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Women’s History Museum at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

Designers Amanda McGowan and Mattie Rivkah Barringer, who create garments under the name Women’s History Museum, explore a barely-there aesthetic partly inspired by their experience of tiny, ‘almost unintelligible’ Instagram images of clothing.  Though this outfit looks like it may be worn by a fashion-conscious desert island cast-away, the mannequin’s position before a faux-cottage suggests a whimsical escapee from a fairy-tale.  (On view at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on the Lower East Side through February 25th).

Installation view of ‘Women’s History Museum’ (Amanda McGowan and Mattie Rivkah Barringer) at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Feb 2018.

Alex Katz at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

In 1959, iconic representational painter Alex Katz made a somewhat drastic decision to cut away the background of a painting that wasn’t working and mount it on plywood. The result was the first of his cutouts, a wall-mounted or freestanding group of sculptures that Katz has created for decades. Now on view at Gavin Brown’s Grand Street location, cutouts include this diminutive cluster of friends. (On view on the Lower East Side through Dec 22nd).

Alex Katz, JJ, Clarice, and Joe, oil on aluminum, 59 x 29 inches, 1965.

Rob Pruitt at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

Energized by the inauguration of President Obama in 2008, New York artist-provocateur Rob Pruitt started painting a picture of the president daily, sourcing his images from the news. All paintings completed up to the start of the show are included at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, where this unusual monument to the nation’s leader and to Pruitt’s endurance will be on view through the end of the week. (On the Lower East Side through Dec 18th).

Rob Pruitt, installation view of ‘The Obama Paintings,’ at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on the Lower East Side, November 2016.
Rob Pruitt, installation view of ‘The Obama Paintings,’ at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise on the Lower East Side, November 2016.