London-based painter Ellen Macdonald snaps her audience to attention by juxtaposing abstraction and figuration in this painting of a hand and a neighboring abstract work composed of looping lines on a vivid orange background. (At Nicelle Beauchene Gallery on the Lower East Side through August 14th).
Ellen Macdonald, Untitled (U include the, wall between and you), oil on linen, 24 x 18 inches, 2015.
The title of Mona Hatoum’s ‘Stool III’ ignores the drama happening on top of the furniture as a blood-red glass form looks ready to shift weight and crash to the floor. Referred to in other of Hatoum’s artwork as cells and looking like internal organs, the precipitously arranged red shape implies an impending crisis. (At Chelsea’s Alexander and Bonin through July 24th).
Mona Hatoum, Stool III, painted metal and glass, 30 ½ x 16 x 14 ½ in, 2014.
What do your windows say about you? London-based artist Caragh Thuring’s new paintings were inspired by the window displays of Dutch homes she photographed, which she sees as self-portraiture and a unique portal between public and private spaces. (At Simon Preston Gallery on the Lower East Side through June 21st).
Caragh Thuring, Sharp Sand, oil, gesso, pigment, graphite on linen, 84 x 60 inches, 2015.
Ori Gersht, detail of ‘On Reflection, Material E22 (After J. Brueghal the Elder), edition of 6 + 2AP, 96 x 73 ½ inches, c-print mounted on Dibond, 2014.
When young Italian artist Lorenzo Vitturi moved to London several years ago, he settled in the East London neighborhood of for its affordability and multi-cultural demographic. As gentrification has altered the area, however, Vitturi has preserved aspects of the area’s famed market in his photographs, including this precarious construction of edibles, still beautiful but now past their prime. (At Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea through Jan 10th).
Lorenzo Vitturi, Green Stripes #1, from the series Dalston Anatomy, Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Paper, 2013.
