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Graham Anderson at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

Like an orderly stack of oranges in the supermarket, Graham Anderson’s new paintings at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Tribeca are both organic and curving, arranged with rigid geometry, just one contrast of many that generates visual interest and tempts exploration.  Some paintings feature a sheet of orange spheres – so orderly they appear stamped out – alongside circular forms with green leaves and shading that suggests natural citrus fruits.  Most contain areas of pointillist painting in orange, blue and white color that contrasts flat monochrome orange spheres with no shading.  In this painting, that dotted surface breaks up to reveal a background devoid of natural referents.  Christmas ornaments, planets, fruit, punctuation, billiard balls and more come to mind in a strange space ripe for invention.  (On view through July 29th).

Graham Anderson, Reflected Fortune, oil and acrylic on canvas, 26 x 18 ½ inches, 2023.

David Gilbert at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

Patterns of sunlight and shadow falling over arrangements of cut paper and painted canvas give LA artist David Gilbert’s new work at Klaus Gallery an ephemerality that speaks to art as a process of making.  Calling him a ‘discerning scavenger of poignant and beautiful things,’ the gallery points out how Gilbert captures moments in which something special arises from arrangements of everyday objects.  In this image, a single pink bead and isolated dots of red color at top right add balance and interest to the predicament of the dove at center, which may or may not be captured by both painted and actual netting as it attempts to fly upward into the blue.  (On view in Tribeca through May 6th).

David Gilbert, Dove, archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 inches, 2023

Pamela Jorden at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

Two strikingly different semi-spherical paintings appear to join together to provocative effect at the center of ‘Noisetone,’ one of Pamela Jorden’s new abstractions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Tribeca.  Both created from washes of paint and featuring a curving arch at the top like a dip in a wave or a celestial sphere, the palettes of each half create divergent moods that suggest different light conditions and landscapes.  Purple and pink washes of color on the left uplift an otherwise bleak scene and off-set an overpoweringly rich combination of blue, green, red and yellow to the right.  (On view through Dec 10th).

Pamela Jorden, Noisetone, oil and acrylic and linen, 80 inch diameter, 2022.

David Kennedy Cutler in ‘Masks’ at Klaus Gallery

Why stop at masking your mouth and nose these days?  David Kennedy Cutler’s standout contribution to Klaus Gallery’s group exhibition, ‘Mask,’ shows the artist’s rack of cloned selves in the form of complete suits constructed by printing scanned images on cotton and plastic.  Designed to be worn in performances by multiple individuals, including the artist, each character manifests the digital self with ‘real’ self hidden beneath.  (On view on the Lower East Side through Nov 28th.  Masks and social distancing required.)

David Kennedy Cultler, Second Skins, inkjet on cotton and PETG, zipper, Velcro, deconstructed sneakers, performance detritus, wood rack, outfits: 79 x 22 x 12 inches, 2017-2020.

Liz Luisada in ‘Klaus on Paper’ at klausgallery.cloud

‘Klaus on Paper,’ a concisely curated, attractively presented five-artist exhibition of paintings and drawings on paper by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery stands out among the   many new on-line outlets for art.  Liz Luisada’s contributions continue to consider the importance of grids and webs; in this painting from her summer ’18 solo show at the gallery, Luisada suggests that human activity creates and causes movement in each system.

Liz Luisada, communing, watercolor on paper, 27 ¾ x 27 ¾ inches, 2018.