Bertozzi & Casoni at Sperone Westwater

Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s ‘Four Seasons’ series from 1563 continues to inspire artists and capture the imagination as it displays the abundance of the seasons.  In this polychrome ceramic sculpture at Sperone Westwater on the Lower East Side, Italian sculptors Bertozzi & Casoni recreate Spring in vibrant color, manifesting a creature that represents the abundance and promise of new life.  (On view through Oct 30th.  Masks required.)

Bertozzi & Casoni, Primavera, polychrome ceramic, 25 ½ x 26 x 14 ½ inches, 2021.

Paul Outerbridge at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Influential for his photographs of consumer culture items isolated and made strange, as well as his laborious tri-color Carbo printing technique, Paul Outerbridge is currently celebrated at Bruce Silverstein with a retrospective including this intensely colored cinematic homage to spring. (At Bruce Silverstein Gallery in Chelsea through Sept 17th).

Paul Outerbridge, First Robin of Spring, Carbo print, 14 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches, 1938, printed c. 1938.
Paul Outerbridge, First Robin of Spring, Carbo print, 14 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches, 1938, printed c. 1938.

William Villalongo at Susan Inglett Gallery

‘You Matter,’ reads a sign in the window of William Villalongo’s current solo show at Susan Inglett Gallery, recalling the refrain from recent protests against police aggression. Inside, the Brooklyn-based artist presents the seasons as skeletons cloaked in glittering black female bodies and dominating lush landscapes – characters at peace and one with nature. (In Chelsea through Oct 17th).

William Villalongo, (detail from) Spring, acrylic, paper and velvet flocking on wood panel, 72 x 36 inches, 2015.