Back to Art…Fall Season Part 2
For our Part 2 of gallery shows in New York we have selected exhibitions of artists who work across many mediums and concepts exploring color, materials and forms but also delving into an immersive and interactive experience of seeing art.
Annabel Daou: what is left of us
at signs and symbols
Stolen Lines, 2024
In her third exhibition at signs and symbols, titled what is left of us, Annabel Daou presents paper-based constructions, drawings, and a sound installation that interrogate the presence of language in daily life. Pulling sentence fragments from varied sources and fusing them together in new configurations, Daou’s work abstracts the structure and meaning of words and phrases across diverse mediums: in Stolen Lines as woven and torn paper, in What’s left of us? as the artist’s voice through paper speakers, and in Kick against the pricks (1-25) as watercolor thistles. Daou’s manipulation of language encourages thought around how we value and exchange language, both personal and political, asking “What is given? What is taken? What is left?”
September 4 - October 12, 2024
signs and symbols: 249 East Houston Street
Heather Guertin: Ultra Marine Life
at JDJ
Ultra Marine Life, Installation View
Colors that practically sing! Heather Guertin’s ecstatic paintings are a joy to behold. The viewer won’t perhaps recognize it first since we are stopped in our tracks with the dynamic bursts of vivid forms seemingly in motion, yet at the heart of Guertin’s practice is the printed image. In a body of work first conceived five years ago, Guertin compiles found images from discarded books into collage, later translated into oil paintings. Attracted to images for their formal qualities, not their subject matter, Guertin’s abstracted compositions are deeply imaginative, transforming her source material beyond recognition. Her canvases take shape through gestural brushstrokes, broad ranges of texture–from dots to lines to smooth planes of paint–and stark color, arranged in a layered harmony that echoes collage. At the crux of the works in Ultra Marine Life is a desire to revive forgotten images and ascribe them new visual purpose.
September 4 - October 19, 2024
JDJ: 370 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Carrie Moyer: Timber!
at Alexander Gray Associates
Tears on My Pillow, 2024
Timber! at Alexander Gray Associates features new abstract paintings and works on paper by Carrie Moyer. Exploring themes of social and environmental instability, Moyer considers the geologic, atmospheric, and planetary forces that govern Earth and the universe and how they can be represented through her choice material, acrylic paint. Moyer’s canvases drive this objective home by incorporating natural materials, such as pumice and powdered minerals from semi-precious stones, metal, and graphite, and compositionally suggesting the structure and movement of natural phenomena and human anatomy. Through a feminist socio-political lens, Moyer creates sprawling abstractions that connote earthly conditions of the present day.
September 12 - October 26, 2024
Alexander Gray Associates: 384 Broadway
Deborah Remington: Mirrors
at Bortolami
Tanis, 1974
Both the paintings and the artist remain somewhat mysterious and hard to define, yet endlessly fascinating and alluring and the current solo show by Deborah Remington called Mirrors rewards the viewer who spends time with the works. Remington’s second exhibition at Bortolami reunites works from three distinct periods of Deborah Remington’s career, tethered by the connective tissue of her mirrored forms. From hard edge abstraction (1960s to early 1980s) to dimensionally ambiguous “rooms” with abstract still life-esque objects on tabletops (mid 1980s to 1990s) to modeled sculptural masses (1990s to her 2010 passing), Remington’s mirrors undergo extensive transfiguration; once cleanly parallel and distinct, progressively they warp into their surroundings until fully enmeshed in their final iteration. This exhibition, with its expansive timeline, tracks the ever-evolving vision of a peerless, uncategorizable artist.
September 6 - October 26, 2024
Bortolami: 39 Walker Street
Objects: USA 2024
at R & Company
Objects: USA 2024, Installation View
A visual feast of color, texture, and form, Objects: USA 2024 is the premiere triennial at R & Company, featuring around 100 objects by 55 innovators at the intersection of fine art, craft and design. Within the framework, established by curators Kellie Riggs and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, of the Seven Archetypes of Objecthood–Truthsayers, Betatesters, Doomsdayers, Insiders, Mediators, Codebreakers, Keepers–the exhibition centers the function, superlative craftsmanship, and aesthetic appeal of a varied array of objects. Situating contemporary designers in the spotlight, Objects: USA 2024 signals progress made and progress to come within handmade crafts.
