Can you really shop for art online? Artnet.com, the VIP art fair and other web-based art businesses question of how necessary it is to see art in person before buying. In a daring tongue-in-cheek gesture, Winkleman Gallery devotes its summer group show to a huge exhibition in every media by its gallery artists…with all work displayed online on a bank of monitors lining the gallery walls. (In Chelsea through August 2nd).
Installation view of ‘Show Me the JPEG’ at Winkleman Gallery, June 2013.
It would be amazing enough if this sculpture by Willie Cole was made of shoes. It’s rendered more permanent and pushes the materials a step further by being crafted of bronze. (At Chelsea’s Alexander and Bonin Gallery through July).
Willie Cole, Shoonufu Female Figure, bronze, 2013.
Brooklyn-based Daniel Gordon presents one of his signature photo collages at Untitled Gallery on the Lower East Side, a selection of apples and pears that update Cezanne’s twisted perspectives on fruit by adding multiple digital perspectives against contemporary but dated background textiles. (Through July 26th).
Daniel Gordon, Pink Ladies and Pears, chromogenic print, 2012.
Disembodied hands snap photos at all angles from long tripods in ‘Truck Baby’ at Rachel Uffner Gallery on the Lower East Side. LA-based Samara Golden, known for disorderly installations of fantastical worlds, presents a more straightforward tableau here, in which anonymous hands record everything. (Through July 20th).
Samara Golden, installation view of ‘A Convocation of,’ foam, wood, acrylic, 2012 in ‘Truck Baby’ at Rachel Uffner Gallery.
Bayard’s mohair sculpture, hanging from the ceiling of the Lower East Side’s ‘On Stellar Rays,’ may look uncomfortably warm for this weather but it’s the most tactile object in a show that includes a flag painted in bacon fat and pigment by Michael Mahalchick, a meticulously constructed faux pile of twigs by Nathaniel Robinson and a sculpture painstakingly crafted by Susan Collis to look like an old discarded plank. (Through July 26th)
Installation view of ‘No Name’ at On Stellar Rays, June 2013.