Colorful lumps of squeezed clay, or the pattern on a checked shirt are inspiration to Houston-based artist Jeremy Deprez; here, he presents visitors to Feuer/Mesler Gallery with a five foot high bar of hotel soap. Unlike pop predecessors who supersized everything from hamburgers (Oldenberg) to soup cans (Warhol), Deprez pays painterly attention to his flecked monochrome. (On the Lower East Side through March 27th).
The bar below his apartment, the 99 Cent Pizza place, the Laundromat and apartment furnishings inspired New York artist Nicholas Buffon’s latest paper sculptures, what the New Yorker called, ‘elegies to a vanishing downtown.’ Here, even his stove and cheerily decorated fridge bespeak the well worn and well loved. (At Callicoon Fine Arts on the Lower East Side through March 20th).
Austrian Pop artist Kiki Kogelnik lays out bodies for view in ‘Cold Passage,’ an oil painting that offers and denies access to its subjects by abstracting heads into round emoji-like circles (though the painting is from 1964) and silhouetted bodies as if they’re flat cutouts or crime scene chalk outlines. (At Simone Subal Gallery through Feb 7th).
Kiki Kogelnik, Cold Passage, oil and acrylic on canvas, 59 ¾ x 48 inches, 1964.
The pyramids meet a great big expressionist splash of paint in a recreation of a mural by Roy Lichtenstein from 1983, which brings together references from art history and Lichtenstein’s previous work in a size XXL jumble. Originally installed for six weeks at Leo Castelli Gallery before being painted over, Gagosian Gallery is currently hosting a redo, accompanied by paintings and sculpture that flesh out Lichtenstein’s subject matter, from a Picasso head to a piece of Swiss cheese. (In Chelsea through Oct 17th).
Roy Lichtenstein, Greene Street Mural, 1983 (replica, 2015).
Art history meets sneaker culture in paintings by Tommy Mishima at Nancy Margolis Gallery. (In Chelsea through August 7th).
Tommy Mishima, Sneakers 2, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, 2015.
