USA Art Guide
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Sunday 9th - Sunday 16th, December 2018
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forthcoming:Mathew Tom: The Pure Land 14 Dec 2018 - 9 Feb 2019 the first solo exhibition by New York-based multi-disciplinary artist Mathew Tom whose most recent paintings explore images from the traditionally diametrically opposite worlds of “East” and “West”
forthcoming:Anthony McCall: Split Second 14 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 an exhibition occupying the entire space, with two new “solid-light” installations, the seminal horizontal work Doubling Back from 2003 and a curated selection of black and white photographs
Israeli & International Art Auction: 18 Dec 2018
Exhibition: 12 Dec - 17 Dec 2018
Americana Auction: 17 Jan - 20 Jan, 2019 TBD
Exhibition: 11 Jan - 16 Jan 2019
Sunday 9th - Sunday 16th, December 2018
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last weekTala Madani: Corner Projections 1 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Madani’s first exhibition of new work at the gallery - paintings and animations subsumed by light that points both outward and inward, at human instinct and upended social ritual
last weekBy Fire, Ceramic Works 31 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 an exhibition highlighting the dialectical nature of ceramics by placing modern, postmodern and contemporary ceramics in context with one another - includes works by Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Wifredo Lam, Joan Miró, Mai-Thu Perret, Pablo Picasso...
last weekThe Life of Forms 26 Oct - 14 Dec 2018 an exhibition that explores the vitality and diversity of biomorphic sculpture among modern artists who translated forms found in nature into poetic shapes and rhythms
last weekNate Lowman: Never Remember 19 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 Lowman’s first exhibition with the gallery, including a survey of the drop-cloth paintings - known as Maps - begun in 2013Greene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideGreene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideJason Jacques GalleryNew York Upper East Side
last weekBetye Saar: Something Blue 27 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 selected works from 1983 to this year all featuring the color blue as a means to explore magic, voodoo and the occult
last weekHolding Up 1/2 the Sky 27 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 an exhibition bringing together women artists whose abstract sculptures operate in call and response to Saar’s installation currently on view in the neighboring exhibition space
last weekLooking Out, Looking In: Jeffery Becton 29 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 featuring a wide breadth of Becton’s work, produced between 1994 and 2018- last weekTala Madani: Corner Projections 1 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Madani’s first exhibition of new work at the gallery - paintings and animations subsumed by light that points both outward and inward, at human instinct and upended social ritual
Modern and Contemporary Masters
last weekBy Fire, Ceramic Works 31 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 an exhibition highlighting the dialectical nature of ceramics by placing modern, postmodern and contemporary ceramics in context with one another - includes works by Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Wifredo Lam, Joan Miró, Mai-Thu Perret, Pablo Picasso...no current exhibition
Morgan Fisher: 6 x 6 x 6 x 2 19 Oct - 20 Dec 2018Anna Ostoya 19 Oct - 20 Dec 2018Geoffrey Farmer: Mudpuddlers, Corn Borers, Polymorphic Pollinators. 1 Nov - 22 Dec 2018Louise Bourgeois: Spiral 8 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 forthcoming:Mathew Tom: The Pure Land 14 Dec 2018 - 9 Feb 2019 the first solo exhibition by New York-based multi-disciplinary artist Mathew Tom whose most recent paintings explore images from the traditionally diametrically opposite worlds of “East” and “West”Drawing Space: 1970-1983 1 Nov - 21 Dec 2018
Richard Roth: Close Call 27 Nov - 22 Dec 2018not open todaynew paintings and compositions which continue to explore Roth’s passion for non-objective, abstract geometric painting and subtle illusory effects
Heather McGill: The Common 27 Nov - 22 Dec 2018not open todaynew artworks that combine painting, beading, sewing and collage in McGill’s first solo exhibition with the galleryDerek Eller GalleryNew York Lower East SideJohn Newman: Drawings of Imaginary Sculptures in Imaginary Spaces: 1990-2003 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2018 last weekThe Life of Forms 26 Oct - 14 Dec 2018 an exhibition that explores the vitality and diversity of biomorphic sculpture among modern artists who translated forms found in nature into poetic shapes and rhythmsno current exhibition
Liam Gillick / Adam Pendleton 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018not open todaybringing together two artists working in parallel - Gillick and Pendleton’s work operates within an understanding that forms of abstraction cannot evade either the contradictions of history or the enduring pains of the present
Sadamasa Motonaga. Change/Continuity: New York 1966-67 1 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 surveying a pivotal decade of bold and experimental work when Motonaga was a member of the renowned Japanese avant- garde collective GutaiJocelyn Hobbie: New Paintings 25 Oct - 22 Dec 2018no current exhibition
last weekNate Lowman: Never Remember 19 Oct - 15 Dec 2018 Lowman’s first exhibition with the gallery, including a survey of the drop-cloth paintings - known as Maps - begun in 2013
Richard Prince: High Times 1 Nov - 19 Dec 2018 “the title was a lifetime of experiences. And besides, someone had already put that title on five of his Hippie Drawings. It wasn’t like Richard thought it up” - Joan Katz
