CURRENT EXHIBITS [370]

1500 Gallery is pleased to present Disruption, an exhibition ofcolor photographs by João Castilho, one of the most important artphotographers to emerge in Brazil over the past decade. The exhibition consistsof 15 images from 2 different bodies of work (Spice and Vacant Lot) that intersectnotions of fracture, collapse and disruption. These works are representative ofCastilho’s signature concept...   [more]

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

While photography is normally tasked with “capturing” its subject, the images in the photographically derived paintings in “Pardon Our Disappearance, Part One” seem to perpetually “come and go.” Painted on the reverse of raw cotton, the front side of the canvas appears blank. While a closer look gradually reveals a face, the residual image resists a fixed definition. Conveying the relat...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The exhibit explores the early 80s, when Szczesny emerged as one of the protagonists of a young generation of bold figurative painters in the German-speaking world who came to be known as “Neue Wilde.” Donald Kuspit’s essay “Modernism in the Service of the Pleasure Principle: Stefan Szczesny’s Art,”  introduces the exhibition which includes an outstanding selection of Szczesny’s canvases, w...   [more]

Acquavella Galleries is delighted to present Multiverse You Are, I Am, an exhibition of new work by celebrated Pop artist James Rosenquist. The exhibition will feature eleven paintings – two of which are monumental in scale – that reflect the artist’s continued interest in time and outer space. Known for his leadership in the American Pop Art movement, James Rosenquist began his career as a bill...   [more]

AICON GALLERY is proud to present Iconic Procession: Sacred Stones to Modern Masterpieces, an exhibition of works by India’s Modern Masters, alongside a selection of South Asian sculptural masterpieces and miniature paintings dating back to the 2nd century, curated by Nayef Homsi. The accompanying sculptural selection is drawn from the Ancient Region of Gandhara, Central India and Pala regions,...   [more]

Opening: September 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Alexander and Bonin starts the fall season with Here comes the night, a solo exhibition of new work by Stefan Kürten. The exhibition will include Kürten’s most recent large paintings, executed in acrylic and ink on linen, as well as more than twenty smaller paintings on primed cardboard.   [more]

Opening: September 8th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to present its third individual exhibition with Luis Camnitzer, whose contributions since the 1960s to the development of Latin American contemporary art and international Conceptual Art have garnered significant recognition in recent years. The exhibition in the Gallery’s newly expanded space, includes the premiere of two installation works by Camnitzer. Realized for...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karl Schrag (1912 – 1995), Alexandre Gallery, in collaboration with Kraushaar Galleries, will present Karl Schrag, The Rhythms of Nature, A Centennial Celebration.  The joint exhibition will feature 20 paintings covering a quarter century of work.  Many of the works come directly from the artist’s family and have not previously bee...   [more]

Opening: September 15th, 2012   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present Sandi Slone: Quick Mettle Rich Blood, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper. The artist takes the title of her show from Whitman’s sumptuous poem “O-Magnet South.” It is filled with longing and polarities of feeling for the light and darkness of a "glistening perfumed" South by a magnetic northerner. Slone’s paintings are similarly...   [more]

Opening: September 5th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present Shawn Bitters: Yes, Yes, Yes, Now, Now, Now, an exhibition of sculpture in the gallery’s Project Space. The “language of nature” is ancient, mysterious and universal, and Bitters invites us to decode his rendering in a series of paper sculptures. All of the 26 stone forms have a corresponding letter of the alphabet, which Bitters uses to create a...   [more]

Opening: September 5th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

If paintings are windows to the world, then what world are the viewers in and who’s looking at the viewer looking at this window to the world? Shara Hughes  2012   American Contemporary is delighted to present their first solo exhibition by Shara Hughes. If we really thought about everything that we were seeing when we entered or arrived at a place - like trying on a spring day to close...   [more]

Opening: September 20th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America” is the most comprehensive museum exhibition to focus on this under-recognized decorative art that was widely practiced in America from 1850 to 1890. One of the great revelations of the exhibition is the way this modest technique touched upon so many aspects of American life, innovation, and culture. Tinsel paintings are reverse paintings on glass with smo...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

An attraction to shiny things is a primal human impulse. It may be instinctive and emotional, or profoundly meaningful within a cultural context. In the visual arts this has been expressed through the use of myriad materials that glitter and reflect. “Ooh, Shiny!” will highlight three centuries of artworks—ranging from needleworks by 18th-century schoolgirls to sculptures by contemporary ic...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

The panel is interesting because it is sort of a plane liberated in space.  A "super plane" that can transcend the limitations of two dimensional space without ever actually becoming three dimensional." (excerpt from "Andrea Zittel, Gouaches and Illustrations", edited by Theodora Vischer for Schaulager) Throughout the last twenty years of my practice I have been continually fascinated by variou...   [more]

Opening: September 13th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present Airports and Extrusions, and exhibition which features a series of ceramic sculptures by Frank Benson and photographs by the artist team Fischli and Weiss.  Frank Benson, known for his remarkably detailed life-like sculptures, has, for this body of work, employed a simple tool – an extruder – to create tubular geometric forms and meandering ribbon...   [more]

Opening: September 13th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM