Ian Davenport at Kasmin Gallery

A cascade of color greets visitors to Kasmin Gallery’s cavernous 27th Street gallery in the form of British artist Ian Davenport’s large-scale poured paintings.  Inspired by the gorgeous colors he once encountered in a field of bluebonnets, the artist planned sequences of poured lines of paint that would translate a natural vision into a powerful, mediated experience of color.  (On view in Chelsea through Jan 9th).

Ian Davenport, Spring (Bluebonnet), acrylic on aluminum (six panels with additional floor section), 129 7/8 x 236 ¼ x 39 3/8 inches, 2018.

Pat Steir at Cheim & Read

At eleven by eleven feet, New York painter Pat Steir’s monumental pours of pigment, oil and turpentine create glowing sheets of color in deep spaces that beckon and offer to engulf the viewer. (At Chelsea’s Cheim and Read Gallery through March 29th).

Pat Steir, Green, Orange and Mica, oil on canvas, 11 x 11 feet, 2013.