan Waltemath / Hionas / 124 Forsyth / thru 2/16
Elana Herzog / LMAK / 139 Eldridge / thru 3/30 Opening 2/15 (6-9 PM)
Steinman and Tear / Ping / 131 Eldridge / thru 2/16
Sur-Real / Woodward / 133 Eldridge / thru 2/22
A Human Extension curated by Amy Berger/ Lodge / 131 Chrystie / thru 2/16
Urbanites: L.Bougatsos; B.Morgan-Cleveland; D.Colen; D.Yago; M.Kenny; C.Reyes / Fuentes / 55 Delancey / thru 2/23
Johannes Bendzulla / Brennan & Griffin / 55 Delancey / thru 2/23
Joann Gedney curated by Gregory De La Haba / IFAC / 85 Delancey / thru 4/7 Opening 3/7
Austin Eddy; Anthony Miler; Alexandra Smith / Thierry Goldberg / 103 Norfolk / thru 3/9
We play at Paste / Cooley / 107 Norfolk / thru 3/16
Autograft: Math Bass; Cara Benedetto; Lydia Gifford; Lisa Williamson / Gitlen / 122 Norfolk / thru 3/16 Opening 2/13
Kardash Onnig; Noah Post / Morris / 163 Chrystie / thru 2/29
Richard Barnes / Foley / 97 Allen / thru 2/23
Todd Chilton; Robert Fontanelli / Feature / 131 Allen / thru 2/16
Off White Desert: Nora Griffin; Ann Greene Kelly; Matthew Kirk / James / 143b Orchard / thru 3/9
Matt Colagiuri; Matthew Bilfield / Krause / 149 Orchard / thru 3/17
Kathleen Ching / Cuchifritos / 120 Essex (SE corner of market) / thru 3/2
Equations of Sight-Similarity / On Stellar Rays / 1 Rivington / thru 2/23
Moira Dryer Project / Eleven Rivington / 11 Rivington / thru 2/22 (extended)
Ted Gahl; The Age of Small Things curated by Chuck Webster / Dodge / 15 Rivington / thru 2/23
Gerald Collings / Envoy / 87 Rivington / thru 2/16
Con / Text / Lynch Tham / 175 Rivington / thru 2/16
Kueng Caputo / Salon 94 / 1 Freeman Alley / thru 2/28
Ryan Browning; Alex Kvares / Mulherin+Pollard / Freeman Alley – 187 Chrystie / thru 2/16
Pablo Garcia / Novella / 164 Orchard / thru 3/2
Troels Carlsen / Y / 165 Orchard / thru 3/9
Dennis Dawson; Paul Paddock / Frosch & Portmann / 53 Stanton / thru 2/23
Colby Bird / Fitzroy / 195 Chrystie / thru 2/16
Moira Dryer Project / Eleven Rivington / 195 Chrystie (second location) / thru 2/22
Alex Prager / Lehmann Maupin / 201 Chrystie / thru 2/22
Tranzit thru 4/13; Pawel Althamer; Laure Prouvost Opening 2/12 / New Museum / 231-235 Bowery
Carlos Rolon / Salon 94 / 243 Bowery / thru 3/1
Emil Lukas / Sperone Westwater / 257 Bowery / thru 2/22
Jomar Statkun / Garis & Hahn / 263 Bowery / thru 2/23
Beth Krebs / Station Independent / 164 Suffolk / thru 4/6 Opening 3/5
Anna-Sophie Berger / JTT / 170a Suffolk / thru 2/16
Julia Rommel / Bureau / 178 Norfolk / thru 3/16 Opening 2/16
Jane Dickson; Bill Rice / Harvey: Projector / 237 Eldridge / by appt. 2/12 thru 3/16 Opening 2/22 (4-6 PM)
Gideon Bok / Harvey / 208 Forsyth / 2/12 thru 3/16 Opening 2/15 (4-6 PM)
Paulo Brighenti / Rooster / 190 Orchard / thru 3/16 Opening 2/13
The Cardboard Lover: A.Baremboym; P.Brock; A.Da Corte; A.Domanovic; J.Holmberg; O.Kydd / American Contemp. / 4 E 2 / thru 2/16
Still Acts curated by Ian Daniel & Sara Reisman / La MaMa / 6 E 1 / thru 3/1 Opening 2/13 (6-9 PM with performance)
Christopher Knowles / Audio Visual Arts / 34 E 1 / thru 2/16

