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M.C. Escher at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Just as a tiny shift in perspective can cause a straightforward transparent cube to morph into an impossible cube, M.C. Escher’s architecture in this 1958 print is believable on first glance, until matching up columns to arches proves otherwise.  The lithograph is one of 75 artworks on view in Bruce Silverstein Gallery’s exhibition of the Dutch printmaker’s work from the ‘30s to late career. Inspired by the impossible cube, a version of which is being held by a seated man on the lower terrace, Escher delights viewers by confounding us.  (On view in Chelsea through Nov 20th).

M.C. Escher, Belvedere, lithograph, printers proof, 18 ¼ x 11 5/8 inches, 1958.

Brea Souders at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Photography came of age in the 19th century western landscape and, more recently, the western U.S. has been transformed by the effects of climate change says artist Brea Souders, whose new series ‘Vistas’ at Bruce Silverstein Gallery explores representations of the region created using Google Photo Sphere.  Each found photo features a distorted shadow, Google’s algorithm having removed images of people.  As individual agency meets global dissemination of images taken in remote locations, the scale and experience of nature shifts dramatically.  (On view in Chelsea through Aug 20th).

Brea Souders, Untitled #22 (from Vistas), unique archival pigment print with watercolor, 40 x 56 inches, 2020.

Lisette Model at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

From the serene to the lively, Bruce Silverstein Gallery’s selection of portrait photos by Lisette Model (seen here), Diane Arbus and Rosalind Fox Solomon turn everyday folks into intriguing characters.  Model’s electric photo of a singer at Café Metropole contrasts a gloved man on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice and the momentary repose of a bather at Coney Island, but all suggest that moments of delicious eccentricity are just around the corner.  (On view in Chelsea through Sept 8th).

Installation view of ‘We Are the Subject’ at Bruce Silverstein Gallery featuring work by Lisette Model from the late ‘30s to the mid ‘40s.

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.

Aaron Siskind in ‘Songs and the Sky’ at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Aaron Siskind’s 1954 photographs of high divers leaping into Lake Michigan are included in Bruce Silverstein Gallery’s engaging group show ‘Songs and the Sky’ as an example of the artists’ desire to align his images with music, ‘…in terms of rhythm and repetitions that can be expressed visually.” The gallery takes the connection a step further by actually pairing the photos with sound; in Siskind’s case with a selection by John Cage: 44 Harmonies from Apartment House – 1776 and Cheap Imitation. (In Chelsea through June 18th).

Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #477 (left) and #474 (right), 1954.
Aaron Siskind, Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #477 (left) and #474 (right), 1954.