Does time exist if there aren�t activities and events to fill it up? According to Aristotle and other philosophers, no. Time is inexorably connected to the things embedded in it. While in Covid-19 lockdown, time passed surprisingly quickly. I learned to keep a schedule and relish, really to look forward to, small events throughout the day, like reading the news on my phone (8-9am), walking our shih-tzu Ernie (9-9:30am), having breakfast (apple and peanut butter with more news reading), and finally getting to work on some drawings or blog writing. Gosh, is it 11:30 already? Time for Cuomo. Next a 2pm lunch and more news. A bit more work, then behold at 7pm the neighborhood pan-banging out the window, moving on to dinner � home cooked every night, since all of the restaurants were closed and we weren�t sure what exactly was spreading the virus. At 9 pm, we�d watch a film or a few episodes of a TV series, and then I was asleep by 11:30.
This went on for two months, each day like the one before it and the one after, until I figured out, as the curve began to flatten, that I was physically capable of riding my bike from our UWS apartment to my Dumbo studio and back. Once I was able to order my life around �time in the studio� again, things seemed to revert to something like normal: improvisation and planning on the fly returned to life. Groundhog Day was over, at least for the time being. Now, with NYC entering Phase Three of the reopening, we get to throw a new activity into the mix. Along with the Met, galleries are beginning to open, some at regular hours and others by appointment only. We�ll update the list as we get more information. To be honest, I�ve enjoyed the solitude, but I�m ready to experience some scale, materiality, and surface again. See you out there, masks on, six feet apart. � Sharon Butler
Brooklyn
Kentler International Drawing Space / In Reflection: Selections From the Kentler Flatfiles / 353 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn, NY / closes July 31
Cathouse Proper / 524 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Ortega y Gasset Projects / 363 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
A.I.R. Gallery / 155 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Minus Space / Joan Witek: Paintings from the 1980 / 16 Main Street, Suite A, Brooklyn, NY / open by appointment only starting July 18
The Royal / From the Ashes, We Will Rise / 400 B South 2nd, Brooklyn, NY / closes July 26
Platform Project Space / proust, time, and 10 works on paper: curated by Franklin Evans / 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY / closes July 31
Undercurrent / COVIDEO-19 NOTES: A Living, Virtual Video Project / 70 John Street, Brooklyn, NY / online
Soloway / 348 South 4th St., Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Century Pictures / 1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Theodore: Art / Unknown Unknowns / 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY / closes August 2
Studio 10 / 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY / TBA
Amos Eno Gallery / 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn / temporarily closed
Cavalho Park / Order and Vertigo; Guillaume Linard Osorio; Derrick Velasquez / 112 Waterbury St., Brooklyn, NY / closes July 25
Fisher Parrish Gallery / The Essential Goods Show (online) / 238 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY / closes August 30
TSA: Tiger Strikes Asteroid / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A, Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Wick / 1283 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Transmitter / A Kind of Compass / 1329 Willoughby Avenue, 2A, Brooklyn, NY / closes August 2
Microscope / Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager: Two Russians in the Free World (online only) / 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY / closes July 19
Atlantic 490 Gallery / 490 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY / temporarily closed
Court Tree Collective / Slow Drive / 51 35th St., Bldg 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY / closes July 24
M. David & Co / Vestige: Etty Yaniv, Kelin Perry and Kathryn Hart /56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY / online exhibition
Jeanne Tremel, Evening Garden, 2018, mixed media on cardboard box; paint, fabric, fiberfill, tacks, vintage milinery embellishments, 9 1/2 � 10 1/2 � 2 1/4 in
Queens
Sculpture Space NYC-Projects / 4721 35th Street, LIC, NY / temporarily closed
Key Projects / 4129 41st Street #2G, Sunnyside, NY / call for dates
Mrs. / 60 � 40 56th Drive, Maspeth, NY / temporarily closed
Tribeca and below
Bortolami / Rebecca Morris / 39 Walker Street, New York, NY / closes July 31
