Sargent’s Daughters
Our editor Osman Can Yerebakan interviewed Jennifer Rubell about her first New York solo exhibition. Housewife, on view at Sargent’s Daughters in Lower East Side, includes a series of participatory sculptures that invites the audience to engage in performances that reenact house work, while questioning the presumptions about female identity and womanhood in society.
Flashback Monday
Two of the most eminent members of the YBA movement, Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin were in need of presenting their works outside the limitations of typical gallery format in the early ‘90s. Thus, they opened The Shop as a six-month project to promote their then emerging careers and offer a hang-out spot for their friends. In this east London ground floor space that used to host a doctor’s office, the duo sold printed T-shirts that read slogans like “I’m so fucky” or “She’s kebab”, rabbits made out of cigarette packs, and mugs. The Shop closed on Emin’s thirtieth birthday with a special party titled Fuckin’ Fantastic at 30 and Just About Old Enough to do Whatever She Wants.
The Drawing Center
“Mateo comes out of training as an architect, with an architect’s way of drawing. It may be fine to have that very precise, fine instrument, but I think it would be useful to think in a different way, a rough way, to do something that’s messy. In the long term the work has to allow the vulnerability of the self into it. So I’ve encouraged him to draw himself walking, to perform in front of a camera.” — William Kentridge
until March 19, 2017
Gagosian Gallery
“I do not have a vision. I am the vision. There are no limits to painting; that´s why I am involved in it. I don’t experience “limits” as limits. There is no resistance when I am painting. The inside and the outside coexist.” — Katharina Grosse
until March 11, 2017
Michael Werner Gallery
1900-1980 at Michael Werner Gallery introduces more than thirty paintings and drawings the artist created throughout his career, including the MoMA loan of his most famous painting.
until March 11, 2017
The FLAG Art Foundation
“One could read the whole esprit of a place on one canvas. It was not only that place on that particular day when the sky was gray and some mist was getting in, it was the place the way it will always be, containing as well the very moment that place was portrayed.” — Simone Fattal
until May 13, 2017
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
