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
Spring Art Shows Roll into Town— If only the snow and the shit weather would roll out! Opening this week and weekend are the Armory, Volta, Scope, Art on Paper, Independent and other ancillary fairs chock full of fresh new work to tempt your eyes and your wallets. For local fun Thursday night check out Skarstedt Gallery and their Keith Haring show as well as The Unix Gallery show featuring paintings by Ellen de Meijer. So cool and sublime, you have to check them out in person!
Erwin Olaf
Waiting: Selections from Erwin Olaf: Volume 1&2
Hasted Kraeutler Gallery
Erwin gave a talk about his photography which was very enlightening. He was very animated and very serious about the work, the process and what goes into the creation of each photograph. The title of the show is called “Waiting” which refers to the two extremes of his process. The longest is a still life which can take forever and the shortest being a blink which happens, as they say, in a blink. The picture above is him dealing with his own mortality and the depiction of his father’s end of life. To deal with the subject he recreated his father’s life as himself. He was very choked -up about the subject, but going through the process enabled him to deal with his own mortality. I believe there was a couple in the crowd who were subjects of one of his photographs. Very enlightening talk. Check out the show thorough February 28, 2015
Snowy and LOTS of New Shows opening for The New Year!—Fun show of the night will be a solo Para show at Jonathan Levine Gallery on 23rd. Diana Thater explores the dung beetle, the species uses the Milky Way to orientate itself at night, currently the only insect known to do so. Should be worth checking out.
Where’s the good parties at?
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Great Shows—A lot of great shows Thursday night covering photography (Martin Schoeller at Hasted Kraeutler), Sculpture (Cool ceramic donuts at Lyons Wier Gallery by Jae Yong Kim) to painting (Sean Landers plaid covered animals at Petzel Gallery). Great night for art peeping! Check it out.
Awol Erizku
The Only Way Is Up.
Hasted Kraeutler
Pictured above is Awol Erizku and Scott Frank art collector. Great show from a new MFA graduate from the Yale school of Art. Many of his class contemporaries were there to support his break-out show at Hasted Kraeutler. With a precise eye, he has managed to reference modern art history with his own contemporary experiences. He is making Art and Hip-Hop accessible to two different cultures that rarely cross or share a commonality. With his 7 story basketball hoops stacked vertically with the nets created out of gold chains and a Brooklyn Nets basketball sitting at top, there is no doubt the hip hop crew could relate to this piece. But with sly creative effect, he is referencing Donald Judd and sharing mental space with modern art world contemporaries. On the flip side with the Number 87 Duschamp basketball jersey, he’s taking a ready-made (very duchampian) and bringing the Hip Hop world into the modern art world with his ready made. Cool show. This kids on the move. Check it out.
Summer’s Here!—Shows are trickling inÖ should be a beautiful night (80ís) on Thursday. The weather will be excellent for walking the Chelsea gallery circuit. J.Cacciola has a nice summer show opening with 3 distinctly different artists. Hasted Kraeutler will have a booming show with Awol Erizku, a young 2014 MFA graduate who is gaining real traction in the art world. VIBE magazine will be in the house. Awol is bending the very white art world perspective, through the prism of his own experience all the while referencing art history. It will be a buzzy night! Check it out.
Jeff Bark
Goldenboy
Hasted Kraeutler Gallery
Very of the moment photo show with live installation that includes parakeets and screened doors and a fantastic southern california vibe. Check it out.
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Big Night—The Basquiat heir apparent, Oscar Murillo, will create a chocolate factory inside David Zwirner gallery. His Mom (Virgelina Murillo) will be there in person creating the chocolates. Jeff Bark installation is fitted with live parakeets, transforming Hasted Kraeutler into Southern California, circa 1980. Ralph Steadman & Johnny Depp in town to promote their movie “For No Good Reason” on 18th street. Check it out. (1, 3, 4)