CANADA / In Support of Black Lives (online only) / 60 Lispenard Street, New York, NY / closes July 13 / The Summer Becomes a Room (online only)
James Cohan / Nam June Paik; Fedrico Herrero (online only)/ 48 Walker St., New York, NY / closes July 31
Denny Dimin / Sean Fader: Thirst/Trap / 39 Lispenard Street, New York, NY / closes August 21
Monica King Contemporary / Wish You Were Here: A weekly virtual postcard from the Art Grotto / 39 Lispenard Street, East Entrance, New York, NY / closes August 31
Andrew Kreps Gallery / 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY / call for dates
Artists Space / Jana Euler: Unform /11 Cortlandt Alley, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Ortuzar Projects / 9 White Street, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Postmasters / Serena Stevens: Iowa Dream / 54 Franklin St, New York, NY / July 18 to September 12
Kerry Schuss / 73 Leonard Street, New York, NY / temporarily closed
The Yard at City Hall Park / 116 Nassau Street, Floor 5 New York, New York / TBA
Lower East Side
47 Canal �/ Wang Xu: Dream Animals (Lianghui) / 291 Grand, 2nd floor, New York, NY / closes August 23
1969 Gallery / 20/20: RISD MFA Painting / 103 Allen St., New York, NY / July 19 to August 9
601 Artspace /Jammed Into a Paradox / 88 Eldridge St. New York, NY / online only
Miguel Abreu / Rochelle Goldberg: Psychomachia / 88 Eldridge St., New York, NY / closes August 26
Brennan & Griffin (LES) / 122 Norfolk Street, New York, NY / open by appointment
Bureau / Brandon Ndife: MY ZONE / 178 Norfolk St, New York, NY / open by appointment
Betty Cuningham Gallery / Philip Pearlstein: Nudes and Other Landscapes / 11 Rivington St, New York, NY / closes August 7
Andrew Edlin Gallery / The Many Faces of Bill Arning /212 Bowery, New York, NY / closes August 28
Chapter NY / Willa Nasatir / 249 East Houston St., New York, NY / open by appointment
Derek Eller (LES) / Nancy Shaver: fastness, slowness, and Monstrous Beauty; Project Room: David Korty / 300 Broome Street New York, NY / closes July 31
Downs and Ross / SS20: Rute Merk / 96 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York / closes September 13
Equity Gallery / Matt Rota: The Estates (online only / 245 Broome St, New York, NY / closes August 25
Fierman / Cristine Brache / 127 Henry St., New York, NY / closes July 31
Foxy Productions / Sex and Love with a Psychologist: Sojourner Truth Parsons / 2 East Broadway, 200, New York, NY / closes August 16
Freight + Volume / Pungent Dystopia / 97 Allen St, New York, NY / closing TBD
Front Room Gallery / Jessie Lambert: Shelter, Scatter, Feed / 48 Hester Street, New York, NY / closes September 6
Frosch & Portmann / Yanik Wagner / 53 Stanton St., New York, NY / open by appointment / closes August 9
James Fuentes �/ Keegan Monaghan: Threads / 55 Delancy St, New York, NY / closes July 30 / G E N E R A T I O N G A M E (online); Night Pictures (online); Last Call and Chinatown Paintings (online) / closes September 27
Galerie Richard / 121 Orchard St, New York, NY / TBA
High Noon / Colin Thomson: Unusual Characters / New Location: 124 Forsyth Street, New York, NY / closes July 26 / Friends with Benefits (online only) / closes July 26
Klaus von Nichtssagend / Ludlow/Leipzig / 54 Ludlow St., New York, NY / closes August 8
Kristen Lorello / Ping Zheng: Look Into the Future (online only) / 195 Chrystie St., Lobby, New York, NY / closes August 29
Lichtundfire / When Night Falls: Gretl Bauer, Vian Borchert, Jane Fire, Leslie Ford, Augustus Goertz, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Robert Solomon, Lenora Rosenfield, Arlene Santana, and Martin Weinstein / 175 Rivington St., New York, NY / closes August 8
Lyles & King / New location somewhere / TBA
Marinaro / 1 Oliver Street, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Magenta Plains / Jennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition / 94 Allen St., New York, NY / closes August 15
McKenzie Fine Art / James Nelson: Wild / 55 Orchard St., New York, NY / closes August 15
Nathalie Karg / Wayne Ngan and Tim Wilson / 291 Grand St. New York, NY / closes August 15
Pierogi �/ Darina Karpov / 155 Suffolk St., New York, NY / closes August 15
SFA Projects / 131 Christie Street, New York, NY / TBA
Signs and Symbols / Annabel Daou: ask me a question that has no answer (online) / 102 Forsyth St., New York, NY / closes July 15
Sperone Westwater / Richard Long: Muddy Heaven / 257 Bowery, New York, NY / call for dates
Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects / Dark Was the Night / 208 Forsyth Street, New York, NY / closes July 31
Thierry Goldberg Gallery/ And The Sun Left: Emily Manwaring, Bony Ramirez, Sydney Vernon, Brandy Wednesday, Connar Weston / 109 Norfolk St., New York, NY/ July 17 to August 21