September 6, 2024 - January 10, 2025
R & Company: 64 White Street
Sky Glabush: the letters of this alphabet were trees
at Stephen Friedman Gallery
Early light at Robin Lake, 2024
Nature has a way to immerse and transform our everyday experiences into something magical, poetic, and memorable. Based in the Canadian countryside near London, Ontario, Sky Glabush expands the boundaries of landscape painting through his practice. The works in The letters of this alphabet were trees, Glabush’s New York debut, showcase familiar landscape imagery with the artist’s stylized twist. Spindly tree limbs and greenery sit atop a background of circular rings and lined rays of the sun, luminously cloaked in heightened color palettes. By mixing oil paint and sand, Glabush situates his canvases between painting and sculpted relief, further adding to his dynamic compositions. As if within a dream, the landscapes encompass the visual manifestations of a singular world of Glabush’s making.
September 5 - October 17, 2024
Stephen Friedman Gallery: 54 Franklin Street
Thomas Houseago: Night Sea Journey
at Lévy Gorvy Dayan
Night Sea Journey, Installation View
The works in Night Sea Journey at Lévy Gorvy Dayan are a testament to the personal power found in the midst of trauma and recovery. Thomas Houseago employs sculpture–made of wood, bronze, steel, and plaster–and painting to challenge material and psychological limits. Constructed en plein air, Houseago’s works revisit the artist’s frequent motifs, such as chimerical figures, owls, eggs, and skulls, realized on a monumental scale. Houseago’s first exhibition in New York City in ten years reaches its climax in a sprawling tapestry on the gallery’s top floor: a celestial journey influenced by the comfort the artist feels watching the rising and setting of the sun and moon, in feeling connected to something larger than oneself.
September 9 - October 19, 2024
Lévy Gorvy Dayan: 19 East 64th Street
Kitty Ca$h: Handle With Care
at Hannah Traore Gallery
Handle with Care, Installation View
Enter the inside of a mail room in Handle with Care, the first gallery exhibition of multidisciplinary artist, DJ, and producer Kitty Ca$h at Hannah Traore Gallery. The exhibition’s centerpiece encourages visitors to hand-write and leave their “emotional mail,” offering space for personal, cathartic release while prioritizing a tactile means of communication in an increasingly digitized world. Sonically accompanied by reworked excerpts of Kitty Ca$h’s debut EP, providing an immersive soundtrack, the gallery is transformed into an interactive, multi-sensory environment in which human connection is at the forefront.
September 25 - November 16, 2024
Hannah Traore Gallery: 150 Orchard Street
Samuel Nnorom: In the Beginning, In a Material World
at Kates-Ferri Projects
In a Material World, In the Beginning, Installation View
Nigerian artist Samuel Nnorom is the subject of two concurrent exhibitions, IN A MATERIAL WORLD, IN THE BEGINNING, organized by Kates-Ferri Projects. The two featured series, Genetics Inspired and Water Wave Inspired, are meditations on the concept of creation. Working with African wax fabrics, Nnorom recognizes the complex lineage and global journey of his material’s creation, designed and fabricated in Europe and Asia before they are sold to African nations, marketed as traditional African fabrics. Constructing and connecting fabric bubbles together, Nnorom considers his bubbles eggs, atoms, or ovaries, all indicative of life creation. These exhibitions, the first highlighting scientific structures of creation and the second reckoning with religious conceptions of creation compared to the scientific, convey their message through vibrant, textural structures, each as diverse as the human experience.
September 3 - October 13, 2024
Kates-Ferri Projects 561 Grand Street
Robin F. Williams: Good Mourning
at P·P·O·W
Good Mourning, 2024
Media references come to life in Good Mourning at P·P·O·W, featuring new large-scale paintings and gouaches by Robin F. Williams. Throughout Williams’s career, constructions and representations of gender in media have been of significant interest. Williams continues this conversation, pulling from film, pop culture, and art history in their works. Inspired by their experience looking for the “paintings” in horror films, Williams’s compositions are imbued with rich, often familiar, narratives. With subjects tightly framed, saturated in dramatic color palettes, Williams portrays the moral complexity of their female figures, challenging traditional notions of gender.
September 6 - October 26, 2024
P·P·O·W: 390 Broadway, 2nd Floor
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Wednesday, October 30 from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Room57: 235 East 57th Street
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