Known for her unnerving, expressionist renditions of fashion models, New York painter Katherine Bernhardt steps into new territory with food-centric pattern paintings whose collective title, ‘Stupid, Crazy, Ridiculous, Funny Patterns’ accurately introduces their surprising, bold and humorous nature. (At the Lower East Side’s Canada Gallery through March 9th).
Katherine Bernhardt, Steaming Hot Coffee and Cigarettes and Pizza, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2013.
Michael Williams’ latest paintings employ tacky techniques – inkjet and airbrush – and mingle dominant subject matter with incidental-seeming doodles. They stand out for their utter weirdness, demonstrating that there are rules of taste by breaking them. (At Canada Gallery through Dec 8th).
Michael Williams, Art Loft Eviction Sale, inkjet and airbrush on canvas, 2013.
Six tons of dirt from the Yukon and a giant papier-mache bear – part of a solo show by Polish-American artist Joanna Malinowska – launch Canada Gallery’s much-awaited new LES space. Known to source objects from around the world (e.g. a liter of water from the Bering Straight and a sweater from Bolivian president Evo Morales in a previous piece), Malinowska gathers far flung references – intriguing if obscure – to the North American land. (At Canada through Oct 20th).
Joanna Malinowska and Michael Crockford, Falsely Humble (background), wood, papier-mache, 2013. Joanna Malinowska, 6 Tons of Yukon Dirt (foreground), soil from Yukon Territory, miner’s pan & bucket, 2013.