Tibor de Nagy / Old Friends: Part 1 / 11 Rivington St, New York, NY / closes July 31
Rachel Uffner / Curtis Talwst Santiago: an erratum / 170 Suffolk St., New York, NY / closes September 10 / In Real Life: Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Arghavan Khosravi / July 13 to September
Soho
Geary Contemporary / 208 Bowery, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Team Gallery (Grand) / 83 Grand St., New York, NY / temporarily closed
Peter Freeman, Inc. / 140 Grand St, New York, NY / TBA
Owen James Gallery / Rachel Gorchov: Concavity / 59 Wooster St, 2nd floor, New York, NY / closes August 1 / The Sun Also Rises (online only) / closes July 18
Noho/East Village
The Hole / KATSU: Dot; Pedro Pedro: Still Life / 312 Bowery, New York, NY / closes August 23
Turn Gallery / The Keyhole / 37 East 1st St., New York, NY / online only
Eva Presenhuber / Jean Frederic Schnyder / 39 Great Jones St., New York, NY / closes July 24
Zurcher Gallery / Kyle Staver; 11 Women of Spirt / 33 Bleecker St., New York, NY / closes July 24 / False Body: Shadia Heenan Nilforoush, Olivia Baldwin, Elizabeth Ellenwood, and Chad Uehelin / July 27 to 30
The Village
Vito Schnabel Projects / 43 Clarkson St., New York, NY / TBA
New York Studio School / Virtual 2020 Online Exhibition / 8 W 8th St., New York, NY / closes July 31
Chelsea
Petzel / Rodney McMillian: Recirculating Goods / 456 W. 18th St. New York, NY / closes July 31 / Curated Selection: New Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper / Maria Lassnig: Ode to New York Drawings 1968-80 (online) / Summer 2020
Jane Lombard Gallery / 518 West 19th St., New York, NY / temporarily closed
David Zwirner / Doug Wheeler / 533 West 19th Street / closes July 17 / Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise; Al Taylor: A/LOW/HA: The Hawaiian Works / closes July 31
Garth Greenan Gallery / James Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian (online only) / 545 W 20th Street, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts / Josette�s World / 529 W 20th St, Suite 6W, New York, NY / closes August 4
Elizabeth Harris / Ron Milewicz: axis mundi / 529 W 20th St., New York, NY / open by appointment
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery / Kelley Akashi: Mood Organ / 521 West 21st St., New York, NY / closes July 23
Miles McEnery / Warren Isensee; Esteban Vicente / 520 W 21st St, New York, NY / July 16 to August 28
DC Moore Gallery / 535 W 22nd St, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Danese Corey / 511 W 22nd St., New York, NY / temporarily closed
Hauser & Wirth / Larry Bell: Still Standing / 548 West 22nd St., New York, NY / closes July 31
P.P.O.W. / Noplace / 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY / closes August 14
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. / Kara Walker: Drawings / 530 W 22nd St., New York, NY / open by appointment
Asya Geisberg Gallery / 537 W 23rd St., New York, NY / TBA
Lehmann Maupin (24th Street) / Catherine Opie: Rhetorical Landscapes / 501 West 24th St., New York, NY / closes September 26 / Lari Pittman: Found Buried / closes August 28
Anna Zorina / Sit Still: Self Portraits in the Age of Distraction / 532 West 24 St., New York, NY / closes August 15
Fredericks & Freiser / Gary Panter: Watercolors (online only) / 536 W 24th St., New York, NY / closes August 31 / Frieze Redux / open by appointment
Berry Campbell / Susan Vecsey: In Between / 530 West 24th St., New York, NY / closes August 21
Lyons Wier Gallery / Steve Lewis: American Neon / 542 West 24th St., New York, NY / closes August 31
Jack Shainman / Barkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint / 513 W 20th St. and 524 W 24th, New York, NY / call for dates
Lisson Gallery (10th Ave) / W 24th St., New York, NY / TBA
Susan Inglett Gallery / Benjamin Degen: In Waves / 522 W 24th St., New York, NY / closes July 24
Luhring Augustine / Richard Rezac / 531 W. 24th St., New York, NY / closes August 21
Yossi Milo / Alison Rossiter: Substance of Density 1918-1948 / 245 Tenth Ave., New York, NY / closes September 26
Sears Peyton / Bo Joseph / 210 Eleventh Ave., Suite 802, New York, NY / open by appointment
Winston Wachter / Heather Hutchinson: Mid Air; Catherine Howe (online) / 530 West 25th St., New York, NY / closes July 17
Nancy Margolis Gallery / Ferne Jacobs: Interior Nature / 523 West 25th St., New York, NY / closes July 31
CUE Art Foundation / 137 West 25th St., New York, NY 10001 / temporarily closed
Hollis Taggart Contemporary / Perceived Realities / 514 West 25th St., 2nd floor, New York, NY / closes July 25 / Look Again: A Survey of Contemporary Painting / 333 Pequot, Pop-up space in Southport CT / August
