Ashley Bickerton

Lehmann Maupin

This will be the artist’s first presentation with Lehmann Maupin in New York since 2013; his last exhibition in New York City was with the FLAG Art Foundation in 2017. Bickerton is best known for his paintings and sculptures that insistently raise questions about the art object and many aspects of art production, from its cultural fetishization, to industrial fabrication, to stylistic branding, to art marketing and sales―particularly as these relate to the revered tradition of painting.

through April 3, 2021

Roni Horn

Hauser & Wirth

Roni Horn has spent the past four decades questioning accepted notions of identity and meaning, thwarting closure and opening up new possibilities of perception through her expansive body of work across mediums. Roni Horn. Recent Work’ will present the artist’s latest achievements in the realm of drawing, a medium she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.

through 10 April, 2021

Guadalupe Maravilla

P·P·O·W

Combining sculpture, painting, performative acts, and installation, Maravilla grounds his transdisciplinary practice in activism and healing. For Maravilla, his own life story is his primary material.

through March 27, 2021

KAWS

Brooklyn Museum

The exhibition chronicles KAWS's twenty-five-year practice, featuring graffiti drawings, paintings, smaller collectibles, furniture, recent augmented reality projects, and sculptures, including a new major commission for Rockefeller Center.

through September 5, 2021

David Hockney

Gray New York

For the preeminent British artist’s eleventh solo exhibition at Gray, Hockney captures the intimate interior spaces of his Normandy home and its scenic surroundings. Highlighting his singular sense of line and longstanding commitment to exploring perspective through technology, Hockney’s iPad paintings can be traced back to his early experiments with photographic media which began in the 1980s when the artist created a body of panoramic Polaroid photocollages.

through March 19, 2021

Salman Toor

Whitney Museum of American Art

For his first museum solo exhibition, Salman Toor presents new and recent oil paintings. Known for his small-scale figurative works that combine academic technique and a quick, sketch-like style, Toor offers intimate views into the imagined lives of young, queer Brown men residing between New York City and South Asia

through Apri 4, 2021

Jay Heikes

Marianne Boesky Gallery

The title of the exhibition, Echo in Color, references the perceptual phenomena of synesthesia, a blending of the senses in which the stimulation of one modality produces sensation in another. The assembled works in the exhibition evoke a similar awareness, crossing the senses in ways that are not understood through everyday language.

through March 13, 2021

Asif Hoque

Yossi Milo Gallery

Engaging with painting’s traditions, Hoque’s scenes of over-the-top romance and lush landscapes recast characters, stories and themes from ancient mythology and folklore to feature brown-bodied heroes and heroines. First Flight may be accessed starting today.

Angela Fraleigh

Hirschl & Adler

Fluttering still, the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. In these ten new paintings, Fraleigh depicts women in liminal states between wakefulness and sleep to perfectly encapsulate today’s social and political dynamics.

through March 12, 2021

Daniel Arsham

Perrotin Gallery

Transporting audiences inside the artist’s universe, the exhibition will introduce visitors to a range of Arsham’s practice that will feature several new bodies of work alongside the artist’s continued exploration of his signature sculptures cast in geological materials.

through February 20, 2021

Joyce Pensato

Petzel Gallery

In 2012 Pensato premiered her installation “Fuggetabout It” at Petzel Gallery on West 22nd Street to commemorate her beloved studio on Olive Street in East Williamsburg, where she had worked for thirty-two years and had lost in a landlord/tenant dispute in 2011. The move after three decades prompted a re-evaluation and packing of hundreds upon hundreds of objects and items of all manner, including: stuffed animals; figurines; posters, books, invitation cards, and other paper ephemera; milk crates; furniture, both broken and intact; paint cans and paintbrushes, among others.

through February 27, 2021

Tara Donovan

Pace Gallery

Based in Tara Donovan’s rigorous investigatory methods and aggregative logic, this exhibition’s drawings, wall-bound pieces, and free-standing sculptures transform commonplace materials into totalities that test our perceptual limits.

through March 6, 2021

Gerald Lovell

P·P·O·W

Garnering immediate recognition for his candid approach and heavily impastoed canvases, Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after dropping out of the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia. Frustrated by the codified, academic methods ingrained in formal arts education, Lovell utilized YouTube tutorials, his background in photography, and his tightknit, Atlanta-based community of creatives to drive his burgeoning painting practice.

through February 20, 2021

Alyson Shotz

Questions & Answers

Our editor Yasemin Vargi had a chance to interview the multi-talented NY based artist Alyson Shotz, whose practice examines the properties and interactions of light, gravity, mass, and space. With an interest in the natural world, Shotz bridges disciplines in her work, working in a variety of media from sculpture to ink drawings and large scale public art installations.

Emily Mason

Miles McEnery Gallery

Chelsea Paintings, which coincides with a retrospective at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut on view through March 2021, is the late artist’s first posthumous gallery exhibition in New York following her December 2019 death. The exhibition comprises twenty works made between 1978 and 1989, and two works completed in the 1990s.

through February 13, 2021

Theresa Daddezio

DC Moore Gallery

Daddezio explores optics, nature, and movement within a language of painting, as she considers the histories of Color Field painting and biomorphic abstraction. Drawing from a background in dance and music, she creates organic shapes referencing movements of the body rendered within systematized applications of color and linework.

through January 30, 2021