Renewed New York

The New York City art scene is experiencing a refresh with lots of galleries changing locations or opening new spaces throughout the city. Here are Artmuse Selects’ top shows to see in new spaces.

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WELCOME TO TRIBECA!

The Hole: Eric Shaw, Pure Mode

Last March, Brooklyn-based painter Eric Shaw’s solo exhibition at The Hole was cut short due to the pandemic. One year later, The Hole opens its new TriBeCa space with a joyful show presenting all new work by Shaw!

Shaw’s energetic geometric abstract paintings are filled with dynamic motion and bright colors that bloom as your eyes read his canvases. A body of work made during the pandemic, Pure Joy’s symbolic meaning is just as beautiful as the works in the show themselves: though the lights went out on Shaw’s last show due to the pandemic, Shaw brings to life The Hole’s new space with his vivacious new works all painted within these last few months.

Through May 16

86 Walker Street

Pictured: I Examine My Surroundings, 2020 (above); installation view (below) | courtesy of The Hole

1969 Gallery: María Fragoso, El jardín entre tus dientes

Last December, 1969 Gallery moved from the Lower East Side to TriBeCa. Now, 1969 Gallery has an entirely exciting show: the 25-year-old Mexico-based artist María Fragoso’s first solo exhibition at the gallery!

With six paintings and 13 works on paper, Fragoso’s work features female forms within surrealist scenes that meditate upon desire, connection and the artist’s Mexican heritage.

Through April 24

39 White Street

Pictured: Augurio, 2021 | courtesy of 1969 Gallery

Freight + Volume: Peter Williams, Black Exodus

Inaugurating Freight + Volume’s new space in a historic cast iron building on Lispenard, a brilliant exhibition of paintings by Peter Williams take the viewer across space and time as the artist weaves together humor and history in his rich narratives of a Black exodus. Displays of masterful storytelling, Williams’ paintings depict his take on an Afrofuturist people reaching utopia while meditating upon history and technology.

Through May 15

39 Lispenard

Pictured: Black People’s Oil, 2019 | courtesy of Freight + Volume

P.P.O.W.: Martin Wong & Aaron Gilbert,1981-2021

At P.P.O.W.’s new TriBeCa space perched right on Broadway, Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert partake in a poignant dialogue that charts the social and cultural realities from 1981 to 2021. With an intergenerational conversation that explores the artists’ private lives and communal experiences, Wong and Gilbert present a chronicle of a city bookended by two pandemics, AIDS and COVID-19. 

Through May 1

Opening May 7: exhibitions by Erin M. Riley and Joe Houston

392 Broadway

Pictured: Aaron Gilbert, Ready Willing and Able, 2020 | courtesy of PPOW

GRIMM Gallery: Caroline Walker, Nearby

GRIMM joined the ranks of Chelsea galleries moving to TriBeCa and opened its White Street space last March. Now, the gallery presents a great show of new paintings by Caroline Walker. Rendering familiar scenes like a trip to the dry cleaner or walking one’s dog, Walker explores the boundaries between direct experience and observing. Depicting quiet moments within the bustling London metropolis, Walker portrays everyday life with grandeur and immense heart. 

Through May 1

54 White Street

Pictured: Paula, 2020 (above): Giorgia, 2021 (below) | courtesy of GRIMM

COMING SOON: David Zwirner in TriBeCa

David Zwirner is building out a new gallery space in Tribeca, on Walker Street between Broadway and Church. The gallery’s first downtown location, the space will be run by Zwirner director Ebony L. Haynes, who has pledged to hire a staff of people of color to run the space, as an exhibition-focused gallery and curatorial program.

Image courtesy of Artnet

MOVING UP(TOWN):

Salon 94: Derrick Adams, Style Variations and Niki de Saint Phalle, Joy Revolution

Salon 94 made its way uptown to it’s new (town)home at a historic Beaux-Arts townhouse on 89th street, blocks away from the gallery’s original location in founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn’s family’s townhouse. Artists from Salon 94’s Design division added their touches to the new gallery: Max Lamb constructed a tiled bathroom; Gaetano Pesce designed a Ballet Table for Greenberg Rohatyn’s office; and Philippe Malouin designed a glass chandelier to hang in the stairwell.

Inaugurating the new space, Salon 94 presents Joy Revolution, an exhibition of seminal work by the late sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle and Style Variations, a presentation of ten fabulous new portraits by Derrick Adams. Both exhibitions explore the concept of radical joy to boldly celebrate human life.

Through April 24, by appointment

3 East 89th Street

Pictured: Derrick Adams, installation view (above); Niki de Saint Phalle, Black Dancer, 1966 (below)| courtesy of Salon 94

NOW IN THE LES:

Voltz Clarke: RESURGENCE

In their new Lower East Side space, Voltz Clarke presents a magnificent two-person show with the painters Khalilah Birdsong and Jason Trotter. Though both artists paint abstractly, Trotter creates hard edged and sharp geometric abstractions while Birdsong creates gestural swathes of color through a process of building up and stripping down colors to reveal organic contusions, bumps and colors. Though aesthetically different, both Birdsong and Trotter’s work uplifts the viewer when standing before these beautiful explorations between color, line, shape and form.

Opened April 8, by appointment

195 Chrystie Street

Pictured: Khalilah Birdsong, Of Rainbows and Orbs, 2019 | courtesy of Artsy

NEW TO CHELSEA:

Nara Roesler: Raul Mourão, Empty Head

Nara Roesler, the contemporary gallery known for representing seminal Brazilian artists, is now in Chelsea! Later this month, they will open the first New York show for the Rio de Janeiro-based artist Raul Mourão. Mourão uses a variety of media to embark in a political and cultural critique, using his own urban setting as a point of reference to create his work.

April 27 - June 19

511 West 21st Street

Pictured: One of three large scale sculptures on corten steel from the artist’s ‘Rebel’ series, 2021. These pieces were created in honor of the experimental music venue Audio Rebel in Rio de Janeiro. | via @galerienararoesler on Instagram

NAME REFRESH:

Dinner Gallery (formerly VICTORI + MO), Magic Touch

2 years ago, the gallery formerly known as VICTORI + MO moved from Bushwick to Chelsea. Now, the gallery has hit refresh with a new name: Dinner Gallery. According to the gallery, “Dinner brings people together, it can forge friendships, bond relationships and compel open conversation. There has never been a time like the present where we long for dinner with friends more than we do now, so we hope that we’ll all be able to come together at Dinner in the new year.”

With that sentiment in mind, Dinner Gallery’s current exhibition Magic Touch brings together the work of Natalia Arbelaez, Jen Dwyer, Donté K. Hayes, Roxanne Jackson, Sophia Narrett, Katarina Riesing, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson and Anthony Sonnenberg. Magic Touch is centered around the theme of human connection and explores the idea of touch as a remedy for loneliness.

Through May 1, by appointment

242 West 22nd Street

Pictured: installation view courtesy of Dinner Gallery