Free shows for all to see: Chelsea Gallery Guide
07 Feb 2023
FELIX GONZALES-TORRES
12 JANUARY - 25 FEBRUARY | 519, 525 & 533 W 19TH ST | DAVID ZWIRNER
Gonzalez-Torres's latest show, spanning all three 19th street Zwirner locations, is the notable large-scale gallery show this season as the artist presents four installations with visual, auditory and sensory elements. The center of each gallery is filled with very different pieces, two pools, a collection of candies and two large paintings, manipulating the way viewers move throuhg space.
CHIHARU SHIOTA: SIGNS OF LIFE
19 JANUARY - 9 MARCH | 293 TENTH AVE | TEMPLON
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota masterfully weaves her way back into the New York art scene with an immesnse site-specific installation, a maze of threads that envelops viewers, along with a series previously unseen drawings and sculptures. Fans of Do Ho Suh’s recent Lehmann Maupin exhibition are sure to enjoy this even grander spectacle.
SHIRIN NESHAT: THE FURY
26 JANUARY - 4 MARCH | 515 WEST 24TH ST | GLADSTONE GALLERY
Neshat’s latest presentation comprises a double-channel video installation and a series of black and white photographs with hand-drawn calligraphy of poems by Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad.
CHARLES GAINES: SOUTHERN TREES
26 JANUARY - 1 APRIL | 542 WEST 22ND ST | HAUSER & WIRTH
Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit continues to be an artistic inspiration long past her time, and depictions of 150-year-old pecan trees symbol toward the opening lyrics of the song. Tree images have been central in Gaines’s art over time, making this a demonstration of his continued evolution within the framework of his practice
DERRICK ADAMS: I CAN SHOW YOU BETTER THAN I CAN TELL YOU
13 JANUARY - 11 MARCH | 546 W 25TH ST, 9TH FLOOR | FLAG ART FOUNDATION
The Flag Art Foundation is illuminated by the vivid, large-scale movie-inspired paintings from Adams’s new Motion Picture Paintings series. Adams encapsulates numerous facets of black life with his signature deconstructed, cubist-style portraits.
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