Dolls, puppets, and dancers populate Swedish artist Mamma Andersson’s new, theatrically lit show at Chelsea’s David Zwirner Gallery. This towering character has a bonnet and a complexion to match the porcelain on her side cabinet. (Through Feb 14th).
Mamma Andersson, installation view of ‘Behind the Curtain,’ at David Zwirner Gallery, January, 2015.
Before her recent show at New York’s Wellin Museum of Art, artist Dannielle Tegeder observed the museum’s physical structure, translating it into bold, diagrammatic wall installations. Here, at Chelsea’s Lombard Fried Gallery, Tegeder’s mural is a subtle addition to the gallery’s all-white back courtyard, appearing to extend its space beyond the wall into a fictional geometric world. (Through July 31st).
Dannielle Tegeder, Ghost Evolutionary Drawing System with Artificial Life Structure, Classified Layered City, Constructivist Accidents, Invisible Machine Universe Plan, and Chemical Code Schema Map, acrylic spray paint, 25 x 9 feet, 2014.
British artist Terry Haggerty’s updated Op Art never stops moving when you are in front of it. The simplest device – twisting and tapering the end of parallel lines – turns this installation in Sikkema Jenkins & Co’s back gallery into a dizzying experience. (In Chelsea through Nov 16th).
Terry Haggerty, forward/reverse, latex paint on walls, 2013.
When iconic Minimalist/Conceptualist artist Sol Lewitt moved to Italy in the 70s, his palette veered dramatically toward the colorful, evident here in what the New York Times has called ‘2,448 sq ft of visual sumptuousness.’ The huge installation is one of the approximately 1,200 wall drawings the artist conceived of in his lifetime, and is an arresting blast of color and form. (at Chelsea’s Paula Cooper Gallery through October 12th.
Sol LeWitt, installation view of ‘Wall Drawing #564: Complex forms with color ink washes superimposed,’ (1988) Paula Cooper Gallery, Sept 2013.
