Art and science converge in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s new body of work at Chelsea’s Lisson Gallery, where the renowned photographer has photographed light, refracted through a prism into separate colors. Helpfully demonstrating Sugimoto’s working process in making images of pure color or zones between colors, a huge prism positioned under a gallery skylight fractures light into a rainbow on the floor. (On view through Aug 2nd).
A shocking pink wall, lime green front desk and aqua-colored chair greet visitors to Mary Heilmann’s show at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, creating a bold statement not quite in keeping with the subtlety of the exhibition’s content – small-scale work on paper from the 70s to the early ‘00s. Nevertheless, one of the show’s smallest pieces, a black and blue watercolor and pencil drawing that brings to mind a game board, an overview of a pool or architectural forms, inspired Heilmann’s new, hugely enjoyable wall-filling new site-specific drawing, ‘A Long Lost Soul.’ (On view through July 26th in Chelsea).
If you’ve ever enjoyed exploring MoMA’s PS1, an art space housed in a former Queens public school, you’ll love rambling around the atmospheric new 78,000 sq ft art space The Campus, housed in a former high school just outside Hudson, NY. Work by nearly 100 artists, mostly represented by NYC galleries Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps and kurimanzutto fills the gym, hallways, classrooms and grounds around the large, low-slung, 1951 building. Organized by Timo Kappeller, the handsomely installed inaugural show includes a metal butterfly sculpture by Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj (whose sculpture inspired by graffiti on school desks is currently on the roof of the Met Museum), text pieces by Jenny Holzer (currently showing at the Guggenheim) installed in a boys shower room, Madeline Hollander’s perpetual rolling metal knots (recently part of her solo show at Bortolami) and much, much more. (Admission is free. Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm. On view through Oct 27th.)
Mika Tajima’s winter ’24 solo show at Chelsea’s Pace Gallery featured Jacquard loomed tapestries so large that the gallery referred to them as ‘architectural;’ the artist’s current solo show at the Hill Art Foundation takes the concept a step further in its handsome integration of artwork and the gallery space. Here, a new work from Tajima’s ‘Negative Entropy’ series – referring to an application of energy to move away from disorder – dominates a floating wall, enhancing the dynamic effect of the wave pattern depicted in purple and yellow. Past pieces from the series indirectly picture sound waves from computer activity or brain stimulation; here, the subtitle ‘Sound Bath…’ suggests a visualization of a healing activity, purposeful if abstracted. (On view through July 26th).
Known for imagining idiosyncratic characters from dreamed up worlds, Brazilian street-artist twins Osgemeos are back at Lehmann Maupin Gallery with paintings and two installations that fill the gallery with vivid color and sound from a built-in DJ booth. Pictured here, the gallery’s west wall houses a mystical architectural construction presided over by a nude man whose body has split in two to reveal a glowing inner self. To either side, a celestial goddess holds a planet in her hand while a man whose head in encircled by flower petals smiles serenely. In the sky, two heads circled by colorful lights – one of which is emerging from a UFO – light up the already bright skies over an installation that delights and entertains. (On view in Chelsea through Aug 16th).
