Space is the Place—Great show at Joshua Liner Gallery featuring oil on linen by Michael Kagan which showcases man’s moments of triumph over nature’s limits captured through iconic imagery as seen to the left. Also noteworthy is a cool show by Aïda Ruilova at Marlborough Chelsea featuring a 25-foot wide projection of a digitally transferred Super-16mm film, a large-scale inflatable, and a group of cut-paper collages. Cool night, check it out!
Mike Weiss Gallery
Group Show
Objects and Everyday Goods
Cool group show highlighting one of my favorite artists of the moment, the flat, yet 3D wooden artwork of Michael Zelehoski. THe work is so flat, and so impossible and so tactile. Check it out through March 26, 2016. Also check out Liao Yibai, massive bicycle chain in the back center gallery.
Jonathan Lasker
Cheim & Read
Paintings and works on paper representing work from 2013-2015. Amazing work about the act of looking, pulling you into the experience of seeing, not necessarily what the content of the image is. The work is mesmerizing and has a very computerized feel as well as a crazy thickness of paint that feels surreal as if you are looking at the embroidery on the blouse of god. Pec-uliar. Check it out through February 13, 2016.
British Invasion—British Grafitti Artist Nick Walker has a one person show at the Quin Hotel from 6—9 PM tonight. New artworks created for the show! Should be a good party. Check it out!
Mathew Craven
Quiet Earth
Asya Geisberg Gallery
Collage images from your old art history book with the requisite tears, tape and stains to make it feel like it was from long ago. Interesting show, super flat and very geometric. Check it out through February 20, 2016
Assortment Pack — Everything goes this Thursday night. Realistic photography at the De Buck Gallery, Zines and exquisite corpse at David Zwirner with the always interesting Raymond Pettibon (of Black Flag logo fame) as well as a salute to Black History month with a founder of Kamoinge (early group of African American photographers, setting a positive message). Check it out!
Michael Zelehoski
New Order
Mike Weiss Gallery
This guy is hot. Most everything is sold. He reduces the dimensional into a 2D plane all the while preserving it’s 3D sensibilities. Cool show. Check it out through June 20, 2015.
Kim Dong Yoo
Living Together
Amazing portraits of art celebrities created out of hand-painted butterflies. Very detailed and intense. Check it out through June 20, 2015
Warming Up—Nice shows for this Thursday night. A couple of classic image makers on view. Consantin Brancusi, the mentor for Isamu Noguchi, has works on view at Paul Kasmin gallery and Danziger has Inge Morath and artist Saul Steinberg’s cool collaborations of bag masks that are fun and creative. Definitely worth checking out. Always for a warm festive spirit head over to the Mike Weiss gallery and check out new work by Michael Zelehoski.
Isamu Noguchi
Variations
Pace Gallery
A nice selection of sculptures from the Noguchi Foundation in Queens as well as some mass produced items such as tables an lamps that show the breath and width of work created during his career. Interesting piece entitled pregnant bird which is a lift of Constantin Brâncuși bird in space. He studied under Brancusi so it makes sense. These are two of my favorite sculptors of all time. Check it out through March 21, 2015