artsbus - George Mason University

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
Museums and Galleries are Listed by District: Uptown, Chelsea, Soho and the burgeoning Lower East Side.

- You can "copy and paste" from the Artsbus Good Bets list below to customize your trip before you head to NYC.

- The list is collated each month of our GMU semester from visiting over 350 gallery and museum websites. The list is intended to be inclusive and instructive to our students, reflecting the broad currency of our visual arts curriculum at GMU.

- Each exhibit has between one and three exclamation points, which reflects my personal enthusiasm for the show. But, your curiosity and interests may reflect differently.

- You may link to specific galleries or museums at the links provided to the right of the "Good Bets" list.

So, enjoy your trip as a challenge and as an opportunity.

Peter Winant
Artsbus Director

Please link to "Getting Around NYC." for directions to gallery districts by use of the MTA system, and for general travel tips. You are advised to download and print instructions from that section of this website before you board the bus.

ARTSBUS/GOOD BETS for October 17, 2009
See great Art ! Have good fun !
TAKE THIS HANDOUT WITH YOU (Please see accompanying materials distributed on the bus for reviews from: New York Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times and other journals for critic's favorites and pans)
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MUSEUMS: listed from north to south
- UPTOWN:
!!!The Guggenheim…5th Ave and 89th St. (students $15) http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml
'Kandinsky' is the first full scale retrospective since 1958 of the artist who many feel originated abstract painting. As a member of 'Der Blaue Rieter' (Blue Rider) group and throughout his lengthy career, the scope of his influence is enormous. Kandinsky's influence as a teacher was also great. His publications about color theory and composition, and his work at the Bauhaus place him at the center of the evolution of modern art.
!!The National Academy....
'Reconfiguring the Body in American Art' " is an exhibition that examines the critical role the human figure has played in the Nation’s art for the past 189 years. Transcending chronological, stylistic, and generational boundaries the exhibition will present 160 works drawn from the National Academy’s important and wide ranging collection of American art, as well as an intriguing selection of works by contemporary artists who are carrying on the figurative tradition in new and adventurous ways."
!! The Neue Gallerie...86th and 5th Ave ($10 students)
'From Klimpt to Klee; Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection'
!!!The Metropolitan…5th Ave and 82nd st. (donation) http://www.metmuseum.org
'Robert Frank; The Americans' seminal photographic essay from the late 1950's set the tone for documentary photography we still use today. PLUS 'Vermeer's Masterpiece; The Milkmaid' The masterpiece of Vemeer's materpieces. This is an astonishing painting, and is surrounded by many other works by Vermeer and his contemporaries. SEE THIS EXHIBIT! PLUS 'Roxy Paine' on the Met roof. Stainless steel trees installed above the park make a nice juxtaposition. This is a beautiful place to end the day before you get on the bus.
!! The Whitney… Madison Ave. and 75th St. (students $10) http://www.whitney.org
'Georgia O'Keefe: Abstraction' "The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by O'Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of O’Keeffe." The focus is on O'Keefe's abstract works, as the exhibit title suggests....
!!? Asia Society...Park Avenue and 70th St; 'Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan' "50 works by 15 artists, and includes installation art, video, photography, painting, and sculpture...artists in the exhibition sift though the many layers of contemporary Pakistan to address issues from religious fundamentalism to pop culture, gender, politics, and much more."
- MIDTOWN:
!!Museum of Art and Design...Columbus Circle (59th St and 8th Ave.) (students $12); 'Slash; Paper Under the Knife' "surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations."
!! MoMA…11 W 53rd St. ($12 students,) http://www.moma.org
'Ron Arad; No Discipline' surveys the cutting edge work of this Israeli designer (Learn More! http://www.ronarad.com/) PLUS 'Polish Posters 1945-1989' is a survey of powerful graphic statements from the Cold War era," the posters—which are characterized by sophisticated imagery and surreal tendencies—often carried powerful, oblique commentaries on the designers' political surroundings" PLUS 'What Was Good Design; MoMA's Message 1944-1956' "selections from MoMA's design collection that illuminate the primary values of Good Design as promoted (and disputed) by museums, design councils, and department stores. Iconic pieces by designers like Charles and Ray Eames and Hans Wegner are shown alongside more unexpected items, such as a hunting bow and a plumb bob, as well as everyday objects including an iron, a hamper, a rake, a cheese slicer, and Tupperware." PLUS 'Monet's Water Lillies' "featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection" Some of the greatest paintings you'll ever see.
!! International Center for Photography…1133 6th Ave @ 44th st. ($ 8 students) http://www.icp.org/
'Dress Codes; The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video' " will mark the closing cycle of ICP's 2009 Year of Fashion, a series of projects that critically examine fashion and its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena. Through the lens of fashion—in its broadest conception—the Triennial will look at the proliferation of photo-and video-based work exploring the uses of style, image, and personal presentation".
- SOHO and LOWER EAST SIDE (LES):
!! The New Museum....235 Bowery (LES) (students $8)
'Emory Douglas; Black Panther' " Emory Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist of the Black Panther Party and subsequently became its Minister of Culture, part of the national leadership. He created the overall design of the Black Panther, the Party’s weekly newspaper, and oversaw its layout and production until the Black Panthers disbanded in 1979–80. Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, Douglas made countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, which were reproduced in the paper and distributed as prints, posters, cards, and even sculptures."
!!The Drawing Center...35 Wooster St (SOHO)
'Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Moving World" "Morton’s work also looked to a pioneering use of personal narrative, intimacy, humor, and poetic imagination. Yet the scope of her artistic production remains largely unrecognized, as does her vital contribution to feminist art practice and the importance of drawing to her development as an artist." (Learn More! http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/ree_morton/ ...and http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4114&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1
The Grey Gallery....
' Icons From the Desert: Early Aborigonal Paintings' "In 1971, at Papunya, a government-established Aboriginal community in CentralAustralia, a Sydney-based schoolteacher provided a group of men with the tools and the encouragement to paint. Known as “Papunya boards,” these works constituted the beginning of the Western Desert art movement where indigenous Australian artists
explore images and experiences in a new medium and on permanent surfaces."