TRIBECA & SOHO & NOHO & EAST VILLAGE & MURRAY HILL
Sreshta Rit Premnath / Kansas / 59 Franklin / thru 3/1
Guy Ben Ner; Austin Lee / Postmasters / 54 Franklin (new location) / thru 3/8
The Big Picture: Desiderio; Fischl; Rauch; Saville; Tansey curated by P.Drake; & E.Hobson / NY Academy of Art / 111 Franklin / thru 3/2
Private Matters organized by Ceren Erdem; Jaime Schwartz; Lisa Hayes Williams / Apexart / 291 Church / thru 3/1
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault / Artists Space (second location) / 55 Walker / thru 2/23
Ola Vasiljeva / Art in General / 79 Walker / thru 3/15
Hassan Hjjaj / Grahne / 157 Hudson / thru 3/7
Heidi Bucher / Swiss Institute / 18 Wooster / thru 4/20 Opening 2/18
Yishay Garbasz / Feldman / 31 Mercer / thru 3/22 Opening 2/15
Frank Stella / Freeman / 140 Grand / thru 2/22
Carina Brandes / Team / 83 Grand / thru 2/16
Paige Powell / Geiss / 76 Grand / thru 2/22
Liz Magic Laser / Recess Activities / 41 Grand / thru 3/22
Ferran Adria; Deborah Grant / Drawing Center / 35 Wooster / thru 2/28
David Ratcliff / Team / 47 Wooster / thru 3/2
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault / Artists Space / 38 Greene – floor 3 / thru 2/23
Nikolai Ishchuk / Denny / 261 Broome / thru 3/16
Miller Updegraff / Clifton Benevento / 515 Broadway / thru 2/22
Ana Cardoso; Christian Bonnefoi / Longhouse / 285 Spring / thru 2/28
G. Alfaro; J. Chiang; R. Garet; P. Lee; N. Tsabar; D. Yellin curated by Maureen Sullivan / Fridman / 287 Spring / thru 2/15
Relic: Seth Cohen; Colette Robbins; Josh Slater curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella / ISE Foundation / 555 Broadway / thru 3/7
If This Is Left, What About Right: Ross Iannatti; Eric Mack; Jesse Wine / Werble / 83 Van Dam / thru 2/15
Come Like Shadows - Palimpsests, Traces, Specters of the Silver Screen, Nightlife, Veils, The Absent Present / Zurcher / 33 Bleecker / thru 2/16
Tree Trunk to Head: Chaim Gross and Direct Carving in America / Gross Foundation / 526 LaGuardia / thru 2/28
Bob Mizer / 80WSE / NYU / 80 Washington Square East / thru 2/15
An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan & Their Circle / NYU Grey Art Gallery / 100 Washington Square East / thru 3/29
Philip Pearlstein curated by Robert Storr / New York Studio School / 8 E 8 / thru 2/22
Minjung Kim / Oko / 220 E 10 / thru 3/1
David Alexander Flinn / Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo / 24 W 12 / thru 3/28
Sylvia Palacios Whitman / Broadway 1602 / 1181 Broadway @ 28 / thru 2/15

