9 Megawatt Gallery Shows to Check Out During Armory Week, From Kara Walker’s Drawings to Julian Schnabel’s Latest Works
Armory week is officially here, and with a gust of warm weather,
it’s a perfect time to scope out some of the talent on view at the
galleries.
To help navigate, here’s a brief guide to some of the
exhibitions opening this week.
“Mimi Lauter: Symphony No. 1” at Blum &
Poe
March 3–April 18, 2020
Mimi Lauter, Colossale Allargando Con
Spirito (2019). Photo: Makenzie Goodman.
What: Delicacy has no place in the pastels
of artist Mimi Lauter, who creates richly textured, chromatically
dense works that hint at art-historical tropes, from religious
paintings to Post-Impressionist still lifes. Here, 20 or so of the
artist’s works are arranged throughout four rooms, mirroring the
structure of a symphony. As you walk through the gallery, the works
crescendo into bursts of color and texture.
When: Opening reception, Tuesday
March 3, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Blum & Poe, 19 East 66th Street
“Mira Dancy, France-Lise McGurn, & Clare Woods” at
Simon Lee Gallery
March 4–April 25, 2020
Mira Dancy, Sun Swallower (2020).
Courtesy of the artist and Chapter, NY.
What: This group show presents perspectives on
figuration by three female artists from across the globe who are
connected in their rejection of conventional images of the body.
Instead of a reclining odalisque or a demure kneeling handmaiden,
the characters in these pictures confront viewers as commanding
presences.
When: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Simon Lee Gallery, 26 East 64th
Street, second floor
“Mamma Andersson: The Lost
Paradise” at David Zwirner
March
4–April 11, 2020
Image: Mamma Andersson, Lull
(detail) (2019). Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner.
What: Swedish painter Mamma Andersson
channels a cinematic sensibility in her recent works, creating
images that are at once romantic and bleak. Think of empty stage
sets and lonely pianos and horses roaming the dark Nordic terrains.
The artist draws influence from Scandinavian mythology, archival
photography, and film (the spirit of Ingmar Bergman is certainly
present), and her images linger with you long after you’ve looked
away.
When: Opening reception, Wednesday
March 4, 6–8 p.m.
Where: David Zwirner, 533 West 19th
Street
“Daniel Lind-Ramos: Armario de la Memoria (Storage
of Memory)” at Marlborough
March 5–April 18,
2020
Daniel Lind-Ramos, Con-junto (The
Ensemble) (2015). Courtesy of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
What: A new exhibition of works by Puerto
Rican artist Daniel Lind-Ramos, who was just awarded the second
annual Perez Prize, opens just in time for Armory Week. His
sculptural assemblages incorporate everyday objects and materials
that are infused with alternate meanings, often alluding to
contemporary social and political issues.
When: Opening reception, Thursday March 5, 6
p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Marlborough, 545 West 25th
Street
“Kara Walker: Drawings” at Sikkema Jenkins &
Co
March 5–April 4, 2020
Installation view, “Kara Walker
Drawings” courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
What: Drawing is the heart of Kara Walker’s
practice, and this exhibition of intimately scaled works, all
from her personal archive, centers on a series of 38 drawings
called The Gross Clinician: Pater Gravidam (2018), which
references Thomas Eakins’s 1875 painting The Gross
Clinic depicting a public operation. The Walker works
range from the mythological to the macabre and the most striking
ones are her unexpected depictions of Barack Obama in roles from
Othello to Saint Anthony—which are timely, and humorous, and
slightly tragic.
When: Opening reception, Thursday March 5,
6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Sikkema Jenkins & Co, 530 West 22nd
Street
“Lari Pittman: Found Buried” at Lehmann
Maupin
March 5–April 25,
2020
Lari Pittman, Found Buried #1
(2020). © Lari Pittman. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and
Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
What: Fresh off his career retrospective at the Hammer in
California, the Los Angeles-based artist is showing for the first
time with Lehmann Maupin in New York. Pittman’s paintings and works
on paper are exercises in horror vacui (fear of the
empty), refusing to let even an inch of space go unadorned. With
runic symbols buried under dense layers of colors and textures,
Pittman manages to tackle societal issues like the AIDS crisis and
identity politics in graphically pleasing canvases.
When: Opening reception Thursday, March 5, 6
p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Lehmann Maupin, 501 West 24th
Street
“Firelei Báez” at James Cohan
March
5–April 25, 2020
Firelei Báez, Untitled (detail)
(2020). Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan.
What: One of the most buzzed-about young
artists working today, Firelei Báez’s afro-centric paintings
blend historical facts with science fiction to create creepy yet
optimistic visions. Using found maps as a starting point, the
artist disrupts boundaries by layering them over with elegant,
fantastical beings borrowed from folklore and mythology.
When: Opening reception, Thursday March 5,
6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker
Street
“Julian Schnabel: The Patch of Blue the Prisoner
Calls the Sky” at Pace
March 6–April 18,
2020
Julian Schnabel, The Patch of Blue
the Prisoner Calls the Sky I, (2019). © Julian Schnabel.
Courtesy of Pace.
What: Pace’s new headquarters in Chelsea
will host 13 new paintings by art-world man-about-town Julian
Schnabel. The paintings are physical—more like sculptures than
pictures—and bear the marks of Schnabel’s labor and the armatures
they were painted on (the supports were sourced from markets in
Mexico). But the resulting works are more calm and colorful than
expected.
When: Opening reception, Thursday March 5,
6 p.m.–8 p.m.
Where: Pace, 540 West 25th Street
“Richard Long: From a Rolling Stone to Now” at
Lisson & “Muddy Heaven” at Sperone Westwater
March 5–April 18, 2020
Artist Richard Long at work. Courtesy of
Lisson Gallery.
What: Richard Long is getting the full New
York gallery treatment with two concurrent shows opening this week.
The Turner Prize-winning artist is best known for his performative
Land art works, which he enacts long, solitary journeys around the
world, immersing himself in the land and creating works with local
materials. While on his travels, he documents his experiences with
text and photography. Though he’s shown more than a dozen times
with Sperone Westwater over the years, this his first show at Lisson’s
New York outpost, where he will present his works.
When: Opening reception (at both
galleries) Thursday March 5, 5 p.m.–7 p.m.; Tuesday–Saturday, 10
a.m.–6 p.m.
Where: Lisson Gallery, 504 West 24th
Street; Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery
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