Tag: bowery

Sylvie Fleury at Salon94 Bowery

“Unfettered, confident, individual…” – these adjectives don’t describe art or an artist, they’re part of Dior’s marketing for its ‘Precious Rocks’ eye shadow compact, remade into a series of large-sized acrylic paintings by Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury. Long a provocateur who questions fashion, consumption and ‘high’ art, Fleury’s latest series may be modeled on makeup, but it makes an unmissable nod to mid-20th century hard-edge abstraction. (On view on the Lower East Side at Salon94 Bowery through Dec 22nd).

Sylvie Fleury, Precious Rocks, acrylic on canvas on wood, 45.625 x 54.75 x 3 inches, 2017.

David Benjamin Sherry at Salon94 Bowery

Working blind in the dark room, David Benjamin Sherry exposes cardboard templates, acetates printed with patterns, his own body and that of his dog, Wizard to light sensitive paper. The vibrantly colored results don’t bear a recognizable likeness of the artist, but they feel intensely personal nonetheless. (At Salon94 Bowery on the Lower East Side through July 27th).

David Benjamin Sherry, detail of Metamorphosis (Self-portrait with Wizard), 150C40M0Y, unique color darkroom photogram, 72.25 x 29.75 inches (image, no frame), 2017.

Katy Grannan at Salon94 Bowery

Taken in what photographer Katy Grannan calls ‘spontaneous collaborations,’ photos of anonymous subjects on the street from 2012-13 lend a heroic quality and astounding dignity to Californians on the margins. (At Salon 94 Bowery on the Lower East Side through Dec 20th).

Katy Grannan, Anonymous, Modesto, CA, archival pigment print on cotton rag paper mounted to Plexiglas, 55 x 41 inches, 2013.

Chris Burden at the New Museum

Twice a day, a New Museum employee starts up and moves a motorcycle to maximum speed, its rear wheel causing a huge, cast-iron flywheel to spin for over two hours after the performance ends.  Chris Burden’s contraption – The Big Wheel from 1979 – contrasts the freedom of an individual on a bike with an industrially sized wheel, visibly demonstrating both labor and energy harnessed.  (On the Lower East Side through Jan 12th).  

Chris Burden, The Big Wheel, three-ton, eight-foot diameter, cast-iron flywheel powered by a 1968 Benelli 250cc motorcycle, 1979.

Brad Kahlhamer at Jack Shainman Gallery

Born in Arizona to Native American parents, raised by his adoptive German-American parents in Wisconsin and based on the Bowery for the past 23 years, Brad Kahlhamer still draws on his varied background in art that blends Native American iconography and a graffiti-like graphic sensibility in this haunting portrait of an apparition-like character.  (At Jack Shainman Gallery’s 24th Street location through Nov 16th).  

Brad Kahlhamer, The Way They Looked The Way They Lived, ink spray paint, acrylic and ballpoint pen on cloth, 2013.