Press release: 80 Washington Square East is an address acquired by New York University along with the entire frontage of the eastern side of Washington Square park in 1925. At the time, the school’s attendance was growing exponentially, from 500 students in 1919 to over 7,000 by 1929. Additional living quarters and administrative facilities were
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Eleanor Ray at Nicelle Beauchene, New York
Press release: Nicelle Beauchene is pleased to announce Eleanor Ray’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Ray’s small-scale paintings bring the viewer into an intimate conversation with landscapes and interiors, both ordinary and well known. The paintings give form to a state of close attention, presenting specific places in series. Ray spends time with each
Park McArthur at MoMA, New York
Press release: Park McArthur makes work that often responds to the institutional and architectural context of exhibition spaces. Projects 195: Park McArthurtakes shape against the background of the Museum’s ongoing west-end expansion, which is scheduled for completion in 2019 and will add gallery space in an adjacent, newly developed tower with 145 private luxury apartments
Manfred Pernice at Anton Kern, New York
Press release: German artist Manfred Pernice titled his sixth exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery re-kapito, which derives from the German verb “rekapitulieren,” meaning “to repeat in a summarized form,” “to remember,” “to visualize once again.” In a broad sense, this term describes a central impulse in Pernices’ work: namely the intent to commemorate and visualize
Morgan Fisher at Bortolami Gallery, New York
Press release: 6 x 6 x 6 x 2 is a painting in multiple parts on two facing walls. The origin of the work was my visualizing two panels separated by a space with the edges on either side of the space jagged, like saw teeth or notches. The irregular edges make us see the
Dayanita Singh at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York
Press release: Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present a special project by Dayanita Singh. The project marks a significant step towards realizing the artist’s long-standing desire to offer her “book objects” for sale in a pop-up shop or bookstore setting, staged here in the gallery. The book objects are publications by Singh, often made
Ivens Machado at Andrew Kreps, New York
Press release: Andrew Kreps Gallery, in collaboration with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Acervo Ivens Machado, is pleased to announce the first exhibition of the work of Ivens Machado in the United States. Emerging in the 1970s as part of a generation of artists that succeeded the Neoconcrete movement, Machado’s early career was set against
Nina Beier at Metro Pictures, New York
Press release: Metro Pictures presents a selection of new work by Berlin-based artist Nina Beier in her second exhibition at the gallery. Beier’s work unfolds the histories enmeshed with serially produced objects and materials. She is drawn to those that have continually mutated and evolved as a result of transcultural exchange, reflecting on the fluctuating
Justin Caguiat at 15 Orient, New York
Press release: The love is boiling in the Fertile Void; it is souring and fermenting there. The Void must yield up an homunculus. (All this is occurring in the dark, on the yonder side of impasse.) Void! Yield up the homunculus! The surface of the river was everywhere giving itself to the air. Most of
Alice Tippit at Nicelle Beauchene, New York
Press release: Nicelle Beauchene is pleased to present Alice Tippit’s Long Red Moans, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing to explore the interpretations of visual language, Tippit’s latest body of work mines the psychology and susceptibility of reading the erotic in the everyday. Tippit’s painting style is graphic—pictures, signs, and symbols are
Sam Falls at 303 Gallery, New York
Press release: 303 Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of new work by Sam Falls. Sublimating the natural world in works that both defy and embrace the basic functions of art, Falls’ works record specific moments in time as well as the infinite human impulse to commune with nature. For the series of
Lygia Pape at Hauser & Wirth, New York
Press release: A founding member of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927 – 2004) valued art that favored the primacy of the viewer and his or her sensorial experience. Pape explored rich territory via the media of sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking, and installation, and cemented her reputation as one of the most significant Brazilian artists
Devon Dikeou at James Fuentes, New York
Press release: “There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts
Juliana Cerqueira Leite at Arsenal Contemporary NYC, New York
Press release: Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present the Brazilian, Brooklyn-based artist, Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s first solo presentation in New York, Until Different. The exhibition opens 13 September and runs through 4 November, 2018. Juliana Cerqueira Leite reformulates physical presences and absences in the world and body, negating the mere reassertion of subjects and their
B. Wurtz at Metro Pictures, New York
Press release: Coinciding with “Kitchen Trees,” B. Wurtz’s major installation for Public Art Fund at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, “Domestic Space” at Metro Pictures includes new large-scale sculptures and photographic works printed on fabric. While Wurtz is known for his carefully assembled sculptures made from quotidian objects, the works on view here demonstrate
Jason Dodge at Casey Kaplan, New York
Press release: Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce “hand in hand with the handless,” new works by Jason Dodge. Dodge’s first exhibition with the gallery was in 1998. Over the past two decades, Dodge has engaged in a sculptural practice that offers space for presence and reflection. His works exist as primary materials through which
Tyler Coburn at Koenig & Clinton, New York
Press release: Koenig & Clinton is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of works by Tyler Coburn. The exhibition is comprised of a single-channel digital animation, a text, and an object designed in collaboration with architects Bureau V. In 1969, conceptual artist Douglas Huebler teased the limits of photography when he announced his impossible