New Year, New Openings! — Time to warm up with some new art and new art openings. Great group show by guest curator Noah Becker at Berry Campbell. Across the street Penelope Umbrico (an artist best known for appropriating images found on the Internet) has a cool show at Bruce Silverstein featuring cool photos of Grand Central and over a million shots of the moon from flickr that she made screen shots from. Internetistas will be there. Check it out!
Cary Smith
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
Such a cool show, so hard edged and graphic. the visuals just jump off the wall. It is so hard to get minimalistic visuals to make sense and to be balanced and in proportion. Check this show out and buy something!
Faith47
Jonathan Levine Gallery
Last show at the 23rd Street Location
Uneven show with a very cool projection with found items at the back of the gallery. The hands that were painted were amazing. Check it out before it closes December 19th.
Zevs
ELLE
DeBuck Gallery
French artist Zevs is showing a variegated show that has his signature drips, but also some peculiar items as well, from a gold finger and at the Mona Lisa Painting with a gold LV purse in front of it. High gloss, High Fashion.
Mark Bradford
Be Strong Boquan
Marke was present at the opening. He’s a very striking individual, 6′6″ African american guy, reed thin. No wonder that his canvasses are so big, it’s because he is too. I can just image him painting the tops of one of those massive pieces. The show is super cool. He book ends the show with 2 videos. Thoughtful videos. THe first one is a 3 projector piece that runs almost the length of the gallery and shows roller skating wheels “Kryptonic” wheels rolling in and bouncing out of frame. So cool when you realize that this gallery used to be a huge roller skating run. I whish they would put art in the middle and allow you to skate around it harkening it’s old glory days of the 1970′s.
The end video is a visual-less audio recording of a very racy and not political piece of a comedian riffing on Aids, Being African American and race in America. Funny that the show and 3 of the smaller pieces are named from the comedian’s riff piece.
Cool and complicated. Rockstar stuff.
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.
Donald Judd
David Zwirner Gallery
It looks like a show curated by his son? Anyway, amazing to see such detailed sculptures by such a famous artist for sale, lots of buzz and cool opening. Check it out at 537 Est 20th Street until 12-19-15.
Jim Lambie
Train in Vein
Anton Kern Gallery
Interesting show with suitcases hanging from the s=ceiling spilling out their metaphorical contents onto the floor. The typography on the suitcases is amazing. Weird and triply at the same time.
Brett Amory
This Land is Not for Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Futures
Jonathan Levine Gallery
Great show depicting store fronts from the past and the future in NYC. So detailed, yet etherial that you can still see the wheat paste and graffiti permantely embedded into the images.
Suck Lord Pop-up Show
Standard Hotel Gift Shop
Sucklord and Buffmonster in attendance for this one-of -a-kind alternate toy universe of custom toy treatments. Crazy fun stuff. Stuff will make you smile.