It’s not easy keeping track of all the pop-ups and limited- time-only happenings the NYC art scene, but when your timing is right, the payoff is excellent. For just ten days in September (the 10th through 20th), something very shiny and decidedly surreal took up residence on NYC’s High Line. auruBOROS — Urban Memory and Collective Dream, a monumental inflatable sculpture commissioned by Bulgari, twisted its way across a section of the elevated park directly under The Standard hotel, turning an already visually interesting stretch of Manhattan into something that felt otherworldly.
With Miracle Mile (2013) Robert Irwin (b. 1928) reconsiders the properties of light, material, and color. This site-specific work subtly plays with the architecture in which it is housed and respondseto both Wilshire Boulevard and Primal Palm Garden, an outdoor installation that Irwin created at LACMA in 2008. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Robert Irwin, Miracle Mile→
“Hey, look at those upside down trees!” I shouted to my friends as we approached the entrance to Mass MoCA, the coolest contemporary art museum in the Universe. The trees turned out to be a work of art by Natalie Jeremijenko called Tree Logic (1999) in which six live trees are inverted and suspended from a truss made up of a metal armature, stainless steel planters, and telephone poles. In Tree Logic, the art of the piece is not found in its condition at any single point, but in the change of the trees over time. Continue reading Upside Down Trees at Mass MoCA→
John Clement, Fireflies, Painted Steel (All Photos By Gail)
De Buck Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition by New York-based sculptor John Clement, entitled Fireflies. Clement’s artistic language, which entails a spirited geometry of curving forms and gaping voids, embodies an evolving interest in capturing and interacting with both viewers and the environment which has been a cornerstone of the artist’s work since the 1990s. Continue reading John Clement’s Fireflies at De Buck Gallery→
Surfboards and Boogie Boards By Barry McGee (All Photos By Gail)
Cheim & Read is currently hosting an exhibition of new work by Barry McGee, which is the McGee’s first solo show with the gallery and his first show in New York in eight years. McGee is arguably among the most well-known and influential artists from the San Francisco Bay Area to have international success. His boldly graphic, colorful work incorporates a multitude of influences (including graffiti, American folk art and Op Art), but especially the urban street culture he knows well. Continue reading Must See Art: Barry McGee at Cheim & Read→
