Brooklyn artist Beth Krebs’ provocatively surreal object – a suggestion of two half-exposed bodies conjoined erotically or otherwise and traversed by a mini-pathway or guideline for cutting – is part of a new body of work worth seeing at the Lower East Side’s Station Independent Projects (through April 6th).
Beth Krebs, Rift and Slip, fired clay, pastel and tape, 12 x 9 x 10 inches.
Iconic Process artist Lynda Benglis excites the senses with a new selection of ceramic sculptures hand formed from tubes and slabs of clay. (At Chelsea’s Cheim & Read through Feb 15th).
Lynda Benglis, Untitled, glazed ceramic, 20 x 16, 12 inches, 2013.
Titled ‘Du’ or the informal version of ‘you’ in German, German-born, Brooklyn-based artist Anke Weyer’s latest show of abstract oil paintings hint at human shapes and active figures. Here, ‘Sweat, Tears and Fire’ summons frenetic activity worth of Weyer’s dynamic style. (At Canada through Jan 26th).
Anke Weyer, Sweat, Tears and Fire, oil on canvas, 72 x 56 inches, 2012.
Berlin-based artist Frank Nitsche’s recent pared-down, monochrome abstractions reduce the urban world to minimal forms, a stark contrast to a column containing drink cans and plastered in stickers collected during his travels. (At Chelsea’s Leo Koenig Gallery through July 20th)
Frank Nitsche, KAY-25, oil on canvas, 2013 & GNL, mixed media installation, 2013 (column seen in detail).
