Morphological Mutiny: Steve DiBenedetto, Alexander Ross and James Siena at David Nolan Gallery
Dibenedetto, Siena and Ross have defined an architectural endoskeleton within the body of the biomorph.
Elia Alba: Busts at Black & White Gallery
Shrouding the armature with photo-tattooed fabric tilts two-dimensional surfaces towards the third dimension, but there is constant flickering or vacillation between the two kinds of space.
1969 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Throughout the show we are taken on a journey through the predominant narrative of 1960s art history, as told by the institution that has dictated modern art as we know it.
Gabriel Orozco at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
This first major museum retrospective of Mexican Gabriel Orozco has been viewed as controversial, and not entirely for reasons of taste.
Andrew Moore at Yancey Richardson Gallery
Moore’s subject is the transformative relationship of abandoned architecture to the natural elements, and, through time, its reclamation by the same.
Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World at the Drawing Center
There is a subtext running through much of Morton’s works that laments the death of the soul in the things of the world around her.
Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009 at Marian Goodman Gallery
Austere, calming, provocative, aggressive, confronting, soothing, luring, denying – these are some of the adjectives that can be applied to Richter’s new paintings.
Eric Fischl at Mary Boone
By all rights these life-and-death-size duels in the sun between bullfighters and bulls should be awful, stripped of the mystery and mediation that until now had been the artist’s stock-in-trade.
Helmut Federle: Scratching Away at the Surface at Peter Blum Soho
Federle’s attempt to create an atmosphere of spiritual mimesis is fairly unique in current abstract painting.
Carroll Dunham at Gladstone Gallery
Carroll Dunham’s rough canvases, tilting toward aggressive sexual assertion and actions of near anarchy, are catchy tunes of hipster malice.