LES Summer Night

Thursday, July 30th, 6-8 PM

 

This coming Thursday, 27 galleries on the Lower East Side will be open late to celebrate our current exhibitions throughout the neighborhood. An interactive map of the participating galleries can be viewed at this link.

 

 

 

MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY

Rochelle Goldberg

Psychomachia

88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor

www.miguelabreugallery.com

 

My thoughts remain with Mary, beaming alone in the desert.

In the desert she digs up roots

silly soil, low drainage, roots emerge shallow

did she survive on love alone?

 

Sequence 7: Veit Laurent Kurz

Plant Fear

36 Orchard Street

 

Plant Fear suggests an altered world resulting from unprecedented local events that affect imperceptible change on an immense scale.

 

 

MITCHELL ALGUS GALLERY

George Ortman

Against Abstraction

132 Delancey Street, 2nd Floor

www.mitchellalgusgallery.com

 

The current exhibition, the first since the artist’s death in 2015 and timed to coincide with the Museum of Modern Art’s Donald Judd retrospective, is built around four of Ortman’s masterpieces from the 1950s and early 1960s: Stages of Life,1956; Tales of Love,1959; Peace II,1961; and Omen,1962. The show also includes works on paper highlighting the artist’s extraordinary draftsmanship.

 

 

BODEGA

Gene Beery

Transmissions from Logoscape Ranch

167 Rivington Street

www.bodega-us.org

 

Transmissions from Logoscape Ranch presents an overview of Gene Beery’s gregarious, trailblazing, and under-known painting practice alongside videos featuring the family compound in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, where the artist has lived and worked for over 40 years.

 

 

CALLICOON FINE ARTS

Rochelle Feinstein and Ulrike Müller

Coming Soon

49 Delancey Street

www.callicoonfinearts.com

 

Works made collaboratively during New York City’s COVID-19 lockdown, and viewable through the gallery’s storefront window starting July 30 at 6pm.

 

 

Etel Adnan, Kahlil Robert Irving, Colter Jacobsen

49 Delancey Street

 

Works by three artists from the gallery’s program who, as Etel Adnan writes, “are aware that there is interference and intervention between the world and ourselves.”

 

 

JAMES COHAN GALLERY

Grace Weaver

STEPS

291 Grand Street

www.jamescohan.com

 

 

COMPANY

Jeanette Mundt

Still American

88 Eldridge Street, 5th Floor

www.companygallery.us

 

Still American’s serialized reproductions exist, semi-altered, in a synergy of transference, from abstraction to figuration and back again. Mundt takes ownership and mastery of heavily utilized motifs in the history of painting: Landscape, Nude, Self-Portrait, then sets them ablaze.

 

 

BRIDGET DONAHUE GALLERY

Lisa Alvarado

Thalweg

99 Bowery, 2nd Floor

www.bridgetdonahue.nyc

 

Thalweg forms an alignment of free-hanging paintings, photos, sound and sand. The works are repositories of memory, vibrational maps and reminders of invisible states.

 

 

DEREK ELLER GALLERY

Nancy Shaver

fastness, slowness and Monsterous Beauty

300 Broome Street

www.derekeller.com

 

“Context need not be narrowing. There are a billion threads. Billions of objects, billions of thoughts, I am a part of it all.” – Nancy Shaver

 

David Korty

300 Broome Street, Project Room

 

David Korty’s new works on paper speak to the artist’s roots as a printmaker and draughtsman. Both figurative and constructivist, the drawings embody a collision of ideas and themes both personal and imagined.

 

 

ESSEX STREET

Park McArthur

Edition One and Two Fantasies

55 Hester Street

www.essexstreet.biz

 

 

FIERMAN

Cristine Brache

Commit Me, Commit to Me (Cázame, Cásame)

127 Henry Street

www.fierman.nyc

 

Commit Me, Commit to Me (Cázame, Cásame) is a sculptural installation by Brache investigating the role of women in the Surrealist movement as well as medical gaslighting.

