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New York – Eva Rothschild: “Arms Folded and Unfolded” at 303 Gallery Through May 25th, 2023

May 9th, 2023

Eva Rothschild, Sweet Spot (2023), via 303
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
Eva Rothschild, Soft Rain (2023), via 303 Gallery

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New York – Harold Ancart: “Paintings” at Gagosian Through June 16th, 2023

May 8th, 2023

Harold Ancart, Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
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 »

New York – Erin Jane Nelson: “Sublunary” at Chapter NY Through May 6th, 2023

May 5th, 2023

Erin Jane Nelson, Chronomicrobiome (2023), via Chapter NY
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 »

New York – Mark Bradford: “You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice” at Hauser & Wirth Through July 28th, 2023

May 4th, 2023

Mark Bradford, Manifest Destiny (2023), via Hauser & Wirth
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
Mark Bradford, Death Drop (2023), via Hauser & Wirth

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New York – Seth Price: “Ardomancer” at Petzel Through June 3rd, 2023

May 3rd, 2023

Seth Price, Ardomancer (Installation View), via Art Observed
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 »

New York – Tom Burr at Bortolami Through May 4th, 2023

May 2nd, 2023

Tom Burr (Installation View), all images via Bortolami

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 »

New York – Gerhard Richter at David Zwirner Through April 29th, 2023

May 1st, 2023

Gerhard Richter, 3 Scheiben (3 Panes of Glass) (2023), via David Zwirner
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)
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) (2016)

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NEW YORK – “THE DREAMERS” AT THE SOTHEBY’S INSTITUTE OF ART THROUGH APRIL 21ST, 2023

April 28th, 2023

Cassi Namoda
Cassi Namoda, “Dog meat, cat meat, God-knows-what-meat” (2020), via exhibition curators

Sotheby’s Institute of Art presents “The Dreamers”, 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 Art”, 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 Dreamers”, 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 »

Paris – Sherrie Levine at David Zwirner Through June 3rd, 2023

April 27th, 2023

Sherrie Levine, Repetition and Difference (2022), via David Zwirner
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
Sherrie Levine (Installation View), via David Zwirner

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Paris – Katherine Bradford: “ Les Saltimbanques” at Campoli Presti Through June 17th, 2023

April 26th, 2023

Katherine Bradford, Trapeze Artists (2023), via Campoli Presti
Katherine Bradford, Trapeze Artists (2023), via Campoli Presti

On this month at Campoli Presti’s Paris exhibition space, artist Katherine Bradford marks her fourth show with the gallery. Exploring the world of  acrobats, their colorful costumes and masks as a study of form and color, the artist uses this framework as a way to explore societies and mico-cultures through whichartists and spectators are projected. Read More »