Opening at Chelsea’s Winston Wachter Gallery just a week before his death at the age of 83, theater director, playwright and visual artist Robert Wilson’s show of video portraits of animals from the last two decades invites visitors to appreciate the wondrous beauty of snowy owls, a black panther, skunks, elks and more. The animals’ movements are limited, which invites gallery visitors to spend time observing their stately forms. Known for staging experimental theater works that stretch time and employ periods of silence, Wilson carries the effect into the video works to sometimes comic, sometimes ethereal effect. (On view through Sept 13th).
