A cascade of color greets visitors to Kasmin Gallery’s cavernous 27th Street gallery in the form of British artist Ian Davenport’s large-scale poured paintings. Inspired by the gorgeous colors he once encountered in a field of bluebonnets, the artist planned sequences of poured lines of paint that would translate a natural vision into a powerful, mediated experience of color. (On view in Chelsea through Jan 9th).
On her way to developing an abstract, dripped-paint style that influenced Jackson Pollock in the 1940s, New York artist Janet Sobel painted scenes inspired by the shtetls of her native Ukraine. Now on view at Andrew Edlin Gallery, a selection of Sobel’s work shows her flattening of space and merger of a flowery landscape, patterned skirt and floral headdress in a way that flirts with all-over abstraction. (On view on the Lower East Side through Feb 22nd).
I saw a dog enthusiastically enjoying this sculpture at Barbara Gladstone Gallery with its owner…that is, until it was scared away when the animatronic creature raised its head in response to a periodic drip coming from an easy-to-miss fake ventilation shaft. This piece by LA-based artist Piero Golia suggests that even a faux dog’s powers of perception are to be reckoned with. (At Chelsea’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 24th St space, through Aug 2nd).
Piero Golia, The Dog and the Drip, animatronic dog, solenoids and sync device, 2013.