CHELSEA & WEST VILLAGE
Alex Katz; Dara Friedman / Gavin Brown / 620 Greenwich / thru 2/22
Phanos Kyriakou / Maccarone / 630 Greenwich - 98 Morton / thru 2/15
William King / Algus Greenspon / 71 Morton / thru 2/15
Looking Back selected by Pati Hertling / White Columns / 320 W 13 enter on Horatio bet. Hudson & 8th Ave. / thru 2/22
Dylan Bailey / Rines / 55 Gansevoort / thru 3/7 (24/7)
Count Your Blessings thru 3/24; Count your Blessings thru 6/9; Bodies in Balnce thru 9/8 Opening 3/15; Etc. / Rubin Museum / 150 W 17
Someone Like Me: A. Cesarco; S. Charlesworth; E. Ga; S. Hayes; W. Raad; L. Skaer / Murray Guy / 453 W 17 / 191 Henry / thru 2/22
Wade Guyton / Petzel / 456 W 18 / thru 2/22
Re-View Onnasch Collection curated by Paul Schimmel / Hauser & Wirth / 511 W 18 (second NYC location) / thru 4/12
John Ahearn / Alexander and Bonin / 132 10th Ave. @ 18 / thru 2/22
Paul Edlin / Edlin / 134 Tenth Ave. / thru 3/15
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today curated by S.Greshon & D.G.Davis / Bookstein / 138 Tenth Ave. @ 19 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Mina Cheon / Cohen / 251 W 19 / thru 2/28
Shirin Neshat / Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space / 455 W 19 / thru 3/1
Anoka Faruqee / Koenig & Clinton / 459 W 19 (new location) / thru 2/22
Luke Stettner; Boru O’Brien O’Connell / Kitchen / 512 W 19 / thru 3/1
Cinematheque19 / Lombard-Freid / 518 W 19 / thru 3/1
Zheng Shengtian; Wang Dongling / Chambers / 522 W 19 / thru 2/22
Stan Douglas / Zwirner / 533 W 19 / thru 2/22
Beyond the Spectrum: Abstraction in African American Art / Rosenfeld / 100 Eleventh Ave. @ 19 / 1/11 thru 3/8
Jackie Nickerson / Shainman / 513 W 20 / thru 2/15
Allison Schulnik / ZieherSmith / 516 W 20 / thru 2/22
A Chromatic Loss curated by Jeffrey Uslip / Bortolami / 520 W 20 / thru 2/15
Group / Flowers / 529 W 20 / thru 3/1
Johanna Calle; Fredi Casco; Beth Campbell / Bienvenu / 529 W 20 - floor 2 / thru 3/1
Erwin Redl / Bitforms / 529 W 20 - floor 2 / thru 3/15
I.D. Photo Badge Portraiture / Ricco-Maresca / 529 W 20 - floor 3 / thru 2/15
Jeremy Comins / Bibro / 529 W 20 - floor 4 / thru 3/29 Opening 2/13
Black and Gray / Skoto / 529 W 20 - floor 5 / thru 3/1
Richard Bosman / Harris / 529 W 20 - floor 6 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/13
Allison Stewart / Markel / 529 W 20 - floor 6 / thru 3/8
Vincent Hamel / Scott / 529 W 20 / floor 7 / thru 3/1
Pop Abstraction / Greenan / 529 W 20 - floor 10 / thru 2/15
Arahmaiani / Rollins / 529 W 20 - floor 10 / thru 2/22
Saul Fletcher / Kern / 532 W 20 / thru 2/15
Doug Wheeler thru 3/29; Dan Flavin; Donald Judd; Fred Sandback thru 3/1 / Zwirner / 537 W 20
Ericka Beckman; Julia Wachtel / Dee / 545 W 20 / thru 2/22
Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler; Michael Wilkinson / Bonakdar / 521 W 21 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/15
James Busby / Kravets Wehby / 521 W 21 / thru 2/15
Two Moon July / Cooper / 521 W 21 / thru 2/12
Jason Dodge / Kaplan / 525 W 21 / thru 2/22
Peter Buggenhout / Gladstone / 530 W 21 / thru 4/19 Opening 2/27
Joel Shapiro / Cooper / 534 W 21 / thru 2/22
Liz Glynn / Cooper / 197 Tenth Ave. @ 22 (pop-up location) / thru 3/1 (extended)
Michel Majerus / Marks / 502 W 22 / thru 4/19
Dove Bradshaw / Danese Corey / 511 W 22 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Austin Thomas / Hansel & Gretel / 511 W 22 / thru 3/15
Michel Majerus / Marks / 522 W 22 / thru 4/19
Iva Gueorguiva / Ameringer McEnery Yohe / 525 W 22 / thru 3/8
Andrew Moore / Yancey Richardson / 525 W 22 / thru 2/22
Michel Majerus / Marks / 526 W 22 / thru 4/19
Josephine Halvorson / Sikkema Jenkins / 530 W 22 / thru 3/1
Portfolios / Nitsch / 534 W 22 / thru 3/?
Janet Fish; Valerie Jaudon / DC Moore / 535 W 22 - floor 2 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Robin F. Williams / PPOW / 535 W 22 - floor 3 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Tanya Marcuse / Saul / 535 W 22 - floor 6 / thru 2/22
Imprints organized with Amy Wolf / Tonkonow / 535 W 22 - floor 6 / thru 3/15
Frohawk Two Feathers; Geoffrey Young / Morgan Lehman / 535 W 22 - floor 6 / thru 3/1
Robert Morris / Sonnabend / 536 W 22 / thru 3/15
Hayley Tompkins; Honza Zamojski / Kreps / 537 W 22 / thru 2/15
Lisa Sanditz / CRG / 548 W 22 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Stuart Hawkins; Keren Cytter / Feuer / 548 W 22 / thru 2/15
Daniel Levine / Churner & Churner / 205 Tenth Avenue @ 22 / thru 2/22
Liselott Johnsson / Muhlenberg NYPL / 209 W 23 / thru 2/28
Jeff Landman / Williams / 521 W 23 / thru 2/22
Mia Brownell / Cacciola / 537 W 23 / thru 2/15 (extended)
Angelina Gualdoni / Geisberg / 537b W 23 / thru 2/15
Jus Juchtmans / Thatcher / 539 W 23 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/13
Ralf Schmerberg / Wolkowitz / 505 W 24 / thru 2/15
Sue Williams / 303 / 507 W 24 / thru 2/22
Andisheh Avini / Boesky / 509 W 24 / thru 2/15
Norio Imai / Richard / 514 W 24 / thru 3/29 Opening 2/13
Johan Van Mullem / C24 / 514 W 24 / thru 2/22
Robert Bechtle / Gladstone / 515 W 24 / thru 2/15
Bad Conscience organized by John Miller / Metro Pictures / 519 W 24 / thru 2/22
Thrush Holmes / Weiss / 520 W 24 / thru 3/1
Sculpture / Marks / 523 W 24 / thru 4/19
Beverly Semmes / Inglett / 522 W 24 / thru 3/15
Radcliffe Bailey / Shainman / 524 W 24 (second location) / thru 2/15
David Altmejd / Rosen / 525 W 24 / thru 3/8

