Through February 26, with closing day concert by Bill Warfield and friends, 2-4pm
547 West 27th Street, Suite 200.

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Sharmistha Ray, Barry Schwabsky and Marjorie Welish discuss Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto’s Angels & Knots at David Nolan Gallery, 24 East 81st Street, Fourth Floor (on view through December 23)

David Brody, Lilly Wei and Alexi Worth discuss Intersections: Ron Baron and Sarah Walker at John Molloy Gallery, 49 East 78th Street, Suite 2B (on view through December 18)

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David Cohen has been invited to MC the closing of the silent auction at this year’s virtual gala for the New York Studio School, which he feels to be a “signature honor.” You can see the works on offer and start bidding already at bidpal.net/nyssbenefit. Yesterday Cohen recorded an Instagram Live walkthrough of selected treasures, discussing scale and texture in works by Kamini Avril, Andrea Belag, Susanna Coffey, Cora Cohen, Lois Dodd, Angela Dufresne, Bruce Gagnier, David Humphrey, Alex Katz, Medrie MacPhee, Graham Nickson, Janice Nowinski, Sean Scully, Stuart Shils, Kyle Staver and Susan Vecsey.

Kamini Avril’s effulgent small oil painting, Forsythia, 2019, pictured here, is valued at $1800 with an opening bid of $650

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COVID has canceled countless exhibitions, projects, events. But in a subtler grade of cruelty, for shows that have gone ahead there has been stunted attendance and muted fanfare in what are nonetheless turning points in artists’ careers. Jennifer Riley has recently opened a solo exhibition (which I curated) at the 1GAP Gallery in the Richard Meier-designed condo building that in healthier days hosts the afterparties for The Review Panel. The lobbies, common rooms and elevator landings are filled with her lush, voluptuous abstraction. The centerpiece of her show is a mural, BBS1GG, Schmetterlinghaus, 2021, an audacious painted wall with richly colored steel and wood protrusions, utilizing what has become a signature element in Riley’s work, the  steel “skeletons” from which engine parts have been plasma cut. Named for the “Butterfly House” at Vienna Zoo, this is a departure for this otherwise resolutely abstract artist. With its skyscrapers, sun and fluttering butterflies, Riley was determined to appeal to the condo’s children while also speaking to all of us who have been cooped up for months during the pandemic. The butterfly, like her repurposed industrial materials, is a potent symbol of transformation.

While the show is open strictly by appointment with the artist or the curator, there is ray of hope for the curious and intrepid: The blinds and the lights will be kept up at night, giving pedestrians a private view of the mural from the street. It’s a stunning work: go see for yourself! DAVID COHEN

Through April 20, 1 Grand Army Plaza, between St John’s Place and Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn (opposite Brooklyn Public Library).

Installation shot © Adrian Wilson

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Laura Karetzky was the winner of the 2020 artcritical prize at the New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition. This prize takes the form of a feature article at artcritical; this year, the artist has agreed to be interviewed in a live event, taking place this evening, January 26 at 6pm. Participation is limited to 100 seats,  first-come, first-served. The event will be recorded and archived at artcritical.

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If your memory of art magazine holiday parties is of everyone shouting at once, being jostled in a crowd, not being able to sit down, feeling like you missed the celebrities, drinking too many cocktails and wondering how you’ll get home in the cold and the rain, artcritical’s holiday party on Zoom has mixologist Rebecca Allan presenting her Hot Critical Cosmo (make sure you’ve got tequila or vodka in the house and some red juice the color of the artcritical logo), while David Cohen schmoozes with selected guests and DJ Julie Evans rushes everyone to the dance floor.

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Many pets have been helping us through the COVID-19 crisis, but many have also been left homeless by the crisis. Helping those in need, Alpha 137 Gallery is organizing an online exhibition benefiting Best Friends Animal Society and the artists themselves. The open call to sculptors, painters, printmakers, and mixed media artists in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania is for original works created any time after March 1, 2020 that pay homage to critter companions who have helped get their owners through the lockdown. The exhibition is juried by artcritical’s David Cohen, and the deadline has been extended to July 31. For submission details, visit Alpha 137 Gallery.

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The New Moma
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11 West 53rd Street, Midtown Manhattan

Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors Of War
Times Square Arts, Times Square: Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th streets, Midtown Manhattan

An Opening: Kameelah Janan Rasheed
A sound and art installation drawn from the Muslims in Brooklyn oral histories collection
Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights

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As noted earlier in THE LIST, in relation to such shows as Postmaster’s PRIDE and 1969 Gallery’s Stonewall 50/50, the half-centenary of Stonewall has prompted several galleries around the city to declare an unofficial gay history month, neatly overlapping this year’s New York City Pride parade. Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects has an especially poignant and insightful show of two friends, photographer Richard Morrison and painter Bill Rice. A wonderful group portrait by Peter Hujar in which the protagonists were instructed to jump in the air at the critical moment (well before this became a thing in selfies!) sees our artists joined by Hujar himself (running round on a timer) and the writer and sociologist Larry Mitchell. Morrison, significantly however, keeps his feet firmly on the ground—by all accounts he was ever the elegant nonconformist. Rice is perhaps better known as an actor in underground movies and performance art of the period than as a painter, and a monitor in the back gallery displays various pieces featuring his somber, poe-faced presence, including a work by David Wojnarowicz. An early habitué of the East Village right through its grungy experimental heyday in the 1970s, Rice’s paintings capture the excitement for a gay man of handsome Hispanic guys at tenement windows and balconies, all the while subtly tapping the inherent abstraction of the city grid: think Alice Neel in Harlem meets Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, with a dose of Mapplethorpe for good measure. Before any curator lays hands on it, meanwhile, Man in Window, 1980, can boast of being well hung. DAVID COHEN

with works by Peter Hujar, Zoe Leonard and David Wojnarowicz, through July 13, see THE LIST for full details

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Zach Van Horn and Ben Grzenia were the joint winners of the 2018 artcritical prize awarded by faculty vote ahead of the recent Annual Student Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Both were graduating students of PAFA’s MFA program. The artcritical prize – consisting of an interview in these pages with an agreed upon writer – has been awarded at PAFA since 2015, and has also been a featured prize at the New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition since 2017. For the PAFA 2018 prize it was decided that the winners would interview one another.

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