Michelangelo Pistoletto

Lévy Gorvy

The first US presentation in a decade to feature multiple installations by Pistoletto, it will take visitors on a journey through one of the most influential and enduring artistic practices to unfold from the postwar period to the present.

through January 9, 2021

Pieter Schoolwerth

Petzel Gallery

Schoolwerth’s psychoactive tableaus depict CGI avatars let loose in the digital froth: a Baywatch-y beach, a fashion-brand showroom, a furry orgy. He pulls these scenes from screenshots of The Sims 4, the strategic life-simulation computer game where anything goes—or does it? Trailing every avatar is an estranged silhouetted double, snapped into existence by the “shift” of Shifted Sims.

through October 31, 2020

Lara Nasser

Meredith Rosen Gallery

Lara Nasser’s second exhibition at Meredith Rosen continues to humor and confuse the viewer with cryptic tales from a queer Lebanese woman in America that confront a universal in-betweenness at the heart of contemporary culture.

through November 14, 2020

Louis Fratino

Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Louis Fratino makes paintings and drawings from specific memory and art historical references. Fratino synthesizes visual languages sampled from antiquity to modernism to describe the contemporary body, landscape, and interior spaces.

through November 14, 2020

Sylvia Maier

Malin Gallery

Featuring a series of large-scale figurative paintings, the works in About Sangomas and Soothsayers and Mischief depict the environs of the Flatbush and Prospect Park areas of Brooklyn where the artist lives and works - powerfully evoking the unique ethnic and cultural plurality of her community.

through November 1, 2020

Jean Dubuffet

Pace Gallery

Le cirque is one of the last remaining works from the late-1960s and early-1970s to be realized at heroic size. Marking a crucial moment in Dubuffet’s deeply influential oeuvre, it stands as a major achievement in the artist’s sculptural practice.

through October 24, 2020

Gabriel Orozco

Marian Goodman Gallery

Orozco presents a new series of tempera paintings in a large and small scale, and a selection of new watercolor collages which expand upon his Suisai series, begun in 2016. All of the works were completed during these trying times, as the tragic pandemic was underway, either in his apartment in Tokyo or via remote interaction.

through October 24, 2020

Harold Ancart

David Zwirner

On view in one gallery space will be a new series of paintings that depict trees. These works were painted between Belgian-born, New York–based artist Harold Ancart’s Brooklyn studio and a makeshift outdoor studio in Los Angeles, where he traveled during lockdown.

through October 17, 2020

Kevin Beasley

Casey Kaplan Gallery

Beasley continues to consider his own place within the property’s ancestral past, and more generally, within the context of black land ownership in the South. With an indelible connection to the land where the reunion is held and the relatives who participate, Beasley sources materials of cultural and personal significance for use in his multi-media practice.

through October 24, 2020

Kyle Dunn

P·P·O·W Gallery

Defying categorical restraint, Dunn combines sculptural and painterly traditions, including bas-relief and trompe l’oeil, to express the vibrancy of the masculine emotional landscape not often represented in popular visual culture.

through October 7, 2020

Alyson Shotz

Derek Eller Gallery

This show demonstrates an aesthetic departure from prior work, inflected by the turmoil of the contemporary moment. More intimate in nature, The Small Clocks Run Wild examines the duality and paradox of transformation, a simultaneously melancholic yet optimistic process.

through October 10, 2020

Kenny Scharf

Almine Rech

The exhibition debuts 18 paintings and a sculpture, showcasing works that reflect Scharf’s continued immersion in the everyday life of urban society and circumstances of our time, blending quotidian and deeply relevant themes within the framework of his bright, frenetic canvases and enduring optimism.

through October 28,2020

Kara Walker

Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Previously kept within her private archive, these works on paper reveal the scope of Walker’s process, from sketches, studies, and collages, to texts and “dream journals.” Materials such as watercolor, graphite, and ink give the drawings a sense of spontaneity and immediacy.

through September 30, 2020

Susan Chen

Questions & Answers

As a multicultural artist, Chen’s works not only focus on her own identity but also the portrayal of the lives and the longtime struggles of Asian Americans. Through her compositions, which are infused with longing, nostalgia and melancholy, Chen grants visibility to her community. The sincere authenticity of these individuals is perfectly captured in her works.

Luc Sante

JAMES FUENTES Online

Noted writer Luc Sante is making his first gallery appearance with a show of collages. Although Sante has not previously presented his works in a gallery setting, he is not a newcomer to the medium.

through September 1, 2020

Susan Chen

Meredith Rosen Gallery

Chen’s work is a navigation of identity and belonging. Her practice embodies these themes both internally and externally: the painting process prompts inward reflection while the paintings themselves provide outward representation.

through September 19, 2020