GALLERIES, free entry:
- UPTOWN, MIDTOWN AND 57TH ST DISTRICTS: listed from North to South, and East to West Uptown galleries are situated along Madison Avenue, or right off it. They are often in imposing looking former mansions, and you will have to look for a gallery plaque, and push a buzzer to be let in. 57th St. galleries are situated in office buildings between Park Ave. and 6Th Ave. Often, you will have to go by a doorman and get on an elevator to visit the galleries. Usually, there is a plaque at the entrance with the gallery names, as well as one by the elevators. Many galleries' names are prominently in view in the windows of their second, third fourth and fifth floor spaces. The work in these galleries tends to be of very well established and late career artists.
- NEAR THE WHITNEY: (and free!)
!! Alan Stone...'Martha Russo: Nomos' large,intricate ceramic and mixed media wall sculptures evoke sea weed or cillia (S/O)
! Barbara Mathes…22 E 80th St; 'Sculpture' a selection of small works by the bedrock artists of post WW-2 art
! Mitchell Innes and Nash... 1018 Madison Ave; Modern and Contemporary Masters; revolving exhibits (S/O/N)
!! Aquavella....#18 E 79th St; 'Riopelle; Grand Formats' beautiful abstract expressionist works may expand your understanding of the genre
!! Land M Arts…45 E. 78th St.; '' Sam Francis; 1953-1959' surveys core years of an influential Abstract Expressionst's work
!! Castelli…18 E 77th St.; ' Polaroids: Diana Kingsley, Richard Pettibone and Mike and Doug Starn' exhibit explores three different methodologies for the use of "instant images" in the development of ideas, for future work, as well as making appropriated images
!! Michael Werner...4 E 77th St. ; 'A.R.Penke:Recent Paintings' compelling , personal heiroglyphic paintings
!! Gagosian…980 Madison Ave. ; 'Sally Mann; Proud Flesh' the controversial photographer's continues her work with the human form....and 'Cy Twombley: 8 Sculptures' gestural works in direct plaster (S/O)
!!! Craig F. Starr... 5 E 73rd St.; ' Bruce Nauman; Drawing for Neons' one of the great innovators of conceptual art lays bare the ecidence of his process in preliminary drawings (O/N)
!! Knoedler...19 E 70th St; 'Conrad Marca-Relli: The New York Years, 1945-1967' is a survey of revolutionary collage work that helped shape the mixed media aesthetics we employ today (S/O/N)
!! Hirschl and Adler....21 E 70th St; ' Harold Reddicliff; New Pain' intimate, tight realist paintings of nearly obsolete photogrpaphic equipment in a style that evokes the 'Precisionist' painters, Demuth and Scheeler.
!! Jacobsen Howard...33 E 68th St.; 'Circa 1959: The transition of 9 Abstract Painters' surveys the evolution beyond Abstract Expresssionism including works from Gene Davis, Frankenthaller, Stella, Held, Bladen and more.