 

 

FOXY PRODUCTION

Sojourner Truth Parsons

Sex and love with a psychologist

2 East Broadway, 200

www.foxyproduction.com

 

If to enter this exhibition is to enter the interior landscape of a heart that’s broken, its eau de vie is the glittering tear. Sliced-up imagery reveals the tactile joy of art-making, where paint breaks the canvas into frames within frames, which become windows, or mirrors, or screens, or city lights, or printed-out photos affixed to the wall in tape. As if lifted from the visual language of a ‘90s power ballad, eyes cry in a sliver of light or contemplate a hunger as operatic as the New York they’re painted in.

 

 

PETER FREEMAN, INC

Matt Mullican

Universal Perspective

140 Grand Street

www.peterfreemaninc.com

 

Matt Mullican: Universal Perspective brings together several themes and mediums from the multi-pronged practice Mullican has been developing for more than forty years. The exhibition focuses on new works: rubbings on painted canvas, sculpture, including modified objects from the turn of the century, a twenty-foot square banner, and watercolors on wood panels, a medium Mullican is showing for the first time.

 

 

JAMES FUENTES GALLERY

Keegan Monaghan

Threads

55 Delancey Street

www.jamesfuentes.com

 

James Fuentes is thrilled to announce Threads, Keegan Monaghan’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening to the public on August 3, 2020 and running through September 27, 2020. This will be our first exhibition in the gallery since closing on March 13, 2020.

 

 

KARMA

(Nothing but) Flowers

182 E 2nd Street

www.karmakarma.org

 

(Nothing but) Flowers is a group exhibition consisting of over fifty artists with works spanning the last one hundred years that explores the capacity of the humble botanical motif.

 

 

DAVID LEWIS

John Boskovitz

88 Eldridge Street, Fifth Floor

www.davidlewisgallery.com

 

Four complete rooms – the Millennial HallwayRude Awakening Coffee NookMess Hall, and the fabled Psycho Salon – from John Boskovich’s legendary Los Angeles home, studio, and conceptual theater, the self-titled ‘Boskostudio.”

 

 

KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND GALLERY

Benjamin Butler and Bastian Muhr

Ludlow/Leipzig

54 Ludlow Street, Front Gallery

www.klausgallery.com

 

Ludlow/Leipzig is a two-person show: German artist Bastian Muhr’s work was made while on residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in 2020. American painter Benjamin Butler created his work in Vienna, where he has lived since 2012. The artists have had a continuing dialogue about the influence of the aesthetics of minimalism on their practices, with an emphasis on craft and the mark of the hand.

 

Pamela Jorden

54 Ludlow Street, Main Gallery

 

Installed in the Main Gallery are a number of paintings by Pamela Jorden, including diptychs from her recent show, Reflector, which was closed early due to COVID-19.

 

 

MAGENTA PLAINS

Jennifer Bolande

The Composition of Decomposition

94 Allen Street

www.magentaplains.com

 

The Composition of Decomposition is Jennifer Bolande’s first solo exhibition in New York since 2008. Through sculpture, photographs and photo-reliefs, the works on view consider news and history, stacking and excavating, composition and decomposition. The exhibition articulates new developments in Bolande’s decades-long engagement with the delineations between the flatness and transitory nature of images and the presentness of dimensional space. This body of work began with a picture Bolande came across in The New York Times of a group of 14th century plague victims whose remains had been excavated from a London cemetery. Gradually yellowing in her archive, this image of decomposing bones launched Bolande on a six-year inquiry into newspapers as shapers of meaning.

 

 

KAI MATSUMIYA

Pedro Wirz

Sour Ground

153 ½ Stanton Street

www.kaimatsumiya.com

 

Kai Matsumiya presents Sour Ground, a solo exhibition of Swiss-Brazilian artist Pedro Wirz’s latest work consisting of nascent life and soil, literally. In the face of environmental decline, the artist advances his investigations into the interwoven realms of the organic, synthetic, and technological, as each combat fundamental battles between renewal and extinction. Sour Ground may be argued to be based on the intuitive observation that world-wide disasters, natural and unnatural, beg an expression of universal human solidarity; collective reflection on the proper relation of the human being to his aesthetic environment; and the renewed alternatives for what could emerge from the imaginations of new life.

