Upcoming in October

10/4
Gilbert and George @ Brooklyn Museum
Final stop of the traveling retrospective organized by the Tate Modern.

10/7
Stephen Vitiello, Four Color Sound @ The Project
Originally conceived for Diverseworks in Houston,TX, Four Color Sound is a 28 minute audio loop of instrument and field recordings.

10/8
Elizabeth Peyton, Live Forever @ New Museum
Peyton’s first US Museum show includes 100+ works!

10/9
Stefan Sandner @ Museum 52
Sandner’s sparse paintings and cocktail napkin scrawl offer a unique take on Minimalism.

David Ratcliff, Defects Mirror @ Team Gallery
New stencils from the LA based painter.

10/10
Andy Coolquitt, iight @ Lisa Cooley
Composed of furniture, scrap metal, pipes, and light bulbs; Coolquitt’s DIY sculptures take cues from Sandback and Flavin to modify the exhibition space with light and form.

10/11
Olaf Breuning @ Metro Pictures

Ernesto Neto @ Tanya Bonakdar

10/16
Sylvan Lionni, Before the Flood @ Freight and Volume

10/17
New Works/New Space @ atm
Atm moves a few doors down and gains square footage!

10/22
Mary Heilmann, To Be Someone @ New Museum
Retrospective organized by the New Museums Chief Curator, Richard Flood.

10/23
Joe Bradley, Schmagoo Paintings @ Canada

10/31
Kelley Walker @ Paula Cooper Gallery 21st Street

Current & Upcoming in September

The summer hiatus is over! More highlights to come later...

John Issacs "Glass Eye Glass Soul" @ Museum 52
Opens September 3rd 6-8pm

Upcoming
Keith Tyson " Fractal Dice" @ Pace Wildenstein
Opens September 4th 6-8pm

Ryan Gander @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Opens September 4th 6-8pm

Swing Low @ Sunday
Opens September 5th 6-9pm

The Fall of Dexter Sinister @ Dexter Sinister
Reopens with new publications September 6th 12-6pm

Vik Muniz "Verso" @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Opens September 6th 6-8pm

Creswell Crags @ Lisa Cooley
Opens September 7th 6-8pm

"Begin Again Right Back Here" curated by B. Wurtz, White Room: Mark Barrow, White Room: Dan Asher and Lobby: Violette Alby @ White Columns
Opens September 10th 6-8pm

John McCracken @ David Zwirner
Opens September 11th 6-8pm

Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch opens the Rockefeller location September 12th 6-8pm

Matthew Day Jackson "Drawings from TLÖN" @ Nicole Klagsburn
Opens Sept 13th 6-8pm

Mary Heilmann "Some Pretty Colors" @ Zwirner & Wirth
Opens September 17th 6-8pm

Ragnar Kjartansson "God"

Ragnar Kjartansson "God" (video still) Image via Artnet

Currently included in "It's Not Your Fault" Art from Iceland exhibition at Luhring Augustine, “God” belongs to a recent series of video/performance/tableau vivant works. As an artist and musician (he's a member of the band Trabant) Ragnar parodies classic Americana combining hypnotic repetition with over the top stage sets. Invited by the Bard CCS program, last Fall, Kjartansson performed FOLKSONG in Chelsea for ten days, six hours a day. Standing under the disused elevated tracks amidst painted plywood trees, red guitar slung over his shoulder, singing his heart out for any passerby.

“God”, installed in a back room of the gallery, walls hung with the same pink chiffon drapes surrounding the artist and accompanying performers on screen. Kjartansson in tuxedo dress, stands at a microphone facing his audience, back to the stage and platforms containing a piano, strings, horns and percussion.

The artist endlessly serenades his audience: "Sadness conquers happiness", while the music rises and falls. Each new delivery an opportunity for perfection: Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Cash are all channeled momentarily during the performance. The simple melody, sometimes only for piano, leaves uncomfortably long rests for other musicians, leaving the focus on Kjartansson.

Passion, sincerity, and romance exude from the performer, while the melancholy mantra begins to take hold of the courageous viewer willing to attend the duration of the work.

It's Not Your Fault: Art from Iceland @ Luhring Augustine curated by Markús Thór Andrésson in collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson runs through August 8th.

Links
Luhring Augustine
i8
Bard CCS FOLKSONG exhibition site
Ragnar Kjartansson

Comfort, Burn @ Big Orbit and Artspace Buffalo Galleries

A good friend of mine, Alexander Young, has curated a show occupying two galleries in Buffalo, NY. Comfort, Burn opens this Friday from 7-11pm at both spaces.

