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Winter Gallery Guide

Winter Gallery Guide

February 6, 2025

There are many special art exhibitions to see across New York. Our favorite way to escape the cold, here are a few of Artmuse’s recommended gallery shows on view now.

 

Takuro Kuwata: Together Shiyoze! (Let’s Get Together!)

at Salon 94 For his largest show to date in the US, renowned Japanese ceramicist Takuro Kuwata transforms Salon 94’s galleries into a whimsical garden of Eden. With organic forms that ooze, drip, burst forth, crackle, bubble, and glimmer, Kuwata provides a contemporary take on wabi sabi with his large-scale ceramic fruit creations that appear like otherworldly, alien forms or in a beautiful state of decay.

January 10-February 15

3 East 89th Street

Installation view via Salon 94

People, Places & Things

at Room57

Bringing together the work of art historical giants alongside rising talents, People, Places & Things explores the beauty in the quotidian. Presenting scenes of everyday life, this exhibition in a range of mediums includes ink drawings by Marc Chagall and Alexander Calder, mixed-media busts of everyday women by Alexandra Patacchini, and contemporary New York scenes painted by Madeline Rupard, among others. Artists include Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Hugh Clemons, Eileen Murphy, Verdiana Patacchini, Madelne Rupard, and Adelisa Selimbašić.

January 16-March 9 

235 East 57th Street

Verdiana Patacchini, Lady with Earrings via Room 57

George Condo: Pastels

at Hauser & Wirth and Sprüth Magers

Spanning two galleries across town, this epic presentation of energetic new portraits by George Condo highlights the amazing prowess of this singular force in the contemporary art world. Confronting his work, there is no surprise that Condo’s work has become iconic in our culture, with images of his work found on album covers and fashion runways, far surpassing the scope of gallery walls. With these new works, Condo elevates the medium of pastels, typically associated with sketching, to create sharply-drawn, contorted portraits that are nothing short of magnificent. 

January 29-April 12

22 East 80th Street, 2nd Floor and 134 Wooster Street

George Condo, The Smiling Blond via Hauser & Wirth

Theresa Daddezio: Bloom

at DC Moore

Theresa Daddezio’s breathtaking new paintings present fields of luminous colors, evocative organic abstractions, and sensuous undulating forms. These kaleidoscope-like compositions complement the major Guggenheim show on display now surveying‘Orphism’, the early 20th century art movement that explores the transformative possibilities of color, form, and motion. Likewise, Daddezio’s canvases feature undulating structures and forms that display Daddezio’s masterful ability to create poetic harmonies through color.

January 23-February 22

535 West 22nd Street

Theresa Daddezio, Awakening via DC Moore

Marc Dennis: I’m Happy You’re Here

at HARPER’S

Marc Dennis is known for his amazing, hyperrealistic paintings that examine, subvert, and contemporize art historical painting traditions. Imbued with his trademark sense of humor and delight, Dennis’s new oil paintings examine the iconic memento mori and vanitas still-life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age. Here, Dennis updates this hallmark Dutch painting tradition and replaces compositions of flowers, books, fruits, and skulls with that of bubbles, butterflies, mushrooms, and other joyous markers of modern life.

January 9-March 1

512 West 22nd Street

Marc Dennis, Happily Ever After via HARPER’S

Giorgio Morandi

at David Zwirner

One of the largest Giorgio Morandi exhibitions in New York to date, this historical show features 50 works that span the six decades of Morandi’s career. This exhibition features Morandi’s iconic “nature sorta” still lives alongside etched landscapes, painted portraits, and other rarer works. This museum quality show is not to be missed by art history lovers, as it brings works on loan from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation—the private collection of Luigi Magnani who assembled his collection in close collaboration with the artist—to New York for a short time. 

January 16-February 22

537 West 20th Street

Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta metafisica (Metaphysical Still Life) via David Zwirner

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg: Only for the Wicked

at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Imbued with humor and vibrant imagination, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s exhibition offers an escape into a wonderful fairytale. Transforming the gallery into a delightful forest filled with flora, fauna, and humorous creatures, this immersive exhibition by artists who have been collaborating for twenty years features beautiful sculpture, riveting video works, and imaginative installations that together create a dazzling fantasy.

January 9-February 21

521 West 21st Street

Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts

at Jack Shainman Gallery

Nick Cave’s remarkable exhibition Amalgams and Graphts presents new bronze sculptures as well as monumental mixed media assemblages. These new works advance Cave’s moving vision and singular style and inaugurate Jack Shaman’s impressive new flagship gallery housed in a historic bank building.

In this exhibition, three powerful, large bronze sculptures tower in the air and splay across the gallery, ornately adorned in flora and fauna that evoke feelings of spirituality and care. These sculptures present an evolution of Cave’s seminal “Soundsuit” works, which were created in response to the brutal beating of Rodney King by police in 1991. Cave’s new series of colorful, large-scale works constructed on vintage serving trays feature needlepoint portraits of the artists embedded with florals and vivid colors. These new works consider with immense beauty hierarchies as well as the ballroom culture tenant of “serving”.

46 Lafayette Street

January 10-March 29

Installation view via Jack Shainman

Mathilde Denize: Sound of Figures

at PERROTIN

The Paris-based visionary Mathilde Denize presents found objects, standing ceramic sculptures, suspended garment-like sculptures, and lyrical paintings at Perrotin. Much of Denize’s work is informed by her time spent as a set designer, with the artist often using the surplus pigments from film sets in her practice. Across this body of work, Denize creates poetic, psychological landscapes that beautifully echo the natural world as well as the human form. Her sensual works display her mastery over color and form in each medium Denize pursues as colorful forms in warm pastels dance across her work, calling to mind the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint.  

130 Orchard Street

January 11-February 19

Installation view via Perrotin

Behind the Bedroom Door

at James Cohan

Exploring intimacy, sexuality, and private moments, this impressive exhibition brings together the works of Diane Arbus, Pierre Bonnard, Sophie Calle, Marlene Dumas, Eric Fischl, Louis Fratino, Lee Friedlander, Sheila Hicks, Yvonne Jacquette, Yun-Fei Ji, Mernet Larsen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Christian Marclay, Jesse Mockrin, Jenny Morgan, Zanele Muholi, Brandon Ndife, Nicholas Nixon, Dana Sherwood, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Tecla Tofano, Edouard Vuillard, Artus Wolffort, Lisa Yuskavage, and many others. Bringing together a vast range of artists that include a  Flemish master, post-impressionist, famed contemporary voices, rising voices, and many more, this exhibition presents explorations of privacy, sexuality, and the psyche across time and media. 

January 10-February 8

48 Walker Street & 291 Grand Street

Zanele Muholi, Lishonile, BellCourt, Seattle via James Cohan


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