Tag: accumulation

Alice Hope in No W Here at Ricco/Maresca Gallery

Prior to the pandemic, artists Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt and Toni Ross decided to make artwork in response to one object at the Met; improbably, they each focused on a navigational chart from the Marshall Islands.  Known for creating abstract sculpture and installation composed of repeated objects, Hope’s contribution to the three artists’ current joint exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery includes this accumulation of ball chains.  A kind of counterpoint to navigating social space through distancing, theses crowded forms resemble natural fibers but are made from mass produced keychains.  (On view in Chelsea through Sept 11th).

Alice Hope, untitled, Ball chain, anodized door screen, 20 x 45 inches, 2020.

Yuji Agematsu at Miguel Abreu Gallery

Daily for the past twenty years, New York artist Yuji Agematsu has walked the city streets collecting refuse and reforming it into artful accumulations and arrangements. Here, he has allowed lollipops to melt and deteriorate before arresting them in precise moments of decay that still recall the joy of a freshly unwrapped piece of candy while fast forwarding to the end of that pleasure. (At Miguel Abreu Gallery through April 2nd).

Yuji Agematsu, no time, no location, lollipops, paper and plastic sticks, hair, thread, cellophane, chewing gum and mixed media inserted into wall, 18 x 25 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, 2013 – 16.

Susie MacMurray at Danese Corey Gallery

Susie MacMurray’s stately ‘Medusa,’ dignifies the maligned mythological character by refashioning her imposing figure in a beautiful surface of tiny, interlocked copper rings. (At Chelsea’s Danese Corey Gallery through May 21st.)

Susie MacMurray, Medusa, handmade copper chain mail over fiberglass and steel armature, 72 x 96 x 96 inches, 2014 – 15.
Susie MacMurray, Medusa, handmade copper chain mail over fiberglass and steel armature, 72 x 96 x 96 inches, 2014 – 15.

Tara Donovan in ‘Grounded’ at Pace Gallery

Tara Donovan’s ‘Colony’ is a standout in Pace Gallery’s group exhibition, ‘Grounded,’ which gives the floor to artwork created to be displayed on the ground.  Donovan’s signature premise – an accumulation of ordinary small things makes an excellent big thing – is now art-making orthodoxy, but no one does it quite like Donovan.  (At Pace Gallery’s 534 West 25th Street location through Feb 22nd.)  

Tara Donovan, Colony, pencils, 2004.