Making Art, and Making It Well: Two Recent Group Shows
Exhibitions at the New York Studio School and Freedman Art examine art about its own creation.
The Collector’s Take on Ownership: Brad Troemel at Zach Feuer
An exhibition of collectibles and art examines the relation between the trade in celebrity and the trade in aesthetic objects.
Darkly Iridescent: Vivienne Griffin at Bureau
The artist uses formalism and psychedelia to explore the ways in which we search for freedom from our personal and cultural histories.
The Deliciousness of Staying Still: Marsha Cottrell at Eleven Rivington
“she treats electrostatic toner as a rich, primordial mezzotint”
Boundless: Judith Scott at the Brooklyn Museum
A retrospective of a deaf and mute outsider artist lets her sculptures speak for themselves.
Gaze Control: Francesca Woodman at Marian Goodman
‘I’m trying my hand at fashion photography’ was on view through March 12
“A Dead Cactus Becomes an Abstract Painting”: Julian Kreimer at Lux Art Institute
The artist produces paintings en plein air, but those he deems unsuccessful are transformed into colorful abstractions in the studio.
“Correspondances”: Evocations of Real World Experience in the Paintings of John Zurier
at Peter Blum Gallery on West 57th Street, through April 4
So It Goes: A Survey of Painting’s Influence on Other Media
A recent exhibition at Franklin Street Works shows the conversation around painting in video, sculpture, performance, sound, and other media.
A Cry in the Wilderness: Fred Valentine at Studio 10
Paintings that dare to think about feelings, on view in Bushwick through this weekend
