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Nicole Eisenman at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Things don’t look good for this couple, whose lives have literally come crashing together in this monumental painting by Nicole Eisenman at Chelsea’s Hauser and Wirth Gallery.  Though the flying cyclist and tumbling cat rescuer look as if they’re going to be injured, their faces are impassive, lacking even a hint of regret or fear and the title – Destiny Riding Her Bike – reveals that resistance would be useless.  In a profile article in The New Yorker, Eisenman connected the scene to their own romantic partnership; swirling patterns and intense colors in the landscape speak to the intensity of this couple’s relationship.  (On view through July 29th).

Nicole Eisenman, Destiny Riding Her Bike, oil on canvas, 127 x 105 inches, 2020.

Keith Tyson at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

To say that British artist Keith Tyson’s art practice is expansive is something of an understatement; for decades, his painting and sculpture have aimed to show the connectedness of all things.  Drawing from thousands of paintings created over more than twenty years, grids of images now on view at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Chelsea suggest links between neural networks, the vastness and changeability of space, mathematical concepts and much more.  Here, meteorites embedded in stainless steel prompted Tyson’s mind-boggling question in a recent catalogue essay: “What were the odds at some point in the distant past, when these chunks of matter were on their particular trajectories through outer space, that they would all end up together here in this piece of work?”  (On view in Chelsea through April 2nd).

Field of Heaven, stainless steel, meteorites, 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches, 2016.

Amy Sherald at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Inspired in part by Charles C. Ebbet’s iconic staged photograph of Rockefeller Center ironworkers eating lunch on a suspended girder, Amy Sherald’s portrait of an anonymous young man pictures him at home in the air, his mind on other things.  Poised as if about to speak, Sherald’s subject points to the possibility and promise of communication.  (On view in Chelsea at Hauser & Wirth Gallery).

Amy Sherald, If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it, oil on canvas, 130 x 108 x 2 ½ inches, 2019.

Giuseppe Penone in ‘Arte Povera’ at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

In 1977, Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone grew potatoes inside casts of his ear, mouth and nose. The resulting face-shaped potatoes were cast in bronze and are set among real potatoes in Hauser and Wirth Gallery’s huge showcase of the Italian art movement that embraced ‘poor’ materials and rethought what art could be. (On view in Chelsea through Oct 28th).

Giuseppe Penone, Patate (Potatoes), five bronze casts, potatoes, installation dimensions variable, 1977.

Karin Sander in ‘Serialities’ at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Karin Sander, early adopter of 3D printing, still manages to make her mini-portraits look futuristic, as in this sculpture that makes her look as if she’s shimmering like a mirage or a hologram. (At Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Chelsea through April 8th).

Karin Sander, Karin Sander 1:5, 3D color scan of the actual person polychrome 3D printing, black and white, plaster material, 33 cm/13 inches, 2015.