Tag: rainbow

Otto Piene at Sperone Westwater

Though Otto Piene’s involvement with Group Zero, a post-war avant-garde group dedicated to exploring light and motion in art, ended when the group dissolved in the ‘60s, his experimentation with light continued into late career.  This stunning ceramic sculpture resembling a rainbow at Sperone Westwater is characteristic of his ‘heavy images,’ made by pushing metallic glazes through a screen onto clay before firing.  (On view on the Lower East Side through Jan 16th. Masks and social distancing are required.)

Otto Piene, Grosse Regenbogen (Ohne Titel), glaze on clay in three parts, 37 3/8 x 56 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches, 2014.

Rochelle Feinstein at Sperone Westwater

Aimed at an artist, the phrase ‘Love Your Work’ can be sincere or suspect.  This unforgettable 1999 fresco by Rochelle Feinstein brilliantly isolates the phrase below an envy-green field of paint.  Color takes center stage in Feinstein’s latest body of work, now on view online in Sperone Westwater’s viewing room.  Inspired by a photo she took in Rome of a double rainbow, the recent work foregrounds the color spectrum and the mutability of art. (Online through June 25th).

Rochelle Feinstein, Love Your Work (detail), fresco, 1999.

Teresita Fernandez in ‘From a Whisper to a Scream’ at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Shortly after Teresita Fernandez made this rainbow made of acrylic cubes, she exhibited it with other sculpture to create a beautiful, stylized garden from man-made materials. With water as a theme, Fernandez also showed a swooping waterfall crafted from curving blue and white plastic alongside this rendering of light refracted in mist. (At Lehmann Maupin Gallery’s Lower East Side location through Sept 1st).

Teresita Fernandez, 3:37pm, acrylic, mixed media, 57.48 x 274.8 x .98 inches, 2001.

Paul Graham at Pace Gallery

New York-based British photographer Paul Graham mixes and scatters photos of rainbows shot in Ireland, pawn shops and images of his young partner asleep on the walls his latest solo show at Pace Gallery in a somewhat obvious but nevertheless beautiful mediation on finding your luck. (At Pace Gallery’s 510 West 25th Street location through Oct 4).

Paul Graham, installation view of ‘Does Yellow Run Forever?’ at Pace Gallery’s 510 West 25th Street location, Sept, 2014.