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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists use color to explore relationships in all of its forms.

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1. Tom Krumpak’s Bamboo tall, blue sky, a painted abstract picture, inside wooden room is comprised of a body of work, inspired by the relationship between Mid-20th-Century Modern architectural design and traditional Japanese Shoji screened dwellings found in the United States and Japan at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
2. Concrete Cuba is one of the first major presentations outside of Cuba to focus exclusively on the origins of concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and will include important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the twelve artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group at David Zwirner
3. Zhu Jinshi All the works in the exhibition are accumulations of Chinese aesthetic and socio-political histories and hard labor, drawn from the artist’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution at Blum & Poe
4. The genesis of Agathe de Bailliencourt’s Couleurs du temps is rooted in a three month residency in Marfa, Texas in 2014. Marfa’s extraordinary landscape and desert environment had a profound impact on Bailliencourt’s notion of time, space and horizon. The new paintings produced in Berlin continue her reflections on these concepts, with the artist questioning ‘what does it mean to paint a landscape today?’ at Blain|Southern
5. In Odili Donald Odita’s The Velocity of Change, the artist “hope[s] to engage the intrinsic power of color in its ability to escape the definitions of language that limit and paralyze” at Jack Shainman Gallery
6. In Color Matters, the artworks examine how color relationships function, on many levels, with their own logic. By definition, the first, or root, level of color usage is the purely abstract manipulation of the element of color for its own sake. It can be perceptual, realistic, theoretical or symbolic at The Painting Center

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Whether pulled from tradition or passion, we love the way these artists use color to express themselves and their worlds.

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1. Employing materials typical to Mali, namely woven and dyed cloths, hand-embroidered and stitched together, Abdoulaye Konaté draws on the West African tradition of using textiles as a mode of communication and commemoration at Blain|Southern
2. Beyond the aesthetics of the race, Brian Alfred explores the global threads that feed into making all aspects of the race possible. Depicting both pieces and scenes of tracks across the world, oil slogans, and referencing companies that contribute monetarily to the races, he broadens his global consciousness.at AMERINGER | McENERY | YOHE
3. Recognized for exceptional color intensity, William Pachner’s works often depict erotic and biblical themes. His drawings and paintings contain a paradox of meanings: the form, movement, and gesture affirm vitality, yet they are tinged with horror and violence. Loss and absence—of sight, family, and homeland, alongside the personal and artistic annihilation Pachner has faced—are represented in various configurations unique to each composition at Mindy Soloman Gallery
4. Alicia McCarthy’s energetic works weave together color, pattern and occasional lyrical or understatedly profound phrases. The artist is drawn to the discarded. Digesting the city’s landscape, ambivalent everyday items sheared from their original intent are re-appropriated into intimate art objects at V1 Gallery
5. Soaked, Not Resting will examine the different ways in which renowned Color Field painter Helen Frankenthaler and emerging artist Aimée Parrott negotiate the picture plane, looking in particular at both artists’ deployment of staining at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
6. Chamberlain, De Kooning & Others at Allan Stone Projects

 

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Exploring landscapes and ourselves with a mix of figurative & abstract art in today’s gallery picks.

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1. Marco Casentini’s signature geometric abstractions composed of overlapping shapes in vibrant, contrasting colors at Brian Gross Fine Art
2. America Martin’s favorite landscape is that of the human form, her work is distinguished by a command of line and color, making playful references to both classic and indigenous art forms at Mark Gallery
3. Sometimes purely formal, other times historical, philosophical, or metaphysical, Howard Fonda’s paintings freely alternate between abstraction and figuration at Mixed Greens
4. Janaina Tschäpe explores, through multiple mediums, amorphous landscapes and their abundant luscious properties at Edourd Malingue Gallery
5. For Ali Banisadr, painting is a means to reflect visually on his thoughts, memories, and imagination. The artist thinks of his pictures as “encyclopedic worlds” where all elements come together and can be seen instantaneously at Sperone Westwater
6. Amalgamating an array of iconic imagery that exists across Romanian and American culture, Marius Bercea has created a diverse series of vibrant landscapes that fluctuate between the utopian and dystopian, between flux and stasis, blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination at Blain|Southern

 

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This week’s gallery picks tell their stories through the human form.

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1. Dustin Yellon’s fascinating figures encased in glass at Richard Heller Gallery
2. Erik Jones clothes his figurative subjects in brilliantly patterned areas of color and geometry. Superimposing the graphic precision of these expanses against beautifully rendered portraits, the artist offers surrealistic images through the collusion of unexpected relationships at Thinkspace
3. For this exhibition, Todd James features his women: a colorful cast of warriors, sunbathers, sorcerers and girlfriends that have populated his work from its earliest years through today at Sandra Gering Inc.
4. Yinka Shonibare’s Making Eden interprets literally the notion of overthrowing the current social order in favor of an imagined “better place” at Blain|Southern
5. Recently, Richard J. Oliver’s portraits have crossed into the dark, brooding world of Grimm’s fairytales and surrealistic subjects that help convey the emotion and tragedy of our world’s children at Known Gallery
6. Combining stylistic elements from several different artists who cross multiple generations, George Condo’s portraits subvert traditional practice and only infrequently take as their subject real people; instead, the works often portray a fantastical assembly of characters derived specifically from the artist’s own imagination at Simon Lee Gallery

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