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Jennifer Guidi at Gagosian Gallery

With galleries and museums shut down, what are artists doing these days?  Jennifer Guidi’s recent Instagram posts show her doing what she always does – logging hours in the studio.  This image from her now-shuttered show at Gagosian Gallery ponders the impact and attraction of color and form.  Originally inspired by a diagram illustrating Goethe’s color theory, Guidi was also influenced by Austrian naturalist Ignaz Schiffermuller’s color wheel, remaking here it as a painting that dominates one of Gagosian’s huge walls.  It’s her meticulous mark-making, however, that has generated such excitement over her work.  Here, two Instagram posts demonstrate the repetitive processes underlying Guidi’s work.

Jennifer Guidi, Your Colors Are Eternal (Schiffermuller), sand, acrylic and oil on linen, 144 x 2 ½ inches, 2019.

Huang Yong Ping at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

What Huang Yong Ping’s ‘Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank’ lacks in subtlety it makes up for in presence, filling Barbara Gladstone Gallery’s 21st Street Chelsea location with 20 tons of sand and concrete molded to resemble the former HSBC Bank in Shanghai.  Once a symbol of opulence, here an omen of potential economic collapse, the hulking neoclassical building was used as a government building after the Chinese revolution and has since been adopted as home by the Pudong Development Bank.  (On view through June 9th).

Huang Yong Ping, installation view of ‘Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank’ at Gladstone Gallery, May 2018.

Suzanne Song in ‘January’ at Mixed Greens

Optical illusion is Suzanne Song’s stock-in-trade, whether she’s painting a false corner into a gallery corner or making an acrylic on canvas painting that looks like the happy result of a mid-century minimalist casually making art on the beach. The illusion of folding, layering and a gritty surface and keep the eye moving this piece at Chelsea’s Mixed Greens. (Through Feb 14th).

Suzanne Song, Centerfold, acrylic on canvas, 14 x 11 inches, 2014.

Marco Breuer at Yossi Milo Gallery

Marco Breuer’s endless experimentation with abstract photography continues with a new show at Chelsea’s Yossi Milo Gallery for which he folds, burns, scratches, and and scrapes the surface of photos to create layered records of removed information. (Through Nov 1st).

Marco Breuer, Untitled (C-1471), chromogenic paper, folded/burned/scraped, 15 ½ “ x 12 1/16,” unique, 2014.