- 57th STREET GALLERIES:
!! Amador...#41 E 57th; 'Keijo Kitajima: The Joy of Portraits' from 1975 to 1991, the artist travelled the world and took portraits from cultures in tension, such as near the army base in Okinawa or on the verge of transformation in Eastern Europe. (S/O)
!!! Bonni Benrubi…41 E 57th St.; 'Globetrotting' photographers from mid-century to now take on a journey of the big and small picture of the world (S/O/N)
! Howard Greenburg...41 E 57th St.; Photography specialists features vintage work from Charles Marville and Eugene Ataget (S/O)
!! PaceWildenstein….32 E 57th St.; ' Sol Lewitt: Forms Derived From a Cube' implied infinity as geometric variation.
!! Gering and Lopez...730 5th Ave; 'Simon Ungers' light scuplture
! Forum Gallery…745 5th Ave. (above 57th St. and 5th Ave) ; Specializes in tight, realist painting
!! Mary Boone…745 5th Ave,; 'Peter Halley; Early Work' stark geometric abstract painting in sharp, saturated color
!!! Edwynn Houk Gallery...745 5th Ave; 'Brassai: Paris in the 30's' Lush, intense B+W photos chronicle the margins of life in the City of Lights
!! Marlborough …#40 W 57th; 'Grisha Brushkin' sculptures cast bronze sculptures look like fragments of toy figures, but with an edge that cuts on the costs of war and human conflict
!!! (top pick) Marian Goodman…24 W 57th St.; 'Jeff Wall' new photographs continue to mine the blur of constructed and given reality through a lens that focuses on the plausibilty of the everyday.
!!! Michael Rosenfeld…24 W 57th; 'Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence(Part 2:Sculpture)' works by modern and contemporary masters: Bontcou, Arneson, Doroty Dehner, Harold Cousins, Herbert Ferber, Richard Hunt...(S/O)

