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…

Cindy Wright

Glamoured by Decay

De Buck Gallery

Realistic decay that up close is very painterly, but step 2 feet back and the image rocks into focus, part Dutch still life with a touch of morbid decay, ripe for the times. Check it out through February 20, 2016

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

Stephen Powers
Coney Island is Still Dreamland
(To a Seagull)
Brooklyn Museum NYC

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Penelope Umbrico

Silvery Light

Bruce Silverstein Gallery

1,000,000+ Moons from Flickr (Maybe) Great exhibition by the queen of file sharing appropriation Penelope Umbrico through February 20, 2016.

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.

Group Show

Guest Curated by Noah Becker

Presents…Something

Berry Campbell Gallery

Great show with a huge turnout. Nice wide variety of art making displayed here. Everything feels super modern and in the moment, collage, squeched paintings, sculpture, and super thick paintings. Great show check it out through February 16, 2016

David Mann

Sympathetic Strings

Margret Thatcher Projects

Abstract paintings that have a great deal of layers based on the idea of Sympathetic Strings, or strings that lie below other strings that aren’t plucked but still resonate the sound. Visually powerful and emanatic with a centrifical force.