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Takako Yamaguchi at Ortuzar Projects

Situated between landscape painting and pattern-driven abstraction, Takako Yamaguchi’s new paintings at Ortuzar Projects in Tribeca are a beautiful and dynamic stylization of nature.  This coastal scene features two swirls of clouds or waves, rising up to form an Ionic column over a tranquil sea.  Below, the painting’s sense of space is complicated by a band of crisp wave forms while a glowing metal leaf triangle at top right further disrupts a realistic, 3-D rendering of space.  Titled ‘Pivot,’ the painting’s constant perspectival shift rewards continued looking.  (On view through June 13th).

Takako Yamaguchi, Pivot, oil and metal leaf on canvas, 60 x 40 inches, 2022.

Andre Cadere at Ortuzar Projects

Paris-based conceptual artist Andre Cadere’s multi-colored rods seem unobtrusive now, but they caused a stir in the 70s when he brought them into other artists’ exhibitions and positioned them in public places.  Featured in an exhibition of Cadere’s work from the 60s and 70s at Ortuzar Projects, the hand carved bars were composed of wood segments with color patterns that the artist would disguise with a deliberate ‘error;’ the artist intended them as a means of merging painting and sculpture as well as a way to bring art into the public realm.  Here, a bar positioned in the corner of a NYC subway mimics the train’s poles and exudes personality.  (On view in Tribeca through May 14th).

Andre Cadere, (one from) New York City 1975, archival pigment prints (group of 30), 9 7/8 x 11 ¾ inches framed, ed 4 of 5, 1975.