Denyse Thomasos: The Divide at Lennon, Weinberg
Thomasos’s vigorously contemporary abstraction is constructed upon imaginary metropolitan grids in which subterranean cages rise to skyscraper scale and architectural renderings blur into infinite space.
Sylvia Sleigh at I-20 Gallery
Sleigh took a proto-feminist approach to spatial representation that was, and sometimes still is, confused with a naïve technique.
In Stitches at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
In Stitches surveys artists from very different backgrounds who are united by the medium of stitching, broadly defined.
Liu Ye: Leave Me in the Dark at Sperone Westwater Gallery
November 7 – December 19, 2009 415 West 13 Street, between 9th Avenue and Washington Street New York City, 212 999 7337 While many of the most lucrative sales in auctions devoted to Chinese contemporary art have gone to large-scale expressionist-style painting, Liu Ye offers a subtle counterpoint as if to suggest that not all … Continued
Craig Manister at the Painting Center
The eye of the viewer zig-zags in space from overlapping plane to plane, neoclassic style.
Wolfgang Laib: Frieze of Life at Sean Kelly Gallery
Laib sees his art as having a political dimension, in the sense that the production of cultural artifacts change people and institutions.
Pat Steir: Self-Portrait: Reprise 1987-2009 at the New York Studio School
Taking subjects from the raw materials for old master art, Steir transforms them in accord with her very contemporary sensibility.
Anish Kapoor’s “Memory”: A Tale of Two Cities
October 21, 2009—March 28, 2010 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York City 212-423-3500 Anish Kapoor’s Memory, a 24-ton metallic blimp measuring approximately 47 x 29 x 15 feet overall, is imposing at a number of levels. It requires the viewer to use his/her own memory to create an image … Continued
Dan Christensen (1942-2007): The Plaid Paintings at Spanierman Modern
Facture is neither painterly nor hard-edged geometric, but in between–straight edges that nonetheless exude life.