Artful Fall: Must-See Gallery Shows of the Season Part 2: 12 New York Gallery Shows We Are Excited About
We celebrated the first day of fall this past Thursday, and with the start of the art season in full swing, we're excited to share some additional shows that we are currently loving!
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Coming Back to See Through, Again
Njideka Akunyili Crosby “The Beautyful Ones” Series #10: A Sunny Day on Bar Beach, 2022
They tell personal stories, and position the viewer as someone who enters spaces filled with memories, cultural histories, introspective reflection of identity by the celebrated Nigerian-born and US-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby in her first NY solo show at David Zwirner.
“In the exhibition, multiple places and temporalities exist together within single compositions. In these works, Akunyili Crosby uses doorways, screens, posters, and windows as devices that open to other worlds, such as private interior spaces, lush external gardens, and bustling Nigerian markets.”
September 14th - October 28th
David Zwirner: 519 West 19th Street New York
Ugo Rondinone: bright light shining
Installation view, Ugo Rondinone: bright light shining
Ugo Rondinone is a New York based, Swiss-born artist. Rondinone’s art is profoundly shaped by nature, often incorporating natural elements into his art. Rondinone’s large-scale sculptures explore the human experience and the human relationship with natural world.
“For this show, the artist presents new, large-scale sculptures along with an interconnected body of work, which act as building blocks of the perfect storm. In the center of the exhibition are three massive lightning strikes that forcefully punctuate the space. Painted in bright, dayglo yellow, the bronze light sculptures depict the crooked and rhythmic lines that form strikes of lightning, creating tangible and static representations of these miraculous experiences and awe-inspiring phenomena… As the viewer moves around the exhibition, each form continually changes based on the viewer’s vantage point.”
September 14th - November 9th
Gladstone Gallery: 530 West 21st Street
Charline von Heyl
Demonds Dance Alone (Left), Blue Grotto (Right)
“I’m just trying to keep the paintings ahead of language. Or better yet, ahead of sentences. Nothing is truly beyond language, obviously. I just want to get the viewer to move past definitions and on to something more personal and fragile, a place where thoughts and feelings meet, where looking feels like thinking.” Charline Von Heyl.
Born in Germany and currently based in the United States between New York, NY and Marfa, TX, Charline Von Heyl is an abstract painter spearheading a renaissance. She has rekindled in painting themes and motifs that were once considered obsolete.
September 8th - October 28th
Petzel Gallery: 520 west 25th street
Jeffrey Gibson: ANCESTRAL SUPERBLOOM
I’M OPEN TO PERSUASION, 2023
Celebratory, and even triumphant, joyous and even explosive, vibrant and even blindingly colorful are the new works in ANCESTRAL SUPERBLOOM, Jeffery Gibson’s solo show coming on the heels of the historical announcement that Gibson will be the first artist of indigenous heritage to represent the United States in the 60th anniversary edition of the Venice Biennale.
“Jeffrey Gibson’s multimedia practice synthesizes the cultural and artistic traditions of his Cherokee and Choctaw heritage with the visual languages of Modernism and themes from contemporary popular and queer culture. His work is a vibrant call for queer and Indigenous empowerment, envisioning a celebration of strength and joy within these communities.”
September 6th - October 21st
Sikkema Jenkins: 530 west 22nd street
George Segal: Nocturnal Fragments
Blimpies, 1999
Life suspended in midst of action or in a moment of repose, real people not gods and ideals define the tremendous body of work of one of America’s great twentieth century sculptors: George Segal (1924-2000). In a new show of his work at Galerie Templon in New York, we are invited to be not just viewers and an audience but participants, walking around the sculptures that are placed on our level, not pedestals. Color always remained an important conceptual aspect of his work since his early days of being a painter.
“His tableaux are reflections on the individual and her/his place in 20th century society. He plays on the permeability of spaces, inviting the viewer to enter into a dialogue with anonymous and motionless figures. He pioneered the application of plaster bandages to the model's body, a technique he used to reveal the evocative power of gesture and its poetical, social, erotic and political dimensions.”
September 6th - October 28th
Galerie Templon: 293 Tenth Avenue
Austin Martin White: Lost in the Sauce
cloudscape(linear casta), 2023
Where history is reassessed, paint becomes a way to confront the past and the act of painting itself is a statement that puts an uncomfortable truth as a form of resistance and confrontation. Austin Martin White ‘s “Lost in the Sauce” is his inaugural show at Derek Eller Gallery. His recent research into casa painting is the foundation for his new works.
“In eighteenth-century colonial Mexico, the ruling class of generational Spanish settlers sought to order identities in a way that reflected their interests and channeled the reality of mestizaje, or race mixing. They desired a hierarchy that organized Spaniards in a position over, first, mixed mestizos, then the Indigenous—who had been first slaughtered then subjugated, though legally speaking never enslaved—and at the bottom, Black people who had been enslaved….. the sistema de castas became a political and cultural rubric for classifying peoples by their relative proximity to or distance from whiteness. The genre of casta painting emerged to illustrate and help codify such logic.”
