Tag: architecture

Gregor Hildebrandt at Galerie Perrotin

What do you do as a tune-loving artist with no talent for making music?  German artist Gregor Hildebrandt’s answer has been to make art with music-related objects, creating walls with records pressed into clam-shell shapes and ‘paintings’ with cassette tape replacing brush strokes or lines.  In the background of this installation view, VHS tape stretched against the wall creates a fluttering surface, as ephemeral as a musical note.  (On view on the Lower East Side at Galerie Perrotin through Dec 22nd).

Gregor Hildebrandt, installation view of ‘In My House, There are Many Rooms,’ at Perrotin, New York, Dec 2018.

 

Simone Leigh at Luhring Augustine Gallery

Simone Leigh continues to merge bodies and architecture in provocative ways in her debut at Luhring Augustine in Chelsea.  Highlights include the raffia-skirted figure on the left, a maternal character elevated by her tall, tent-like garment and commanding respect with her hands-on-hips pose.  Natural materials contrast the delicate porcelain flowers clustered in a wreath around her face, suggesting a woman equally at ease with the ready-made and refined.  (On view through Oct 20th).

Simone Leigh, installation view at Luhring Augustine Gallery, Sept 2018.

Tim Gardner at 303 Gallery

British Columbia based artist Tim Gardner revisits his college-day haunts in vibrant, precise watercolors of a surprisingly tranquil New York, now on view at 303 Gallery.  A Statue of Liberty with stars brightly shining above (light pollution magically banished), a quiet (!) High Line park and a subway station with a train arriving are magical moments.  This bike messenger (actually waiting at a light?) helps interpret the scale of the pleasingly symmetrical terracotta-colored building framing the scene.  (On view in Chelsea through July 13th).

Tim Gardner, Bike Messenger, watercolor on paper, 16 x 12 inches, 2018.

Marjan Teeuwen at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Working with materials salvaged from destroyed buildings, Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen creates abstract arrangements of forms that suggest paintings.  Here, she worked in an abandoned school in Johannesburg, South Africa during a 2015 residency to create an installation that speaks to a key theme – the inevitability of destruction and but also the hope of renewal.  (On view through April 14th at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in Chelsea.)

Marjan Teeuwen, Archive Johannesburg, archival pigment print, 38 x 43 inches, 2015.

Max Hooper Schneider in ‘Mutations’ on the High Line

Locks of real and synthetic hair move like undersea plants in LA artist Max Hooper Schneider’s eye-catching aquarium installation on Manhattan’s High Line park. Long drawn to aquariums as hobby and art objects, the artist gathered materials from minerals to freeze-dried vegetables to create a seabed built from layers of consumer culture detritus. (On view through March 2018).

Max Hooper Schneider, Section of Intertidal Landscape (Hair Metastasis) on the High Line, July 2017.