Dan Flavin in ‘Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Sandback’ at David Zwirner Gallery

Twelve untitled light sculptures from 1995 by Dan Flavin transform the white cube into a bath of color at David Zwirner Gallery’s 19th Street Chelsea location.  Spaced along two walls, the color configurations change with each sculpture, inviting visitors who walk from piece to piece to reconcile cool and soothing blues and greens with intense reds and yellows.  (On view through Feb 20th. Masks and social distancing are required.)

Dan Flavin, untitled, blue, red and green fluorescent light, 4 ft wide, edition of 5, 1995.

Barbara Kasten at Bortolami Gallery

Fluorescent acrylic beams contrast Bortolami Gallery’s solid black cast iron columns in an eye-popping show of colorful new work by Barbara Kasten. Like a giant glowing Jenga block pile, the sculpture suggests precariousness and possibility while bridging the viewer’s way to Kasten’s new body of work – studio photos mounted with projecting acrylic forms that blur the boundaries between depicted and actual space. (On view in Tribeca through Oct 21st).

Barbara Kasten, Parallels I, fluorescent acrylic, approx. 32 x 98 x 96 inches, 2017.