Mark Grotjahn: New Capri, Capri, Free Capri 30 Oct - 22 Dec 2018 an entirely new direction in Grotjahn’s largest exhibition of new work, three interconnected series of paintings stemming from a body of work he created for a private presentation at Casa Malaparte on the isle of Capri
Tomie Ohtake: At Her Fingertips 2 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 curated by Instituto Tomie Ohtake Chief Curator Paulo Miyada, paintings, studies, engravings and photographs drawing on the rich body of work Ohtake created in the 1960s and 70s, as well as the artist’s own rarely-seen documentation of her processHélio Oiticica: Spatial Relief and Drawings, 1955-59 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018Gavin Brown's enterpriseNew York Lower East SideBrian Belott 15 Nov 2018 - 13 Jan 2019Keith Haring 3 Nov - 21 Dec 2018Greene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideGreene NaftaliNew York Upper East SideEric White: Triage 30 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi 17 Mar 2017 - 4 Mar 2019Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future 12 Oct 2018 - 23 Apr 2019R. H. Quaytman: + x, Chapter 34 12 Oct 2018 - 23 Apr 2019
Elise Ferguson: East 10 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019not open todayseveral new pigmented plaster paintings and a floor-to-ceiling installation that runs along the entire south-east side of the gallery
David B. Smith: Soft Bodies 10 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019not open todaySmith’s four new works blur the line between textiles, photographs and paintings, highlighting the interplay between digital and handmade craft
Gutai 1 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 an exhibition which explores the legacy of one of Japan’s most innovative and influential avant-garde collectives
Zoe Leonard: Analogue 27 Oct 2018 - 20 Jan 2019 coinciding with her MOCA Los Angeles retrospective, this is the gallery’s first LA exhibition devoted to Leonard and her decade-long project documenting the homogenizing effects of globalization
Calder: Nonspace 27 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 in collaboration with the Calder Foundation NY, the gallery’s first exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the artist - large-scale outdoor and indoor sculptures, mobiles and stabiles in an environment designed by Stephanie Goto
Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto 27 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 the West Coast premiere of the 13-channel film installation by Julian Rosefeldt, with Cate Blanchett assuming 13 different personas and performing various historical artists’ manifestos
Anna Maria Maiolino: ERRÂNCIA POÉTICA (POETIC WANDERINGS) 14 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 new and recent works by one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today - works that relentlessly challenge accepted notions of desire, language and sexuality while celebrating the viscerality of embodied experience
Phyllida Barlow: tilt 14 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 at once menacing and playful, imposing and delicate, Barlow’s process-oriented constructions break down and reconfigure encounters between object and viewer and conventional notions of sculptureEmilia Azcárate: The Genealogy of Color 1 Nov 2018 - 2 Feb 2019
Idelle Weber: Postures and Profiles from the 50s and 60s 8 Nov - 29 Dec 2018 in conjunction with the announcement of the gallery’s representation of Weber, an exhibition of more than 30 works, including Lucite cube sculptures, collages, and gouache and tempera on paper works by the major Pop Art figureEmily Mullin: Woman On Top 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2018Federico Herrero: Open Alphabet 25 Oct - 22 Dec 2018Jason Jacques GalleryNew York Upper East Sideno current exhibition
Hidden Narratives: Recent Acquisitions of Postwar Art 17 Feb 2018 - 6 Jan 2019Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. 11 Aug 2018 - 10 Feb 2019Rauschenberg: The 1/4 Mile 28 Oct 2018 - 9 Jun 2019Merce Cunningham, Clouds and Screens 28 Oct 2018 - 31 Mar 2019
Mandy El-Sayegh: MUTATIONS IN BLUE, WHITE AND RED 8 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 recent paintings, drawings, and sculpture in El-Sayegh’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.
Catherine Opie: The Modernist 1 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 a photography series and related film - Opie’s first - that offer a distinct narrative arc as they follow a fictional artist character on an arsonist spree across Los Angeles, targeting the city’s iconic modernist buildings
Calder/Kelly 9 Nov 2018 - 9 Jan 2019 this major exhibition is the first to explore the visual and personal affinities between landmark American artists Alexander Calder and Ellsworth Kelly
Stanley Whitney: In the Color 3 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 in a partner exhibition to Stanley Whitney: In the Color at the gallery’s 10th Av space, new paintings celebrating Whitney’s mature approach to the gridded abstract
Stanley Whitney: In the Color 3 Nov - 21 Dec 2018 in a partner exhibition to Stanley Whitney: In the Color at the gallery’s 24th St space, four paintings from the vital, transitional period, when Whitney first began to solidify his swirling strokes into intense colour gridsZarina 27 Oct - 22 Dec 2018no current exhibition
Amar Kanwar: Such a Morning 14 Nov - 21 Dec 2018Svenja Deininger: Crescendo 25 Oct - 22 Dec 2018John Houck: Holding Environment 25 Oct - 22 Dec 2018Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018Ken Price: Sculpture 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018Nina Beier: Baby 26 Oct - 21 Dec 2018
