CURRENT EXHIBITS [359]

The intimate unfolds into the sublime. Dyspeptic utopia of philandering fenetres. The distinction between quotidian opposites is synthesized into unitarian pairs of disturbing dyads, with a touch of leavening humor to boot. Artists inhabit and feed fantasy-lands of compelling worlds within worlds, and offer them to us.   [more]

Opening: May 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

German sculptor Manfred Pernice connects aspects of architecture, urban planning, and everyday esthetics with questions of time, place and politics to create an oeuvre that is held together by a complex web of formal and thematic threads. Appropriately described as a “liquid narrative,” the building blocks of Perniceʼs language feel immediately familiar.His sculptures present themselves as exist...   [more]

Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen chose realism at a time when other artists were creating abstract works of art. Many of the lithographs and etchings in the exhibition are up-close looks at nature and everyday objects. Mark Adam’s large prints present single objects— a glass jar, cigar box or martini glass at a size much bigger than real life. Van Hoesen’s attention is more often focused on na...   [more]

This is a rare opportunity to view pastels and watercolors by America’s leading Impressionist artists including Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, and Maurice Prendergast. Pastels and watercolors first gained recognition as finished works of art when French and American Impressionists exhibited them at the end of the 19th century. The artists in this exhibition us...   [more]

Opening: May 28th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. -Henry David Thoreau Faith in A Seed intertwines the languages of science and history into a living sculptural form. Rob Carter’s installation centers on the houses and gardens of three men of the 19th century. Mi...   [more]

With Fifteen Seconds, Lia Lowenthal places Henry Moore, known primarily for his large-scale public works, in the confining and transient space of an elevator. Lowenthal recreates Moore’s sculptures as diagrammatically painted renderings on clear plastic, photographed on site in Art in General’s elevator. As interpreted by the camera, the painted plastic suggests three-dimensionality, but also re...   [more]

Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) stands as one of the most important artists of twentieth-century China. He was highly prolific both in oil and ink painting and is well known for his eloquent writings on art and creativity. For this exhibition, over 50 paintings spanning the mid-1970s to 2004 have been selected that focus on his best works in the medium of ink. Revolutionary Ink: The Paintings of Wu Guanzho...   [more]

Opening: April 25th, 2012   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Inspired by Tagore is part of a series of exhibitions that presents the work of New York City students created in response to the great artistic traditions of Asia. This year the exhibition presents student artwork inspired by the art of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was a transformative figure in the modern cultural history of India. He is remembered not only as an artist, but also as a poet, playwrig...   [more]

ASIAN ART PIERS gallery is pleased to present “Fables & Theatreality” a duo-exhibition of selected works by Zheng Hongxiang and Mu Lei. Both born in 1980’s China, the two artists came of age in a period characterized by rapid economic development, an influx of western consumerism, a surging netizen culture and an evolving society yet with unsettled identity torn between the socialist root and a c...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Painting around Montauk, Phyllis Chillingworth captures the energy felt amongst the indigenous Shadblow trees and windy meetings of sky and water. In her work the rhythmic layers of many washes and vigorous brush strokes express a new kind of force, not one of reality, but one of personal invention. Using the purity of color and spontaneous movement she liberates the viewer from all that is material. De...   [more]

Opening: May 22nd, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Meera Thompson comments on the title: “In music capriccio is a piece that in performance is lively and free. And in the visual arts the term capriccio can be used to describe a picture that suggests an imaginary place. I call this group of paintings Capriccio because the word refers both to the way I paint and what I paint. I believe that when we scan the horizon we are searching for a sense of possi...   [more]

Opening: May 22nd, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The paintings created by Goxwa appear to be, in both their visual imagery and their very tactile surfaces, artifacts from undetermined centuries past. The costume of her subjects show a Mediterranean flavor, a far-eastern aspect alluded to rather than specified. Utilizing the thousands year old technique of encaustic wax with oil, the paintings are sculpted by her palette knife.  Various lines an...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Shay KunBe First, Be Smarter or Cheat Benrimon Contemporary April 26, 2012 – June 9, 2012 For immediate release “Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”  – Francisco de Goya Benrimon Contemporary is pleased to announce Be First, Be Smarter or Cheat, Shay Kun’s second solo exhibition with the ga...   [more]

Opening: April 26th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Quayola Strata: May 11 – June 16, 2012, bitforms gallery nyc Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 6:00 – 8:30 PM Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM bitforms gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition by the London-based artist Quayola. On view will be two video installations, Strata #4 and Topologies, the second of which is a New York premiere. Regarded in...   [more]

Opening: May 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce "Into the Calm" a solo exhibition of recent work by Josef Hoflehner. This is Hoflehner's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing in the grand photographic tradition of landscape photography, Hoflehner captures an unexpected pause, a collective exhale in these richly tonal black and white photographs. Each image is reduced to its' compositional es...   [more]

Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present Jutta Koether's first exhibition with the gallery, The Fifth Season, from May 2nd to June 16th with a reception for the artist on May 2nd from 6 to 8pm. The Fifth Season will include seven large-scale paintings and one small-scale painting.  Integral to the exhibition is a second installment of her work The Seasons, which is currently on view at The Whitney Bienni...   [more]

Opening: May 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM