Tag: gallery

Yoon Ji Seon at Yossi Milo Gallery

Physical transformation is nothing new for Korean youth; one recent poll reported that 50% of young women in their 20s have had a cosmetic procedure. Seoul-based artist Yoon Ji Seon alters her features aggressively by stitching over photographic self-portraits printed on linen, but she does so with a wild creativity that rejects conventional beauty norms. (At Yossi Milo Gallery through Dec 5th).

 Yoon Ji Seon, Rag Face #15022, sewing on fabric and photograph, 24” x 16.5”, unique, 2015.

Joan Linder at Mixed Greens

Joan Linder revisits the 1970s Love Canal toxic dumping scandal with a labor-intensive exhibition at Mixed Greens of meticulous drawings depicting the borders of the Buffalo landfill site as well as renderings of documents related to environmental degradation. In the gallery’s back room, notebooks stretching along every wall picture fences that keep the public way from ruined land, raising the question of what’s lurking here and elsewhere. (In Chelsea through Nov 14th).

Joan Linder, Hooker 102nd Street Book, ink on moleskin notebook, 5 books, 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches when closed; 5 ½ x 105 inches when opened, 2013.

Svenja Deininger at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Shape and color are subject matter for Viennese artist Svenja Deininger, who jettisons the latter in this untitled painting to create a play of surfaces and edges. (At Chelsea’s Marianne Boesky Gallery through Nov 14th).

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, oil on canvas, 80 ¼ x 52 inches framed, 2015.

Eric Aho at DC Moore Gallery

A frenzy of gestural abstraction in the foreground of this
painting by Vermont-based artist Eric Aho crystalizes into a representational
image of a majestic mountain in the far distance, giving the impression that Aho
begins by almost being inside his subject matter…then gradually allows images
to materialize.  (At Chelsea’s DC Moore
Gallery through Nov 14th).

Eric Aho, The Mountain, oil on linen, 90 x 80inches, 2014.

Martin Wittfooth at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Martin Wittfooth’s ‘Dawn’ would look like an exaggerated prophecy about the dangers of global warming on coastal cites were it not for the few apartment lights on below the massive whale. A few people are waking up to a reality far beyond the norm – a theme that ties into Wittfooth’s interest in altered consciousness in shamanistic practice. (At Chelsea’s Jonathan Levine Gallery through Nov 14th).

Martin Wittfooth, Dawn, oil on canvas, 54 x 120 inches, 2015.