At first glance, "Shadows on the Wall," Meredith James's exhibition at Jack Hanley, looked like a sparse arrangement of nondescript midcentury furnishings: an armchair, desk, office chair, medicine…
Also among the offerings: paintings of the Obamas. Sort of.
In the last few years, Elizabeth Jaeger has moved away from figuration to more stylized sculptural forms that only suggest the female body, thus literalizing objectification in order to subvert misogy…
The women who inhabit the nine vibrant, introspective paintings (all 2015 or 2016) in Heidi Hahn’s exhibition “Bent Idle” embody an array of emotions, their demeanors both infectious and startling. In…
In the summer of 2009, in the middle of a global recession, I opened a show at Rental, my gallery on New York’s Lower East Side, called “Don’t Panic I’m Selling My Collection.” As it turned…
Like many people who look at a lot of art, I am often guilty of "drive-by" viewings—I crane my neck to take in as much as possible via a gallery's window without breaking my stride, or else I pop in…
If you were to plant a seed from an apple bought at the supermarket, most likely the tree it produced would not bear sweet fruit.
The Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, currently located in a 500-square foot facility at 21 Orchard St., is moving to 327 Broome St., between Chrystie and Bowery (both locations on Manhattan's Lower East S…
Eleanor Moreton’s New York solo debut presented 10 small to medium-size reworkings (all 2010) of compositions by once-famous 19th-century painters, such as the Pre-Raphaelite John William…