ARTVIEW NYC EVENTS:
PRIVATE TOUR OF HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ARMORY SHOW 2010
www.thearmoryshow.com
America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. SATURDAY, MARCH 6TH, 11 AM TO 12:30 PM
This is a special preview of the fair before it opens to the public on Saturday. The fair will take place on Piers 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street. To register for this event, please email veronica@artviewnyc.com or call 212 860-7780. The fee is $75 per person.
ARTISTS’ STUDIO TOUR OF WILLIAMSBURG, MAY 2010, DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
www.momentaart.org
We will be offering a very exciting tour to Williamsburg in Brooklyn as a fundraising event for Momenta Art, the nonprofit contemporary arts center. Several renowned artists who support Momenta’s program will open their studios to our group for a truly unique experience. Artview NYC will be donating proceeds of this tour to support their efforts. The fee is $75 per person, for more information email veronica@artviewnyc.com or call 212 860-7780.
NYC GALLERIES SHORT LIST
By Lacy Davisson Doyle and Anne Prentnieks
William Bailey at Betty Cuningham Gallery
William Bailey’s work is instantly recognizable, particularly his still-life paintings. Unlike other still-life artists, he composes his paintings on the canvas from his imagination, adjusting the light source and relative scale of each object as he paints. Also included in the exhibition are six figure paintings which have a strange, dreamlike presence. The artist was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and studied with Josef Albers at Yale. His work can be seen in numerous important private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Whitney Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Bill Jensen at Cheim & Read
Born in Minneapolis in 1945, Jensen received his MFA at the University of Minnesota in 1970. He has lived and worked in NYC since then currently maintaining a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Jensen has long been respected for his unconventional abstractions, their compositions evocative of otherworldly landscapes where spatial definition is informed by structural logic. His exquisite color sense is apparent in these paintings where he has layered, scraped, seeped and dredged the medium with his self-made tools. The small gallery at the entrance, with black and white works on paper, is a gem to visit.
Charles Burchfield at D’Amelio Terras
The Front Room at the gallery has a beautiful installation of 17 early graphite drawings by the revered American master, Charles Burchfield (1893 – 1967). These drawings articulate the same quirky romanticism, emotional intensity, and psychological depth that reverberates throughout the fantastical, visionary depictions found in the artist’s watercolors and paintings. Burchfield is currently the subject of a major exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, which will travel to the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY, and to the Whitney Museum this summer.
Peter Halley at Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea
Mary Boone Gallery is exhibiting radiant new Peter Halley paintings at the Chelsea space. The large, vibrant new works are in keeping with Halley’s geometric, dimensional aesthetic. The color palette is a fresh development for the artist: DayGlo pastels, fluorescents, and rich primaries distill new iterations of the “cells” and “conduits” exemplary of his oeuvre.
Gelitin at Greene Naftali Gallery
On Thursday, January 28, the Austrian art collective Gelitin began to build “Blind Sculpture” at Greene Naftali. Every artist was blindfolded; materials included everything from yarn and fabric, to wood, to a piano. With the aid of guest artists including Cecily Brown and Amy Sillman among others, the work was completed in the following ten days – a lively, engaging performance that could be viewed from bleachers around the workspace. The resulting sculpture can be seen on display until February 27.
UPCOMING MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
By Ann Fensterstock
Outlined below are a number of upcoming museum shows, which will be well worth time on your spring calendar.
Opening on February 25th and running through May 30th, this seventy-fifth Biennial features a slightly slimmed-down list of fifty-five artists. A curatorial team of elder statesman, Francesco Bonami, and the relative newcomer, Gary Carrion-Murayari, should make this a stimulating but well-considered line up. The critical press, nevertheless, are likely to take issue as usual and once again make it the show that every body loves to hate. Several artists whose work we have looked at on Artview NYC itineraries will be there including The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Maureen Gallace, Kate Gilmore, R.H Quaytman, Charles Ray and others. Many more will be, happily, entirely new to us.
Otto Dix at the Neue Galerie
Opens on March 11th and runs through August 30th in one of our city’s most beautiful exhibition spaces on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street. Specializing in German and Austrian art, the Neue Galerie will doubtless do a dazzling job with this tough but extraordinary artist who many of us will know from the Metropolitan Museum’s 2006 Glitter and Doom exhibition. A painter of war-ravaged veterans of the Weimar Republic of the 1920s, the show will include some 150 works of the decimated, often debauched but still decadent characters who haunted Germany’s inter-war urban landscape. A full program of lectures and films will accompany the show.
Mike and Doug Starn “Big Bambú” at the Metropolitan Museum
Opens on April 27th and runs through October 31st on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum. Cresting to a height of 50 feet, the interlocking web of bamboo will be a perpetual work in progress – part sculpture, part architecture and, by virtue of viewers being encouraged to climb up and through it, part inter-active performance. Timed tickets will be issued for those intrepid enough to want to scale the structure and trained guides will lead explorer groups of fifteen. Lockers will be supplied for personal belongings so that hands are free and the Museum’s building’s department has been consulted regarding matters of safety. Sounds like one for the whole family.