Tribeca Art Tours & November Gallery Shows
Register now for Artmuse’s in-person Gallery Tours of Tribeca!
There are so many fantastic gallery shows to see this fall! Join Natasha for in-person gallery tours of Tribeca and keep reading for a few of Artmuse Selects’ top shows to see now!
Email Natasha at ns@artmuseny.com to join.
Fee: $100 per person. Payment needs to be made in advance (unless prior-arrangement is made) via Venmo or PayPal to confirm your spot.
NOVEMBER 10: 11 am - sold out | 2 pm - sold out
NOVEMBER 12: 11 am - sold out |2 PM - sold out
NOVEMBER 17: 11 am - sold out |2 pm - 1 spot open
NOVEMBER 18: 11 am - sold out | 2 PM - sold out
NOVEMBER 19: 11 am - sold out
Additionally, you can still sign up for Artmuse’s virtual presentations to tour museums from home! November’s topics are Jordan Casteel at the New Museum, David Hockney at the Morgan Library, Jeffrey Gibson at the Brooklyn Museum, and Peter Saul at the New Museum. Email ns@artmuseny.com to sign up!
1. Cecily Brown at Paula Cooper
Cecily Brown’s figurative abstract paintings are like modern day epics: they continuously unfold as you read them and grow in beauty and significance as you meditate upon them. Brown’s new works, now on view at Paula Cooper Gallery, exhibit a tonal-shift for the artist (perhaps due to the immense amount of change we’ve all adapted to these last few months). The major works in this show are remarkable and continue Brown’s practice of culling from art history, this time the work of the Flemish master painter Frans Snyders. The canvas-sized works in the show however are different; called The Bedroom Series, these works depict scenes of a couple within their intimate space.
Through November 21, by appointment
524 West 26th Street
Pictured: installation view | courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery
What does it mean to be human in 2020? In his second exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Louis Fratino answers this question. With an approach that draws on Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, O’Keefe, and other art historical giants, Fratino depicts intimate moments while considering the beautiful nuances between objects’ shapes and forms. Falling in and out of calls to cubism, Fratino uses art history and the everyday to examine queerness’s relationship to the everyday.
Through November 14, by appointment
530 West 22nd Street
Pictured: Sleeping on your roof in August, 2020 (above); Among women only, 2020 (below) | courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co
The Mexican artist Bosco Sodi’s exhibition at Kasmin is an ode to Spain. Sodi’s new work—highly textural sculptural paintings and a gorgeous clay sculpture—meditate upon the work of Eduardo Chillida, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, and Informalismo Catalan as they sing a love song to Spain and to the Earth. These expansive works, made of clay, sawdust, and pigment, are tranquil and beautiful in their play of materials and textures.
Through November 12, by appointment
509 West 27th Street
Pictured: installation view courtesy of Kasmin (above); detail of Untitled (2019) courtesy of Kasmin (below) | courtesy of Kasmin
The artist’s first solo show in New York in five years, Ryan McGinness’ exhibition at Miles McEnery marks the artist’s triumphant return to the gallery space, with a jaw dropping presentation of 72 paintings! A 127-foot long painting-installation that wraps around the entire gallery, Mindscapes shows McGinness pushing the idea of the commodification of painting to its extreme. These works are literally brilliant and feature pearlescent and fluorescent paints laid with metal leaf.
Through November 14
520 West 21st Street
Pictured: installation view | courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery
“I’m always amused,” says artist Kelly Reemtsen, “when people think the women are threatening. Why do you see it that way? It’s not personal. That’s a projection."
Now on view at albertz benda, The Shape of Things showcases Reemsten’s keen eye and wit to explore the challenges women face when it comes to the gender roles, performances, and expectations that confront women today. In so doing, Reemsten created a series of eight cast resin and steel Chainsaw Sculptures, Oval Paintings that evoke Victorian portraiture, and Pieces of Her, an installation of 30 paintings of women holding power tools, that all depict women breaking the barriers society casts upon them.
Through November 7
515 West 26th Street
Pictured: Pieces of Her (above); installation view (below) | courtesy of albertz benda
Episodic and vivid, Inka Essenhigh’s paintings lure viewers into a world that evokes a sweet dream. A continuation of the artist’s practice, Essenhigh’s new paintings depict fantastic worlds that are surreal yet familiar. Often depicting lurid figures or symphonic fauna, Essenhigh and her visual vocabulary exhibit the artist’s brilliant imagination and knack for drawing out her viewer’s desires. These works will draw you in and warrant being looked at again and again.
