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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Charles Ledray, Bone Rocker (1995), with Robert Gober, Untitled (1984-88) (left) and Luc Tuymans, Plates (2011), right. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
David Zwirner‘s summer exhibition, The House Without the Door, makes a curatorial departure from Emily Dickinson’s poem of a similar name. The works center around themes of interiority and domesticity, alluding to both the poet’s reclusive personality and her writing’s exploration of issues stemming from such a lifestyle, which moved past memories and objects towards intense introspection and deep-seated feelings of anxiety and trauma.
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Relatum, Lee Ufan (1978). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed unless otherwise noted.
The Guggenheim’s spiral galleries are currently showing Marking Infinity, a collection of work by artist and philosopher Lee Ufan. The retrospective reflects on the artist’s career from the 1960s to present. Filling the walls and floors of the Guggenheim are paintings on canvas, sculptures from steel plates and stones, and other mixed media installation works.
Installation view for Marking Infinity at the Guggenheim Museum, NY.
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Geo Abstract Reveal Face 41.61) (detail), (2011) All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Pulling visual and technical elements of different past works into a single series, Mark Grotjahn has mounted his latest groupings of face paintings at Anton Kern Gallery. The exhibition comprises nine large-scale pieces that project highly stylized elements of the visage. Nine Faces is on view through June 25.
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Monday, June 20th, 2011
Gillian Wearing, Snapshot (detail) (2005). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Gillian Wearing’s expansive, multi-room exhibition enters its final week at Tanya Bonakdar gallery. For People, the Turner prize-winning artist has installed works in a variety of media including video, sound, sculpture and photographic prints. Much of Wearing’s artistic practice explores notions of identity and memory, and the performativity associated with both.
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Donald Judd, Untitled (Menziken 89-2) (1989). All images by Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
David Zwirner gallery, now exclusively representing the Judd Foundation, is currently showing a collection of works by Donald Judd originally part of a seminal 1989 exhibition. Including nine sculptures and three wall-mounted drawings, the grouping showcases pieces brought together from international public and private collections. On the last day of the show, the gallery will be holding free screenings of Marfa Voices (2010), a film by Rainer Judd about her father’s philosophy and work. Also shown will be The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd (2010), a film by Michael Blackwood comprised of interviews with and footage of the artist. Screenings will be at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm on Saturday, June 25th.
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
Installation view at Luhring Augustine Gallery. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Luhring Augustine Gallery is currently showing I Had A Vision, a grouping of works by Martin Kippenberger. Together forming a kitschy carnival of mixed media installation and wall pieces, the works selected were earlier exhibited in various exhibitions dating to the early 1990s. The title of the exhibition is pulled from the catalogue accompanying Kippenberger’s 1991 show at SF MoMA. The “vision” in question is apparent in the gallery presentation, as Kippenberger consistently reappropriates objects and re-envisions their utilitarian intent.
Martin Kippenberger, Broken Kilometer (1990).
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Jim Lambie, Black Metal (2004) (left) and Lisa Beck, Slacker (1991) (right). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Closing this week is Martos Gallery’s group exhibition We Regret to Inform You There is Currently No Space or Place for Abstract Painting. With a title sounding like a submission response dating from earlier half of the 20th century, the exhibition includes a significant amount of abstract painting. It also shows mixed media installation and slightly representational wall pieces.
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Lawrence Weiner, At a Distance to the Foreground (1999). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Closing this week is Paula Cooper Gallery’s group exhibition Locations, a showcase of work by fifteen artists involving mapping and locality. At a moment when art and its surrounding socioeconomic structure have moved steadily to occupy a global, deterritorialized sphere, this arrangement of works is distinctive in its look back to a mid-century Modernist practice regarding spatial surroundings.
Installation view at Paula Cooper Gallery.
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Rosalind Nashashibi, This Quality (frame shot) (2010). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
SculptureCenter’s current exhibition, an exploration of temporality and the passing of time, reveals this theme both topically and literally to its audience. Time Again is a group exhibition involving nearly thirty artists of varying backgrounds that intersect in the way they explore how one views the past and present. Included in the showcase is a smaller exhibition, Novel, that organizes works dealing with experimental writing in a visual manner.
Installation view at SculptureCenter.
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Saturday, May 7th, 2011
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Glenn Ligon, Untitled (2009). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Ongoing at the Whitney Museum is Glenn Ligon’s mid-career retrospective, America. Showcasing his work including the well-known text-based paintings of the 1980’s through current day, the exhibition provides a broad perspective into the artist’s continually evolving career.
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Installation view at the Whitney Museum.
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Scott Campbell, Untitled (2011). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Friday evening marked the opening of Marc Jancou Contemporary’s exhibition Blankness is Not a Void, a group show of works by Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon and Scott Campbell. Encouraging a dialogue between three artists of disparate time and locale, the exhibition showcases the overlapping thematic and formal references each artist drew not only from their social milieu, but also from each other.
