Plan for This Thursday, April 21

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.

Visit: artofviewingart.com

Gallery List for April 14 Class/John Z. Post

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 66^th 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 67^th 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 68^th St., 5^th fl.

Works by noted modernists, abstract expressionists and color field painters.

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 32 East 69^th St. (to 3-06)

Figurative sculptures and drawings by a Belgian artist.

Richard Fleischner, Knoedler Gallery, 19 East 70^th 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 77^th St.

Paintings made with “alternative media,” from Andy Warhol and others.

Keith Sonnier: “Files”, Leo Castelli Gallery, 18 East 77^th St.

Sculptural works from the 1960s.

Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Werner Gallery, 4 East 77^th St.

Works by a “visionary” German artist (1892-1982).

Gunther Uecker, L & M Gallery (ring bell), 45 East 78^th 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 79^th St.

Works by a Cologne-based artist, influential in the 1980s and 1990s.

Uptown commercial gallery hours are generally: Tues.-Sat. 10 – 5:30.

Visit: artofviewingart.com

20th Century Art History Chart 2: Getting to Condo/John Z. Post

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.

20th Century Art History Chart 1: Getting to Condo/John Z. Post

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.

Chelsea Galleries List for April 7 Class/John Z. Post

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 21^st 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.

David Almejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery/John Z. Post

Scultpor Altmejd gives us both traditional and non-traditional “renderings” of the human figure.
Comments?

Gary Hill at Barbara Gladstone Gallery/John Z. Post

Gary Hill: Put on Gallery-Provided 3D Glasses to Watch This Mad Scientist Do His Thing

Did anyone read the press release from this show? It explains what the supposed subject is.

There are various videos, also sculptural objects, many of which have to do with perception.

Comments? Explanations? Clarifications?

David Wojnarowicz at PPOW/John Z. Post

David Wojnarowicz: Artist, Musician, Writer, Filmmaker, AIDS Activist.

David Wojnarwitz was the subject of a recent controversy at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

See link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/arts/design/11ants.html?_r=1

Comments?

John Chamberlain at Paula Cooper Gallery/John Z Post

Sculptor John Chamberlain is represented in this show in works from the 1960s and beyond, including a sofa.

Chamberlain’s works have often been compared to works of Abstract Expressionist painters in New York, from the 1940s and 1950s. Such painters would include: Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Questions:

Think about the term “Action Painting,” as “coined” by critic Harold Rosenberg. Is this an “action sculpture”? How so?

What is the original source of this metal?

Did Chamberlain paint it himself?

Karen Kilimnik at 303 Gallery/John Z. Post

Suggestion of Remnants of a Performance

Karen Kilimnik emerged in the 1990s, as a leader of the “Scatter Art” movement. We see her “scattering” items across the floor here.

Questions:

What “story” do these accumulated objects tell?

What might the “theatrical nature” of the performance have been?