- CHELSEA GALLERIES: listed from south to north The Chelsea district has over 250 galleries located between 19th St and 29th, and 10th and 11th Avenues. You'll find emerging and established artists, and cutting edge as well as traditional work.
SPECIAL EXHIBIT: 'Spencer Finch: The River That Flows Both Ways' is the first public art commission for the newly opened Highline Park. "Inspired by the light and the water of the Hudson River, the work will transform an existing series of windows with 700 individually crafted panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over a period of 700 minutes on a single day. The installation will be placed in a semi-enclosed former loading dock where the High Line runs through the Chelsea Market building, between 15th and 16th Streets, viewable from the street and on the High Line." (Learn More! http://www.creativetime.org/programs/finch.html and http://www.spencerfinch.com)
-W. 13th ST.
Sperone Westwater – #415; 'Zig-Zag' a group exhibit of some of the most powerful names in contemporary art: Alighiero Boetti, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, William Wegman, Carl Andre, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Carla Accardi, Giovanni Anselmo, and Mario Schifano
W. 17th
!! Murray Guy Gallery - # 450; 'Alejandro Cesarco' videos and prints visit themes of love, as well as interpretation of James Joyce novels (S/O)
Between 18th and 19th on 11th Avenue-
!! Alexander and Bonin- #132; 'Robert Kinmont'; conceptually driven sculpture from the 60's and 70's (S/O)
!! Bellweather- # 134- 'David Benjamin Sherry' photographs that integrate the human figure with the landscape
West 19th-
!!! Postmasters Gallery – #459; 'Anthony Golcolea: Once Removed' extraordinary photographs and sculpture explores his family connections in Cuba
!! David Zwirner – #525; 'Chris Ofili' is known for elephant poop paintings, but recent work has included mythical figures sculpted in bronze...and 'Raoul de Keyser' abstract paintings that elicit subliminal states of mind
W. 20th
!! Jack Shainman Gallery - # 513; 'Richard Mosse' photographs of airplane crash simulation sites
NOTE: there are 12 galleries in #529 20th St. Most are very good!
!! Josee Bienvenue Gallery – #529; 'Marti Cormand' very nice paintings of discarded materials
!! Bitforms - #529; 'Micheal Najjar' High tech meets fine art. This gallery is almost always a "must see" (S/O)
Jonathan LeVine Galleries – #529; Between exhibits
!!! (top pick) Hasted Hunt - #529; 'Edward Burtynsky: Oil' epic photographs of world-wide oil production sites
!? Anton Kern Galleries – #532; 'Alessandro Pessoli' painting and sculpture uses the human figure to transit 'matter-of-fact' post Dada/post-modernist ethics.
W. 21st
! Paula Cooper- #521; 'Carl Andre' historic minimal sculpture
!! Barbara Gladstone- #530; 'Damian Ortega' sculptural installation use decorative motifs to alter the space
!! Paula Cooper- #534; ''Strokes and Solids' gallery Artists group exhibition
!!! Eyebeam...540 W 21st St. is an 'Art and Technology Center. It is always buzzing with activity, and ALWAYS worth ducking into.
!! 303 Gallery – #547; 'Hans Peter Feldman' photographs of the artist's bookshelf...found objects take on a new meaning through a perceived ambiguity that revolves around expectations of scale.
!! Yvonne Lambert- #555; 'Ian Wallace' large combined photographs and painting create a visual tension between the "reality" of the photo vs. the reality of the painted surface (S/O)
W. 22nd
!! Matthew Marks Gallery - #522; 'Rebbeca Warren' Expressive figurative sculpture (S/O)
!! Mathew Marks- #526; 'Peter Hujar: Photographs 1956-1958' "A number of themes that remain constant in his work throughout his life are first seen here. His first landscapes, empty city streets, portraits of animals, and most importantly his empathetic depiction of children. In Southbury and in Florence, Hujar spent time in homes for developmentally disabled children."
!!! (TOP PICK) Sikkema and Jenkins- #530; 'Mark Bradford and Kara Walker' two highlly influental contemporary artists use painting and silhoettes to explore African American identity through the lens of American culture ( Learn More! about Mark Bradford: http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/37954/ and http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bradford/index.html or Kara Walker: http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/arts/design/12walk.html(S/O)
!! Julie Saul- #535; 'Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire' uses photod, painting and sculpture to craft a narrative of her grandmother's medical mistreatment (S/O/N)
!! CRG- #535; 'Ori Gersht: Evaders' film and photographs "traced the path taken by the German-Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin during his escape from Nazi occupied France in 1940. The same route was also used by the Emergency Rescue Committee established by American journalist Varian Fry to rescue many intellectuals, artists and political dissidents that were fleeing the Nazis as well."through the ruggedly beautiful Pyrenees mountains.