From the PR:

The Artspace Buffalo Gallery in conjunction with the Big Orbit Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, Comfort, Burn. Culling its title from the text of William Shakespeare's unfinished tale of fortune and misanthropy Timon of Athens; Comfort, Burn refers to a crucial moment wherein the eponymous Timon–a fallen plutocrat ailing and in exile–curses wealth, along with civilization, as a tool of hypocrisy and further condemns those who would seek or offer it.

Combining regional, national, and international artists; this exhibition foregrounds both subjective comfort and the mastering of space and time offered up to the beneficiaries of the communication age and its phantasmagoria of speed and consumption. Much like the character Timon, the artworks exhibited are situated both within and against dominant cultural narratives through methods of reenactment, recombination, and reappropriation.

From Paul Lloyd Sargent's revisitation of the counter-cultural icon Abbie Hoffman as his alias Barry Freed, to Aoife Collin's thread by thread disassembly and reassembly of common artificial flowers, and Craig Drennen's ongoing recoding of the dramatis personae of Timon of Athens within his practice of conceptual paintings and multiples; each artist endeavors to investigate and introduce new layers of meaning and critique into both that which is familiar and that which remains concealed, inimical to casual perusal.

Links
Big Orbit Gallery
Artspace Buffalo Gallery

Current & Upcoming This Summer Part 2

Current
Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe @ The Whitney
A true genius, larger than life, Fuller was an all-encompassing visionary. A must see show this summer.
Runs through September 21st

Slow Glass @ Lisa Cooley
Group show curated by Františka and Tim Gilman-Ševcík
Runs through August 3rd

Painting Now and Forever Part 2 @ Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali
Mega gallery collaborative painting show!
Runs through August 15th

Public Art
Malcolm McLaren @ 44 1/2
Presented by Creative Time, McLaren's "Shallow" plays every hour on the hour.
Runs through July 31st

Chris Burden: What My Dad gave Me @ Rockefellar Center
One million small shiny things...
Up until July 19th

Tom Sachs @ Lever House
Three words: Hello Kitty Bronze

Upcoming
microwave six @ Josee Bienvenu
Group show including work from:
Kamrooz Aram, Ernesto Caivano, Graham Dolphin, Jacob Dyrenforth, Stephen Eichhorn, Alexandra Grant, Jim Hodges, Károly Keserü, Brian Lund, Rivane Neuenschwander, Renato Orara, Jesse Pasca, Andrew Scott Ross, Casey Jex Smith, Dean Smith, Allyson Strafella, and Phoebe Washburn
Opens July 10th

Demo Eco M.O. @ Nurture Art
Group show organized by Linda Weintraub from the Nurture Art Registry
Opens July 18th

Indian Jewelry @ The Yard Tonight

If you don't yet have plans this evening, you should probably be here

Links
Indian Jewelry
The Yard

New Leadership @ Dia

Photo via Eyeteeth

Minneapolis blog, Eyeteeth, reported late last month that Philippe Vergne, Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center, will become Director of the Dia Art Foundation this September. The NYTimes picked up the story where Vergne briefly addresses the stalled search for a new Dia location in Manhattan.

Links
Eyeteeth
NYTimes Article

K48 Silent Auction @ John Connelly Presents

Drop by JCP tomorrow between 4-8pm and support K48!
Preview the work here

Links
John Connelly Presents
K48

Current & Upcoming This Summer

Current
John Armleder Olivier Mosset Haim Steinbach @ Nicole Klagsbrun
Single works from each Artist
Runs through August

Joan Mitchell Foundation 2007 MFA Grant Recipients @ Cue
Runs through August 2


Rachel Harrison "Double Vision"(detail), 2008 wood, shelf liner, metal, plastic, fake foliage, confetti

Payday @ Greene Naftali
Group show including work from: Bernadette Corporation, Roe Ethridge, Rachel Harrison, Alex Hubbard, Allen Ruppersberg and J. St. Bernard
Runs through June 28th


Upcoming
There is No Synonym for Hope @ Smack Mellon
Group show co-curated by Lauren Schell Dickens and Julie McKim,
including work from: Sonya Blesofsky, José Luis Cortés S., Cristina Fontsare, Joshua Eggleton, Samuel Ekwurtzel, Rachel Hines, Takashi Horisaki, Karrie Hovey, Jeff Kao, Petrahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif Kralickova, Noah Nakell, Beth Krebs, Andrew Scott Ross, MiYoung Sohn, K Staelin
Opens Tonight 5 - 8PM runs through July 27th