September 5th - October 7th
Derek Eller Gallery: 511 Wet 22nd Street
Anne Buckwalter: Reins on a Rocking Horse
Low Battery, 2023
Come closer, closer, closer to peer into the seemingly innocent and innocuous world created by Anne Buckwalter. At first glance, her work looks like something out of the American folk art tradition only to discover it’s provocative, very contemporary and sometimes disturbing details and human interactions.
“Reins on a Rocking Horse” extends “ the artist’s exploration of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art tradition from a personal and contemporary lens, the gouache on panel or paper works (all 2023) explore our physically and emotionally compartmentalized selves. Amidst Buckwalter’s precise motifs and sharp geometries, bodies pop from doors left ajar or appear on elegantly-placed mirrors.”
September 5th - November 4th
Rachel Uffner: 170 Suffolk Street
Maison Palo: CURATED BY PAUL HENKEL & SOPHIA HERRING
Works by Jara Lopez Sastre, Kat Howard, Walton Ford, Toni Ross, Dean Dempsey, Julius Margulies, Dean Dempsey, Leon Pozniakow, Walton Ford, Sage Schachter, Leon Pozniakow, Ai Weiwei, Sandy Williams IV, Ai Weiwei, Rogan Gregory, Sage Schachter, Leon Pozniakow, Roberto Lugo, Walton Ford, Sarp Kerem Yavuz, Amadeo Morelos, Roger Herman, Bill Armstrong & David Smalling
Curated by Sophia Herring and Palo Gallery founder Paul Henkel, the show exhibits works that invites viewers to understand and explore art collecting. The show displays works through the lens of a personal home collection.
“The exhibition is organized through four themed rooms, each representing a unique type of collector profile: the Emerging Collector, the Encyclopaedic Collector, the Textile Collector, and the Thematic Collector. Using a carefully curated selection of modern and contemporary art, design objects, and furniture by Annabelle Selldorf’s Vica brand, each room will immerse visitors in a rich tapestry of domestic collecting practices. Through the coalescence of interior elements, including furniture and art, Maison Palo explores these four types of collecting through four distinct rooms.”
September 8th - October 27th
Maison Palo: 30 Bond Street
Christopher Myers: Sing to Me of Many Turns
The Hero Slept, 2023
An absolutely remarkable new body of appliqué textile and a stained glass light box works by the artist Christopher Myers at James Cohan Gallery.
“Sing to Me of Many Turns is a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, presented in an epic cycle of appliqué textile works, stained glass and sculpture. Myers filters this ancient journey through the lens of contemporary tales of migration that have shaped the Lower East Side neighborhood within which the gallery sits.”
September 14th - November 4th
James Cohan: 291 Grand Street
Autumn Wallace: DRAWING BLOOD
Tenderheaded, 2023
Sensual, erotic, daring and expressive, Autumn Wallace’s first New York show is a personal and moving body of work. And the black femme body is at the center of her investigation. Wallace’s show titled Drawing Blood. Wallace’s features work that examines myth, gender, sexuality and the black femme experience.
“In Drawing Blood, Autumn Wallace asks essential questions about our physical bodies and the bodies we become together: Where did we come from? What parts are we born from: the parts that we shed? Where do our fragments go? What is the blood that we are made of? Focusing on the concept of reproduction, the works in Drawing Blood recontextualize the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction, expanding the phenomena beyond biology into the realm of myth and personhood.”
September 8th - October 21st
Gaa Gallery: 4 Courtland Alley
Rebecca Morris
Untitled (#12-23)
Renowned Los Angeles-based artist Rebecca Morris is celebrated for her expansive paintings that burst with vibrant and imaginative explorations of color, composition, and gesture. Morris pushes the boundaries of color schemes in her abstract creations, continually experimenting and innovating within her work.
“In her latest work, Morris has retained the complex, overlapping patterns and expressive mark-making for which she is best known, but their density has been dispersed within broader, brilliant fields of color. This distillation of visual information has heightened a sense of expansive, atmospheric space within her abstractions. Emphasizing a purity of color, subtler shades have been deployed in the boldest possible permutations, confounding expectations of painting and probing new possibilities within her practice.”
September 8th - November 4th
Bortolami: 39 Walker Street
Zio Ziegler: The Essential Figures
REssential figure #3 (The Brazos), 2022
The dynamic, energy-fueled, expressive and vibrant paintings by the fast-emerging artist Zio Ziegler seem to be animated despite being static, figurative despite being abstract, they are an exploration of sense-inducing colors despite clearly being invested in linear language. These contradictions in fact work together in favor of the exhilarating pull one feels in front of each painting.
“Ziegler paints from a meditative state, drawing from his subconscious a personal interpretation of the world around him. For him, painting is an act of self-exploration and a radical expression of vulnerability.”
September 14th - October 28th
Almine Reche: White Street
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