Artist Survey
Q: What emotions are you channeling into your art? A: My paintings are somewhat of a paradox, or a duality. I'm such a sensitive person, everything I experience can feel so amplified, the beauty and the pain.
Robert Kushner
DC Moore Gallery
Robert Kushner’s ongoing fascination with decorative and modernist traditions, the use of fabric as a form of cultural expression, and the interfacing of ‘high’ and ‘low’ traditions is evident in this sumptuous exhibition of new paintings.
through November 9, 2019
Alex Bradley Cohen
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Cohen utilizes portraiture to visualize the push and pull of identity and interpersonal relationships. Working with acrylic paint on canvas, the artist depicts friends, family members, and himself in scenes that foreground everyday moments.
through November 10, 2019
Vik Muniz
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
It was only after moving to the US in 1983 that Vik Muniz was able to physically engage with the art he had known exclusively through reproductions in Brazil.
through November 16, 2019
Nicolas Moufarrege
Queens Museum
During a career that lasted just over a decade, he created an original and idiosyncratic body of embroidered paintings made in Beirut; Paris, France; and New York City.
through February 16, 2020
Jenna Gribbon
Fredericks & Freiser
Our contributing editor Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington reviewed Jenna Gribbon’s “When I Looked At You The Light Changed” exhibition. Read all about it here!
through November 2, 2019
James Gortner
Lyons Wier Gallery
Gortner continues to refine and expand on subjects and forms he has explored throughout his career, all the while pushing his work into new terrain.
through November 2, 2019
Carmen Argote
New Museum
Los Angeles–based artist Carmen Argote (b. 1981, Guadalajara, Mexico) traces, layers, and transforms diverse materials sourced from her surroundings.
through January 5, 2020
Henry Taylor
Blum & Poe
Consistent with Taylor’s oeuvre, these new paintings weave together visual references spanning contemporary politics, American social adversity, and the faces of his milieu articulated through the language of portraiture.
through November 2, 2019
Jason Moran
Whitney Museum of American Art
The boundary-bursting artist Jason Moran (b. 1975) grounds his practice in the composition of jazz, bridging the visual and performing arts through spellbinding stagecraft.
through January 5, 2020
The Haas Brothers
Marianne Boesky Gallery
The show, which is titled Madonna, will feature a new body of beaded sculptures, created at a wide range of scales, from the intimate to the monumental, as well as two large-scale sculptures made with Portuguese Pele de Tigre marble.
through October 26, 2019
Richard Roth
Margaret Thatcher Projects
This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Thatcher Projects, which features 3D polychrome “object” paintings that involve Roth’s continuing interest and explorations in play, the quotidian, and the retinal.
through November 2, 2019
Hannah van Bart
Marianne Boesky Gallery
Over her multi-decade career, van Bart has come to be recognized for her melding of figural and abstract modes to convey both the physical and emotional contours of a person or place.
through October 26, 2019
Ben Gocker
PPOW
With Foskers & Egg Whites, Gocker presents a new body of large-scale assemblages fashioned from carved and painted wood pieces, tin cans, wire, rocks, and newspaper.
through October 12, 2019
Doron Langberg
Yossi Milo Gallery
Langberg’s visualizations of queerness—both his own and those of the many queer subjects depicted—move beyond the traditional shorthand of signs and easily recognizable queer iconographies.
through October 19, 2019
Amy Sherald
Hauser & Wirth
Sherald debuts a suite of new paintings that reinforces the multiplicities of African-American life and invites viewers to reconsider commonly accepted notions of race and representation.
through October 26, 2019