 

 

PERROTIN

The Secret History of Everything

130 Orchard Street, First Floor

www.perrotin.com

 

On the first floor, The Secret History of Everything brings together seven artists — Katherine Bernhardt, Mauro Bonacina, Sayre Gomez, Julia Wachtel, Daniel Arsham, Cosima von Bonin, Nick Doyle — who reckon with the sprawl of mass media’s infinite image bank.

 

Guillaume Ziccarelli

The Holy Third Gender: Kinnar Sadhu

130 Orchard Street, Second Floor

 

We are also pleased to present, on the second floor, The Holy Third Gender: Kinnar Sadhu, a new body of work from French documentary photographer and artist Guillaume Ziccarelli, a team member who has worked with Perrotin for over a decade and was instrumental in the opening of our New York space.

 

Bharti Kher

The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos

130 Orchard Street, Third Floor

 

 

REENA SPAULINGS FINE ART

The Sewers of Mars

Shadi Habib Allah, Kai Althoff, Marie Angeletti, Ei Arakawa, Merlin Carpenter, Leidy Churchman, Brice Dellsperger, Peter Fischli, Juliana Huxtable, Larry Johnson, Jutta Koether, Klara Liden, Jill Mulleady, New Models x Bjarne Melgaard, Ken Okiishi, Henrik Olesen, Josephine Pryde, Heji Shin, Josh Smith

165 East Broadway

(enter on Rutgers Street)

www.reenaspaulings.com

 

 

MARC STRAUS

Omar Rodriguez-Graham

Michael Brown

MORIS

Sandro Chia

299 Grand Street

www.marcstraus.com

 

Omar Rodriguez-Graham digitally modifies key Renaissance paintings from historic masters and transforms them into his dynamic abstractions, which he digitally modifies key Renaissance paintings from historic masters and transforms them into his dynamic abstractions.

 

Michael Brown creates sculptural paintings, profoundly beautiful and tactile, they are made by laying a ground of 24 karat gold leaf onto the canvas on which oil paint is then applied in patterns somewhat akin to spider webs and thread with allusions to Agnes Martin and Gego’s works.

 

MORIS’ work addresses representation, social and subjective agency, urban issues, and marginal cultures in Latin America often taken for granted in mainstream society. With many found objects and silkscreened canvases, his work offers an emotive connection with difficult subject matter.

 

Sandro Chia celebrates man’s sensuality, vitality and relationship with nature. Assimilating culture and imagery from the troves of art history, particularly the Italian Renaissance and Futurism, he depicts narratives of eroticism, melancholy and death, often abound with historical cameos and references.

 

 

SIMONE SUBAL GALLERY

Anna K.E. and Florian Meisenberg

Electric Forest (Bowery)

131 Bowery, 2nd Floor

www.simonesubal.com

 

Electric Forest (Bowery) is K.E. and Meisenberg’s first collaborative exhibition at the gallery. It continues their excavation of the digital in an analogue world.

 

 

RACHEL UFFNER GALLERY

In Real Life

Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Arghavan Khosravi

170 Suffolk Street

www.racheluffnergallery.com

 

In Real Life is a physical show based on the gallery’s recent online presence, specifically our online viewing room organized for the Frieze NY Art Fair this past May. Our original plan for the art fair was to mount a solo presentation of new work in the form of an installation by long-time gallery artist, Sara Greenberger Rafferty. With the cancellation of the real-life art fair we decided to show a combination of work by Rafferty along with an artist new to the gallery’s program, Arghavan Khosravi. Now, upon reopening to the public, we are taking this opportunity to view the artwork IRL.

 

Curtis Talwst Santiago

an erratum

170 Suffolk Street, upstairs

 

An erratum is a term used in writing to indicate a correction within an already published and circulated text. The show coincides with Can’t I Alter on view at The Drawing Center, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in New York. Continuing themes explored at The Drawing Center, here, Santiago considers genetic and ancestral imagination while questioning the means and production of our contemporary understanding of history. The show focuses on new sculpture and wall work which utilize an array of material, from cast-paper made from brick walls in Brooklyn to glass beads sourced from South Africa.