nyc art scene

Opens Thurs, Mar 14, 6-8p:

“All Our Grandmothers”
 Jazz-minh Moore

Claire Oliver Gallery, 513 W26th St., NYC

Moore combines her energetic and painterly style with a gouged and carved wood surface to create a fresh perspective on traditional realism. Embracing the authentic, her subjects possess a raw edginess that feels impulsive and sincere, never staged or idealistic. - thru Apr 13

Closes Apr 28:

”Paintings from the 80’s”
 Robert Overby

2 Locations:
Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 W22nd St., NYC
Fredericks & Freiser, 536 W24th St., NYC

Overby’s paintings recall both the acuity of renaissance-style painting and that of graphic design. His reliance on the grid anchors his work to the architecture of the canvas, as his saturated color palette recalls the tawdry glamour of Los Angeles, the artists’ home. Simultaneously culled from high-end fashion magazines and pornography, the women of Overby’s quasi-figurative paintings are disembodied from the forms they suggest.

Opens Tonight, Apr 12, 6-8p:

”Totaled”
 Gabriel Hartley

Foxy Production, 623 W27th St., NYC

Hartly’s oil paintings and sculptures fuse the concepts and techniques of abstraction with powerfully raw figurative forms. The exhibition features oil and spray-painted canvases of varying sizes hung in a grid, resin and paper sculptures across the gallery floor, and a room of unique prints. - thru May 26

Just Opened:

”Appetite”
 Balint Zsako

MULHERIN + POLLARD, 187 Chrystie St., NYC
(End of Freeman Alley off Rivington bt Chrystie & Bowery Sts.)
Wed. -Sat. 12-6pm, Sun. 1-5pm

Balint Zsako’s work filters the disparate elements of contemporary art through the language of figurative painting. Its like performance art recorded using Indian miniatures, land art described by medieval illumination, conceptual art acted out by the figures on a Greek vase or installation art transcribed into Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The starting point for these paintings is the pose of a figure copied from a photograph or an old master painting. The next step is working out what direction the narrative is going to take. How will adding a minimalist construction of microphones and lightbulbs, a flock of birds or a vascular system that turns into the roots of a flowering plant contribute to the plot? Most of the stories center around themes of bodily functions, human interactions, sex and death but are held tightly in place by strict considerations of geometric balance and color relationships. - thru Apr 21