Huma Bhabha’s work is “often described as masks and totems in the state of decay” that “evoke emotional and psychological complexities.” Learn more at an artist talk she will be giving at Columbia University’s Prentis Hall.
Friday, April 16
7:00 PM
Prentis Hall
632 W. 125th Street
FREE
Karel Funk is a painter who challenges the “narrative of realist portrait painting” by manipulating his subjects until they become “channels for the amorphous color fields, shadow and light interplay that is typical of Flemish and renaissance painting.” His show at 303 Gallery further exemplifies these ideas.
Amy Sillman’s show at Sikkema Jenkins “features a range of new work across mediums, including large and mid-scale paintings, two different suites of drawings, and a new edition of her one-dollar ‘zine The O-G.” I had forgotten how much I enjoy her work.
Amy Sillman
Transformer (…or, how many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?)
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd Street
April 15 – May 15
The New York Historical Society presents the first large-scale exhibit from the Grateful Dead Archive. Based at UC Santa Cruz, the archive includes “concert and recording posters, album art, large-scale marionettes and other stage props, banners, and vast stores of decorated fan mail.”
“Red,” the play about Mark Rothko’s commission for the Four Seasons, has been receiving much press lately. After deciding that the plush restaurant was not the proper place for his work, Rothko donated nine of the canvases to the Tate in 1969.
photo credit: Left, APIC/Getty Images; Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
The brilliance that is Dan McClelland may be witnessed here.
The show by Valeska Soares at Eleven Rivington looks interesting.
The Helsinki School “started in the 1990’s as an educational model from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. It has grown to represent more than forty-five photo and video artists and is now considered to be one of the premier photographic schools in the world.” Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents seven artists from the school who take seven different approaches in their work.
Wes Lang’s show at Zieher Smith consists of 15 new paintings in his familiar “tattoo-inspired imagery.”
Wes Lang
Smile, It’s A Grey Day
Zieher Smith
516 West 20th Street
March 25 – April 24
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s show at Marlborough includes work in aluminum, bronze, burlap and plaster, all in her “”distinct sculptural vocabulary that expresses a philosophical quest.”
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Sculpture
Marlborough Gallery
545 West 25th Street
March 25 – April 24