 Loren Munk@ Freight + Volume

Loren Munk / Freight + Volume / 530 W 24 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
David Musgrave / Luhring Augustine / 531 W 24 / thru 3/1
Pop Abstraction / Fredericks Freiser / 536 W 24 / thru 2/15
Tomoo Gokita / Boone / 541 W 24 / thru 3/1
Seeking Engagement NSA / Lyons Wier / 542 W 24 / thru 2/22
Aaron Bobrow; Daniel Lefcourt; Davina Semo / Rosen / 544 W 24 (second location) / thru 3/8
Richard Serra / Gagosian / 555 W 24 / thru 2/15 (extended)
Revisiting Histories / Kent / 210 Eleventh Ave – floor 2 / thru 3/28
American Folk Art curated by Fred Giampietro / Thorp / 210 Eleventh Ave - floor 6 / thru 3/1
Denise Mickilowski; Glen Hansen / Fischbach / 210 Eleventh Ave. – floor 8 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Alfredo Gisholt / Cue Art Foundation / 137 W 25 / thru 3/7
Sol LeWitt / Pace / 508 W 25 / thru 2/22
Keith Sonnier / Pace / 510 W 25 / thru 2/22
Melissa Meyer / Lennon, Weinberg / 514 W 25 / thru 2/15
Elisa Kreisinger / Ellis / 516 W 25 – 306B / thru 2/22
Salvatore Federico / Margolis / 523 W 25 / thru 3/29
Seymour Lipton / Driscoll Babcock / 525 W 25 / thru 3/8
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ? / Stux / 530 W 25 / thru 3/8
John Bowman / Winston Wachter / 530 W 25 / thru 2/15
Group / Jaeckel / 532 W 25 / 1/18 thru 2/15
Grounded / Pace / 534 W 25 / thru 2/14
William Bailey / Cuningham / 541 W 25 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/13
Davina Semo / Marlborough / 545 W 25 - floors 1&2 / thru 2/15
Roy Lichtenstein curated by Hilary Harkness and Ewan Gibbs / Flag Art Foundation / 545 W 25 – floor 9 / thru 5/17
Lynda Benglis / Cheim & Read / 547 W 25 / thru 2/15
Murat Pulat / Heller / 568 W 25 / thru 2/15
Candy Jernigan / Greene Naftali / 508 W 26 - floor 8 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Andy Denzler / Oliver / 513 W 26 / thru 2/15
Ena Swansea / Freidman Benda / 515 W 26 / thru 2/15
Clive Murphy / MagnanMetz / 521 W 26 / thru 4/12 Opening 2/27
Mark Fox / Miller / 524 W 26 / thru 2/22
Enrique Chagoya / Adams / 525 W 26 / thru 2/22
Cleve Gray / Howard / 525-531 W 26 – floor 4 / thru 2/15
Last Night curated by Merill Mahan / Salomon / 525-531 W 26 –floor 4 (location shared with Howard and Sgorbati) / thru 2/15
Gestos Urbanos – Urban Gestures: Juan Fernando Herran; Kevin Simon Mancera; Jaime Tarazona / Vogt / 526 W 26 – floor 2 / thru 2/22
Douglas Florian / Bravin Lee / 526 W 26 – floor 2 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/12
Hassan Sharif / Gray / 526 W 26 – floor 2 / thru 2/14 (extended)
Dona Nelson / Erben / 526 W 26 – floor 4 / thru 3/? Opening 2/?
Richard Hart; Tom Kotik curated by Keri Oldham / Fieldprojects / 526 W 26 – floor 8 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/13
Jiha Moon / Ryan – Lee / 527 W 26 / thru 3/8
Sarah Cain / Lelong / 528 W 26 / thru 3/15
Stephen Sollins; Imi Hwangbo; Maritta Tapanainen / Zoubok / 531 W 26 – floor 2 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Katie Bell; Implicit Horizon (Group) / Mixed Greens / 531 W 26 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/13
Simon Evans / Cohan / 533 W 26 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/13
Julije Knifer / Mitchell-Innes & Nash / 534 W 26 / thru 3/15
Alex Prager / Lehmann Maupin / 540 W 26 / thru 2/22
Lloyd Martin / Haller / 542 W 26 / thru 3/8
David Lachapelle / Kasmin / 293 Tenth Ave. / thru 3/1
Dzine / Kasmin / 515 W 27 / thru 3/1
Michael Gregory / Hoffman / 520 W 27 / thru 3/8
Robert Yasuda / Tagore / 547 W 27 – floor 1 / thru 3/1
J. Ivcevich / Garvey-Simon / 547 W 27 - floor 2 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/18
Group / Littlejohn / 547 W 27 – floor 2 / thru 2/15
Emma Amos; Mira Lehr; Faith Ringgold; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; Carrie Mae Weems / Flomenhaft / 547 W 27 – floor 2 / thru 2/22
Ro Lohin; Marianne Gagnier; Suzanne Laura Kammin / The Painting Center / 547 W 27 – floor 5 / thru 2/22
Crazy, Snake, Mojo & More / Ross / 547 W 27 –floor 5 / thru 3/8
Michelle Segre; Keith Mayerson / Eller / 615 W 27 / thru 3/15 Opening 2/15
The Retired Architect: K. Bock; N. Colclough; N. Dash; B. Gocker; I. Nolan; J. Rommel / Wallspace / 619 W 27 / thru 2/15
The Wayland Rudd Collection organized by Yevgeniy Fiks / Winkleman / 621 W 27 / thru 2/15
Objects & Thin Air: Sam Anderson; Stephen Lichty; Michael Wang / Foxy Production / 623 W 27 / thru 2/15
Simplest Means: J. Marsh; M. Grabner; D. Voisine; N. Provosty; S. Koen; C. Fueki; C. Smith / Bailey / 625 W 27 / thru 2/22 (extended)
Chuck Webster; Katherine Bradford; KMartin Mazorra / Planthouse / 107 W 28 / thru 3/5
Serena Mitnik-Miller / Liner / 540 W 28 / thru 2/22
Mel Kendrick / Nolan / 527 W 29 / thru 3/1
Bad Fog curated by Eddie Martinez / Martos / 540 W 29 / thru 2/15
Elizabeth Duffy; Cheryl Yun / DM Contemporary / 39 East 29 #2B / thru 3/15

MIDTOWN & UPTOWN & HARLEM
Frank Thiel / Kelly / 475 Tenth Avenue @ 36 / thru 3/22
Spanish Drawings thru 4/11, A Collective Invention thru 5/18 Opening 2/14; Etc. / Morgan Library / 225 Madison @ 36
John King / Heskin / 443 W 37 / thru 3/1
Distant Images, Local Positions / EFA Project Space / 323 W 39 / thru 3/8
Isa Genzken thru 3/10, …Silence thru 6/22, I. Julien thru 2/17; I.Sonnabend, Ambassador of the New thru 4/21; Etc. / MoMA / 11 W 53
Tracy Miller curated by Jay Grimm / 527 Madison / thru 5/9
Sam Messenger / Davidson / 724 Fifth Ave. @ 57 – floor 4 / thru 3/15
Herman Cherry; John Ferren; Kyle Morris / Findlay / 724 Fifth Ave. @ 57 – floor 8 / thru 3/8
Jess; Richard Baker / de Nagy / 724 Fifth Ave. @ 57 – floor 12 / thru 2/22

