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Three Exhibits in Lower Manhattan 🖤
Issue #29: April 23 - April 29
Art Pulse NYC
April 23, 2024
🫶 Highlights 🫶
🚨 5+ gallery exhibits are closing — Francesca Woodman, Josef Koudelka, and more below.
🎉 Bernadette Despujols at Rachel Uffner Gallery, with an opening reception, as well as a few more exhibits are opening this week!
💖 Read our Ongoing Favorites & Further Reading below.
📢 Three exhibits we recommend in Lower Manhattan 🖤
🚨 Last Chance
In the Museums
No major exhibits are closing in the museums this week.
In the Galleries
Francesca Woodman
📍 Gagosian | 555 W 24th
⏰ closing April 27
❓50 prints from 1975-80, often exploring the human body’s sculptural qualities against ancient architecture or decaying interiors
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, c. 1977–78 | © Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy Gagosian and The Woodman Family Foundation
Victor Man
📍 Gladstone | 515 W 24th
⏰ closing April 27
❓ melancholic paintings, featuring explorations into identity
Victor Man, “Gypsy Girl”, 2022-23 | Source
Josef Koudelka: Industry
📍 Pace Gallery | 540 W 25th
⏰ closing April 27
❓ six large-scale panoramas for his project “Industries” along iwth small-scale maquettes capturing Romani people and the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968
Josef Koudelka, Azerbaijan, 1999 © Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos, Courtesy of Pace
In addition, closing on April 27:
Verena Loewensberg: Kind of Blue at Hauser & Wirth (UES)
Oliver Beer: ‘Resonance Paintings — Cat Orchestra’ at Almine Rech (Tribeca)
Giangiacomo Rossetti: Cabbage Field at Greene Neftali (Chelsea)
Danielle Mckinney: Quiet Storm at Marianne Boesky (UES)
🎉 Just In
In the Museums
No major exhibits are opening in the museums this week.
In the Galleries
Heads Up: NY Art Book Fair — April 26-28!
📍 Dia Chelsea | 537 W 22nd
⏰ April 26-28, 12-6pm
❓ Dia and Printed Matter are partnering with a book fair, and co-hosting a classroom series
🔗 free, register for events here
✚ one of the events in the above programming is the Hauser & Wirth Magazine Launch Event (free)
Bernadette Despujols: Exquisite Cuerpo
📍 Rachel Uffner | 170 Suffolk
⏰ opening April 26
❓ paintings exploring themes of family, womanhood, and ecological awareness
✚ Florencia Escudero: Phygitalia is also opening in the upstairs exhibit
✚✚ opening reception on Friday, April 26, 6-8pm
Bernadette Despujols “Caliandra”, 2024 | Photo by Vanessa Diaz. Courtesy the Artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery
A Study In Form (Chapter Two), Curated by Arden Wohl
📍 James Fuentes | 55 Delancey
⏰ opening April 26
❓ exploring the interplay between artists and poets, the exhibit will feature 70 artists, and celebrate the gallery’s legacy and its future
✚ this is the final exhibition at the James Fuentes’ 55 Delancey St location!
✚✚ opening reception on Friday, April 26, 6-8 pm
In addition:
Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen, Recent Photography at Luhring Augustine (Chelsea), opening April 26, with an opening reception on April 25, 6-8 pm
Ernie Barnes: In Rapture at Ortuzar Projects (Tribeca), opening April 25
Mimi Oritsky: The Wrinkled Wet at Amos Eno (Bushwick), opening April 25, with a reception on April 26, 6-8pm
📢 Editor’s Updates
This past weekend, we explored some galleries in the beautiful Tribeca. Here are 3 we enjoyed:
Sanam Khatibi at PPOW Gallery
Simply put, wow — this exhibit is a new ongoing favorite for us. Whether a small or large scale work, the intricate details in Sanam Khatibi’s figurative and memento mori paintings are exquisite. Khatibi draws influence from Hieronymus Bosch and Dutch still lifes, with themes of eroticism and death presented through evocative realism that captivates.
This exhibit will be closing on May 11 — we highly recommend to pop by the Soho-based gallery in the next few weeks.
Sanam Khatibi | Self-Captured
Katia Lifshin at Long Story Short Gallery
In a cozy gallery, the walls come alive with the vibrant paintings of Katia Lifshin, that evoke a childlike wonder. Her dynamic works, unified by a futuristic green hue, feature a young woman in pigtails immersed in dream-like, exploratory scenes. There’s an otherworldly charm, summoning a curious and serene atmosphere.
The exhibit will be on view until May 5, located just below Chinatown.
Katia Lifshin, "TIC TAC TOE”, 2024 | Self-Captured
Oliver Beer at Almine Rech Gallery
At Almine Rech, you’ll find a captivating installation that invites you to sit, listen, and reflect. Oliver Beer crafted an unexpected chorus of cat-shaped vases, each connected to a custom-built keyboard and synthesizer. While the installation raises questions about the future of music and art in relation to technology, it also offers the pleasure of an immersive, ambient soundscape.
The exhibit will be on view until next week, on April 27, in Tribeca.
Oliver Beer | Self-Captured
📚 Further Reading
The Unseen Sides of Francesca Woodman — The New Yorker
A New Show Gives a Long-Overlooked Abstract Expressionist Her Due — Artnet
The Wild, the Weird and the Controversial: the 2024 Venice Biennale — The NYTimes
Jenny Holzer and LaToya Ruby Frazier named in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. — Artsy
We’d love to continue to hear your survey responses 😅:
💖 Ongoing Favorites
For a profound exploration of identity, language, and resilience: Shilpa Gupta: I did not tell you what I saw, only what I dreamt at Amant, closing in April
For breathtaking, meticulous memento mori paintings: Sanam Khatibi: We Wait Until Dark at PPOW, closing in May
To bask in a comprehensive collection of monumental Black artists: Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, closing in July
To celebrate innovative Black artistic expression of the 1920s-40s: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, closing in July
To see the latest and greatest in American Art: The Whitney Biennial: Event Better Than The Real Thing, closing in August
Image Sources: self-captured
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