Artist Scott Campbell (left) and gallerist Marc Jancou (right) with friends.
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Video still from Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale at Lehmann Maupin Gallery. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Kara Walker is expanding her study of silhouette figures and video to Lehmann Maupin’s Lower East Side branch. The exhibition, Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale, presents a few video works in conjunction with Walker’s graphite drawings that are on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in Chelsea.
Kara Walker, Miss Pipi Title (left) and Levee (right) (2011).
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Stock, Ryder Ripps (2011).
The crowd on the New Museum’s 7th floor at Rhizome’s 15th anniversary benefit party.
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Gary Hill’s The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment installation. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Gladstone Gallery is currently showing Gary Hill’s latest experiment in audiovisual installation until April 23rd. The exhibition, entitled of surf, death, tropes and tableaux: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment, considers the LSD trip as a psychoactive event worthy of artistic exploration. Comprising a series of individual installation chambers, The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment disorients image, text and sound by splitting, reversing, or rendering somehow unintelligible a typical sensory experience.
Gary Hill, Beauty is in the Eye (2011).
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Installation view at the Met Museum. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Notions of lightness, delicate strokes, and diminutive scale may come to mind when imagining the artistic tradition of drawing. However, not a single one of these tendencies is applicable to the Metropolitan’s Museum’s new exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, in which the strokes are bold, the images dense and the scale massive. One of the few contemporary shows that the Met has shown recently and a chronological anomaly amidst the 17th-18th French painting galleries, this retrospective of Richard Serra‘s drawing is comprised of about fifty works and traces the artist’s use of mainly paintstick on varying textures from the 1970’s to present day.
Richard Serra, Abstract Slavery (1974).
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Installation view of José Parlá: Walls, Diaries, and Paintings at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Entering into its final week is José Parlá’s Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. It is the Brooklyn-based artist’s second solo exhibition in New York. For the show, the painter expanded his surface area from the canvas planes to include large parts of the gallery walls as mixed media installation.
José Parlá, DeKalb Avenue Station (detail) 2011.
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Screen view from Warfilms, by Rita Ackermann at The Journal Gallery. All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
The Journal Gallery opened its latest exhibition of work by Rita Ackermann on Tuesday evening to a crowd of curious individuals. Entitled Warfilms, the showcase bypassed any explanatory promotional material leading up to the opening of what is essentially the artist’s first exhibition using solely video. The North 1st St. space will be showing Ackermann’s three films for five days.
Installation view of Tuesday evening’s opening reception at The Journal Gallery.
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Artist Rob Pruitt admires his latest work, The Andy Monument (2011). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Today at the northwest corner of Union Square, Rob Pruitt unveiled his latest work, The Andy Monument, in partnership with New York’s Public Art Fund. The nearly 10-foot tall sculpture is a chrome tribute to the seminal figure of Pop Art and major cultural influence in 20th century New York City history. Situated at the pedestrian intersection at 17th Street and Broadway, it is just steps from the site of Warhol’s former studio space, the “Factory.”
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Video of Rob Pruitt unveiling The Andy Monument
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
Subodh Gupta, Et tu, Duchamp? (2009/10). All images via Hauser & Wirth
Taking root this spring in Piccadilly’s Southwood Gardens is Subodh Gupta’s tributary appropriation Et tu, Duchamp?, a larger than life black-bronze sculpture of the artist’s reinterpretation of the Mona Lisa. Gupta is well known for reworking common aesthetic tropes, in the past having made sculptures of steel utensils and visually referenced the stars of the Western contemporary art market (particularly Damien Hirst). In this instance, Gupta plays with early Modernist art history by injecting Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. with a monumental three-dimensionality.
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Mark Flood, MURK FLUID installation view, (2011). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed
Currently on view at Zach Feuer Gallery, MURK FLUID is artist Mark Flood’s latest showing of work that deals with various items, including notions of corporate structure, celebrity obsession, and human commodification. Born in Houston, Texas, the artist is known widely for his acrylic and spray-paint poster boards that are influenced by the 1980’s punk movement.
Mark Flood, MAINTAIN (2011)
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Zerek Kempf, Weight of Fall (Waltz) (2011) at 2-UP Gallery.
All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed.
Friday evening’s Dependent Art Fair opened its doors for a one-night-only event showcasing the works of various galleries and artist groups. The newest addition to 2011’s growing roster of fairs, the Dependent was held on the 12th and 14th floors of Chelsea’s Sheraton Hotel. Fifteen exhibitors filled their respective hotel rooms with works for sale. Some revealed highly curated installations while others presented a collected showcase of individual works. The fifteen groups were given 60 minutes to install, with the fair beginning its preview hour at 4pm and closing altogether at 9 that evening. What began as a scattered number of curious collectors and onlookers grew quickly to a sizable throng of attendees navigating from room to room through the hotel’s packed hallways.
A sculpture by Barkev Gulesserian at CANADA (bathroom gallery).
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