I spent a much needed several days looking at art in Chelsea, the Lower East
Side, Chinatown, and Bushwick. There was a lot of spirit-lifting
color on the walls. Within its chromatic embrace, one could see geometry,
reductive rigor, provisional playfulness, bold brushwork, sumptuous surface, sculptural construction, and allover patterning in paint, fiber, wood, and paper. Here’s a look at some
of what I saw. Some of the group and solo shows remain ongoing, while others
have closed. Most of the various exhibitions’ images can be seen online.
Lost Child, 1986, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches
Cool Blue, 1981, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches; Harlequin, 1983, acrylic on canvas,
Below: Detail of Harlequin
Close Tone, 1984, oil and acrylic on canvas, 62 x 60 inches; Untitled, 1985, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 33 inches
Below: side view of Untitled
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Group exhibition with Celia Johnson, Conny Goeltz Schmitt, and Fran Shalom
Exhibition up through March 27
Below: Shalom’s Amplify and Encounter, both 2020, oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches
Moving clockwise around the gallery: Fran Shalom, Dastardly, 2020, oil on canvas; Celia Johnson, Seanoir, 2020, acrylic on panel
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Exhibition up through April 17
Above: Spiral, 2021, machine pieced and hand-quilted reclaimed fabrics
Below: reverse side
Cuadricula Quilt, 2019, machine pieced and hand-quilted cotton and polyester; right, Ups and Downs, 2021, acrylic on wood
Below: Detail of Cuadricula
Connection, 2021, acrylic on wood, 22 x 5.5 x .5 inches
Step Fret #3, 2020, hand-dyed wool, woven by Licha Gonzalez Ruiz and Augustin Contreras Lopez, 58 x 37.5 inches
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Group exhibition up through April 10
Above: Charmion von Wiegand, Vajrayana, 1969, oil on canvas
Below: Installation view of Untitled and Vajrayana
Charmion von Weigand, Untitled, 1952, oil on canvas
William T. Williams, Walter’s Advice, 1970, acrylic on canvas
Sam Gilliam, Untitled, 1970, acrylic an dye pigments on canvas
Alma Thomas, Red Rambling Rose Spring Song, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 58 x 35.25 inches
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At The Word for World is Forest at Essex Flowers, Chinatown, curated by Linnea Vedder
Group exhibition up through March 28
Detail below
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Thread at Foxy Production, Chinatown: Ulrike Muller, Rug (con triangulos), 2015, wool, handwoven in the workshop of Jeronimo and Josefina Hernandez Ruiz, 86 x 64.75 inches
Group exhibition up through March 21
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Above: Cameron Martin, Mr. Mr., 2020, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 60 inches
Cordoba detail below
Reticulation, 2017
Reticulation, 2016
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Shift 2021 at Thatcher Projects: Nobu Fukui, Majestic, beads and mixed media on canvas over panel, 48 x 48 inches
Detail below
Detail below
Above: #D12-25, 2012, all pencil and gouache on paper, 12 x 8.5 inches
Below: #D12-29, 2012
Below: #D12-20, 2012
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If you haven’t been to this venue,
you must visit. Located in a former synagogue that had been Milton Resnick’s studio, the three-story building has
been renovated to house the work
of the late artist and his partner, Pat Passlof, as well as to exhibit
the works of contemporary artists.
(Passlof had her own former synagogue
This image is from the Foundation website.
Pat Passlof, Memory of P., 1977
Detail below
Above, from left: Marcia Hafif, Brett Baker, Ruth Ann Fredenthal
Marcia Hafif, Mass Tone Painting: Hansa Yellow, March 12, 1974
Brett Baker, Evening Reflection 1, 2016
Detail below
Howard Smith, Universe #30, 1991-2020
A few individual works below
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Side view below
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Exhibition up through April 4
Detail below
Another wall of works
Detail below
Also from the exhibition, but no info available (app 60 x 60 inches)
Detail below
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Sharon Butler: Morning in America at Theodore Art, Bushwick. Exhibition has closed (and gallery is moving to Tribeca)
Above, left wall viewed from the entry: November 19; Favorite-April 17, 2019; May 29, 2018; Mueller Report (January 11, 2017), all oil on canvas
Favorite-April 17, 2019, 2019, oil on canvas, 52 x 42 inches
Detail below
Right wall viewed from the entry, with a selection of works shown below
March 8, 2020, 2021, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
May 9, 2019, 2020, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
February 13, 2019, 2020, oil on canvas, 14 x 18 inches
September 26, 2019, 2020, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches
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