Spring 2021 written and edited by Henry Belden, published by Lacy Davisson
Note from the publisher: This is our second volume of Corona Couch Curator. We want to share a variety of art experiences to enjoy at home from your couch.
-Lacy
- The New Museum – Grief and Grievance
- LOMEX – Andrea Fourchy
- Durham Press – James Nares
- The Drawing Center – David Hammons Body Prints
- Franklin Parrasch Gallery – Peter Alexander
- Superblue Miami – Every Wall is a Door Installation
- McKenzie Fine Art – Tom Leaver
- White Cube Gallery – Collective Memory Group Exhibition
- The Frick Madison – Frick Collection at Marcel Breuer Building
- Hosfelt Gallery – Liliana Porter
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
The New Museum, 235 Bowery, NYC
February 17 – June 6, 2021

This profound exhibition is the realized vision of the late curator Okwui Enwezor. Originally proposed to coincide with the 2020 presidential election, ‘Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America’ focuses on the intersection of Black mourning and white nationalism in American life through a selection of intergenerational Black artists’ work.
Comprising all three main exhibition floors of the New Museum, as well as the Lobby gallery and public spaces, the works included in the exhibition represent cross-disciplinary approaches that incorporate methods of documentary film and photography, experimental filmmaking, performance, and social engagement alongside traditional artistic mediums like painting, drawing, and sculpture. The exhibition comprises diverse examples of artists exploring American history from the civil rights movement of the 1960s to issues of police violence in the United States in the 1990s and today.
Central to Enwezor’s concept for the exhibition are three works by Jack Whitten, Daniel LaRue Johnson, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Listen to one of the show’s curator’s Naomi Beckwith discuss the process of honoring Enwezor’s legacy with this pivotal exhibition here.
Andrea Fourchy: Girlfriends
LOMEX, 86 Walker St. #3, NYC
March 13 – April 25, 2021

LOMEX, a gallery known for representing young and emerging artists, presents painter Andrea Fourchy’s ‘Girlfriends’ as the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new Tribeca location. With the flare of 21st-Century camp, Fourchy uses an iterative process of painting and repainting iconic actresses such as Isabelle Hupert, Divine, and Anjelica Huston on large scale canvases. In the painting Female Trouble (opposite), Fourchy’s reoccurring cast
James Nares: Wave & Particle, Particle & Wave
Durham Press, 521 West 23rd Street #8F (Showroom), NYC
On View March 2021

James Nares and Durham Press are excited to announce the completion of four new screenprints, published in editions of fifty-five. Titled Wave & Particle or Particle & Wave, each focuses on the movement of a solitary brushstroke across the page.
Nares’ newest prints seize upon the duplicative logic of printmaking to contemplate fundamental concepts of physics. The titles refer to a core idea of quantum mechanics stating that all of the miniscule building blocks of our universe can at once be a particle and a wave—a seemingly contradictory, paradoxical fact of existence. While Wave & Particle depicts blue (1) and orange-red (2) brushstrokes floating on white backgrounds, Particle & Wave presents inversions of these compositions. Utilizing the same screens, the two Particle & Wave prints feature white brushstrokes against iridescent fields of blue and copper-red.
David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NYC
February 5 – May 23, 2021


Produced following the 1965 Los Angeles uprisings, Hammons’ monoprints and collages poetically use the Black body to directly engage with racial and national identity. The first museum exhibition dedicated to the artist’s early works on paper is both technically and emotionally impressive. The show is open until May, at which point Hammons’ long anticipated public sculpture ‘Day’s End’ will be revealed in Hudson River Park along the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula.
Hammons is heavily featured in the HBO Documentary ‘Black Art: In the Absence of Light’ alongside artists profiled such as Theaster Gates, Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems. Central to the film is examining the role of the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York City, which Hammons was an Artist-in-Residence from 1980-1981. The Museum has an extensive online archive cataloguing exhibitions going back more than 50 years, an incredible resource provided by the cultural institution. The Museum’s ‘Studio Magazine’ focuses on contemporary artists of African descent, providing insightful essays such as this piece on Hammons’ Body Prints by artist Zalika Azim.
Peter Alexander: Early Works, 1965-1972
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 19 E. 66th Street, NYC
March 15 – April 23, 2021

The inaugural exhibition at the Gallery’s new Upper East Side location comprises a group of key early works which exemplify the late artist’s engagement with cast resin over the course of seven years. In each of the early works on view in this show, Alexander puts optical effects to the service of formal pursuits. Forms and pigments are suspended within the translucent resin, rendering varying chromatic densities and creating a basis for interpretation of light, color, and form. The exhibition was featured in Frieze Magazine’s Top Five Shows to See in the US and Canada and profiled by the magazine here.
James Turrell, teamLab, Es Devlin Installations
Superblue, Miami
Opening Spring 2021

A 50,000 square foot industrial building across from the new Rubell Museum in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, Superblue is an ambitious project focusing on immersive, participatory art experiences. The first of many future locations, Superblue Miami is set to open early this Spring with the show Every Wall is a Door, featuring large-scale works by James Turrell, teamLab, and Es Devlin.
Tom Leaver
McKenzie Fine Art, 55 Orchard Street, NYC
February 18 – March 28, 2021
Lower East Side Gallery Mckenzie Fine Art presents an exhibition of oil paintings and new graphite drawings by Northern-California based artist Tom Leaver. His luminous landscapes are an expression of emotional, psychological, and spiritual states of mind.
The exhibition also features graphite drawings on paper, which the artist has never exhibited before. The drawings specifically reflect his long-standing interest in Chinese landscape with its quality of being suggestive rather than literal. He cites the work of 11th and 12th century Song Dynasty painters Guo Xi and Li Tang as particular influences.
Collective Memory Group Show
White Cube, 2512 Florida Avenue, West Palm Beach, Florida
March 5 – April 4 2021

The Frick Collection at Frick Madison
On View through March 2023

The Frick collection has found a temporary new home in the the Marcel Breuer–designed building at 945 Madison Avenue that was once the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art and most recently The Met Breuer. The anachronistic experience of seeing Old Master paintings, European sculpture and decorative arts re-presented in the modern, Bauhaus-style building challenges the traditional way one is used to experiencing historical art. Get to know the youngest curatorial team of any museum in the world through their mini web-series Cocktails with a Curator; every Friday at 5:00 p.m., a Frick curator (remotely) offers insights on a work of art with a complementary cocktail. Listen to deputy director and chief curator of the Frick Xavier Salomon discuss the challenges in designing the exhibition here.
Liliana Porter: The Riddle / Charada
Hosfelt Gallery, 260 Utah Street, San Francisco
March 13 – April 24, 2021

Hosfelt Gallery presents the world premiere of Liliana Porter’s most recent video, The Riddle/Charada, featuring an idiosyncratic cast of characters culled from her ever-evolving collection of toys and figurines that she finds in flea markets, antique stores, and souvenir shops. The narrative is constructed from a sequence of vignettes wherein these characters interact in unexpected and darkly humorous ways, to a poignant soundtrack by Sylvia Meyer.
To elucidate the conceptual and philosophical foundations of Porter’s work, accompanying the film are a group of seminal prints made in the 1960s and ‘70s. For information on the artist and her work, click here.