Kiyoshi Nakagami at Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe

Kiyoshi Nakagami’s otherworldly abstractions, dramatically contrasting light and dark and rendered in pigment and gold dust, suggest a moment of cosmic creation or the beginning of an alien encounter. Scale and subject matter are hard to discern but the impact of Nakagami’s meticulously laid gold lines is profound. (On view at Ameringer McEnery Yohe gallery in Chelsea at the gallery’s temporary location on 19th Street).

Kiyoshi Nakagami, detail of Untitled, pigment and gold dust on linen, 72 x 72 inches, 2016.

Guy Yanai at Ameringer McEnery Yohe

Tel Aviv-based artist Guy Yanai’s subject matter – houses, domestic interiors and portraits of plants – is sedate but his blocky, early video game aesthetic gives the paintings a jittery edge.   This plant appears to hover in space while reaching for the top edge of the canvas with an energy foreign to most potted plants. (In Chelsea at Ameringer McEnery Yohe through August 18th).

Guy Yanai, Palermo, oil on linen, 58.27 x 47.24 inches, 2017.

Hans Hoffman at Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery

From 1944, the year of his first solo show in New York, Hans Hoffman’s ‘Seated Woman’ imported a sense of movement, bold colors and a Cubist approach to the human body to the budding New York School.  (At Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery in Chelsea through Jan 25th).  

Hans Hoffman, Seated Woman, oil on panel, 1944.

Rod Penner at Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery

Rod Penner’s tiny photo realist renderings of desolate scenes from the American rural landscape summon nostalgia and intrigue in equal parts.  (At Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe in Chelsea through Nov 23rd).  

Rod Penner, Ranch View Motel/Vaughn, NM, acrylic on canvas, 2013.