 Richard Tuttle @ Pace

Richard Tuttle / Pace / 32 E 57 / thru 3/15
Kenneth Blom / McCoy / 41 E 57 / thru 2/28
Lois Dodd; Anne Arnold / Alexandre / 41 E 57 / thru 3/1
Daniel Rich / Blum / 20 W 57 – floor 2 / thru 3/15
Ray Parker / Washburn / 20 W 57 – floor 8 / thru 3/22
Kathleen Gilje / Naumann – floor 3 / 24 W 57 / thru 3/14
Thomas Struth / Goodman – floor 4 / 24 W 57 / thru 2/22
Winter / Jancou / 24 W 57 – floor 6 / thru 3/1
Mario Velez / Seve / 37 W 57 / thru 2/22
Grisha Bruskin; Bill Jacklin / Marlborough / 40 W 57 / thru 4/20 Opening 2/20
Winter Group / McKee / 745 Fifth / thru 2/12
G.T. Pellizzi / Boone / 745 Fifth / thru 3/1
Body & Soul thru 3/2, Out of Hand thru 7/6, Etc. / Museum of Art and Design / 2 Columbus Circle @ 59
Recontextualizing the Found / John Jay College of Criminal Justice / 11th Avenue & 59 / thru 3/25
Witnessing Visions: Brion Gysin; Henri Michaux; Judit Reigl; Unica Zurn / UBU / 416 E 59 / thru 2/28
Todd James / Gering / 14 E 63 (new location) / thru 3/29 Opening 2/27
Lyonel Feininger / Moeller / 35 E 64 / thru 2/28
Diana Al-Hadid / Boesky / 118 E 64 / thru 3/22
Deborah Barrett; Helge Reumann + Xavier Robel/ Baumgold / 60 E 66 / thru 2/15
John Zinsser / Graham / 32 E 67 / thru 3/29 Opening 2/14 (5:30-8 PM)
Noriyuki Haraguchi / McCaffrey / 23 E 67 / thru 2/22
Hans Josephsohn / Hauser & Wirth / 32 E 69 / thru 2/22
Nicolas Guagini; Leigh Ledare / Roth / 160A E 70 / thru 3/14 Opening 2/13
Nalini Malani / Asia Society / 725 Park @ 70 / thru 8/3 Opening 2/19
Germaine Richier / Levy / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 4/12 Opening 2/27
Gregor Hildenbrant / Perrotin / 909 Madison @ 73 / thru 2/22
Susan Rothenberg / Starr / 5 E 73 / thru 3/29
Emile Nolde / Van Doren Waxter / 23 E 73 / thru 2/28
Jules Olitski and friends / Freedman / 25 E 73 / thru 2/28 (extended)
Biennial thru 5/25 Opening 3/7; Etc. / Whitney Museum / Madison @ 75
The Armory Show at 100 / NY Historical Society / 170 Central Park West / thru 2/23
Ed Clark / Tilton / 8 E 76 / thru 2/22
Lucian Freud / Luxembourg & Dayan / 64 E 77 / thru 4/5
Richard Artschwager / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 2/22
Y.Z. Kami / Gagosian / 980 Madison @ 77th / thru 2/22
The New Beauty of Our Modern Life curated by Kate Steciw / Higher Pictures / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 3/1
Strike(s): A.Burri; Cesar; L.Fontana; D.Lynch; A.Pereiler; P.Sutherland / Nahmad / 980 Madison / thru 3/1
Charles Harlan / Venus Over Manhattan / 980 Madison @ 77 / thru 3/22 Opening 2/12
Markus Lupertz / Werner / 4 E 77 / thru 3/15
Steve DiBenedetto / Half / 43 East 78 / thru 2/25
Black & White / Mnuchin / 45 E 78 / thru 3/22
Damien Loeb / Acquavella / 18 E 79 / thru 4/11 Opening 2/28
George Segal / Newhouse / 4 E 81 / thru 2/21
William Kentridge thru 5/11, Ink Art thru 4/6; Carlo Scarpa thru 3/2 Etc. / Met Museum / 5th Avenue @ 82nd
Carrie Mae Weems thru 5/14; Italian Futurism thru 9/1 Opening 2/21, Etc. / Guggenheim / 1071 Fifth Avenue @ 89
Philip Pearlstein; Anders Zorn; Edwin Blashfield / National Academy / 1083 Fifth Avenue @ 89 / thru 5/18 Opening 2/27
Other Primary Structures thru 8/3 Opening 3/14; Etc. / Jewish Museum / 1109 5th Avenue @ 92
Pale Fire organized by Anna Glantz & Victoria Roth / Neiman @ Columbia / 2960 Broadway / thru 2/27
Carrie Mae Weems thru 6/29; The Shadows Took Shape; Radical Presence: Black Perform. in Cont. Art; Etc. / Studio Museum /144 W 125 / thru 3/9
Peter Hoffmeister / Morris – Jumel Mansion / 65 Jumel Terrace @ 160 / thru 2/20

