There's two opening receptions this Thursday, plus a signing with Kris Graves next week, and a bunch of current and upcoming shows I want to tell you about.
There's two opening receptions this Thursday, plus a signing with Kris Graves next week, and a bunch of current and upcoming shows I want to tell you about.
I researched some upcoming shows and came up with 20 exhibitions that are on view right now-- or in the next year-- that you won't want to miss.
Hi all—
Here’s your next round-up of happenings. Hope to see you there.
Flesh and Resist group show, opening reception at Temple Gallery (72 Warren St.)
Thursday, 5/18 6-10pm
A couple weeks ago, artist and friend Brandon Foushée and I went out for burgers during our Chelsea gallery jobs’ lunch break. We talked about our current works in progress, what’s new, and where we’re hopefully heading. A week later, I saw he shared the flier for his group show and I couldn’t have been more excited. Curated by Jianrui Li, the show includes Elijah Mogoli, Chukwuka, J Dylan, Foushée, Polin Huang, Xiangjie Peng, Xavier Revuelta, ZheFeng Shang, and Xi de Wong. The show will be on view through 5/20.
F[ull] Stop: 2023 Fellowship Exhibition, opening reception at WALL WORKS NEW YORK (15 Canal Place, the Bronx)
Thursday, 5/18 6-8pm
Through artist and friend Rosemary Haynes, I met Mateo Ruiz González at Bungee Space, image bookstore on the Lower East Side. We ended up getting dim sum together at Golden Unicorn in Chinatown and I picked his brain about his publishing press, Antics Publications that he co-founded in 2018 and operates with his publishing partner between Bogotá, Colombia and Brooklyn, New York. We've been trying to make plans to get together soon, so the opening reception of his fellowship exhibition seems like an appropriate venue. Excited to see familiar names like Ryan Frigillana, Recipient of the 2021 MUUS Collection / Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency, who I’ve yet met in person, but have followed and admired virtually for some time. To learn more about the fellowship and each artist’s work, click here.
En Foco is thrilled to announce the opening of F[ull] Stop: 2023 Fellowship Exhibition, featuring the work of ten early-career photographers of color selected from the prestigious En Foco Photography Fellowship, now in its 8th year. The exhibition will showcase the exceptional work of Ángel Añazco, Tanya Bindra, Samantha Box, Ryan Frigillana, Pratya Jankong, Thalia Juárez, Ashley McLean, Eduardo L Rivera, Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez, and Ana Vallejo.
Curated by interdisciplinary visual artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, the exhibition will be displayed from May 18 to June 30, 2023, at WallWorks NY, located at 15 Canal Place in The Bronx, New York.
Kris Graves Book Signing & Talk with Stephen Frailey at Launch Photo Books (59 Orchard St.)
Thursday, 5/25 7pm
Excited for this presentation of artist and publisher Graves’s most recent book, Privileged Mediocrity along with a conversation with photographer, writer, and Dear Dave, magazine editor and founder Stephen Frailey. Excited to see how publishing enters the conversation, knowing Graves’s intensive yearly publishing yield and the fact that its a small operation, I’m always curious to hear more of his insights into the industry and process. Free with RSVP, and there “will be a free print giveaway to all purchasers of Graves’ book!”
As we move on, here are some exhibits that are currently (or will be in a couple days), that I think you should be going to!
Avedon 100 at Gagosian (522 W. 21st St.)
On view through 6/24
Gagosian is pleased to present Avedon 100, a landmark exhibition in celebration of the centenary of Richard Avedon’s birth. Opening on May 4, 2023, in New York, the collection of Avedon photographs was selected by more than 150 people—including prominent artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and fashion world representatives—who elaborate on the impact of the photographer’s work today.
Light and Tone: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave.)
On view 5/18 through 9/5
The current installation explores the pursuit of tonal gradation and contrast in works varying from the completely monochrome to the brightly colored. A selection of drawings on prepared and dyed papers, ranging from Renaissance masterworks by Wolf Huber and Peter Candid to dazzling sheets by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists like Angelica Kauffman and Alphonse Legros, demonstrates the versatility of colored grounds for studies and for finished compositions. A nearby display examines the role of color in hand-painted woodcuts and engravings. The works on view, which include some of the earliest examples of the practice, represent wide-ranging approaches to the relationship of watercolor and printed image.
Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen at Luhring Augustine: Chelsea (531 W. 24th St.)
On view through 6/24
The New York Times: [Coen said recently, in a joint video interview with McDormand from California,] “Jeffrey [Frankael] floated the idea of doing a show of Lee’s photographs. He said it could be whatever you want. ‘Just 10 photographs if you like.’”
Over the last year, Coen expanded the project into a sequenced book of 70 Friedlander photos, “Framed,” that is the basis for two exhibitions, at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, from May 6 through June 24, and at Luhring Augustine in New York, from May 13 to June 24. Each show will display about 45 photos.
Katherine Hubbard: The great room at Company Gallery (145 Elizabeth St.)
On view through 6/3
The great room, Katherine Hubbard’s third solo exhibition with Company Gallery, includes work from her ongoing project making photographs with her mom, Antonette Berger, within Berger’s home in Philadelphia, PA. Hubbard began this work in 2020, a time marked for many by turning inwards, caretaking, and restructuring our worlds during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was during this period that Hubbard’s mother started to experience severe memory loss and was eventually diagnosed with LATE, a brain disease which mimics the symptoms of Alzheimer’s.
This dividing wall from Berger’s home is mirrored in the gallery installation and framed out to support multiple photographs within its structure. Built to the exact dimensions, the structure symbolically segments space to reflect the great room and its function in the home. The representational photographs are complemented by unique body prints made by Hubbard and her mother in a traditional black and white darkroom. These experimental contact photographs are one-to-one scale with the body and allow the proximity between Hubbard and Berger to materialize intimacy through their physicality with the photographic paper.
And here, you’ll find a number of exhibitions throughout NYC (with the exception of that will be opening up throughout the next year. Some are less photography-focused and might have found their place here because of how much I’m obsessed with the artist, their work, and how they hit a sore spot for my interests in community-sourced art (e.g. Standing on the Corner, Pepón Osorio, Emilie Gossiaux, and Beatrix Potter).
This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture at the Museum of the City of New York
On view 5/26
New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, Logo Oluwamuyiwa at the Museum of Modern Art
On view 5/28
Standing on the Corner: Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers at the MoMA PS1
On view 6/1
Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023 at the Brooklyn Museum
On view 6/2
Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy at the International Center of Photography featuring Nan Goldin, Herve Guivert, Clifford Prince King, Sally Man, RongRong & inri, Collier Schorr, among others
On view 6/2
Laila Annmarie Stevens: Clayton Sisterhood Project at the Queens Museum
On view 6/3
Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente at the New Museum
On view 6/20
Inheritance at the Whitney Museum of American Art featuring John Edmonds, Ana Mendeita, Kara Walker, + more
On view 6/28
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection at the Smithsonian featuring Niki de Saint Phalle, Guerrila Girls, Deana Lawson, Ana Mendieta, Sondra Perry, Nancy Spero, plus many more
On view 8/2 — [Editor’s note: Okay, this is not in NYC, but it’s an extra show I added and I think it’s going to be a really powerful line-up of artists.]
Trust Me at the Whitney Museum of American Art featuring Alvin Baltrop, Moyra Davey, Lola Flash, Barbara Hammer, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, among others
On view 8/19
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN at the Museum of Modern Art
On view 9/10
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines at the Brooklyn Museum
On view 10/17
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility at the Whitney Museum of American Art featuring Dawoud Bey, John Edmonds, Lyle Ashton Harris, Tomashi Jackson, Farah Al Qasimi, Lorna Simpson, Ming Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, among others
On view 10/20
Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Other-Worlding at the Queens Museum
On view 10/22
An-My Lê Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières at the Museum of Modern Art
On view 11/5
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Morgan Library & Museum
On view 2/14/2024
Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love at the Queens Museum
On view 4/21/2024
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity at the Museum of Modern Art
On view 5/12/2024
Till next time—
Rainer