Thank you all for coming. The trip was excellent. Our host at the end of the day was Lowell Pettit, Wesleyan class of '95. Look for him on YouTube and in the press- he'll be a person to watch for many years to come. He'd be a great choice as a Wesleyan guest lecturer, for anyone who is inclined to organize a symposium or lecture series!A place to look at the full range of galleries: try Chelsea Art Galleries.com and be reminded of how many places we didn't see. This site has great a street-by street organization, as well as lists of shows that are about to close, open, and other ways of slicing and dicing the overwhelming number of exhibitions. Everything is linked to gallery websites.
Here are the main shows we viewed:
On 29th Street -
Sean Kelly Gallery
Los Carpentieros: installation of pool, beds, shelves, with watercolor drawings
On 26th Street -
Roebling Hall
Lane Twitchell: brighly colored lazer-cutout paintings
Bravin Lee Programs
Amparo Sard: paper pricked with a pin
James Cohan Gallery
Tabaimo: bathroom video, drawing installation
Rare Gallery
Jean-Pierre Roy: artist discussing his paintings, destroyed buildings
Claire Oliver Gallery
Jennifer Poon: figurative watercolors pinned to the wall on multiple sheets of paper
On 25th Street -
Tina Kim Gallery
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: mixed media drawings with sewing, paint, etc, some erotic imagery
Betty Cuningham Gallery
John Lees: thickly layered painted landscapes and objects, some with text
PaceWildenstein
Thomas Nozkowski: small abstract paintings and works on paper, enormous gallery
ZieherSmith
Eddie Martinez: loose, brushy, cartoon-referencing abstractions
On 24th Street
Andrea Rosen
Katy Moran: small beige/grey/green/brown abstract paintings
Gagosian
Yayoi Kasuma, Steven Parrino, Anselm Reyle: group show, big gallery, Reyle is "car painting"
On 22nd Street -
PaceWildenstein
James Siena: large exhibition with wiggly lines and shapes, some faces
Max Protech
Byron Kim: abstractions of UN building and Robert Irwin Sculpture
Freidrich Petzel
Keith Edmier: We met with Jason Murison here and learned about Keith's re-made kitchen
Sikkema Jenkins
Marlene McCarty: giant pencil/ballpoint people, baptisms, gorillas
Matthew Marks
Jasper Johns: drawings
On 19th Street -
David Zwirner
Marcel Dzama: drawings, dioramas, video with live piano
