Gerard Mosse at Elga Wimmer
Reinterpreting Flavin’s purist experiments with light within the medium of oil on linen enables Mosse to describe the moment when color becomes something as indefinable as light.
Revolution in Felt and Fat: Joseph Beuys’s New York comeback
Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive at Pace Gallery, March 5 to April 10, 2010
Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations, at Knoedler & Company
If nature was his springboard, as Avery once famously declared, then in this body of work nature is also the lens through which he experienced the city.
Worth the Trip: Fred Tomaselli lands in Brooklyn
His touring exhibition, now arriving at the Brooklyn Museum, was reviewed at the Tang this summer.
Dorothea Rockburne: Astronomy Drawings at the New York Studio School
These staggering images made it clear that the universe is an interconnected assembly of electrical circuits and that energy and matter are, indeed, infinite in their connectivity.
Pawel Wojtasik at Smack Mellon
The size of the projection is matched by the scale of its content.
Shirley Jaffe: Selected Paintings, 1969 – 2009 at Tibor de Nagy
Jaffe completely jettisoned the stiff grid and strict geometric shapes in favor of a loose, undeniably playful series of rectangles with interior forms.
John Griefen: Recent Paintings at Gary Snyder Project Space
The ensemble represents a series of very carefully thought-out painting decisions — yet never do the results look cold or calculated.
Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan Gallery
Gillick’s show is cerebrally engaging and visually interesting, but the visual and cerebral components never coming together to form a layered experience.
Bill Jensen at Cheim & Read
Jensen is in some ways a reticent painter, removing all signs of a brushstroke. His quietness, though, becomes something else when one regards the casual mastery and expressiveness of color in much of his art.