nyc art scene

Opens Tues, June 18, 6-9p:

“Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper 1962–2010”
 Ken Price

The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., NYC

This exhibition marks the first survey of drawings by Ken Price, an artist best known for his sculptural work. A selection of 65 works on paper will track Price’s pursuit of drawing over 50 years and will demonstrate a wide range of characters and techniques. This exhibition will open concurrently on June 18 with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s presentation of the traveling retrospective of Price’s sculpture that originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  - thru Aug 18

Opens June 25, 6-8p:

“Wayward Bound”
 Taylor Bowen, Clint Colburn, Amanda Kates,
 Letitia Quesenberry, Aaron Skolnick, Mark Stockton, Leah Tacha

Rare Gallery, 547 W27th St., NYC (#514)

a group show of drawings. “Visual artist and independent curator Aaron Skolnick has assembled an exhibition that explores, challenges, and pushes the boundaries of the medium, which includes works ranging from classically rendered silverpoint portraits to vividly colored abstract collages.”

Just Opened:

“The Lonely Sea and The Sky”
 Roy Fowler, Robin Hubbard, Sarah Kurz, Shane McAdams,
 Sandi Slone, Vadis Turner and Amy Wilson

Allegra LaViola Gallery, 179 East Broadway, NYC

a group exhibition of paintings and works on paper. The title of the exhibition derives from the poem “Sea Fever” by English poet John Masefield and explores the idea of the sea as a release from the usual ties and bonds of life. - thru June 23

pictured:    
Amy Wilson, “I thought of the space between us which felt like miles”
watercolor, walnut ink, pencil on paper, 2008, 6.25 x 5 inches

Opens June 13:

“Chris Hipkiss”
 Christopher Payen and Alpha Mason

Jack Hanley Gallery, 327 Broome St., NYC

Since the late eighties, Christopher Payen and Alpha Mason have worked under various names in parts of the United Kingdom before breaking from British Suburbia in 2001 for the French countryside. Now under the pseudonym “Chris Hipkiss”, the result of their 20+-year collaboration is a singular and multifarious visual language. Populating these vast, subsuming metropolises and more intimate scenes of a city’s interior, their vocabulary reflects long-developed interests in politics, travel, ornithology, as well as feminism and femininity.

continues thru Oct 6:

“HOPPER DRAWING”
 Edward Hopper


Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Ave, NYC (at 75th St)
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the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). More than anything else, Hopper’s drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist’s work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs—the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist. The exhibition surveys Hopper’s significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and pairs many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940) and Nighthawks (1942), with their preparatory drawings and related works.

Just Opened:

“Based on a True Story…”
 Daniel Zeller


Pierogi Gallery, 177 North 9th St., Brooklyn, NYC

Zeller’s drawings continue to oscillate between micro and macro views of invented worlds and organisms. Using only graphite or ink and acrylic on paper, he explores incredible nuances of texture and structure that develop into powerful extensions of perceived reality. - thru June 30

Just Opened:

“Mars’ Planet”
 Leah Tinari


Mixed Greens Gallery, 531 W26th St., NYC

Tinari is best known for capturing spirited scenes of celebratory friends and family. For this exhibition, Tinari’s recently shifted perspective focuses on the impact childrearing has on her surroundings. Tinari’s paintings, drawings, and occasional installations result from the daily hilarity and unique circumstances experienced while raising a child in New York City. The series is a celebration and a tribute to children and their playfulness, and also a realization of the humor in being a parent. - thru July 3

Last Day May 25:

“Season 1 Episode 0”
 Ian Francis

Joshua Liner Gallery, 540 W28th St., NYC (new location)

Working in mixed media on canvas and acrylic panels, Ian Francis combines abstraction, figuration, and elements of both painting and drawing. For this exhibition, the artist unveils over a dozen medium- to large-scale works on canvas and ten smaller works on acrylic that reflect broadly on the experience of television entertainment. Season 1 Episode 0 is inspired by the reality and unreality of contemporary TV—from the made-up world of characters and storylines; to the digital manipulation of locations and visual effects; to the myriad platforms existing today for production, delivery, and global consumption.

Closing May 18:

“Blue Plate Special”
 Kira Nam Greene

Accola Griefen Gallery, 547 W27th St., NYC (#634)

Kira Nam Greene’s paintings, drawings and custom wallpaper incorporate foodstuffs and patterns, which are transnational in origin.  Appropriating from both Western and Eastern sources, the artist refers, in part, to her position as a Korean immigrant woman in America. Making use of victuals for their relationship to the body, Greene depicts fleshy bowls of kimchi, gelatinous mounds of jello and luscious, ripe cherries. The food, both in harmony and discordance with its surroundings, becomes a surrogate for the desire to consume and/or to control.