BROOKLYN
Other People’s Paintings curated by Matthew Fischer / Torrance Shipman / 219 36th – floor 4 / Sunset Park / thru 3/6 Opening 2/10 (7-10 PM)
Introductions / Trestle / 168 7th, Gowanus / thru 2/14
Judy Rifka / Brooklyn Art Space -Trestle / 300 Third Avenue @ 1st, Gowanus / thru 3/29 Opening 2/13 (7-9 PM)
Circumstances curated by Holly S. Chaves & Rachel Nackman / Kentler International Drawing Space / 253 Van Brunt, Red Hook / thru 3/23
Ambients: S.T.Blott; A.Durbin; E.Maxson; A.Morse; W.Niehaus; C.Peck; J.Tate / Peninsula / 352 Van Brunt, Red Hook / thru 3/16 Opening 2/15 (7-10)
Dale Henry curated by A.Heiss; B.Johnson; R.Nonas; D.Yellin / AIR – Clocktower @ Pioneer Works / 159 Pioneer, Red Hook / thru 2/28
Thomas Kovachevich / Show Room / 460 Union, Gowanus / thru 3/30 Opening 2/28
Reanimation Library / Proteus Gowanus / 543 Union down Nevins alley / thru 3/16
Richard Timperio; Kim Uchiyama; Scott Endsley / 490 / 490 Atlantic / thru 3/15
Art Into Music curated by Elizabeth Ferrer Opening 2/19; Former Models: An Exhibition / BRIC / 647 Fulton, Downtown (new location) / thru 4/27
Wangechi Mutu thru 3/9; Etc. / Brooklyn Museum / 200 Eastern Pwy.
Color Formed curated by Jim Osman / FiveMyles / 558 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights / 1/16 thru 2/23
Max Warsh / Gridspace / 112 Rogers Avenue , Crown Heights / thru 3/1
Michael Brennan / Minus Space / 111 Front, Dumbo / thru 2/15
Francie Shaw; Melissa Murray; Erica Stoller; Whitney Bailey; Natalie Dunham; Vadis Turner / AIR / 111 Front, Dumbo / thru 3/2
Robert Hickman; Monika Sziladi / Smack Mellon / 92 Plymouth / Dumbo / thru 3/2
Rene Delosh; Craig Hein / Wayfarers / 1109 Dekalb Ave. / thru 2/16
Soft Substitutes-Heavy Thinking: Daniel John Gadd; Jason Gandy; Jessica Weiss; Rick Briggs / Elgin / 52 Tompkins / thru 2/?
Anita Thacher / Microscope / 4 Charles Pl. / Bushwick / thru 2/24
Azettagh: Samantha Bittman; Rachel Hayes; Brece Honeycutt; Robin King / Outlet / 253 Wilson Ave. / thru 3/2
Elisa Lendvay; Adrian Ting / Orgy Park / 237 Jefferson 1B, Bushwick / thru 3/23 Opening 2/28 (6-10 PM)
Corinne Jones / Klempay / 81 Central / thru 2/28
Ben Goodward / Centotto / 250 Moore #108 / thru 3/2
Jenny Santos / Nurtureart / 56 Bogart, Bushwick / thru 3/16 Opening 2/15 (7-9 PM)
Michael Callaghan; Steven Charles; Brian Dupont; Christopher Moss / Theodore / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 2/16
Glorious Creatures: Jeff Davis; Deborah Mesa-Pelly; Michael Wetzel / Honey Ramka / 56 Bogart / thru 3/9
David Antonio Cruz / Momenta / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 3/2

