vernissages | NYC, First Week of 2015

The 2015 art season just opened this week in many of the over 500 Manhattan private galleries  in different neighborhoods, from Chelsea to Midtown and Lower East Side. And of course Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Dumbo and Bushwick...

Unfortunately I could not make it to Brooklyn, but in Manhattan I could not find many sensorially exciting or thought-provoking art shows, at least compared to the 2014 fall season. 

Below are a few snapshots in chronological order.

Susan Philipsz "Part File Score" Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Anya Gallaccio at Lehmann Maupin: minimalist sculptures reminiscent of Sol LeWitt

Devin Troy Strother "Space Jam" at Marlborough Gallery

"Dérive(s)"  at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

Relief portraits and wallpaper murals from John Miller's "Here in the Real World", Metro Pictures

Keith Harings in the back gallery at Martos gallery

Performances and Vernissages | NYC, January 14

Yesterday, during my walkabouts in very cold NYC evening I unexpectedly ran into two quite stimulating events.

Mark Borthwick music and video images performance at Martos Gallery, was quite evocative and totally immersive. It unusually involved all the five senses, with the smell of burning incense and even taste ---from the food offerings prepared impromptu on the gallery floor.





The Camera Club of New York presented self portraits of Linda Salerno, Selections from the Black Mirror Series, curated by Allen Frame and Martin Kunz, a series of experimental large scale photographs.
The exhibition was presented in collaboration with Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome.

Vernissages + Performances | NYC, Jack Tilton Gallery and Martos

Spring has finally arrived in NYC and a new energy seems to renew NYC visual arts. Dance performances harmoniously merge with art installations at two art galleries ---Martos in Chelsea and Jack Tilton in the Upper East Side--- with a remembrance of the 60' happenings

Probably the most outstanding intervention in terms of site-specificity happened yesterday at Jack Tilton's gallery where Malcolm Low's choreography beautifully interacted with Jarbas Lopes's sculptures. The Brazilian artist's sculptures are based on functional objects such as bicycles and bungee chords in "a celebration of life, art and movement".

Malcolm Low's dancers at Jack Tilton's

Patricia Weiss at Martos Gallery