Berlinde De Bruyckere
No Life Lost
Hauser & Wirth
Belgian sculptor who brings a dark Taxidermied feeling to the installation. Set up with very low lighting and a textural darkness and subtle wetness to the sculptures, as if they have just been killed and skinned, wrapped and bound. I’m feeling an intensity of the mortal coil being spun off revealing dust. Very powerful show through 4.2.16. Check it out.
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!
Internet Favorites—Tonight 2 shows by Internet favorites Stephen Wilkes (Day and Night Photos) and Matteo Pugliese (Sculptures jumping though walls) shows open tonight. Get your popular art on! Also a lot of great photography shows opening tonight as well, should be a great night!
The Wrapture is Here—It’s not the end of the world and it’s not yet time for Christmas promotions, but here we have the Wrapture at Walter Wickiser Gallery. Nice work by Mark Travers opening up Thursday night. Check it out.
HELL YEA!— It seems like forever since we’ve had a chance to enjoy art. The galleries are open and ready to showcase the new! Every gallery is opening on September 10th, It’s hard to pick a spot, let alone a great show. Look around, the shows are everywhere! Our picks are highlighted in yellow. Best night of the year. Show of the night is Mike Kelly at Hauser and Wirth. Check your Krypton at the door and check it out!
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.
Painting and Sculpture on tap—Jacob Lewis Gallery has an exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper by Rina Banerjee. The sculptures are a wild combination of materials speaking about ones’ cultural identity in an urban context. Check it out this Thursday night. Also Bill Jensen has a show of triptychs. His painting style is more of an uncovering process, whereby he teases out the image through repetitive painting and scraping until the final image is realized. Check it out.
The dull ache of winter—The only cure is more performance art! Casey Kaplan Gallery is opening up a new space on 27th Street (This could be the New Chelsea as Galleries move to more affordable locations in the flower district near the Ace Hotel) featuring sound works and live performance that could be multi-sensorial and intense. New is Good. Additional shows in Chelsea feature photography and crazy bubble wrap process art at Anna Zorina Gallery. Stay warm and check it out!