Ariel Orozco at Spencer Brownstone Gallery

No detail of urban life is too mundane for Mexico-City based conceptual artist Ariel Orozco, whose minimalist panels at Spencer Brownstone Gallery uncover a hidden choreography in the metropolis.  Finding himself trailing 18 wheelers through city traffic, Orozco recorded the patterns of blinking lights on the rear of the trucks, then recreated the same flashing sequences with lights embedded into canvas.  The effect is humorous and surprisingly engaging…and viewers don’t even have to deal with diesel exhaust.  (On view on the Lower East Side through Nov 8th).

Ariel Orozco, installation view of La cabeza el los pies (Head on feet), truck tail lights, electrical hardware, circuit box, canvas on panel, 90.5 x 78.5 inches, 2020.

Kazuko Miyamoto at Zuricher Gallery

Kazuko Miyamoto’s ‘Female I’ reclines along the floor of Zuricher Gallery like a taught, transparent odalisque, a shifting combination of representational form and pure abstraction that rethinks minimalism’s relationship to the organic world. (On the Lower East Side through Oct 22nd).

Kazuko Miyamoto, Female I, black string and nails on board, 28 x 28 x 91 inches, 1977-2017.

‘Blackness in Abstraction’ at Pace Gallery

From a 1962 painted black rectangle by Sol LeWitt to a series of canvases hung from the ceiling by Oscar Murillo, Pace Gallery’s ‘Blackness in Abstraction’ discusses varieties of blackness, touching on race, the life of the spirit and simplicity of form. (On 25th Street in Chelsea through Aug 19th).

Installation view of ‘Blackness in Abstraction’ at Pace Gallery, June, 2016.
Installation view of ‘Blackness in Abstraction’ at Pace Gallery, June, 2016.

Serge Alain Nitegeka at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Young Johannesburg artist Serge Alain Nitegeka pushes abstraction off the wall at Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, altering the gallery with paintings that project into the room while simultaneously acting as portals into 2D illusionary spaces. (Through April 23rd).

Serge Alain Nitegeka, Installation view of ‘Colour and Form in Black’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery, March 2016.
Serge Alain Nitegeka, Installation view of ‘Colour and Form in Black’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery, March 2016.

Sarah Braman at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Evocative sculpture by New York artist Sarah Braman creates a nexus between mass produced furniture and the unique art object, coldly minimal forms and a potentially cozy bedroom, a mined metal and unexploited nature in the form of a gorgeous sunset. (At Chelsea’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash through April 16th).

Sarah Braman, In Bed (how do we sleep when the planet is melting?), steel bunk beds, mattress, glass, aluminum frame, storm door, acrylic sticker, hand-dyed bed sheets, acrylic and enamel paint, 2016.
Sarah Braman, In Bed (how do we sleep when the planet is melting?), steel bunk beds, mattress, glass, aluminum frame, storm door, acrylic sticker, hand-dyed bed sheets, acrylic and enamel paint, 2016.