Spring Break Art Fair
Moynihan Station (Old Post Office Across from Penn Station)
Great show for up and coming artists. So cool to see the insides of this historic post office where each gallery had a space on 2 floors of the post office. I imagine in the day that each massive office was for on person only. Things have changed. I took a lot of pictures which means that I was transfixed. Great to see young artists stretching and reaching.
Armory Show 2016
Part 2 of 3
Pier 94 NYC
Great show this year, not a lot of repeated artists or artwork. Seeing new stuff everywhere. The quality is insane and the ideas are genius. I think this is one of the best years at the armory. It doesn’t seem like a lot of stuff is selling, but hard to tell. This is the best of the best.
Armory Show 2016
Part 1 of 3
Pier 94 NYC
Great show this year, not a lot of repeated artists or artwork. Seeing new stuff everywhere. The quality is insane and the ideas are genius. I think this is one of the best years at the armory. It doesn’t seem like a lot of stuff is selling, but hard to tell. This is the best of the best.
Taryn Simon
PAPERWORK AND THE WILL OF CAPITAL
Gagosian on 24th has an exhibit of the recent works of Taryn Simon, who has reduced the high tension political meetings of dignitaries down to the florist who arranged the bouquet that sat at the meeting. She strips away the context revealing the flowers that were designed for the event. One visual had no flowers, how sad. Also included in the show are flower pressings of the type of flowers presented at these events. Framing is awesome. Check it out through March 26, 2016
Busts, Busts & More Busts—South African artist Claudette Schreuders has a new show at Jack Shainman Gallery on 24th Street featuring a group of painted and carved busts. One is a full body self portrait of the artist, while others
represent her influence®s. There is an interesting realness to these works, Check it out!
Gregory Crewdson @Gagosian — Cathedral of the pines, his latest set of images to be shown took 4 years in the making and 2 years of post-production which makes for an intense image maker. This show was big, loud and crowded, everyone naked and revealing themselves to the dark nature of real life. Open through 3-15-16. Check it out!
Marcel Dzama & Raymond Pettibon
Forgetting the Hand
David Zwirner Gallery
Raymond was there in person signing zones and skateboards and other ephemera for fans. He looked so sweaty and intense as if just being there was all he could muster through force of will. His exquisite corpse work with Marcel is very personal, intimate, and of a zine quality, It really refused the wall, which is pretty cool. The paper looked like it wanted to leave the wall and crawl home into the dank, dark quiet of a basement apartment. Check this out before it blows away…
Jeff Wall
New Works
Marian Godman Gallery
Large Scale photographic works that are painstakingly produced, set-up, cast, art directed, and photographed, just like a high production movie, only for art. While on the surface they seem real and about a moment or feeling you interpret, the scale makes them feel and seem permanent as if you can’t stop what is/was happening, it just is. Great Show, Giant to see.
Mark Ryden
Dodechahedron
Paul Kasmin Gallery
Amazing show of Mark Ryden’s latest work. Amazing amount of detail to his process from painting on a lift with rollers to manufacturing the frames overseas to exacting specifications. There is no other world like his. Even the Fan Mom and Daughter dressed up and brought their favorite Mark Ryden dolls. It’s a macabre world where innocence and the gruesome comingal in an ethereal world. Check it out through January 23, 2016.
Sculpture
Juan Muñoz, Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren
November 7 - December 19, 2015
Skarstedt Gallery in Chelsea has a varigated fountain of sculptures on display. Sculpture is always my favorite as it always illicits such a visceral response. Check it out through 12-19-15.