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Celeste Rapone at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Celeste Rapone’s dynamic paintings at Marianne Boesky Gallery create interest through the distortions of their mostly female central figures.  Viewers must first make sense of twisting limbs, then take in story-suggesting details which here include cough drop wrappers, a weed and a parking ticket at the bottom on the canvas.  Dressed in a pink track suit, the woman here appears to be an over-enthusiastic volunteer, digging a cavernous hole for a tiny oak sapling, all while somehow simultaneously standing in the hole and balancing on tippy-toe on a skinny wrought iron fence.  Interested in how women can ‘occupy impossible positions’ both literally and metaphorically, Rapone manifests complicated mental states in physical form.  (On view through June 11th).

Celeste Rapone, Muscle for Hire, oil on canvas, 67 x 67 inches, 2022.

Dionisio Gonzalez at Galerie Richard

Spanish photographer Dionisio Gonzelez ignites the imagination with ideas for redeveloping New York’s skyline, were money no object. Instead of envisioning skyscrapers, Gonzalez proposes connected rooftop parks and walkways that create green space for all. Here, transit routes converge near Central Park on Fifth Ave. (On the Lower East Side at Galerie Richard through August 27th).

Dionisio Gonzalez, Dialectical Landscape 7, 40 x 40 inches, digital printing on cotton paper mounted on dibond and framed in white, 2017.

 

Tony Matelli in ‘Wanderlust’ on the High Line

Tony Matelli pioneered his hyper-realistic sculptures before the social media era, yet they seem made for photographing and sharing. This bronze sleepwalker is a major traffic-stopper on the High Line not just as an art object in its own right but as a catalyst for audience interaction. (In ‘Wanderlust’ on the High Line through March 2017).

Tony Matelli, Sleepwalker, bronze, acrylic, paint, 69 x 21 x 34 inches, 2014. In ‘Wanderlust’ on the High Line through March 2017.
Tony Matelli, Sleepwalker, bronze, acrylic, paint, 69 x 21 x 34 inches, 2014. In ‘Wanderlust’ on the High Line through March 2017.

Ryan Gander in ‘Panorama’ on the High Line

It’s creepy, but a steady stream of visitors to the High Line can’t resist taking a sip from Ryan Gander’s fountain, designed so that a stream of water flows from the mouth of a woman rendered in marble. The sculpture is a provocative update on traditional ‘garden of love’ imagery given that the model was Gander’s wife, leaning in for a kiss. (On the High Line Park in Chelsea through March 2016).

Ryan Gander, To employ the mistress…It’s a French toff thing, marble, stainless steel, copper tubing, 1 ft 4 inches x 1 ft 4 inches x 5 ft 4inches, 2015.

Josh Kline in ‘Archeo’ on the High Line

Thirsty visitors to Chelsea’s High Line park will want to keep walking past New York artist Josh Kline’s contribution to the outdoor public sculpture show ‘Archeo.’ In this industrial fridge under the Standard Hotel, Kline presents a selection of drink containers labeled with ingredients that might turn you into a label checker. They include: ‘minimum wage,’ French fries, Mr Clean, K-Y jelly and fake plant. Takers?

Installation view of ‘Skittles’ by Josh Kline in ‘Archeo’ on the High Line, New York City.