Sarah Braman: Love Songs @ Museum 52
Opens Tonight 6 - 8PM runs through July 12th

Fia Backström "That social space between speaking and meaning" @ White Columns
Opens June 18, 6 - 8PM runs through July 26th

It's Not Your Fault: Art from Iceland @ Luhring Augustine
Group show curated by Markús Thór Andrésson in collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson, including work from: Birgir Andrésson, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Ásmundur Ásmundsson, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Unnar Örn, Haraldur Jónsso
Opens June 28th runs through August 8th

Cory Arcangel Plays Records @ Dexter Sinister Tonight

From the PR:

Upstairs:
A FAIR TO MEDDLING STORY
by KEN OKIISHI & NICK MAUSS
Live performance begins promptly at 7pm
Ludlow 38 Kunstverein München Goethe Institut New York
Tel +1 212 228 6848

Downstairs:
A COUPLE THOUSAND SHORT FILMS
ABOUT GLENN GOULD
a book in relation to a project of the same name by
CORY ARCANGEL
who will play records mentioned in the text as
JD SALINGER
from 7 o'clock pm Sunday June 8 at
DEXTER SINISTER
after which, until September, we will be
CLOSING FOR INVENTORY

Links
Dexter Sinister
Ludlow 38

Olafur Eliasson: NYC Waterfalls

On the heels of his exhibit "Take Your Time" at MOMA and PS1, Olafur Eliasson's waterfalls are currently under construction and are set to begin operation sometime in July. By far his most ambitious installation since The Weather Project at the Tate Modern in 2003, the $15 million dollar installation (backed by the Public Art Fund) of four massive works will line the East River and run from 7AM to 10PM. I never thought I would be so excited to take the Circle Line...

Links
NYC Waterfalls
Olafur Eliasson
Public Art Fund
Circle Line

David Byrne: Playing the Building

"Playing the Building" Mr. Byrne's second installation (the first was in Stockholm, Sweden) of the instrument for Creative Time this summer holds alot of promise. Free and open to the public, the Battery Maritime Building has be rigged with a strange device which allows the performer to create compositions using the structure itself. Byrne will speak at an artist talk and guest musicians will be invited to explore the aural possibilities of the machine throughout the duration of the exhibit (all dates are still TBA).

From the PR:

Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

David Byrne: Playing the Building
Opens May 31st, 6–8 PM
10 South Street, New York, NY
The Installation is open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon – 6PM (Free)

Links
David Byrne
Creative Time

Jodie Niss: Conversation @ Pratt

Jodie Niss "Conversation" Installation view (photo courtesy of the Artist)

Compiled from an extensive variety of sources such as: National Geographic, decades old cookbooks, home living magazines, hunting magazines, online image banks, pornography, and fashion advertising; Niss depicts scenes of the hidden and bizarre desires of our private domestic lives.

For her MFA Thesis exhibit, the artist installed a large group of oils on panel in pairs in the gallery. Generously spaced throughout the gallery, the moderately sized paintings vignette each pairing in a similar way as a wax museum’s spotlights each display. The paint handling lies somewhere between John Currin’s figuration and Gerhart Richter’s blurred photo paintings, while some areas of the panels are almost scraped bare.

While the works paired together are engaging, the relationship between the pieces are unclear a times, but overall each grouping yields a strange internal dialogue for the viewer determined to decipher these conversations.

Opening Soon: Rachel Hayes @ THE LAB

Current Sculpture Center resident, Rachel Hayes, is showing at THE LAB this week. Based on the recent images Hayes has posted on her blog, this show is going to be great.

From the PR:

"Inside and Outside, Homespun and Haute, Reflections and Shadows, Sacred and Secular, Revealing and Concealing, Lithe and Dense...
"The Duality of Light Without Violence" will be an unattainable environment to the passing viewers, leaving the installation to be a 'color shelter' enclosed within the gallery..."

Rachel Hayes: The Duality of Light Without Violence @ THE LAB
May 9th - May 30th
Opening Reception May 10th


Links
Rachel Hayes Website
Rachel Hayes Blog
THE LAB Gallery

Color Fields on Rhizome

Chris Coy "International #5EEC07 Green"

Yesterday, I stumbled on a small collection of Color Field websites on Rhizome's REBLOG. The listing could actually be considered a small group exhibition of sorts... Pictured above is Chris Coy's "International #5EEC07 Green" generated by his alias in hex code.

Links
seecoy
Rhizome REBLOG