May 12th, 2023
Alina Perez at Deli, all images via Art Observed
Art-lovers descended upon Spring Studios in TriBeca this week for the much anticipated opening of Independent Art Fair, which opened its latest edition in New York the week before Frieze New York’s annual run. The fair has garnered a reputation as a reliable source of fresh talent, and its continued residence at Spring Studios emphasized its staying power and impact amongst a crowded few weeks of events.
Willie Stewart at Nicelle Beauchene
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May 9th, 2023
Eva Rothschild, Sweet Spot (2023), via 303 Gallery
This month in New York, 303 Gallery presents Arms Folded and Unfolded, its fourth exhibition of new work by artist Eva Rothschild. Continuing and expanding her engagement with three-dimensional forms, spatial investigations and the subtle lines between aesthetic and utilitarian values, the artist’s work here is a striking extension of an already expansive body of work.
Eva Rothschild, Soft Rain (2023), via 303 Gallery
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May 8th, 2023
Harold Ancart, Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
On view this month at Gagosian, artist Harold Ancart marks his debut with the gallery with a body of new works that continue his atmospheric and expressive exploration of the canvas, walking a delicate line between abstraction and figuration. Continuing his studied approach towards specific visual motifs that run through a series of iterations and expressive tendencies. Read More »
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May 5th, 2023
Erin Jane Nelson, Chronomicrobiome (2023), via Chapter NY
This month, Chapter NY presents Sublunary, the second show at the gallery dedicated to the work of artist Erin Jane Nelson second solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring a new body of work centered around the Okefenokee swamp, including quilted silks, ceramic wall works, and ceramic sculpture. The artist, whose work delves into a range of conceptual frameworks from barrier islands to spirituality to science fiction, here initiates a new project around the border of Georgia and Florida, and the Okefenokee swamp that defines that geographic line. Read More »
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May 4th, 2023
Mark Bradford, Manifest Destiny (2023), via Hauser & Wirth
On this month in New York, Hauser & Wirth presents the expansive new show from artist Mark Bradford. You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice, a major exhibition that fills the entirety of the gallery’s 22nd Street building, marks the artist’s first show in New York since 2015, and sees him embarking upon a deeply personal exploration of the multifaceted nature of displacement and the predatory forces that feed on populations driven into motion by crisis.
Mark Bradford, Death Drop (2023), via Hauser & Wirth
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May 3rd, 2023
Seth Price, Ardomancer (Installation View), via Art Observed
On view this month at Petzel Gallery’s 25th Street exhibition space, artist Seth Price brings forth a body of new works that merge together conceptual practices, AI-generated imagery, three-dimensional graphics and traditional painterly techniques to arrive at a range of works that subvert and confound easy readings. The show is only the second time in nearly a decade that Price has presented an exhibition of new work in New York, and offers a rare look at work by an artist who has long subverted and disrupted the reading of art as object and/or information. Read More »
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May 2nd, 2023
Tom Burr (Installation View), all images via Bortolami
On this month at Bortolami Gallery in New York, Tom Burr reprises his dual role as artist and exhibition maker, relocating the act of making from the traditional studio space into the gallery. With a range of works that mix sculpture, 2-dimensional work and installation, the show is a striking and nuanced investigation of space as a material in art, and art’s ability to generate spaces in turn. Read More »
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May 1st, 2023
Gerhard Richter, 3 Scheiben (3 Panes of Glass) (2023), all images via David Zwirner
This month in New York, David Zwirner presents a body of new works by the German master Gerhard Richter, comprising a range of practices, techniques and materials that underscore the artist’s breadth and depth. On view from March 16–April 29, 2023, at 537 West 20th Street in New York,the exhibition presents a group of Richter’s last paintings, made in 2016–2017; a number of these abstract oil paintings will be shown here for the first time. Though Richter completed his last paintings in 2017, his dynamic practice continues his artistic inquiries into the possibilities of abstraction and perception through his ongoing experimentation with drawing, printing and sculpture.
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) (2016)
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April 28th, 2023
Cassi Namoda, “Dog meat, cat meat, God-knows-what-meat” (2020), via exhibition curators
Sotheby’s Institute of Art presents “The Dreamersâ€, a student curated collection of artworks that explores the elusive characteristics of dream states and the blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy. In collaboration with the class “Curating Contemporary Artâ€, the Institute provided students with the opportunity to propose, organize, and curate their own projects surrounding themes that they felt were most relevant and pressing to the contemporary moment. “The Dreamersâ€, the first show of the series, presents works from a range of exclusively female-identifying and queer artists including Maess Anand, Felipe Baeza, Shuyi Cao, Jessica Diamond, Cassi Namoda, Jess Xiaoyi Han, Angela Heisch, Arina Izmestieva, Heather Jones, Janet Jones, Ann McCoy, Joiri Minaya, Kiki Smith, Devin Osorio, Ana Maria Velasco, and Yin Zhang. Read More »
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April 27th, 2023
Sherrie Levine, Repetition and Difference (2022), via David Zwirner
This month in Paris, David Zwirner invites artist Sherrie Levine to present a body of new works in the city, marking her first show in the French capital in over 30 years. Featuring major new suites of paintings and photographs, as well as a selection of sculptures, this exhibition showcases several bodies of work that are central to Levine’s practice, and that distinctly engage her ongoing inquiry into notions of authorship, originality, and authenticity.
Sherrie Levine (Installation View), via David Zwirner
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