Calder / Miro

Pace Gallery // Acquavella Galleries

Alexander Calder and Joan Miró did not collaborate or engage in artistic exchange throughout their careers; however, their scientific and investigative approaches to art making contain undeniable parallels. Constellations put works by two artists into a continent-spanning dialogue, studying the similarities in style and context in works by two artists. 

Melvin Edwards

Alexander Gray Associates

Renowned sculptor Melvin Edwards spent 2016 at Oklahoma Contemporary, an art center situated in Oklahoma City where Edwards collected metal scraps from industrial zones to produce sculptures.

until May 20, 2017

Lee Relvas

Callicoon Fine Arts

“My sculptures are both outline, drawing mass and volume by demarcating space within it, and skeleton, imagining mass and volume building upon it. I want to give just enough information to show how the body might move, cross their legs, poised to speak.” — Lee Relvas

until May 21, 2017

Peter Dreher

Koenig & Clinton

Although Peter Dreher is widely known for his Tag um Tag guter Tag (Day by Day good Day) series which includes thousands of realistic paintings of a water glass, the German artist nevertheless approached other objects with equal, if not higher, degree of obsessiveness.

until May 20, 2017

Chris Johanson

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

“I want to share my thoughts. I really labor over the poetry of the words. I try to say complicated things in a simple way — death, existential thought processes and anxiety. And I try to decompress that, move that away and bring in more peaceful thoughts.” — Chris Johanson

until May 13, 2017

Sean Scully

Cheim and Read

Wall of Light Cubed, the Turner Prize nominee artist introduces a series of mammoth scale sculptures that are in a similar vein with his painting practice.

until May 20, 2017

Robert Therrien

Gagosian Gallery

Ambiguity is an important thread in Therrien’s practice that expands to set design, architecture, and painting, while overall building meticulous installations of rooms, some familiar and some foreign.

until May 26, 2017

Peter Sacks

Marlborough Gallery

“The process of making these is so slow and organic – like creating an aftermath or a debris field where you intuit, and sometimes actually make out, the lives of many generations of humans, alongside nonhuman traces, and objects, all laid down under pressure – which take time to make and are filled with that time, pieces of what might have been a larger canvas of handiworks that reference entire lives, whole communities that are brought into the field of the painting, where the painting itself becomes another community.” — Peter Sacks

until May 6, 2017

Michael Williams

Gladstone Gallery

The Los Angeles-based artist, whose career took off at CANADA of the Lower East Side, moves to Chelsea with his first exhibition at Gladstone Gallery. Energetic and colorful gestures stem from his experimentation with digital print and oil paint. 

until May 6, 2017

Piers Secunda

Jaeckel Gallery

Piers Secunda’s ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings introduces a series of sculptures that merge molds of bullet holes he painstakingly gathered from cities under ISIS attack and forms of ancient Greek and Assyrian artworks.

until May 6, 2017

Erwin Wurm

Lehmann Maupin

Known for his pristine, yet tongue-in-cheek sculptures that defy the hierarchal systems in art history, the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his One Minute Sculptures series with an exhibition.

until May 26, 2017

Romare Bearden

DC Moore Gallery

Bayou Fever & Related Works offers an alternative perspective on Bearden’s body of work, bringing together twenty-one collages he made in 1979 for a ballet that would be choreographed by Alvin Alley.

until April 29, 2017

Evan Holloway

Paula Cooper Gallery

Evan Holloway returns New York with his first exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery. The California native is known for his whimsical approach to sculpture in which he combines traditional Modernist materials with everyday and disposable objects.

until April 22, 2017

Benoit Delhomme

Daniel Cooney Fine Art

Read our interview with Paris-based artist and cinematographer Benoit Delhomme about his current exhibition, his balance between painting and cinematography, and other film makers like David Lynch and Federico Fellini who also transferred their creative visions onto canvas. 

until May 6, 2017

Olafur Eliasson

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Sky is the limit for Olafur Eliasson, the Danish artist who has installed massive scale public artworks around the globe with enormous budgets, orchestrating a composition of artistic spirit and technical precision.

until April 22, 2017