March marks a new chapter with the birth of my alien egg baby in the emerald city. On the eve of Spring fling\ing, parched, eyes carnivorous, I finally spot ketchup on the playground. Its been a wonderful time falling in love with NYC in all its extremes. Greedy musing wild and free. Easy find, easy lose. Spielberg said if it ate on the page, (then it will) eat on the stage.
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March Highlights
Gagosian – Albert Oehlen paintings & Pail McCarthy sculptures / March 8 – May 20, 2023
Print Center – Nicole Eisenman / February 9 – May 13, 2023
Nicole Eisenman: Prince is the first exhibition in New York to focus on the artist’s deep engagement with printmaking in more than 10 years. Prince comprises over 40 works—including rarely seen works and new works shown publicly for the first time—revealing how printmaking has been, and continues to be, a generative and vital space for experimentation within Eisenman’s broader practice.
Harper’s – Joani Tremblay / January 26 – March 11, 2023
How we use the land lies at the heart of Tremblay’s work. A road’s placement, a water reclamation initiative, or the machinations of land ownership matter for Tremblay not so much for their factual circumstance as for the power relations that structure them. In this vein, contradictory impulses about our treatment of the land fuel Tremblay’s paintings, which are, for the most part, each made of three constituent components painted in the following order: sky, ground, and internal frame that focuses our vision like an aperture on the landscape beyond
David Zwirner – Franz West / March 9 – April 22, 2023
Executed in 2010, only a few years before the artist’s death, Echolalia consists of seven colorful, larger-than-life sculptures that seem to stand slightly off-balance, interspersed with three cushioned divans. The work’s title—which refers to the repetition of words and sounds made by young children when learning to talk—was inspired by the artist’s son, who at the time of its creation was three years old and brought his own, distinct perspective to his father’s oversized works.
Shout out to a good friend and amazing large scale oil painter – Jessica Alazraki who had her recent solo exhibition “Here We Are” at Marc Straus Gallery running from February 16 – April 15, 2023.
Rubin Museum – Death Is Not the End / March 17, 2023 – January, 14, 2024
From thangka paintings to illuminated manuscripts, this exhibition features 58 objects representing Tibetan Buddhist and Christian traditions that span 1,200 years. The show explores the concepts of death and the possibility of an afterlife, pondering the universal human condition of impermanence and tendency to embrace life.
I’ve been waiting to see ARTECHOUSE for a while now and was highly disappointed with the immersive venue. Their current exhibition MAGENTAVERSE invites visitors to experience Pantone’s 2023 Color of the Year, Magenta. The venue was dirty and small in one single room with a 15 minute digital video looping projected on all the walls. Visitors sat or stood on the floor to experience the moving room. There was a large bar upstairs with a gallery that featured some AI motion sensory monitors.
I was thrown off with motion sickness by the dizzying animation and claustrophobic space. The animation moved in a wormhole style, depicting a digital Magenta naturescape. Many venues these days flaunt immersive art but don’t fully deliver the experience. Just because you project a video on the wall or floor doesn’t make the space audience immersive. Meow Wolf and TeamLabs are other examples of venues doing a better job at delivering more progressive, innovative and encapsulating immersive art experiences that tender to all ages, diversities, and disabilities.
The 33rd edition of Affordable Art Fair New York returned to the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 22 – 26 featuring 70 local and international galleries selling art under 12K. It was a small fair with over two floors of galleries. There wasn’t any particular artist I strongly resonated with but I noticed redundant trend for craft and surface alterations but overall showing a flow of all disciplines from photography to sculptures. I liked Madalena Negrone‘s complex web of entangled line paintings @ Leonard Tourne Gallery, Mat Kemp @ Cube Gallery, Jose Palacios @ Art Angler, Chief & Spirits and Treat Gallery.
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