Just inside the front door of Chelsea’s Andrea Rosen Gallery, the drip from an air conditioner hits a hotplate, creating a arresting sound that sets the tone for a show full of magical occurrences and mysterious processes…(Through June 14th).
Mika Rottenberg, installation view of Tsss Tsss Tsss, air conditioner, plant, hotplate, frying pan, water, 2014.
Elaborate patterns made from stretched monofilament are the highlight of British artist Robert Currie’s New York solo debut at Chelsea’s Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. Seeming to shift as visitors move, they embody an unexpected dynamism and astound at their intricate construction. (Through June 14th.)
Robert Currie, (detail view of) 40, 031 inches of black, red and yellow nylon monofilament, nylon monofilament, 27 1/8 x 51 ¼ x 11 inches, 2014.
Walton Ford is back at Chelsea’s Paul Kasmin Gallery with more of his signature large watercolors focusing on the fraught relationship throughout history between man and animal. Here, he recalls a medieval tale of a retreating poacher who scattered reflective balls to confuse a tigress. (Through June 21st).
Walton Ford, The Tigress, watercolor and gouache on paper, 60 x 120 inches, 2013.
Picassoid nudes brawl on the sidewalk while two Renaissance angels airlift a Henry Moore nude to safety in Canadian artist Kent Monkman’s hilarious contemporizing of iconic art historical types. (At Sargent’s Daughters on the Lower East Side through June 8th).
Kent Monkman, ‘Le Petit dejeuner sur l’herbe,’ acrylic on canvas, 2014.
A pile of stock certificates slung on the gallery floor and a fake-aged panel emblazoned with logos by New York artist Mark Flood at Zach Feuer Gallery cynically (or efficiently?) offers collectors straightforward value, cutting out actual art objects as a middle man. (Through June 14th).
Mark Flood, installation view of ‘Mark Flood: Available NASDAQ Symbol’ at Zach Feuer Gallery, May 2014.
