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Works on Water
by Nicole MillerArtSeen
Works on Water is the inaugural triennial devoted to works made on, in, or with water.
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DAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA
by Vered EngelhardArtSeen
He filled Danspace in St. Marks Church (a historical landmark for the Judson generation) with a unique deconstruction of Trio A, one centered on its relationship to time.
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ALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility
by Jason RosenfeldArtSeen
Alexander Calder (18981976) redefined and expanded an entire medium, while fulfilling the purported prime directive of mid-century modernism: abstraction.
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ALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future
by Jessica HolmesArtSeen
A convergence of influences is at play across painter Ali Banisadr’s body of work. In writing dedicated to his paintings a reader will find frequent reference to Northern Renaissance and Venetian art, Persian miniatures, as well as more modern touchstones like Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning. Banisadr has acknowledged the effects of literature and cinema upon his thinking, and although these influences are apparent in his recent exhibition, Trust in the Future, certain paintings achieve something differentand more exciting.
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MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets
by Jonathan GoodmanArtSeen
Martin Roth, an artist who has often worked with naturein 2009 one of his projects, I lived with sheep in Europe, consisted of living with a herd of sheep in Europeexcels at combining the outside world with sophisticated insights into politics and its relations with art and life. At his midtown exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum, In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets, the pungent scent of more than two hundred lavender plants leads the viewer down two flights of stairs, into the basement of the Forum’s building on East 52nd Street near Fifth Avenue.
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SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter
by David RhodesArtSeen
In the first room of Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s exhibition, the visitor encounters the summer section of the exhibition’s title. Later, on moving through to the second room, the winter section. The cyclical progression of the seasons defines the rhythm of life in a climate that sees weather changing through the months, as well as vegetal and animal response. It’s impossible not to think concurrently of mortality and a celebration or acknowledgement of transformation.
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Disappearing, Inc.
by Tom McGlynnArtSeen
The Times is a cleverly capacious title for this large group exhibition, referring simultaneously to a multiplicity of historical periodizations and to a colloquial condensation of the New York Times. The works, like the title, encompass the specificity of individual perspectives, as well as the generalized verbal semantics and visual syntax of the printed commons.
The Uptown Triennial
by Magdalyn AsimakisArtSeen
The intermittent curatorial interest in location and organizing works according to the places in which they are made, has been most recently explored in New York through exhibitions such as Hilton Als’s curation of Alice Neel at David Zwirner, and currently at the Uptown triennial at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. The use of location as an organizing strategy, in the case of the triennial, gestures to “uptown” as a contemporary situating that is both deliberate and circumstantial. This common spatial orientation points to the varied modes of access to, and experience of, the city.
The density and breadth of the work in Uptown poetically counters the view of the city looking towards midtown Manhattan.
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ROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 20132017
by David RhodesArtSeen
Since the mid 1960s, Robert Mangold has consistently examined the possibilities of support shape, surface, color, and drawing, in dynamic and equal relation. This exhibition of recent work is no exception.
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MATISSE/DIEBENKORN
by Hearne PardeeArtSeen
Just as Matisse once commented that he was fascinated by window views because they allowed distant things to share the space of objects in his studio, the relationship between these two artists rests on surprising connections across space and time.
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PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You
by Jonathan GoodmanArtSeen
The exhibition is proof thatas a nonagenarianPearlstein continues to paint remarkably well, reasserting his decades-long stature as a major American realist.
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MARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages
by Yasaman AlipourArtSeen
Piazza Universale/Social Stages is the first major exhibition of the Italian artist Marinella Senatore, whose work deals deep with themes important to the mission of the Queens Museum, namely: self-examination, community orientation, and political responsibility.
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MARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings
by Hovey BrockArtSeen
Maybe Lüpertz is executing a kind of aesthetic Judo throw, redirecting Classicism’s colossal influence on Western painting’s canon into an open, subjective space of a paradoxically “felt” Classicism, something embodied rather than intellectual.
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RICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017
by William CorwinArtSeen
Rico Gatson’s exhibition Icons 20072017 is an exercise in catapulting the human into the supernatural realm. We are watching an artist doing what artists do best: rendering the unimaginable into the visual and the unspeakable into human terms.
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IVANA BAIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep
by William CorwinArtSeen
Ivana Baić presents a dire vision of the not-too-distant future in her exhibition Through the hum of black velvet sleep (2017).
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Hiding in Plain Site
by Colin EdgingtonArtSeen
Seen from the street, color breaks through the facade of an office building to mingle with the dynamism of the city. Sectioned lines of pinks, greens, whites, oranges, blues, and their pastel counterparts weave between the reflections of cars, pedestrians, foliage, buildings, and skylight.
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KATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister)
by Alexandra HammondArtSeen
Harding’s work is about the spirit of things, and the ways that things and beings communicate amongst each other in the spaces between and beyond language. For her, landscapes, animals, and even light are full of information that is available to us if we listen and look. Harding’s current installation asks occupants of the space to sit down and take part in this expanded conversation.
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What's Left Behind
by Will FenstermakerArtSeen
What is often named an interest in “materialism” seems to be, in fact, a desire to uphold its natural link and allow the earth itself to reduce her paintings to a base state, a process she merely expedites.
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CHANTAL JOFFE
by David CarrierArtSeen
Joffe doesn’t repeat herselfshe doesn’t need to because she is consistently, magnificently inventive.
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KAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone
by Rabia AshfaqueArtSeen
The interlinked projects of Kaari Upson’s first major museum show in New York, Good Thing You Are Not Alone, methodologically explore various facets of an individual’s existence within both physical and phantasmagorical realms.
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Future Library
by Lucía HinojosaArtSeen
Future Library is a public artwork as well as a conceptual art piece comprising literature and time. In 2014, a thousand trees were planted in Nordmarka, a forest in Oslo. The trees will eventually become the paper for an anthology of books to be printed in a hundred years time.