Known for large-scale installations of hanging, twisting and looping fibers, Sheila Hicks favors rich, 2-D color-fields in her latest solo show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. As seen in this detail, Hicks combined several panels wrapped in individual strands of linen floss to create harmonies that speak to a lifetime of absorbing and rethinking textiles from around the world. (On view through July 6th).
British Columbia based artist Tim Gardner revisits his college-day haunts in vibrant, precise watercolors of a surprisingly tranquil New York, now on view at 303 Gallery. A Statue of Liberty with stars brightly shining above (light pollution magically banished), a quiet (!) High Line park and a subway station with a train arriving are magical moments. This bike messenger (actually waiting at a light?) helps interpret the scale of the pleasingly symmetrical terracotta-colored building framing the scene. (On view in Chelsea through July 13th).
Brooklyn-based artist Joseph Zito’s forays into beekeeping inspired his recent series of hives, created in tandem with artist friends and currently on display at Lennon Weinberg Gallery in Chelsea. Here, painter Gary Mayer’s energetically painted box issues a warning, portraying a cluster of frenetic bees in a paradise of flowers on one side and dead bees experiencing colony collapse on the other. (On view through August 17th).
Lines of moving silhouettes endlessly crisscross rugged terrain in ‘Blue Hills,’ an arresting video at the entrance to Michal Rovner’s latest solo show at Pace Gallery. Suggesting constant migration across inhospitable land, the piece’s calm colors belie more overt alarm in several of the show’s other works, in which bodies with flashing red lights for heads or constantly waving arms sound a warning. Reflecting on the role of technology in our daily lives, Rovner muses that we are becoming ‘bar codes with DNA.’ (On view at Pace Gallery’s 25th Street location through June 29th).
If you thought Damien Hirst could possibly be done with painting dots, think again. Gagosian Gallery’s cavernous space is filled with new dot paintings, freed from their usual grid format and now swirling across the canvas. (On view in Chelsea through June 30th).
