In this edition of our NYC Galleries Scene expect to find plenty of women artists working in a wide range of mediums and styles. Exhibition openings are scheduled throughout Chelsea, the Lower East Side, Queens and Brooklyn.
CHELSEA:
Sears-Peyton Gallery: “Shelley Reed, Painting on Paper”
Sears-Peyton Gallery presents “Shelley Reed, Painting on Paper” on view from May 19 to June 18, 2016. An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, May 19, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Shelley Reed uses art history as a jumping-off point for her work. The paintings on view feature figures of wildlife and flora executed in black, white and grey.
Sears-Peyton Gallery is located at 210 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001. www.searspeyton.com.
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"Billy Goat (after Bonheur)" by Shelley Reed, 2016. Oil on paper, 22.5 x 30 inches. Courtesy Sears-Peyton Gallery.
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Thomas Erben Gallery: “Bahar Behbahani: Garden Coup”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents “Bahar Behbahani: Garden Coup” on view from May 19 to June 25, 2016. An Opening Reception is scheduled on Thursday, May 19 from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Bahar Behbahani is an Iranian artist living and working in New York. "Garden Coup" includes paintings and an installation surrounding the conflicted figure of Donald Wilber. Wilber is both a respected Middle Eastern scholar known for his writings on Persian gardens and a CIA secret agent responsible for orchestrating the 1953 military coup in Iran. Behbahani's works explore this duality.
Thomas Erben Gallery is located at 526 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001. www.thomaserben.com.
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"Garden of the Envy of Paradise" by Bahar Behbahani, 2015-16. Mixed media on canvas, 54 x 72 inches. Courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery.
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P.P.O.W Gallery: “Karen Arm: Light & Heavy: New Works”
P.P.O.W Gallery presents “Karen Arm: Light & Heavy: New Works” on view from May 26 to June 25, 2016. An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, May 26, from 6 to 8 p.m.
This exhibition features new paintings by Karen Arm. Arm creates portals into the sublime through a meticulous and obsessive process of layering and glazing. The layers of dots and lines result in a meditative experience that balances chaos and order and suggests a juxtaposition of the earthly and the celestial.
P.P.O.W Gallery is located at 535 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011. www.ppowgallery.com.
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"Untitled (Green and Yellow Sun on Black Red)" by Karen Arm, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 40 inches. Courtesy the artist and P.P.O.W, New York.
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Berry Campbell: “Susan Vecsey”
Berry Campbell presents “Susan Vecsey” on view from May 26 to July 2, 2016. An Opening Reception is slated on Thursday, May 26, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Susan Vecsey creates paintings that reference representational imagery as a starting point and expand into lyrical abstracted color field works. The artist explores surface, color, form and emotion through thinned oil paint poured directly onto linen or paper.
Berry Campbell is located at 530 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011. www.berrycampbell.com.
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"Untitled (Lavender/Rose" by Susan Vecsey, 2015. Oil on linen, 38 x 52 inches. Courtesy Berry Campbell.
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LOWER EAST SIDE:
Denny Gallery: “Justine Hill: They Just Behave Differently”
Denny Gallery presents “Justine Hill: They Just Behave Differently” on view from May 19 to June 30, 2016. An Opening Reception on Thursday, May 19, runs from 6 to 8 p.m.
On view are Justine Hill's abstract paintings using basic shapes and marks arranged in layers of varying color, value and opacity, referencing digital processes and collage. In addition to rectangular works, Hill will present her "Cut Outs," shaped canvases that are first constructed in wood cut into shapes and covered with canvas. The artist then paints on the "Cut Outs," paying particular attention to their unique forms and how they behave in three-dimensional space.
Denny Gallery is located at 261 Broome St, New York, NY 10002. www.dennygallery.com.
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"Assembled" by Justine Hill, 2016. Acrylic and pastel on canvas, 60 x 48 inches. Courtesy Denny Gallery.
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BROOKLYN:
Tiger Strikes Asteroid: “Inna Babaeva: It’s the Little Things That Matter”
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York presents “Inna Babaeva: It’s the Little Things That Matter,” on view from May 13 to June 26, 2016. An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, May 21 from 6 to 9 p.m.
On view is Inna Babaeva's ongoing body of work, "IKEA Invasions." The sculptural works are altered IKEA products that have been humanized and made unusual as a commentary on the identically uniform nature of the objects around us. In some cases, the completed works were brought back to IKEA in order to examine commodity values and whether the works were considered more or less valuable to consumers after they had entered the sphere of art rather than functional objects.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid is located at 1329 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237. www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com.
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“Inna Babaeva: It’s the Little Things That Matter” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
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Ortega y Gasset Projects: “Repeat Pressure Until”
Ortega y Gasset Projects presents the group show “Repeat Pressure Until” on view from May 21 to June 19, 2016. An Opening Reception is slated on Saturday, May 21, from 6 to 9 p.m.
"Repeat Pressure Until" is an exploration of the spaces between the recognizable and the unknown. Works on view inhabit societal, cultural and material norms in order to highlight the "pressure points" that subvert aspects of the known world. Participating artists include Catherine Cartwright, Moyra Davey, Stacy Fisher, Hilary Harnischfeger, Dana Hoey, Pati Hill, Vera Iliatova, Dani Leventhal, Carolyn Salas, Kim Waldron, Carmen Winant. Curated by Sheliah Wilson.
Ortega y Gasset Projects is located at 363 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215. www.oygprojects.com.
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"Miss Tessa 1" by Dana Hoey, 2015. Archival inkjet print, 17 x 22 inches, ed. 3.
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Five Myles: “ABYSSAL: Installation by Sara Jimenez”
FiveMyles presents “ABYSSAL” an installation by Sara Jimenez on view from May 28 to July 3, 2016. An Opening Reception will take place on Saturday, May 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. An Artist Talk and Panel Discussion will take place on Sunday, June 12, at 4 p.m.
On view is an installation by Sara Jimenez consisting of hand-woven nets filled with objects that have been transformed and altered by the ocean. The nets emit pieces of recorded interviews with the artist's living and deceased family members from the Philippines, created in collaboration with Or Zubalsky. The installation explores personal and historical narratives through the "wide nets" symbolically cast into the ocean connecting New York and the Phillippines, the two spaces the artist associates with the notion of "home." On select dates, two performers will continue to weave and create new nets, alluding to the never-ending attempt to understand cultural memory.
Performances will take place on Sunday, June 5, 12, 19, 26 and on July 3 at 4 p.m.
FiveMyles is located at 558 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238. www.fivemyles.org.
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Detail of “ABYSSAL” by Sara Jimenez. Courtesy the artist.
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QUEENS:
Cheim & Read: “Sean Scully: Circa 70”
Cheim & Read presents “Sean Scully: Circa 70” on view from May 20 to July 1, 2016 in Ridgewood, Queens.
Works on view by Sean Scully create illusionistic depths that defy the known dimensions of the picture plane. The irregular grids created with rolled, brushed and sprayed paint are overlaid with bold and opaque geometric stripes resulting in a surprising contrast that the artist has referred to as "AbEx incarcerated."
The installation is located at 16-13 Stephen St, Queens, NY 11385. www.cheimread.com.
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Artwork by Sean Scully. Courtesy Cheim & Read.
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