Banks Violette’s show at team (gallery, inc.) consists of drawings and one sculpture that touch “on themes of redemption and faith, death and transformation.”
Banks Violette
Not Yet Titled
team (gallery, inc.)
83 Grand Street
May 7 – June 20
Berlin artist Sybille Hotz has her first solo show at Greene Contemporary. Korpermuster features textile cutouts of figures made from wool and cloth, in which girls wrestle and systematically blur the boundary of intimacy and aggression.
Sybille Hotz
Korpermuster
Greene Contemporary
9 Clinton Street
May 27 – June 28
The New York Earth Room is the third Earth Room sculpture by Walter de Maria, and has been on view since 1980. See it before June 14, when it closes for the summer.
Walter de Maria
The New York Earth Room
141 Wooster Street
Jiyong Park’s work is quite extraordinary. He creates images through illusion and light. Very beautiful indeed.
Jiyong Park
Pleiades Gallery
530 W. 25th Street
May 12 – June 6
Nigel Cooke has his third solo exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Go see it.
Nigel Cooke
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 W. 24th Street
April 24 – June 13
The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University will be hosting its fifth annual recent acquisitions event on Monday, May 18th, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This is a chance to view the new additions to the Avery Library, one of the world’s most comprehensive and important collections relating to architecture and fine arts.
The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
“Fifth Annual Display of Recent Acquisitions”
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
May 18th, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
German artist Albert Oehlen has a show at Luhring Augustine in which he “paints over, under and around Spanish advertisement posters,” thus “undermining the original commercial content” while creating “unnerving emotional effects by his obtrusive presence.” The work is quite stunning and works in many ways.
Albert Oehlen
Luhring Augustine
531 W. 24th Street
April 25 – May 30
Deitch Project’s Wooster Street gallery presents A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows, a “monumental suite of large-scale watercolor paintings by Francesco Clemente that wrap around the perimeter of the gallery to create an atmosphere of contemplation and ritual.”
Francesco Clemente
A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows
Deitch Project
18 Wooster Street
May 2 – May 30
Cuchifritos is pleased to present Close to Home, a show featuring the work of Josephine Halvorson and Andy Rosen. If you’ve never been to the Essex Street Market, now is a good time.
Close to Home
Josephine Halvorson & Andy Rosen
Cuchifritos
120 Essex Street
May 2 – June 13
Danish artist Maja Lisa Engelhardt has an interesting show at Elizabeth Harris Gallery. The Third Day consists of twenty five paintings inspired by the book of Genesis, part three of a seven part series.
Maja Lisa Engelhardt
The Third Day
Elizabeth Harris Gallery
529 W. 20th Street
April 23 – May 30