Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Sarah Charlesworth

Flashback Monday

The Pictures Generation established unconventional ways of looking at images when the impact of media and consumerist aesthetic vigorously invaded into the collective perspective. Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, and David Salle were some of the key artists of the movement. Captured in 1991, this picture shows Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Sarah Charlesworth, three leading figures who strikingly subverted our association with images, offering alternative narratives on visual media. Charlesworth, who unexpectedly passed away in 2013, was memorialized with the New Museum’s compelling retrospective Doubleworld in 2015. 

Kader Attia

Lehman Maupin

“A recurring aim of Attia’s work is to make viewers step outside of their pre-existing worldview, the ‘I’ that is ‘the product of thousands of connections which do not belong to you,’ and to look back on this perspective from a distance.” — Hannah Gregory

until March 4, 2017

Portia Munson

PPOW Gallery

Immersive, absorbing, and mystical on one hand, the installation grabs the viewer into a visual potpourri that triggers questions about feminine identity, consumerism, and mental and physical accumulation. Our editor Osman Can Yerebakan interviewed Munson about her exhibition that opens today.

until February 11, 2017

Diego Perrone

Casey Kaplan

Born in the northern Italian town of Asti where he still lives and works, Diego Perrone finds inspiration in various Modernist movements of his origins, such as Futurism and Arte Povera.

until February 12, 2017

James Siena

Pace

“The work starts to do the thinking, in a way. The work generates more work. If you need ideas, look at the work. Sometimes I refer to the works as machines, you know. They are like static machines. When they are moving that means they are doing something to you.” — James Siena

until February 11, 2017

Halil Altindere

Andrew Kreps

In 2015, Turkish interdisciplinary artist Halil Altindere was the subject of a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 titled Wonderland, which focused on the effects of government-supported gentrification in Istanbul on the city’s marginalized Romani population.

until February 11, 2017

Rita Lundqvist

Tanya Bonakdar

Lundqvist’s most recent body of work will be on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York from January 5. Our contributor Jennifer Wolf interviewed the artist about her upcoming exhibition.

until February 4, 2017

Titus Kaphar

Jack Shainman

“I cut, crumple, shroud, shred, stitch, tar, twist, bind, erase, break, tear, and turn the paintings and sculptures I create, reconfiguring them into works that nod to hidden narratives and begin to reveal unspoken truths about the nature of history.” — Titus Kaphar

until January 28, 2017

Hugo McCloud

Sean Kelly

In his second exhibition at Sean Kelly, the Brooklyn-based artist Hugo McCloud introduces twenty large scale works, occupying the gallery’s large scale upper Chelsea location.

until January 21, 2017

Nona Faustine

Baxter St

“The title of the show My Country purposely feels like a pause, an ellipse, a breath, meant to be followed by whatever the viewer chooses to think…”

until January 14, 2017

May Wilson

Pavel Zoubok Gallery

Wilson’s ample oeuvre, commenting on over-sexualized, dehumanized and commodified woman body, contains elements from various genres that still heavily dominate contemporary art practice.

until January 14, 2017

Michelle Grabner

James Cohan Gallery

The Milwaukee and Chicago-based artist blends Minimalist techniques into mundane materials in her geometrically precise works.

until January 28, 2017

Anthony Caro

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

One of the most influential names in modern sculpture, the British artist Anthony Caro is commemorated with two concurrent exhibitions in New York, following his passing in 2013

until February 4, 2017

Francis Picabia

MOMA
“One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.”—Francis Picabia, Yes No: Poems & Sayings

until March 19, 2017