Wed Oct 11th Chelsea Exhibitions
Nara Roesler – José Patrício, Geometry of Chance – For his first exhibition in New York, Josė Patricio has gathered a group of works made of small plastic pieces used in puzzle games, which the artist began using in the 2000s as materials for his serialized compositions.
Gagosian 21st – Ashley Bickerton, Susie’s Mother Tongue – an exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Ashley Bickerton (1959–2022), including his never-before-seen Blur paintings.
Gagosian 24th – Roy Lichtenstein, Bauhaus Stairway Mural – Measuring more than 26 feet tall and painted in oil and Magna on canvas, Bauhaus Stairway Mural pays homage to German abstract artist Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) and his painting Bauhaustreppe (Bauhaus Stairway, 1932).
Gladstone – Ugo Rondinone, Bright Light Shining – For this show, the artist presents new, large-scale sculptures along with an interconnected body of work, which act as building blocks of the perfect storm.
Hauser & Wirth 22nd – Ed Clark, The Big Sweep – an exhibition covering the six-decade career of pioneering American abstractionist Ed Clark (1926 – 2019).
Hauser & Wirth 18th – Louise Bourgeois, Once There Was a Mother – Centered around one of her most powerful themes—motherhood and maternity—the exhibition places Bourgeois’s printed works in relation to sculptures and drawings to highlight the essential role printmaking played within her multifaceted practice.
Dia Chelsea – Delcy Morelos, El Abrazo – For Dia Chelsea, the artist has created two immersive, multisensory installations—Cielo terrenal (Earthly Heaven, 2023) and El abrazo (The Embrace, 2023), the latter giving the exhibition its title—where surface and volume converge and collapse through monochromatic expanse and material accumulation.
Yancy Richardson – Mickalene Thomas, Je T’adore – In je t’adore, Thomas presents 13 large-scale mixed media photo collages inspired by her research into the imagery of Black female erotica featured in the calendars of Jet magazine and the pages of the 1950s French publication, Nus Exotique.
Luhring Augustine – Mohammed Sami, Muzzle of Time – Sami’s evocative paintings are an exploration of memory and its vulnerability to time. Mining personal experiences to ground his work, Sami creates a palpable sense of mystery with oblique references to turmoil or conflict.
Matthew Marks – Wade Guyton – Recent Paintings – In 2021 Guyton moved into another floor of his studio building that the previous tenant, a clothing company, had filled with metal hanging racks. Rather than remove the racks, he repurposed them to hang his paintings for storage. In the current exhibition, Guyton has duplicated this set of racks and installed paintings in the same manner.
Marianne Boesky – Sanford Biggers – Meet Me on the Equinox – A foray into the origin of myth and the malleability of historical narrative, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between seemingly disparate elements of Biggers’s practice as the convergence of pattern, material, and allegory sets the stage for the creation of novel, discordant, and subjective mythologies.
Pace – Julian Schnabel – Bouquet of Mistakes – The works on display in Schnabel’s upcoming show were made in concert with the preparation of his seventh feature film, In the Hand of Dante, an adaptation of Nick Tosches’s novel of the same name.
Kasmin – Bosco Sodi, Solo Para Revivir – Sodi’s deepening investigations into the symbolic power of four elemental colors—black, purple, red, and green—are expressed in several large-scale mixed media paintings imbued with impressions of nature: indented with the fractal structure of tree branches drawn from the surroundings of the artist’s studio, or subjected to the pull of gravity as they dry.