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Jane South at Spencer Brownstone Gallery

A metal panel bolted closed on a grimy subway wall, a garage door and barred windows of an industrial building and other snapshots of the built environment are among the inspirations for Jane South’s new wall-mounted assemblages at Spencer Brownstone Gallery.  Posted to her Instagram account as #streetsources and #subwaysources, the photos speak to the long and varied life of the structures surrounding us as translated into canvas, tarp, batting and other materials.  (On view on the Lower East Side through April 5th).

Jane South, Mark, acrylic, canvas, batting, fabric, thread and mixed media, 105 x 109 inches, 2019.

Chuck Close at Pace Prints, 57th Street

Chuck Close, 'Mark/Felt Hand Stamp,' oil paint on paper, 2012.
Chuck Close, ‘Mark/Felt Hand Stamp,’ oil paint on paper, 2012.

Technique rather than subject matter (he’s painted portraits for over thirty years) drives interest in Chuck Close’s recent artwork.  For this remake of his iconic ‘Mark’ (’78-’79), Close layered gesso on the paper and screenprinted a grid.  Using a dowel with felt on the end, each square is hand stamped three times with different colors. Factor in a week’s drying time for each layer and it’s no wonder that edition of 40 is still being printed.  (At Pace Prints, 57th Street through Nov 21st.)