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Art Exhibitions in Chelsea, December 2022

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Joe Bradley: Bhoga Marga
@ Petzel

Charlotte Park: Works on Paper from the 1950s
@ Berry Campbell Gallery

Art & Language: Hostage
@ Lisson Gallery W 24th St

Channa Horwitz
@ Lisson Gallery

Knox Martin: Garden of Time
@ Hollis Taggart

Avery Singer: Reality Ender
@ Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street

Philip Guston, 1969-1979
@ Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street

Gilbert & George: NEW NORMAL PICTURES
@ Lehmann Maupin W 22nd St

McArthur Binion: Modern:Ancient:Brown
@ Lehmann Maupin

Zanele Muholi: Awe Maaah!
@ Yancey Richardson Gallery

Jorge Pardo: All bets are off
@ Petzel

Calida Rawles: On the Other Side of Everything
@ Lehmann Maupin

Leon Polk Smith: Prairie Moon
@ Lisson Gallery W 24th St

Marcia Hafif: From the day a woman…
@ Fergus McCaffrey

Hugh Hayden: Huey
@ Lisson Gallery W 24th St

Van Hanos: Conditional Bloom
@ Lisson Gallery

Knox Martin: Homage to Goya
@ Hollis Taggart

Mining the Archive
@ Yancey Richardson Gallery

Dana James: Something I Meant to Say
@ Hollis Taggart

Time-Slip
@ Petzel

29 exhibitions to see

ACA GalleriesNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition listed
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Berry Campbell GalleryNew York Chelsea

Lynne Drexler: The First Decade
27 Oct - 17 Dec 2022

524 W 26th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

a landmark exhibition, organised in collaboration with Mnuchin Gallery, which surveys Drexler’s seminal paintings from 1959-1969
David Richard GalleryNew York Chelsea

Mokha Laget: Hot Axis
15 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

508 W 26th Street, NY 10001

Wed-Sat 11am-6pm

new paintings by the New Mexico-based artist, using vinyl emulsion on primed, shaped canvases stretched on wood supports - “at the intersection of the clearly defined, objective world of geometry and the subjective world of human perception
David Richard GalleryNew York Chelsea

Ronald Davis: Optical, Shaped and Color Abstractions: Paintings 1963 - 1965
8 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

526 West 26th Street, Suite 311, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

geometric, hard-edge, and color-based abstract paintings from 1963 to 1965 - alongside later drawings - in Davis’s first solo exhibition with the galley and first solo exhibition in the city for over a decade
Fergus McCaffreyNew York Chelsea

Leiko Ikemura: Anima Alma - Works 1981 - 2022
4 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023

514 West 26th St, NY 10018

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Ikemura’s first solo exhibition in New York features forty paintings, works on paper, and sculptures in ceramic and glass - an overdue introduction for the City to her widely acclaimed seductive and sometimes disquieting work
Gagosian 541 West 24th StNew York Chelsea

Glenn Brown: We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent
8 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

541 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Brown - “art, to me, has never felt like a description of reality. It is always about getting some internal understanding of reality out” - Brown
Gagosian West 21st StNew York Chelsea

Sterling Ruby: TURBINES
10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

522 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

“I wanted these paintings to feel turbulent, frenetic, and convulsive. I keep asking myself, how can I make something that inevitably reflects the charged time in which we live?” - Ruby
Gagosian West 24th StNew York Chelsea

Anselm Kiefer: Exodus
12 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

555 West 24th St, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new work by Kiefer in a two-location exhibition opening in New York on November 12 and Los Angeles on November 19
Hauser & Wirth 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Angel Otero. Swimming Where Time Was
10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new works continue Otero’s exploration of oil paint and its potential to convey memory and history through materiality, in the New York and Puerto Rico-based artist’s first exhibition with the gallery
Hauser & Wirth 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Paul McCarthy drawing, painting and as action, performance 1965 to 2021
10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

the gallery presents new paintings by McCarthy, in the provocative and influential artist’s first exhibition devoted to the medium since the 1980s
Hauser & Wirth 22nd StreetNew York Chelsea

Pat Steir. Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls
10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

542 & 548 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new large-scale paintings in Steir’s first exhibition with the gallery, and her first show in the city since 2017
Hollis TaggartNew York Chelsea

