Art applauds nature in Berlin-based American sculptor David Adamo’s hand-made, ceramic termite mounds. Called “exceptionally appealing as objects” by the New York Times, the mini-mounds are smaller than they’d appear in nature but invite wonder at insect engineering. (At Untitled Gallery on the Lower East Side through Oct 20th).
David Adamo, installation view of ‘David Adamo’ at Untitled Gallery, Oct 2013. Foreground: Untitled (Cathedral A), Zellan, 2013.
Chip Hughes’ meticulously rendered abstract painting, ‘Drinks’, on view at Lower East Side gallery Kerry Schuss, recalls quilting with its grid and wavy lines like piping. But amoeba-like organic shapes, cool colors and a slick of washed out color suggest watery worlds or blown-up microbiology. (Through Oct 20th).
Chip Hughes, Drinks, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, 2012.
Brooklyn-based Korean sculptor Heejung Cho makes architecture into art with her series of city buildings constructed of wood at Chelsea’s Gallery Ho. The perspective suggests a city that goes on forever, but the absence of people or other evidence of life give it an eerie emptiness. (At Gallery Ho through Oct 19th).
Heejung Cho, Two Point Perspective, plywood, wood and stain, 2013.
Chicago-based artist Ann Toebbe’s flattened perspective piques interest. Here, a TV room’s couch looks like a modernist collage while the rest of the furnishings – shelves lined with books, a rocking chair and pictures featuring nature – suggest homey Americana. (At Monya Rowe Gallery’s inaugural exhibition at a new Lower East Side space through Oct 20th).
Ann Toebbe, TV Room, gouache and cut paper on panel, 15 x 20 inches, 2013.
Black and white photos of art historical objects, delicately crafted works on paper, minimal sculptures with metallic accents and ubiquitous mirrors lend Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser’s first solo show at Chelsea’s Marianne Boesky Gallery a feeling of belonging to both a centuries old craft tradition and an elegant modernism. (At Chelsea’s Marianne Boesky Gallery through Oct 19th).
Claudia Wieser, installation view of ‘The Mirror,’ a solo exhibition with sculpture made in acrylic and/or ink on wood sculptures placed on digital prints in the foreground, all work 2013.