 Adam Simon @ Studio 10

Adam Simon / Studio 10 / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 3/2
Iona Joa; Paul D’Agostino / Slag / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 2/23
Pancho Westendarp / Henry Contemporary / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / thru 3/9
Outside In: K. Bradford; J.Castle; H.Darger; T.Dial; C.Martin; J.Snyder; F.Valentine curated by M.David / Life on Mars / 56 Bogart / thru 3/1
Mitzi Pederson; Laurie Reid & Alexander Wolff / et al / 56 Bogart / thru 3/1
Michael McKeown curated by Bonnie Rychlak / Art Helix / 16 Harrison / thru 3/15
Heather Guertin / Interstate / 66 Kickerbocker Ave. / Bushwick / thru 2/15
Michelangelo Pistoletto / Luhring Augustine / 25 Kickerbocker Ave. (second location) / Bushwick / thru 5/3
Lisa Levy / Auxiliary Projects / 2 St. Nicholas – space 25, Bushwick / thru 3/9
Owen Schuh; Rachael Wren / Schema Projects / 92 St. Nicolas / Bushwick / thru 2/16
Gwendolyn Skaggs; Jacqueline Skaggs / Sugar / 449 Troutman #3-5; 3rd floor; Bell #21 / thru 2/22
Tim Bruniges / Signal / 260 Johnson Ave., Bushwick / thru 3/9
Norm Paris / TSA: Tiger Strikes Asteroid / 44 Steward Ave. #49, Bushwick / thru 2/16
Matt Miller & Co. / Active Space / 566 Johnson Ave. / thru 3/9 Opening 2/14
Bjorn Meyer-Ebrecht; Osamu Kobayashi; Olivie Ponce / Storefront Ten Eyck / 324 Ten Eyck / thru 2/23
See-Through curated by Hilary Doyle & Reid Hitt / Projekt722 / 722 Metropolitan / thru 3/2
Clare Grill / Soloway / 348 S. 4th / Williamsburg / thru 2/16
Nation II at the Alamo curated by Richard Timperio / Sideshow / 319 Bedford / Williamsburg / thru 3/3
Home Again, Again II / Journal / 106 North 1st / Williamsburg / thru 2/23
Patricia Smith / Front Room / 147 Roebling / Williamsburg / thru 3/? Opening 2/28
Real Estate organized by Philippe Richard & Peter Soriano / Ventana244 / 244 N 6 / Williamsburg / thru 2/28 Closing Reception 2/28
Lisa Hein / Robert Seng / Art 101 / 101 Grand / Williamsburg / thru 3/9 Opening 2/14 (6-9 PM) Closing Reception 3/8 (6-9 PM)
Future-Past curated by Ginger Shulick / Reverse Space / 28 Frost, Williamsburg / thru 3/16
Idiom II: Justin Amrhein; Jonathan Herder; Mark Lombardi; Ward Shelley/ Pierogi / 177 N 9th / Williamsburg / thru 3/16 Opening 2/14 (7-9 PM)
Ward Shelley; Alex Schweder / The Boiler / 191 N. 14th St. / Greenpoint / thru 4/5 Opening 2/28 (7-9 PM) (Performance 2/28 thru 3/9)
Shrink It, Pink It: Irena Jurek; Diana Buckley / Cathouse Funeral / 260 Richardson / thru 2/23
Whitney Claflin / Real / 673 Meeker / Greenpoint / thru 2/16
Paperazzi / Kurnatowski / 205 Norman / Greenpoint / thru 2/16
Joel Holmberg / Cleopatra’s / 110 Meserole / Greenpoint / thru 2/22
Sequence and Seriality curated by Bartek Wallcki / Calico / 67 West #206 / Greenpoint / thru 3/14
Dead Ringer: Seth Curcio; Bean Gilsdorf; Julie Henson / Fowler / 67 West #216 / Greenpoint / thru 3/5
The Balloon curated by Jesamun Fiore / Rawson / 223 Franklin / Greenpoint / thru 3/23 Opening 2/15

STATEN ISLAND, QUEENS, BRONX
David Henderson; Patricia Satterlee; Jude Tallichet / Valentine / 464 Seneca, Ridgewood, Queens / thru 3/9 Opening 2/14 (6-9)
Actualize organized by Jessica Langley / Ortega y Gasset / 1717 Troutman #327 / Ridgewood, Queens / thru 2/15
Off The Wall: G.Hsiao; S.Johnson; A.Paik; K.Tran; K.Weathersby / Parallel / 1717 Troutman #220 / Ridgewood, Queens / thru 3/23 Opening 2/22 (6-9)
Economy Candy: M.Britton; A.Childers; J.Cooper; J.Degolier; A.Gibson; R.Moreno; B.Vida / Harbor / 1717 Troutman #258 / Ridgewood, Queens / thru 2/16
Offline curated by Sarah Sharp / Radiator / 10-61 Jackson / Long Island City / thru 3/15
Rossella Biscotti; David Douard; Jumana Manna; Radames “Juni” Figueroa / Sculpture Center / 44-19 Purves St. Long Island City / thru 6/12 Opening 3/2
Thaw curated by Jill Conner / Dorsky Curatorial Programs / 11-03 45th Ave., Long Island City / thru 4/6
Legacy / Fisher Landau Center for Art / 38-27 30th Long Island City, Queens / thru 3/31
Visual Conversations: Robert Rauschenberg; Cy Twombly; David Nash / Fisher Landau Center for Art / 38-27 30th Long Island City, Queens / thru 3/31
Emerging Artists / Socrates Sculpture Park / 32-01 Vernon Blvd. / LIC / thru 3/31
Los Angeles Poverty Department thru 5/11; Peter Schumann; Pedro Reyes thru 3/30; Etc. / Queens Museum / Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens
Tony Feher thru 2/15; Etc./ Bronx Mus. / 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind / Lehman College / Bedford Park Blvd West, The Bronx / 2/4 thru 5/14 Reception 3/17

OTHER:
Walter De Maria / The Broken Kilometer / DIA / 393 West Broadway / thru 6/15
Donald Judd house / 101 Spring / info: http://www.juddfoundation.org/visit_ny / ongoing
Walter De Maria / The New York Earth Room / DIA / 141 Wooster / thru 6/15
Jonas Wood; Carol Bove; Mark Dion; Busted (group); Channels (video) / High Line Park
Giuseppe Penone / Madison Square Park / thru 2/9
Michael Rees / MAD / Broadway between Columbus Circle & 58 / thru 7/6
Richard DuPont / MAD / Columbus Circle @ 59 / thru 7/6
Iran Do Espirito Santo / Public Art Fund / 5th Avenue @ 60th / thru 2/16
Katharina Grosse / Public Art Fund / Metrotech, downtown Brooklyn / thru 9/14
Mark di Suvero / Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 / ongoing
Allen Glatter / York & Front, Dumbo, Brooklyn / thru 8/14

