Tag: reflection

Jeppe Hein at 303 Gallery

Though Berlin-based Danish artist Jeppe Hein has installed his trademark polished stainless steel panels in large outdoor spaces (notably at Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2015), 303 Gallery’s tiny back space seems uniquely suited to host an intense experience of reality for visitors who see themselves and Hein’s striped paintings cut together in thin strips.  Hein has explained that his stripe paintings represent breathing in and out which sounds meditative, but in this installation is geared to quicken the senses.  (On view in Chelsea through Oct 19th).

Jeppe Hein, Intersecting Circles, high polished stainless steel, 87 3/8 x 85 x 70 inches, 2019.

Charles Ritchie at BravinLee Programs

Charles Ritchie’s tiny, meticulous watercolor and graphite drawings include reflections in the windows of his suburban home, offering a scene of the outdoors that’s at the same time, a view of his workplace.   The merged locations feel dream-like and explore connectedness between interior and exterior realms. (At BravinLee Programs in Chelsea through Oct 14th).

Charles Ritchie, Landscape with Four Lights, watercolor and graphite on Fabriano paper, 4 x 6 inches, 2011-2017.

Janet Fish at DC Moore Gallery

In the 60s, New York painter Janet Fish reveled in painting reflections she observed on everyday objects and packaged foods. Here, a package of plantains turns mundane supermarket fare into a canvas demonstrating light at play. (At Chelsea’s DC Moore Gallery through Feb 13th).

 Janet Fish, Plantains in a Box, oil on canvas, 44 x 44 inches, 1969.

Heinz Mack at Sperone Westwater Gallery

As a founder of the post-war European ‘Zero’ Group, Heinz Mack explored the effects of light and various reflective materials in an attempt to take his art back to an experimental stage, or conceptual ground zero. Here, a ‘light relief’ sends the eye shooting around a surface of raised patterns as the light conditions and reflections in the gallery define the viewing experience. (At Sperone Westwater Gallery on the Lower East Side through Dec 13th).

Licht-Relief (Pyramide), aluminum and wood, 29 1/8 x 34 x 2 5/8 inches, 2004.