Luhring Augustin, New York, Nov. 18 2023 to Feb 3 2024
Hauser and Wirth, New York., Nov 9 2023 to January 8 2024.
Pipolitti Rist: Prickling Goosebumps and Humming Horizon
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Mark di Suvero “Nova Albion”
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, May 1-July 31 2010
The exhibition presents Nova Albion, 1964-1965, a monumental 24-feet high sculpture made of steel and redwood logs. Nova Albion is named after the white cliffs of northern California that were seen by Captain Francis Drake on June 17, 1579. The California beaches Drake explored are the same ones where di Suvero built this piece using found drift wood logs. In the title, Nova refers to a star that suddenly becomes a thousand times brighter and then gradually fades to its original intensity, and Albion refers to the earliest known name for England.
-Paula Cooper Gallery
Gary Hume
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York November 10 to December 22, 2023
These new works are signature Gary Hume: slick, flat, and glossy. He explores his languid forms with household alkyd paint, leaning, in this case, toward abstraction. The shapes are seemingly unchallenging and easy to digest — is this the visual equivalent of Nickelback? — although the color palette has some interesting dissonance. The motif of swans heads is scattered through the paintings, but they are abstracted and non-specific in their storytelling.
The housepaint used is interesting as some of the early work that established his reputation is starting to effloresce, as house paint alkyd contains different sets of acids than fine arts paints. The substrate is aluminum, which Hume has found balances the need for a visually perfectly flat surface with lightness, strength, and stability.
The questions on this work revolve around the level of seriousness. Is this work glib? Is it overly stylized? Does it have a narrative tension? Not sure that this is much more than law firm conference room art.
Hume (England, 1962) works in both London and the Catskills, New York, although recently put the Catskills studio up on the market.
Ann Hamilton: As After Is Before
T Space, Rhinebeck, New York, July 16 to October 1 2023
I met Ann Hamilton in 1998 when she installed her piece “Myein” at the Venice Biennale (I was working to install the Philip Johnson exhibition at the Ca’ Zenobio). Was delighted to see her again here at her work exhibited at Steven Holl’s T Space room.
This piece is an installation of wool coats and sheep fleece, as aromatic as it was beautiful
Inscribed on a stone near the coats are her words:
as outside is to inside
-Hamilton
as animal is to human
as stone is to words
as sound is to song
as image is to object
as made is to grown
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Gagosian Gallery, New York, January 12–February 18, 2012
