Swiss artist Claudia Comte makes walls the focus of her latest solo show at Chelsea’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery, nodding to US politics, cave paintings and installations like Sol LeWitt’s rule-based wall drawings. Destined to be popular on Instagram as selfie-backdrops, the show reinforces Comte’s wish to make art not just for the art world elite but for everyone. (On view on 24th Street through Feb 16th).
Tag: barbara gladstone
Huang Yong Ping at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
What Huang Yong Ping’s ‘Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank’ lacks in subtlety it makes up for in presence, filling Barbara Gladstone Gallery’s 21st Street Chelsea location with 20 tons of sand and concrete molded to resemble the former HSBC Bank in Shanghai. Once a symbol of opulence, here an omen of potential economic collapse, the hulking neoclassical building was used as a government building after the Chinese revolution and has since been adopted as home by the Pudong Development Bank. (On view through June 9th).
Wangechi Mutu at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu’s hybrid bodies enter a new chapter in her latest solo show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, where this bronze mermaid merges animal and human. The reference taps into E. African folktales of dugongs – a manatee-like creature – manifesting as female sirens who’d lure men into the sea. (In Chelsea on 21st Street through March 25th).
Sharon Lockhart at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Visitors to Sharon Lockhart’s latest solo show at Barbara Gladstone play a game of peek-a-boo with the LA artist’s recurring subject, a Polish teen with whom she’s worked for years. Moving around the large walls erected at the center of the gallery, visitors can ponder how much a photo can ever really reveal of its subject. (In Chelsea, through January 23rd).
Sharon Lockhart, Milena, Jaroslaw, 2013, three framed chromogenic prints, 50 ¾ x 40 ¾ inches, 2014.
Jean Tinguely at Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Jean Tinguely, Untitled (Lamp), iron, feathers, light fixtures, light bulbs and electric motor, 33 ½ x 41 x 27 1/8 inches, 1982.