Albert Oehlen at Luhring Agustine
Trying to fail has played a major role in the work of Albert Oehlen.
Rosemarie Fiore: Pyrotechnics at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
The artist’s material of choice is live fireworks, or rather the tinted smoke, made of fine particles of organic dyes, that color their familiar, ordinarily airborn explosions.
Adel Abdessemed at David Zwirner Gallery
Abdessemed’s show is an exhilarating introduction to his work as the artist’s “acts” (as he calls his works) have a truly visceral resonance for every viewer. Yet, the show suffers from the ubiquitous interests of the artist, his “fascination with the world” as he himself identifies it.
Pablo Picasso: Mosqueteros at Gagosian Gallery
The problem with late Picasso has to do with his stubborn insistence on diaristic expressionism increasingly isolated from changing times.
Jane Freilicher: Changing Scenes at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
Freilicher’s work becomes tighter over time, but the spirit of chance encounter remains.
Frances Hynes: North Light: Recent Paintings at June Kelly Gallery
By relaxing conventional standards of realistic description, Hynes makes her images immediately accessible to the mind and its fluctuations of mood, and enables herself to explore the modernist vision common to the painters that inspire her
Glenn Goldberg: Welcome at Luise Ross Gallery
Goldberg navigates directions between abstraction and referential drawing. Most of his imagery is rooted in the organic and yet conglomerates of patterned forms can establish structures that hint at geometric organization.
Louise Fishman at Cheim & Read
Fishman had been asking very specific things of her chosen medium: how does one make it relevant to oneself and one’s history? How does one possess it? How do you filter your experiences through it?
Shahzia Sikander at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Brilliantly colored, covered with decorative motifs and gestural abstractions, the work suggests a gorgeous manuscript, a place where the politics of place and the pain of indifference no longer exist.
Linda Francis, Don Voisine, Joan Waltemath, Michael Zahn at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, and Jennifer Riley: To Be A Thing In This World at LaViolaBank Gallery
In each picture, there is a sense that the overt structure is a kind of plan for the making of the work, while the work is the exposition of that plan. But, at the same time, the work is more than its own plan.