David Zwirner
Kusama’s work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures.
Almine Rech
Notwithstanding, the paintings do contain horizon lines that meet with: deserts, valleys, bodies of water, farmland, flowers, butterflies, and sometimes people. Ocotillo Song obliterates the bucolic inclinations of ‘the western sublime’ with bright colors and cartoonish exaggerations resulting in a synthesis of imagery, like a language, that can be read as allegories.
through July 30, 2021
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
As both a color and an emotive experience, gradients of blue have featured prominently across Fried’s body of work. The dense richness of pigment, built up line by line, creates a luminous expanse both intimate and all-encompassing in its scale and depth.
through June 12, 2021
Pace Gallery
JR’s practice is rooted in his deep commitment to collaborating with individuals and communities alike. His work is characterised by large-scale photographic interventions in urban environments that address cultural and political issues, often with an emphasis on social justice. Each portrait holds a multitude of stories as JR expertly balances the macroscopic with the microscopic, the individual experience with the universal.
through August 21, 2021
Lehmann Maupin
Featuring a series of new portraits, still lives, and a single landscape, this exhibition continues the artist’s critical investigation into the function and form of historically revered genres in painting. Niles is best known for his vivid, brightly-hued canvases that illustrate the seemingly mundane aspects of daily life―a man about to get into his car, a father and daughter sitting on their stoop with their dog, a woman waiting at a bus stop.
through August 28, 2021
Gagosian
Describing his work as a visual diary or “even a personal history,” Wood charges images of people, places, and objects from his everyday life with art historical references. Inspired by the bold formal distillations of such artists as David Hockney, he emphasizes pattern, shape, and ornamentation while confounding scale and perspective.
through July 16, 2021
Marlborough New York
For his third solo exhibition at Marlborough, Alsoudani ( (b. 1975, Baghdad, Iraq) returns with his distinctive paintings of polychromatic forms that writhe through suggested interior spaces. Whereas much of the artist’s previous works on canvas incorporate charcoal and colored pencil throughout, the present group of paintings is predominantly composed in pure acrylic.
through July 2, 2021
Galerie Lelong & Co.
Over a four-decade career, Uslé has established a distinctive pictorial grammar; gestural brushstrokes systematically applied in tandem with his heartbeat to convey a poetic-fluid landscape. Dividing his time between Spain and New York City since the 1980s, Uslé’s practice has engaged with the various movements and traditions of painting in European and American postwar abstraction.
through July 2, 2021
Pace Gallery
Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis has been celebrated for the free, ecstatic forms she has made that are simultaneously playful and visceral, organic and abstract.
through June 26, 2021
Gladstone Gallery
Mutu’s bronze figures exude grace and mystery. Their powers are palpable, both through their postures and their dense materiality. The authority they wield offers a template for a new rethinking of our world order, wherein nature, mythology, and human life commingle.
through June 25, 2021
Guggenheim Museum
Her photographs and films result from collaborations with strangers whom the artist encounters by chance or deliberately seeks out. These individuals are often depicted within richly textured domestic settings in which the details of décor, lighting, and pose are precisely choreographed.
through October 11, 2021
LatchKey Gallery
Cathartic representations of empowerment, aggression and sexual liberation result in lascivious depictions of predator as prey. In A Matter of Luck, a tense game of roulette is shown by a knife tormenting a surreal hand—the fingers are formed of penises—whose luck has run out. Soaked in blood, the violent metaphor is juxtaposed by a soft, joyful palette.
through June 19, 2021
Marianne Boesky Gallery
In her newest series of paintings, PLAYLIST, McClelland approaches language through music, organizing lists and conjoining names of musicians to suggest language as a form of portraiture. Performers are paired based on aural affinities in their music, dissolving the factors of genre or category.
through June 5, 2021
Gagosian
Throughout his career, Richter has navigated between naturalism and abstraction, painting and photography, exploring the conceptual, historical, and material implications of various mediums without ideological restraint.
through June 26, 2021
303 Gallery
Throughout his career and across disciplines, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s oeuvre has been defined by his unabated devotion to collecting and organizing images and ephemera. Revealing an uncommonly keen eye for banal yet seductive pictures, he categorizes, arranges and performs calculated acts of détournement.
through May 22, 2021
Alexander Gray Associates
In these recent paintings, Semmel mines new expanses of psychology and vulnerability, bringing her half-century of technical prowess to bear in sophisticated figurative arrangements and rigorous color compositions.
through May 29, 2021