Through November 14
525 West 22nd Street
Pictured: Mission Chinese Restaurant, 2020 | courtesy of Miles McEnery
Sanford Biggers’ second solo exhibition with Marianne Boesky Gallery promises to be beautiful and insightful. Following the opening of Biggers’ exhibition Codeswitch at the Bronx Museum, Soft Truths presents new marble sculptures from Biggers’ lauded Chimeras series as well as new quilt-based paintings and soft sculptures. Soft Truths is a must-see gallery show and a great way to enjoy Sanford Biggers’s beautiful new work if you’re looking for a more compact show than is at the Bronx Museum.
October 31 - December 12, by appointment
509 & 507 West 24th Street
Pictured: Orpheus, 2020 | courtesy of Marianne Boesky
If you’re not familiar with Robert Kobayashi, Moe’s Meat Market at Susan Inglett Gallery provides a fantastic survey into the late artist’s singular vision. Born in Honolulu in 1925, Robert Kobayashi served in World War II before being encouraged by his sister to attend the Honolulu Academy of Art and, later, Brooklyn Museum School of Art. In 1988, Kobayashi had his first solo exhibition in New York and would have shows in the City and in Hawaii, among other places. His work is now found in the collections of the MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, among other institutions. Kobayashi’s unique approach involves using non-art materials such as nails and ceiling tins to create his works.
Through November 7
522 West 24th Street
Pictured: Yellow Room, 2011 | courtesy of Susan Inglett Gallery
With Waiting, Brian Calvin presents 23 new works that fill Anton Kern’s first and second floor galleries! These colorful portraits, painted and born out of the pandemic, appear almost alive and make you feel close to each portrait’s subject.Calvin’s portraits are memorable and draw the viewer in through Calvin’s elegant use of pattern, color, and space.
October 29 - December 5
16 East 55th Street
Pictured: courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery
Fred Tomaselli’s paintings marry text with pattern, shape, and form to produce psychedelic effects, which he calls “reality modification devices.” Working since the early 90s, Tomaselli collages newsprint and hand-painted ornamentations onto a resin surface. The exhibition at James Cohan features eight new works that are part of his ongoing New York Times series of collages.
Through November 21, by appointment
48 Walker Street
Pictured: Untitled, 2020 | courtesy of James Cohan Gallery
Derek Fordjour’s first exhibition with Petzel Gallery, SELF MUST DIE presents a group of works that respond powerfully to the painful moment our country finds itself in. The show is comprised of three parts: a group of new paintings; Vestibule, a site-specific sculptural installation; and Fly Away, a live puppetry art performance that occurs twice a day. SELF MUST DIE explores what it means to inhabit a Black body, especially in this current moment, following the death of Breonna Taylor. Fordjour paints using a beautiful and intricate collage style that warrants your deep examination.
November 12 - December 19
Pictured: Pall Bearers, 2020 | courtesy of Petzel
A benefit exhibition to support a renovation for The Kitchen’s 50th anniversary, Ice and Fire celebrates the institution’s community and its building’s history. An online exhibition due to The Kitchen’s beloved building being under construction, Ice and Fire invites you to explore its exhibition, performance, and office spaces that now feature art interventions. Curated by The Kitchen board members Wade Guyton and Jacqueline Humphries as well as their curators, the exhibition is an ode to The Kitchen’s inaugural event titled New Ice Nights that began when it moved to its current space in January 1986 and incorporated performance and new media, “a fire sale to accelerate the current thaw.”
Participating artists include Ai Weiwei, Tauba Auerbach, Carol Bove, Cecily Brown, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Roe Ethridge, Peter Fischli, Nan Goldin, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Peter Halley, Rachel Harrison, Charline von Heyl, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Simone Leigh, Zoe Leonard, Robert Longo, Senga Nengudi, Laura Owens, Ed Ruscha, Wolfgang Tillmans, Danh Vō, Christopher Wool, among others!
Through January 2021
View the exhibition online here
Pictured: Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Anderson, 1982