An invitation to create a permanent installation for Inhotim, the Brazilian garden and art collection, was the prompt for this exhibition by New York artist R.H. Quaytman at Gladstone Gallery’s 21st Street location. Working with architect Solveig Fernlund on the exhibition design, Quaytman creates mini galleries that foregrounds ordering and sequence in both the gallery’s space and the art. (Through Dec 20th).
R.H. Quaytman, installation view of ‘O Topico,’ Gladstone Gallery, November 2014.
As surreal as ever, Leipzig-based painter Neo Rauch’s latest canvases intrigue with their somnambulant cast of characters and dream-like scenarios. In ‘Guardians of the Night,’ pictured here, a crab-clawed woman who approaches a sleeping man seems more like a healer more than a menace; meanwhile, a drummer and a custodian linger near. (At Chelsea’s David Zwirner Gallery through Dec 20th).
Neo Rauch, Hueter der Nacht (Guardians of the Night), oil on canvas, 118 3/8 x 98 ¾ inches, 2014.
San Francisco-based Spanish artist Rosana Castrillo Diaz revels in the pleasures of minimal forms and pure white color in her untitled composition created with cotton on paper at Chelsea’s Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery. (Through Dec 13th).
Rosana Castrillo Diaz, Untitled, 58 x 58 inches, cotton on paper, 2013.
160 posters make up a 40-foot wall installation by New York artist Gary Simmons that commemorates historic boxing matches while blurring their memory with the artist’s signature ‘erased’ texts. (At Chelsea’s Metro Pictures through Dec 13th).
Gary Simmons, Untitled, ink jet posters on CDX plywood, installation dimensions variable, 2014.
Opening on Oct 31st and closing a month later, this one-painting show by Rudolf Stingel at Chelsea’s Paula Cooper Gallery appears to be a month long celebration of spooky DIY Halloween decorations or a visitation from a frightening specter, perhaps warning against the excesses of giant paintings in huge gallery spaces. (Through Nov 29th)
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, oil on canvas, 176 x 120 inches, 2014.