Armory Show 2016
Part 3 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 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.
Scope Art Show
Uneven art show with a range of graffiti artists and creative artists across disciplines. Art is so affordable that you can purchase a creative masterpiece for 2 weeks salary. I think we need a campaing to support artists in the way the diamond industry supports engagement ring purchases. Art is so important and everyone should support the powerful visual artists working today!
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
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!
Claudette Schreuders
Note to Self
Jack Shainman Gallery
Cool show of carved busts that are autobiographical and curious in their squatness. In the back room the artist is surrounded by her influencers, busts of family and people who inspire her. Very personal show and a very unique voice. Check it out through March 12, 2016
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.
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.