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For: April 21 Class: The Art of Viewing Art
Playing Catch-Up: April 2011 Chelsea and Uptown Shows Revisited
J. Zinsser/ e-mail: zinsserj@newschool.edu
1. The Strange Spectacle of Rudolf Stingel
Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street (to 4/16)
Stingel, subject of a recent Whitney Museum survey, uses Gagosian’s large space to monumental effect, re-examining his themes of abstraction and self-portraiture.
2, European Innovation and American Response
“Malevich and the American Legacy”, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave.
76th/77th St.
Show that traces the influence of Russian “Suprematist” artist Malevich.
Kenneth Noland, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th St. (to 4/30)
Noland (1924-2010) was a “color field” painter who rose to prominence out of a “scene” that began in Washington, DC, in the late 1950s.
Juan Usle, Cheim & Read Gallery, 547 West 25th St. (opens 4/30)
Usle, a Spanish abstractionist, emerged in the early 1990s, with a strong sense of color and fluidity of paint application.
Kate Shepherd, Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street (to 4/30)
Works that explore line, color and geometry in contemporary graphic terms.
(Former guest in class.)
3. Anything Else Left Over from This Week
Uptown commercial gallery hours are generally: Tues.-Sat. 10 – 5:30.
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For: April 14 Class: The Art of Viewing Art
April 2011 Uptown: Upper Madison Avenue Galleries
J. Zinsser/ e-mail: zinsserj@newschool.edu
Rafael Ferrer, Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th St.
Show follows up on the artist’s recent retrospective at El Museo del Barrio.
Joe Fyfe, “Wood/Cloth/Color” James Graham & Sons Gallery, 32 East 67th St.
Fyfe incorporates a sense of place into these works that reference painting through the use of other mediums.
“Recent Acquisitions,” Leslie Feely Gallery, 33 East 68th St., 5th fl.
Works by noted modernists, abstract expressionists and color field painters.
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 32 East 69th St. (to 3-06)
Figurative sculptures and drawings by a Belgian artist.
Richard Fleischner, Knoedler Gallery, 19 East 70th St. (to 4-30)
Show is entitled: “Material/Process/Pace, Works: 1963-2011.”
“Malevich and the American Legacy”, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave.
76th/77th St.
Show that traces the influence of Russian “Suprematist” artist Malevich.
“Unpainted Paintings”, Luxembourg & Dayan, 64 East 77th St.
Paintings made with “alternative media,” from Andy Warhol and others.
Keith Sonnier: “Files”, Leo Castelli Gallery, 18 East 77th St.
Sculptural works from the 1960s.
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Werner Gallery, 4 East 77th St.
Works by a “visionary” German artist (1892-1982).
Gunther Uecker, L & M Gallery (ring bell), 45 East 78th St.
Early works from an influential German sculptor who lived and worked in New York in the 1960s.
Martin Kippenberger, “Eggman II”, Skarstedt Gallery, 20 East 79th St.
Works by a Cologne-based artist, influential in the 1980s and 1990s.
Uptown commercial gallery hours are generally: Tues.-Sat. 10 – 5:30.
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An alternative to MoMA's timeline: the centrality of Marcel Duchamp as influence on Andy Warhol and contemporary art of today.
This is the second chart that I drew. It offers Marcel Duchamp as the central figure of influence leading to Andy Warhol and the contemporary artists of today.
MoMA only seems to know how to present its collection up to 1970.
This is the graphic that I drew last week to describe a certain version (Museum of Modern Art’s) of 20th Century Art and its timeline. Note, after 1960, with the emergence of minimalism and pop, MoMA’s central thrust is lost. The museum’s collection is based around the idea that Cezanne influenced Matisse and Picasso and they, in turn, influenced post-war American Abstract expressionism (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning). After that, they seem lost. To some extent, Condo, Bidlo, Basquiat pick up this thread in 1985.
Karen Kilimnik, 303 Gallery, 547 West 21st St. (to 4/23)
A realist painter who stages her work theatrically.
John Chamberlain, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st St. (ends April 2)
Historical works from a sculptor whose crushed steel painted assemblages reference the “action” of abstract expressionist painting.
David Wojnarowicz, PPOW, 535 West 22nd St. (to 4/09)
Works by the late AIDS activist, artist and author, whose work was the subject of a recent controversy at the National Portrait Gallery.
Gary Hill, “of surf, death, tropes & tableaux: The Psychedelic Gedankenexperimen”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th St. (to 4/30)
Works in various media by an artist known for his large-scale video “installations.”
David Altmejd, Andrea Rosen, 525 West 24th St. (to 4/23)
Elaborately-staged sculpture that often borders on spectacle.
Mel Kendrick, Mary Boone, 541 West 24th St. (to 4/30)
Distinctive blocky wooden sculpture in a painted black-and-white palette.
Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street (to 4/16)
Stingel, subject of a recent Whitney Museum survey, uses Gagosian’s large space to monumental effect, re-examining his themes of abstraction and self-portraiture.
Juan Usle, Cheim & Read Gallery, 547 West 25th St. (opens 4/30)
Usle, a Spanish abstractionist, emerged in the early 1990s, with a strong sense of color and fluidity of paint application.
Kate Shepherd, Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street (to 4/30)
Works that explore line, color and geometry in contemporary graphic terms.
(Former guest in class.)
Kenneth Noland, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th St. (to 4/30)
Noland (1924-2010) was a “color field” painter who rose to prominence out of a “scene” that began in Washington, DC, in the late 1950s.
Duke Riley, Magnan Metz, 521 West 26th St.
Delaware River project, a renegade art “action,” against Citgo oil company on behalf of the legacy of historical Dutch settlers. (Former guest in class.)
Note: Chelsea gallery hours are Tues.-Sat. 10:00 – 6:00, FREE.
Hey guys! I thought I would share my comfy experience at Paula Cooper Gallery last week. I guess people missed the sign that asked you to take off your shoes before sitting on the couch. I got some pretty strange looks from visitors while I was busy being a part of the artwork.
"Twilight Echo II", 2010; by David Kessler. Acrylic on aluminum
As we were gallery hopping, we stumbled into Stricoff Fine Arts because some pieces caught our eye. There were a couple pieces by David Kessler that were acrylic on aluminum. As a result, they had this luminous quality that was soothing and natural, but still somehow otherworldly, like a dream of nature.
Mel Kendrick's large wooden sculptures at the Mary Boone Gallery
I particularly liked how these large wooden sculptures had their media echoed in the wooden ceiling of the Mary Boone gallery. I suspect it is a happy accident, but it struck me as cool.
Scultpor Altmejd gives us both traditional and non-traditional “renderings” of the human figure.
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