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Richard Prince at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Talk about a lonesome cowboy. This solitary bronze figure – cast from a cowboy mannequin and painted – stands completely alone in Barbara Gladstone’s 21st Street space. However, though it looks like a younger relative to the artist’s famously appropriated Marlborough ads from the 80s, a text by Prince calls him ‘a male version of Spiritual America,’ a controversial past work appropriating a photo of a nude Brooke Shields. Is Prince approaching a new taboo with this trigger-happy youngster? (In Chelsea through Oct 30th)

Installation view of ‘Cowboy’ at Barbara Gladstone Gallery.

Andrew Lord at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

British ceramic artist Andrew Lord riffs on Gauguin’s ceramics and the colors of the New Mexico sunset in three multi-part sculptures at Chelsea’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery. Here, a female figure with flowing hair becomes one with a pot, making her body a vessel but also suggesting the spiritually imbued function of a canoptic jar. (Through May 30th).

Andrew Lord, detail from ‘at sunset, Carson Mesa (Gauguin),’ 13 glazed ceramic sculptures in 14 parts, 2013.

Victor Man at Barbara Gladstone

Celebrated Romanian painter Victor Man is known for courting the unknowable in his paintings, creating a sense of mystery. In this painting, the oddness is profound. Abstract hair meets meticulous realism on the face, a youthful face contrasts a mature neck and the third eye keeps things in constant movement. (At Chelsea’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery through April 18th).

Victor Man, Grafting/or Lermontov Dansant Come Saint Sebastien, oil on wood, 8 ½ x 6 3/8 inches, 2014.

Claudia Comte at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Inspired by Road Runner cartoons, Swiss artist Claudia Comte picked up a chainsaw as a young woman and started carving replica-cacti and more. Brancusi, Noguchi and other 20th century minimalists are references, along with more vernacular items, like the wine bottle opener that seems to have prompted this piece. Comte’s cheeky art historical remix results in a handsome installation. (At Barbara Gladstone Gallery’s 21st Street space through March 21st).

Claudia Comte, installation view of ‘No Melon No Lemon’ at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Feb 2015.

Allora & Calzadilla at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Quoting from literature through the ages, two boys choir members trade insults in sweet, soaring voices as they move around Barbara Gladstone Gallery climbing and sitting on marble slabs. Human emotion, soon-to-change voices and eternal forces of nature are artist duo Allora & Calzadilla’s interests in the performance they’ve orchestrated. (Through October 11th).

Allora & Calzadilla, installation view of the performance ‘Fault Lines’ at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Sept 2014.