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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Taking the cues from the culture with this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions—which he set in relation to relentless self- and social examinations, both dark and delirious at MoMA
2. Ohtake’s works function as studies of materiality, form and process. They include drawings, collages and paintings as well as large-scale assemblage pieces that draw from the detritus of daily life, the urban environment and underground music culture at Take Ninagawa
3. A heightened palette in Judy Ledgerwood’s recent body of work alludes to Ledgerwood’s reflection on color’s social and cultural implications at Rhona Hoffman Gallery
4. Todd James’ latest show “Business as Usual” was titled as such due to James’ “perception that, despite recent apocalyptic fervor, the status quo maintains its dominance throughout the world” at Galeria Javier Lopez
5. JR asks us all to become the subject, protagonist, passer-by and interpreter in this global artwork at Lazarides Rathbone
6. Irving Penn: On Assignment is a survey of photographs, magazines and ephemera from the iconic American Photographer at Pace / MacGill Gallery

October 8, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Taker a closer look at time and movement through these six exhibitions…

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1. Susan Siegel inserts a cast of animal-human hybrids into her intimate, delicate paintings inspired by 18th Century masters at Sloan Fine Art
2. Fresh Paint encompasses a wealth of dynamic and vibrant stylistic approaches to Contemporary painting, each one presenting a distinct, very personal and entirely organic approach to the practice at Lazarides Rathbone
3. Jackie Meier’s “Razzmatazz” explodes with color at Nancy Margolis Gallery
4. Cassandra Smith is fascinated by the dichotomy between organic and geometric shapes, the contrast between natural and synthetic at Sky High Gallery
5. With her new series of energetic works on paper, Simone Shubuck considers our relationship with the past and acknowledges that oftentimes what we think of as “new” are really old ideas re-imagined, recycled or “knocked off.” at Taylor Cordoba
6. The striking female forms in Simon Birch‘s Hooligan bear the imprint of an invisible force, as though someone hurled them through space and punched them into the frame at Ben Brown Fine Arts

April 23, 2013 | By: Shayna Kulik

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