Billy Childish

Lehmann Maupin

The prolific British artist, musician, and writer has produced hundreds of albums and dozens of volumes of fiction and poetry. For his fifth exhibition with the gallery Childish has created a body of work emblematic of his “radical traditionalist” approach.

through February 22, 2020

Daiga Grantina

New Museum

Her labored configurations employ synthetic materials and incorporate conflicting physical qualities: soft and hard, transparent and opaque, mobile and static, strong and weak.

through May 17, 2020

T. J. Wilcox

Gladstone Gallery

For this show, Wilcox debuts a six-part silent film based on different colors of the rainbow. In its installation, each hue blends together and elaborates a figure or event that has been seminal to the artist’s experience in becoming an artist and as a gay man.

through February 22, 2020

Roy Colmer

Lisson Gallery

After beginning his career as a painter at the prominent Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany, Colmer abandoned the medium and his preferred method of deployment, the spraygun, just ten years after graduation, and by 1975 he worked exclusively in photography and film. Doors, NYC is both his most expansive and his most recognized series. 

through 22 February 2020

Noah Davis

David Zwirner

Davis’s body of work encompasses, on the one hand, his lush, sensual, figurative paintings and, on the other, an ambitious institutional project called The Underground Museum, a black-owned-and-operated art space dedicated to the exhibition of museum-quality art in a culturally underserved African American and Latinx neighborhood in Los Angeles. 

through February 22, 2020

Melanie Baker

Cristin Tierney Gallery

The Optimates presents four distinct scenes: two separate men stand at podiums; a man, seen from behind, speaks to someone unknown; and a group of men huddle in conversation at a window. 

through February 22, 2020

James Walsh

Berry Campbell

Experimenting with innovative acrylic formulas, Walsh produces large masses of pigment that project outward from the surface of the canvas, creating unusual forms in high relief.

through February 8, 2020

David Kramer

Owen James Gallery

This modern world has not turned out to be the gauzy utopia we were once promised, and David Kramer is here to tell us all about it. The paintings of David Kramer are full of self-deprecating humor, irony and witticisms that question the conceits of adulthood and the artist’s own place within it.

through March 7, 2020

Nicholas Krushenick

Garth Greenan Gallery

A formative medium for the artist, collage enabled Krushenick to establish a visual vocabulary that formed the basis for his most iconic works.

through January 25, 2020

Vanessa German

Fort Gansevoort

German’s exhibition will showcase her richly encrusted sculptures, which she refers to as power-figures, alongside a series of wall-mounted altars that each act as seers or protectors carrying with them the gift of their own human technology: joy, love, and protection for the souls of Black Americans.

through December 21, 2019

Keith Sonnier

Kasmin Gallery

Large-scale works from the ongoing series Ba-O-Ba, which the artist began in 1969, utilize large panes of glass and Sonnier’s signature neon tubing in an abstract composition that forms a confluence between the sculpture and the gallery wall and floor.

through January 11, 2020

Hunter Reynolds

P·P·O·W

From Drag to Dervish, an exhibition chronicling the life of Hunter Reynolds’ alter-ego Patina du Prey through historic installations, sculptural gowns, photographs, and performance documentation.

through December 21, 2019

Zilia Sánchez

El Museo del Barrio

Eros, its second solo exhibition of Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, timed to coincide with the artist’s first retrospective at El Museo del Barrio.

through January 17, 2020

Robert De Niro Sr.

DC Moore Gallery

Over the course of his fifty-year career, Robert De Niro, Sr. united his personal devotion to European modernism with the concurrent practices of Abstract Expressionism to produce paintings of a distinctive rich, visual experience.

through December 21, 2019

Katsura Funakoshi

Van Doren Waxter

Funakoshi is admired for his fantastical, distorted, and contemplative figures, particularly in Japan where the artist is foremost among sculptors.

through January 17, 2020