Tag: stripes

Walton Ford at Gagosian Gallery

Though the tiger in this prep study for Walton Ford’s painting Chay, now on view in his solo show at Gagosian Gallery, looks ferocious, it represents an animal that is injured and seconds away from finding relief. Tragic misunderstandings or false assumptions about animals throughout history inform Ford’s large watercolor, gouache and ink drawings.  In the finished painting (also included in the show), a tiger leaps into a pool of water, ropes trailing from his body in a reenactment from a Vietnamese folk tale about how a farmer’s trickery results in the tiger’s stripes.  (On view in Chelsea through April 23rd).

Walton Ford, Tiger Study for Chay, watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches, 2022.

 

Nicole Wermers at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

These assisted readymade sculptures by Nicole Wermers were inspired by awnings but have been fitted with custom textiles and turned to the side to create vertical columns. Their patterns recall post-war minimal painting a la Daniel Buren, but rolled up, their potential is hidden. (At Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through July 29th).

Nicole Wermers, installation view of ‘Vertical Awnings’ at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, June 2016.
Nicole Wermers, installation view of ‘Vertical Awnings’ at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, June 2016.

Summer Group Exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery

Summer stripes dominate at Marian Goodman Gallery this summer where Gerhard Richter uses software to create patterns of thousands of lines in an eleven meter long digital artwork that runs perpendicular to richly colored wood columns by Anne Truitt. Beyond, Sol LeWitt’s 1985 ‘Wall Drawing #459 adds more bold color to the room with a shape-shifting asymmetrical pyramid. (On 57th Street through July 31st).

Installation view at Marian Goodman Gallery, June 2015.

Tomma Abts at David Zwirner Gallery

Though German artist Tomma Abts makes no use of source material, preferring to conjure shapes and forms from an intuitive trial and error process, the shapes in ‘Fenke’ brings to mind origami forms, unwrapped packaging and more. Playing with our perception of depth, she even slices a corner from this soothingly green canvas. (At David Zwirner Gallery through Oct 25th).

Tomma Abts, Fenke, acrylic and oil on canvas, 18 7/8 x 15 inches, 2014.

Markus Linnenbrink at Ameringer McEnery & Yohe

Known for vivid paintings composed of layers or drips of resin, German artist Markus Linnenbrink takes his embrace of color a step further in his latest solo show at Chelsea’s Ameringer McEnery & Yohe by creating an installation in the gallery’s back room that allows visitors to walk right into a painting. (Through October 4th).

Markus Linnenbrink, installation view at Ameringer McEnery & Yohe, Sept 2014.