Tag: lower east side

Ryan Mrozowski at On Stellar Rays

Brooklyn-based Ryan Mrozowski’s condensed orange grove contrasts scattered leaves with ordered rows of bright orange fruit, creating an image that’s both random and ordered, mysterious and predictable, natural and manmade. (At On Steller Rays through Dec 13th).

 Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Orange), acrylic on linen, 50 x 56 inches, 2015.

Bjorn Braun at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Berlin-based artist Bjorn Braun’s main artistic collaborators are birds; he’s long intervened in his Zebra finches’ nest-making and, for his latest solo show, has replaced the glass over Marianne Boesky Gallery’s doorway on the Lower East Side with birdseed bricks. Theoretically, outside birds could nibble away at these birdseed blocks until the distinction between the inside and outside of the gallery vanishes. (Through Dec 20th).

Bjorn Braun, Untitled, sunflower seed, oat flakes, wheat,
juniper seed, peanuts, honey and flour, 2015.

Holly Coulis at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

Holly Coulis’s latest paintings feature kitchenware, fruits and foods with a clean-lined graphic sensibility. Strong red outlines and softly glowing orbs of light take the still lives into another realm, however, making the familiar delightfully strange. (At Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on the Lower East Side through Dec 6th).

 Holly Coulis, Fruit, Pitcher in a Corner, oil on canvas, 30 x 22 inches, 2015.

Hilary Harnischfeger at Rachel Uffner Gallery

Hilary Harnischfeger makes an unlikely but delightful connection to both geological formations and a cow in this wall-mounted sculpture titled ‘Bovina.’ Using stacked layers of cut and colored paper, ceramic, oil stick and hydrostone, the Brooklyn-based artist works her usual magic with materials while bringing to mind farm tools or a cow’s skull affixed to a barn wall. (On the Lower East Side at Rachel Uffner Gallery through Dec 20th).

 Hilary Harnischfeger, Bovina, ceramic, hydrostone, pigment, crushed glass, oil stick, paper, wood, 20 x 22 x 10 inches, 2015.

Josh Tonsfeldt at Simon Preston Gallery

Shot on the fly through the window of a Toronto tattoo shop, this image by Josh Tonsfeldt stacks pictures – of the window itself, reflections on the glass, a man looking at a screen, and the same man using his skin as a surface. Printing on the cement-like material hydrocal lends a provocative, incongruous sense of permanence to a chance encounter. (At Simon Preston Gallery on the Lower East Side through Dec 20th).

 Josh Tonsfeldt, Adrenaline Tattoo, UV cured pigment print on hydrocal, spray paint, epoxy resin, pigment inks, 32 x 48 inches, 2015.