Pace / Julian Schnabel; Noland; Paul Graham; Arlene Schechet / 540 West 25th St., New York, NY / closes August 14
Greene Naftali (Ground Floor) / Mathieu Malouf: The Fairy Godmother / 508 West 26th St., New York, NY / closes July 31
Greene Naftali (8th Floor) / Rachel Harrison: Drawings / 508 West 26th St., New York, NY / closes July 31
Hesse Flatow / Eliot Greenwald: Night Car; Talia Levitt: Two Truths and a Lie / 508 West 26th St., New York, NY Suite #5G / closes August 8
Rick Wester Fine Art / Length x Width x Height / 526 West 26th St., Suite 417, New York, NY / closes July 15
Thomas Erben / ecofeminism(s) / 526 West 26th St., 4th Floor, New York, NY / call for dates
Paula Cooper / Sol LeWitt / 521 W 21st St., New York, NY / closes August 2
Morgan Lehman / The Pursuit of Aesthetics (online only) / 526 West 26th St., Suite 419, New York, NY / closes September 5
Alexander Gray Associates / Betty Parsons: Heated Sky / 510 West 26 Street, New York NY / closes August 14
David Krut Projects, New York / 526 West 26th St., 8th Floor, Suite 816, New York, NY / TBD
George Billis Gallery / Bennett Vadnais and Adam Port / 521 W. 26 St., 7th Floor, New York, NY / open by appointment
CG Boerner / Zwang / 526 W. 26th Street, Rm 304, New York, NY / call for dates
Mitchell-Innes & Nash / 534 W 26th St., New York, NY /temporarily closed
The Painting Center / I Am My Best Work / 547 West 27th St., Suite 500, New York, NY / closes August 7
Casey Kaplan /Giorgio Griffa: The 1990s / 121 W. 27th St., New York, NY / closes August 21
Carter Burden / 548 West 28th Street, #534, New York, NY / temporarily closed
David Nolan Gallery / Jorinde Voigt: The State of Play / 527 W 29thSt., New York, NY / call for dates
Monya Rowe / Outside Touch / 224 West 30th St., New York, NY / July 16 to August 13
Midtown, etc.
Elizabeth Foundation Project Space / The Pull of the Future (online only) / 323 West 39th St., 2nd Floor New York, NY / closes August 26
Anton Kern / Weegee, The Human Touch, 1935-1945 / 16 East 55th St., New York, NY / closes August 28
ChaShaMa / VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead, Cilla Vee / 675 Third Ave New York, New York / closes July 31
Upper West Side
Susan Eley Fine Art/ Americana Part 1 / 46 West 90th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY / closes July 24
Gavin Brown�s enterprise / Uri Aran: House / 429 W. 127th St. New York, NY / closes July 15
Upper East Side / Harlem
Skarstedt / 19 East 64th St., New York, NY / temporarily closed, open in East Hampton
Gladstone 64 / Elizabeth Peyton: Eternal Return (online only) / 130 East 64th St., New York, NY / call for dates
Bookstein Projects / Hans Hoffman: On Paper / 60 E 66th St., 3rd Floor, New York, NY / closes July 31
Blum & Poe / 19 E 66th St., New York, NY / temporarily closed
Cheim & Read / Kimber Smith: Paintings 1967-1980 / 23 E 67th St., New York, NY / closes September 4
Petzel Gallery / Rodney McMillian: Recirculating Goods / 35 E 67th St., New York, NY / closes July 31
Ceysson & B�n�ti�re / 956 Madison Ave., New York, NY / temporarily closed
Gagosian / Alternate Meanings in Film and Video: Chapter Three (online) / 976 Madison Ave., New York, NY / closes July 20
Michael Werner / Don Van Vliet: Parapliers the Willow Dripped, Paintings 1967-1997 / 4 E 77th St., New York, NY / call for dates
Almine Rech Gallery / Joe Andoe: Rolling Hills; Haley Josephs, Lucy Bull, Aaron Curry: I Want to Eat the Sunset. We�re Talking About the Cosmos, Even. And Love, I Guess. / 39 E 78th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY / closes August 10
John Molloy / Suejin Jo: Migration_Passages; Beaded Beauty (online) / 49 East 78th St., Suite 2B New York, NY / call for dates
Victoria Munroe Fine Art / 67 E 80th St., New York, NY / temporarily closed
Art + Leisure / 1571 Lexington Ave., New York, NY / TBA
David Richard Gallery / Mike Childs; Beate Wheeler / 211 E 121st., New York, NY / closes July 17
ODETTA / Sea Change (online) / 64 West 127th Street #1 / closes September 10
Claire Oliver Gallery / 2288 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, New York, NY / temporarily closed
Bronx
Wave Hill / West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY / temporarily closed
NOTE: Call before going. All the galleries have different hours and distancing requirements. Galleries who would like their exhibitions considered for inclusion in the next Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide should send a note to ExhibitionsatTCOP@gmail.com. Please include a few jpegs and exhibition info (preferred format: name of gallery/ title of exhibition / address / dates of show).
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