Alexandros Vasmoulakis: Journeys
17 Nov - 29 Dec 2022

521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

new work by the Greek artist in his first solo show with the gallery and in the city - “an artistic process in which creation and destruction go hand in hand and in which conscious control is surrendered” - Rafael Schachter
Lehmann MaupinNew York Chelsea

Billy Childish: Spirit Guides and Other Guardians Joining Heaven and Earth
10 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023

501 W 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new work by the British artist, who has attained a cult status for his emotive, introspective, and autobiographical writing, music, photography, printmaking, and painting
Galerie Lelong & Co.New York Chelsea

Ursula von Rydingsvard: LUBA
27 Oct - 17 Dec 2022

528 West 26th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new sculptures and drawings by the celebrated artist - including ones on view for the first time
Lisson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Wael Shawky: Isles of the Blessed
10 Nov - 17 Dec 2022

508 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

a single-channel film alongside new paintings continues Shawky’s ongoing investigation into how multiple accounts of history have been conceived, recorded and disseminated and how myths can become belief
Lisson Gallery W 24th StNew York Chelsea

Cheyney Thompson: Several Bellonas
10 Nov - 17 Dec 2022

504 West 24th Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Thompson’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery is presented in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery and features four ongoing bodies of painting and drawing
MarlboroughNew York Chelsea

Henri Matisse: Portraits
3 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023

545 West 25th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

rare and important prints produced by Matisse between 1906 and 1947 - “one must always search for the desire of the line, where it wishes to enter or where to die away. Also always be sure of its source; this must be done from the model” - Matisse
MarlboroughNew York Chelsea

A Tribute to Alex Katz
3 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023

545 West 25th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

an exhibition of figurative paintings showing Katz’s growing tendency through the 1980s and 1990s towards painting figures in increasingly abstracted surroundings, and the blown-up DeMille-style tightly cropped closeup
MarlboroughNew York Chelsea

Deborah Butterfield
3 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023

545 West 25th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

the gallery’s first exhibition of the American sculptor, known for renditions of horses made from found detritus, metal, wood, and patinated cast bronze
Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea

Postwar Abstract Painting: “Art is a language in itself”
19 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023

100 11th Avenue, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

a rich selection of works by some of the most eminent artists working in abstraction in the decades following World War II
Michael Rosenfeld GalleryNew York Chelsea

last week
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
29 Nov - 3 Dec 2022

100 11th Avenue, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Montague ContemporaryNew York Chelsea

We Contain Multitudes
16 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023

526 West 26th Street, 4th Floor, NY 10001

Thu-Sun 11am-6pm

in partnership with NYC Culture Club and curated by Laura Day Webb, works by seven international women artists of color - Jessica Atieno, Prudence Chimutuwah, Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Muna Malik, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Florence Wangui, and Beatrice Wanjiku
PetzelNew York Chelsea

Rodney McMillian: Regarding Violence
18 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023

520 W 25th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

a large installation and videos by the Los Angeles-based artist who works with objects and texts from the past to highlight their reverberating effects on the present
PetzelNew York Chelsea

Heimo Zobernig
18 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023

520 W 25th Street, NY 10001

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new works by Vienna-based artist - “my paintings are to be understood as a continuation of the painting traditions of romanticism and modernism” - Zobernig
Sean Horton (Presents)New York Chelsea

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Mar Figueroa: Two Tongues
8 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023

515 West 20th Street, Suite 3N, NY 10011

Wed-Sat noon-6pm
Timothy TaylorNew York Chelsea

no current exhibition listed
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Tina Kim GalleryNew York Chelsea

last week
Minoru Niizuma: Waterfall in Autumn Wind
10 Nov - 10 Dec 2022

525 West 21st Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

works from two key decades of the Japanese-American sculptor’s practice, alongside rare archival material of his work promoting broader cultural understanding between the US, Europe, and Japan through symposiums, exhibitions, and public sculpture
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Mary Ellen Bartley: Morandi’s Books
27 Oct - 23 Dec 2022

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

photographs that spring from Bartley’s 2020 residency at Casa Morandi in Bologna, Italy, where she was invited to work with the personal library of Giorgio Morandi, the twentieth-century Italian artist
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York Chelsea

Laura Letinsky: Albeit
27 Oct - 23 Dec 2022

525 West 22nd Street, NY 10011

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

comprised of photographic assemblages made in 2013 using a flatbed scanner and magazines, the exhibition demonstrates Letinsky’s innovative approach to still life

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