JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE This is a celebration of the San Francisco magazine that helped define and celebrate urban alternative and underground contemporary art. Plenty of street and outsider art represented and celebrated by this magazine. Largest circulating arts magazine in America. This is special, check it out.
Sterling Ruby
Sunrise Sunset
Hauser & Wirth
Inventive sculptures and paintings on a tremendous scale. He’s the badboy of the art world and explores almost every possible substance known to man. It’s amazing what springs from his mind, truly original. Check it out.
hauserwirth.com
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Still Life
Pace
Stunning gelatin silver prints taken of the American Museum of Natural History. The slighting is so flat and even, you really lose the sense of reality. Not really sure wether it is real or not. These are very large scale prints and are hung very high so that you are always looking up. Check it out.
pacegallery.com
Mika Rottenberg
Bowls Balls Souls Holes (Bingo)
Amusement style approach to small sculpture. Enter the gallery through a rotating bingo/painting wall and enjoy pony tails bobbing, video performance, heated water and a guarded hole. Super Fun!
Art Fairs2 Get ready for round 2
Pulse, Frieze, NADA, Kara Walker, Sterling Ruby, Glenn Brown. Thy cup rununth over. Where to go, where to go? Check out the opening of the new Skarstedt gallery in Chelsea with some fantastic curatorial power to compare 2 masters. Also the Ken Price exhibit at Mathew Marks Gallery will be cool. Check it out. See you at the fairs!
Gehard Demetz
The Invocation
Jack Shainman Gallery
Amazing wooden sculptures that reveal and explore the dark side of childhood. Gehard trained and developed his skills making religious figures and has developed a body of work that is contemporary and powerful—exactingly created. Check it out.
jackshainman.com
Alex Kanevsky
Beautiful and Profound Paintings
Sold out show of russian born Philly artist who works the canvass with precision and a surreal painterly quality. Great work from an amazing artist. Check it out. J. Cacciola Gallery
jcacciolagallery.com
Greg Smith
Breakdown Lane
The artist heads down a dystopian highway. Features a car crash and video, plus intricate paperworks and fabric assemblages. Check it out.
Susan Inglett Gallery
inglettgallery.com
Blane De St. Croix
Dead Ice
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
Giant Iceberg built out of recycled materials. Fills the entire gallery and reminds us of the coming cook of global warming. Feels like a ship on the back side and an iceberg on the other side. Check it out before it melts.
fredericksfreisergallery.com
A Pause before the Frieze—Alex Kanevsky has some interesting work at J. Cacciola Gallery; rich paintings with trouble beneath the surface. Gehard Demetz; He of the iconic wooden sculptures of children that speak to deeper darker themes is having a new show at Jack Shainman on 20th. Really cool work. (1,3)