Back to Art…Fall Season Part 1
Full speed ahead to an exciting Fall of art exhibitions and events. We have selected just a few of the best shows opening at galleries across the city in September for our Part 1 of must-see New York gallery shows. We will follow up with more in the next edition.
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
at Room57
Lovisa Skold
Kettle Bell, 2024
Room57 is proud to announce These Boots are Made for Walkin’ opening September 12th, an exhibition inspired by the 1966 Nancy Sinatra song of the same name. This cross-generational and multi-media group exhibition will serve as an anthem to celebrate women’s autonomy and freedom of expression.
September 12 - November 4, 2024
Room 57: 235 East 57th Street
Cameron Welch: Labyrinth
at Yossi Milo
Orpheus in the Garden, 2024
The large-scale mosaics in Labyrinth convey the chaos of modern life through the iconography of ancient myth; the Labyrinth, designed by Daedalus for King Midas to contain the beastly Minotaur, directly informs the maze-like construction of Welch’s meandering compositions. Made of thousands of pieces of hand cut marble, stone, ceramic, and glass, recognizable figures and abstracted forms are paired. With a throughline of tesserae covered in gold leaf, reminiscent of Theseus’s golden thread as he ventured through the Labyrinth, Welch further solidifies the marriage of past and present to form exuberant and energetic compositions.
September 3 - November 9, 2024
Yossi Milo: 245 10th Avenue
Erin Shirreff: Sunset Palace
at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Paper Sculpture, 2024
As an artist, Erin Shirreff’s interests lie in the perception of form and its variables. The works in Sunset Palace, both three-dimensional structures and two-dimensional surfaces, meditate on this theme. At the exhibition’s centerpiece, the monumental sculpture Dusk Form appears to take on new dimensionality at different angles, challenging perceptions of scale and shape. In wall-based works with collage influence, Shirreff layers sheets of steel in a unified geometric image. The exhibition’s versatility of medium and scale fosters a dynamic environment that encourages viewers to interrogate the ways in which they perceive and occupy space.
September 6 - October 19, 2024
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.: 520 West 22nd Street
Patrick Wilson
at Miles McEnery Gallery
Patrick Wilson, Installation View
In his seventh exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery, Patrick Wilson debuts a series of new paintings. Meticulously rendered, Wilson’s multi-layered canvases incorporate elements of Hard Edge Abstraction, Color Field, and California Light and Space, resulting in vibrant geometric planes. Appearing premeditated, Wilson’s canvases in actuality result from organic development and improvisatory impulse over long periods of time. Exceeding two-dimensionality, these works reward prolonged attention, with new permutations of color, line, shape, shadow, and light discovered at every angle.
September 5 - October 26, 2024
Miles McEnery Gallery: 525 West 22nd Street
Gina Beavers: Divine Consumer
at Marianne Boesky Gallery
Chunky knit throw in Port [detail], 2024
In Divine Consumer, Gina Beavers drives her interest in internet culture and media consumption in a new lane: online shopping. Her “Comfortcore Paintings” translate mundane domestic objects–towels, blankets, pillows, curtains, and sheets–into spectacles of painted relief, lifted from virtual advertisements to gallery walls. Inspired by still life and landscape, Beavers manipulates product photos in Photoshop into photo collages, fully realizing these images on canvas with sculpted foam, paper pulp and oil paint. Her paintings comment on the effects of an endless scroll through the digital marketplace, the use of retail therapy to find comfort in an increasingly unsettling internet landscape.
September 5 - October 5, 2024
Marianne Boesky Gallery: 507 West 24th Street
Brie Ruais: Bone Dice
at Albertz Benda
Brie Ruais with Traveling with the Wind, East, 130lbs, 2024
At Albertz Benda, Bone Dice features ceramic sculpture and video installation by New Mexico-based artist Brie Ruais. Deeply personal and reflecting her physicality, Ruais’s sculptures are born of her body weight, 130 lbs of clay. Ruais experiments with gesture through her tools, ranging from knives to her own body; through her “Wind Work” performances, Ruais employs the loose-flying fabric of multi-sleeve garments to direct her movement, producing sculptural manifestations of her gestures. The 12-minute video “Four Phrases” reveals how Ruais moves in tandem with the elements, an open window into the artist at work. Across mediums, Bone Dice comments on the place of Ruais’s body within the artistic process, manifesting in pieces that leave her choreography bare.