SELECTED EVENTS:
Sunday, 2/16, 3 PM / Jane Kent speaks on her work / Pocket Utopia / 191 Henry / FREESunday, 2/16, PM / Andrew Mount speaks on Dale Henry / AIR – Clocktower @ Pioneer Works / 159 Pioneer, Red Hook, Brooklyn / FREE
Sunday, 2/16, 4 PM / David Antonio Cruz speaks with curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado / Momenta / 56 Bogart / Bushwick / FREE
Sunday, 2/16, 5 PM / Still Acts curated by Ian Daniel & Sara Reisman gallery talk / La MaMa / 6 E 1 / FREE
Tuesday, 2/18, 6:30 PM / Anthony McCall in conversation with Noam Elcott and book launch / Kelly / 475 Tenth Ave. @ 36 / FREE
Tuesday, 2/18, 6:30 PM / Jill Magid & Sergio Munoz Sarmiento on art & law / New School / 66 W 12 – room A510 / FREE
Wednesday, 2/19, 6 PM / Dore Ashton, R.H. Quaytman, Phong Bui discuss Harvey Quaytman; book launch / McKee / 745 Fifth / RSVP / FREE
Wednesday, 2/19, 6:30 PM / Byron Kim, Irving Sandler, Robert Storr on Philip Pearlstein / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE
Wednesday, 2/19, 7 PM / Karin Sander on her work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE
Wednesday, 2/19, 7 PM / Perry Bard speaks on her work / SVA / 136 W 21 – room 418F / FREE
Sunday, 2/23, 4:30 PM / Deborah Brown speaks on her work / Heller / 54 Orchard / FREE
Tuesday, 2/25, 6:30 PM / Brant Junceau speaks / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE
Wednesday, 2/26, 6:30 PM / David Carrier; Joachim Pissaro, Barry Schwabsky on Wild vs Mild Art / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE
Wednesday, 2/26, 6:30 PM / James Nares in conversation with Amy Taubin / SVA Theater / 333 W 23 / FREE
Wednesday, 2/26, 7 PM / Trevor Paglen on his work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE
Wednesday, 2/26, 7 PM / Fred Wilson speaks on his work / SVA / 136 W 21 – room 418F / FREE
Friday, 2/28, 6-10 PM / Beat Night 10: Bushwick –Ridgewood galleries open late curated by Austin Thomas / http://nortemaar.org/projects/beat-nite-10/
Sunday, 3/2, 2 PM / Thaw panel on global warming / Dorsky Curatorial Programs / 11-03 45th Ave., Long Island City / FREE
Monday, 3/3, 6:30 PM / Rosella Biscotti speaks on her work / New School Arnhold Hall / 55 W 13 / FREE
Tuesday, 3/4, 6:30 PM / William Bailey with Elisa Jensen & Ruth Miller / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE
Wednesday, 3/5, 6:30 PM / Nancy Boas on David Park / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE
Wednesday, 3/5, 7 PM / Odili Donald Odita on his work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE
Friday, 3/7, 6:30 PM / Review Panel: David Cohen; Nora Griffin; Drew Lowenstein; Barry Schwabsky / National Academy / 1083 Fifth @ 89 / FREE
Tuesday, 3/11, 6:30 PM / Beverly McIver on her work / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE
Wednesday, 3/12, 6:30 PM / Jack Flam; Phyllis Tuchman; Yasmil Raymond on Robert Smithson / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE


Note: Opening receptions are 6 to 8 PM unless otherwise noted; not all openings are receptions. All information subject to change. Please send suggestions to andrew@jonesginzel.com

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QUOTE: Hudson on looking at art

“The first thing is to be quiet. I drop my agenda or expectations, and listen. Then I soften my gaze. The eyes are aggressive, and once you realize they are out there hunting, you can learn to tune them down, and let what is out there come to you. The body knows things way before the brain does…Art is primarily about the development of consciousness, not the development of an object. The object is just a catalyst.”

--Hudson

Hudson, director of Feature, Inc. for nearly thirty years, died unexpectedly last week at 63. A "galler-artist," Hudson was widely considered an artists' dealer, someone who cared more about contributing to the conversation than about presenting moveable product. We'll miss him.

Image at top: Hudson with Tom Friedman's sculpture, taken by Feature artist Judy Linn.

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Vancouver Report: Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery

 Guest Contributor Dion Kliner (Vancouver, BC)  /  John Singer Sargent enigmatically said, "A portrait is a painting with a little something wrong about the mouth." Was he simply making a neutral observation, or was he talking about their relative value as art? Was it that a portrait is a slightly degraded form of art from a painting; or that a portrait is the more accurate picture of reality, and a painting a corrected, hence idealized, abstracted version? In any case, he identified how minute the distinction could be between representation and abstraction. On a continuum between the two, Sargent would be at the representative end. Lyse Lemieux plays in that small space where abstraction, process, and materiality lean into representation. Helped along by suggestive titles like Red with Open Mouth, and Red and Yellow Figure with Orange Fabric, what look at first like large abstract shapes slowly resolve into loose figuration.

[Image: Work in Lyse Lemieux's studio]

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Young painters in the secondary market: "Chewed up and spit out"

 

Last week Ed Winkleman brought to my attention an article by Bloomberg arts reporter Katya Kazakina who suggested that a new breed of speculator collector is out there, buying and flipping work, primarily by male artists under the age of 35. [Image:  Eddie Peake, Crushingly Hopeless. 2013; lacquered spray paint on polished stainless steel; 39 3/8 x 55 1/8 x 1 15/16 inches. Courtesy White Cube.]

Here are some choice quotes from Kazakina's depressing article, which outlines how speculators corner the market on an artist's work, create buzz to manipulate the market, sell the artist's work at a huge profit, and then move on to a new mark.

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