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Silas Borsos at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

‘Green Orchestra’ positions an apple, pear, watermelon and limes like a chorus line, while a mountainous pile of blueberries rises up behind four plums and half an apple in Silas Borsos’ paintings at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. Featuring delightfully idiosyncratic arrangements of fruit that suggest table-top performances, Borsos’ paintings depart from traditional histories of still life in fanciful ways.   Here, ‘Orange Peel Pyramid’ presents a sole segment of orange leftover from an orgy of peeling, alongside five blueberries nestled as delicately as robin eggs in discarded pulp. (On view in Tribeca through April 6th).

Silas Borsos, Orange Peel Pyramid, oil on linen, 11h x 14w inches, 2024.

Willie Stewart at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Warhol’s poppies, Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 painting ‘Gullscape’ and a urinal recalling Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ all make an appearance in Willie Stewart’s new 3-D, wall-mounted sculpture now on view at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, signaling the artist’s intent to make something new from modern art samplings. Set upon a support that resembles a shelf or mantelpiece, Stewart’s Springer Spaniel represents the idea of the loyal family pet; paired with Warhol’s poppies, flowers associated with remembrance, the piece turns nostalgic and wistful.  (On view through Nov 25th).

Willie Stewart, Dog (Springer Spaniel), colored pencil with ink, gouache, and graphite on cotton board, polychrome wood and acrylic on canvas over artist-made panels, 60 h x 69 w x 5.5 d inches, 2023.

Alice Tippit at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Alice Tippit’s pared-down, graphically bold paintings – now on view at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery – feature clearly defined objects seen in silhouette, yet they are deliberately difficult to read.  Carefully chosen titles add to the ambiguity and to the sense that the potential meaning behind each painting is a puzzle to be cracked.  This painting’s blue/white color scheme hints at icy ocean depths alluded to in the title ‘I Sea,’ which is also reminiscent of the frosty response, ‘I see.’  Balance creates additional drama as a floating hammer supports a possibly fragile vase on which rests a cigarette that recalls a smoking gun.  (On view in Tribeca through April 29th.

Alice Tippit, I Sea, oil on canvas, 18h x 15w inches, 2022.

Rachel Eulena Williams in ‘My Way: A Gathering’ at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Strips of painted and dyed acrylic canvas are reassembled in this dynamic composition by Rachel Eulena Williams in ‘My Way: A Gathering’ at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca.  Featuring work by Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers and younger Black female artists in touch with their artistic forebears’ legacy, this group exhibition is a visual feast of pattern and color.  (On view through Feb 18th.)

Rachel Eulena Williams, Fall Scrap Flag, acrylic on canvas, dye canvas and polyester, 68 x 73 inches, 2022.

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

At just smaller than 30 x 23 inches, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’ new lithographs in the entry space of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery are smaller than the artist’s vibrant, pattern-driven paintings in the main space, but more intense and rewarding.  Powered by the motion of the curving, androgynous bodies that contort to fit into the picture’s confined space, each print conveys the energy and rhythms of dance.  (On view in Tribeca through Nov 23rd).

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Midnight Voices #2, two-color lithograph on paper, 29 7/8 x 22 3/8 inches, 2022.