September 5 - October 12, 2024
Albertz Benda: 515 West 26th Street
Hilary Pecis: Warm Rhythm
at David Kordansky Gallery
Sharon Flowers, 2024
Warm Rhythm presents Hilary Pecis’s painted explorations of patterns and decorative elements in domestic settings. Pecis’s work infuses the New York-based Pattern and Design movement, centered on symmetry, vibrancy and layering of pattern, with a Southern Californian flare, employing the foliage and warm tones indicative of her home region. Pecis’s varied snapshots of daily life–the outside of a flower shop, a living room dressed for Christmas, a packed bookshelf and desk, a dinner table mid-meal, a front yard jam-packed with potted plants, a cat seated on a couch–are devoid of human presence, emphasizing objects as animate, dynamic entities within her stylized canvases.
September 4 - October 12, 2024
David Kordansky Gallery: 520 West 20th Street
Monica Bonvicini: Put All Heaven in a Rage
at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Put All Heaven in a Rage, Installation View
Monica Bonvicini’s multidisciplinary practice centers the relationship between art, gender and power. Bonvicini engages in close collaboration with and critique of the spaces she exhibits in. In Put All Heaven in a Rage, the artist divides the exhibition space by placing traditional timber 2x4s, imbuing it with a house-like intimacy. Her work is often participatory, with Buy Me a Mirror encouraging viewers to scrutinize their reflection and presence within the space, You to Me challenging connotations of handcuffs within interpersonal relationships, and Chainswing Rings and Stripes inviting viewers to approach stereotypes of sexuality by sitting or lying in a chain and leather belt structure. Put All Heaven in a Rage deals in material, structural and thematic exploration of power dynamics in an interactive way.
September 4 - October 12, 2024
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery: 521 West 21st Street
Oli Epp: Fire the Menu
at Perrotin
Busk, 2024
In restaurant lingo, to “fire the menu” is to order the whole menu; as the title of his second solo exhibition at Perrotin suggests, Oli Epp serves up an expansive visual feast. His surrealist paintings are dreamlike representations of opulence, decadence, and the spectacle of performance in the contemporary world. The juxtaposition of abstracted human and animal forms with symbols and instruments of artistic expression yields uncanny, absurd narratives. His canvases, smooth, vibrant, and bold, are a product of hyper detailed planning, evolving from preparatory sketch to digital manipulation to finished product on canvas with oil, acrylic, and airbrush. As a whole, Epp has assembled deeply alluring images ready for consumption.
September 6 - October 19, 2024
Perrotin: 130 Orchard Street
Ethan Murrow: Twig
at Winston Wächter Fine Art
The Composer, 2024
Ethan Murrow’s drawings and paintings in Twig center the inherent value of trees to the world with whimsy. With characters drawn from self-portraiture, Murrow and his studio stage photographs with props, wardrobes and intricate sets. Accompanying these photographs are scenic art historical references, with landscapes reminiscent of the Hudson River School, old photographs and film. Finely detailed, Murrow’s works pair familiar, comfortable images with fantastical elements.
September 5 - November 2, 2024
Winston Wächter Fine Art: 530 West 25th Street
Liza Lou: Painting
at Lehmann Maupin
Gravity’s Rainbow, 2024
Glass beads take center stage in Liza Lou’s solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin. Paradoxically titled Painting, Lou pushes the boundaries of glass beads as a medium; mixed with oil paint and applied with a palette knife, Lou takes advantage of the refractive qualities and rich hues of her beads to emulate the painted brushstroke. Lou’s material manipulation encourages closer inspection and invites conversations about labor and experimentation in the artistic process. On top of the exhibition, Lou’s sculpture Trailer will be displayed in the lobby of the Brooklyn Museum as a new addition to the collection.
September 5 - October 12, 2024
Lehmann Maupin: 501 West 24th Street
Naudline Pierre: The Mythic Age
at James Cohan
The Mythic Age, Installation View
Naudline Pierre’s undulating compositions, full of female figures morphing into abstractions, are indicative of her most valued theme: transformation. In The Mythic Age at James Cohan, Pierre’s canvases pull from Baroque and 19th century French academic painting, adapting the stylistic and iconographic qualities through a feminine lens. Deeply ambitious, Pierre’s desire to develop beyond established norms and history mirrors her celestial figures moving beyond the frame, limbs and wings in flight.
September 6 - October 9, 2024
James Cohan: 48 Walker Street
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