! Yancy Richardson- #535; 'Hellen Van Meene' photographic portraits of marginalized youth
!! Susan Sheehan- #535; (gallery specializes in printmaking) is featuring prints by Minimalist Icon, Donald Judd (S/O/N)
!! Leslie Tonkonow – #535; 'Tracey Baran' autobiographical photographs range from mildly erotic self portraits to family scenes to hunting deer
!! Friedrich Petzel Gallery – #535/537; 'Troy Brauntuch' "This exhibition presents sketches, paintings, notes, original objects, photographs, and source materials spanning over 30 years" focusing on historic events, and the mundane aspects of daily life.
!! Sonnabend – #536; 'Lawrance Beck and Mathew Weinstein' rich landscape photographs
!!! (top pick) Pace Wildenstein – #545; 'Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth' new, sculptural work by the designer of the Viet Nam War Memorial (Learn More! http://www.mayalin.com/ and http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/lin0int-1(S/O)
W. 23rd
!! Perry Rubinstein - #527; 'Five Artists, Five Years: 5th Aniversary Group Exhibitions' This gallery exhibits new media and work that addresses the tip of the social iceberg.
W. 24th
!! Marianne Boesky Gallery - #509; 'Group Show: Yayoi Kasuma, Eva Rothschild, Mindy Shapero and Bhati Kher' VERY contemporary work
!! Barbara Gladstone- #515; 'Magnus Plessen' spare narrative paintings
!! Metro Pictures - #519; ' Pauline Olowska, Steven Rhodes and Catherine Sullivan' three geographically separated artists explore themes of mobility, risk, invented history and social taboo (S/O)
!! Matthew Marks Gallery - #523; 'Vincent Fecteau' small scale mixed media sculpture with an architectural flavor
!! Andrea Rosen – #525; 'Josiah Mcelheny: Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism' Over-the-top sculptural installation reinvent our relationship with home and architectural fixtures (S/O)
! Zach Feur...#530; 'Dasha Shishkin: Men Like That' Prints, mixed media and paintings in past work taps into German Expressionism and the latent sexuality of Egon Scheile.
!!!(TOP PICK) Luhring Augustine Gallery – #531; 'Janine Antoni' Macarthur 'Genius' Award winner's latest work. Must SEE (Learn More! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_n2kfqNmpY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJCMzr1VafI and http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antoni/index.html (S/O)
!! Bruce Silverstein Photography – #535; ' Todd Hido; A Road Divided' Etherial chromogenic photographs of off-the-beaten path roadways... and 'Nicolai Howalt; Car Crash Studies' abstract the violent crushing of car bodies (S/O)
!!Mary Boone Gallery – #541; 'A Tribute to Robert Warren' is a group exhibition headlined by 30 major artists of the last 40 years up to now.
!!! (top pick)Gagosian – #555; ' Anselm Reyle: Monochrome Age' mines German culture. Rich, mixed-media sculpture "punctuated by pure color or pure reflectivity in the form of huge monolithic sculptures that embody his combined preoccupations with monumentality, economy of means, seduction, and desire." PLUS'Takashi Murakami' father of "superflat" ..."style, which employs highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a super-charged mix of Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane"
Between 24th and 25th
!! Robert Mann Gallery... 210 11th Avenue; 'Robert Frank' signal photographer's work from "The Americans" as well as work from London and Paris (Learn More! http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/frankinfo.shtm and http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/frank200804 and
W. 25th
!! PPOW...#511 Room 301; 'George Boorujy' ink drawings of wounded endangered animals
!!! Clamp Art... #521-31; 'Amy Stein; Domesticated' startling photographs of wild animals in the backyards of a small Pennsylvanian town
! Yosi Milo...#525-'Simen Johan' photographs that pick up on the curent trend of blurring given and fabricated reality, using living and stuffed animals in existing and created environments
!! (TOP PICK) Pace Wildenstein ...#534; 'James Turrell: Large Holograms' Turrell's work with light as a medium is legendary. (S/O)
!! Betty Cunningham - #541; ' Abby Leigh' etherial target paintings and drawings in wax, oil and smoke
!! Kent- #541; 'Dorthea Tanning: We're All in This Together' a group ensemble of surrealist Tanning and her luminary friends, including Man Ray, George Ballanchine, Yves Tanguy, Alexander Calder and many others (S/O)
! Cheim and Read - #547; 'Jack Pierson' caliagraphic paintings
W. 26th
!! Greene Naftaldi- #508; 'Bernadette Corporation' installations of video equipment are a stage for her video works (S/O)
!!Robert Miller Gallery – #524; 'Berthelemy Toguo' woprks in Paris and his native Cameroon creating watercolor images and sculptural installations that address the current social and environmental conditions that challenge Africa
!!! Mary Ryan- #526; 'Sam Cady' far too clever paintings take trompe l'oeil to a new level
!! Gallerie Lelong- # 528; 'Jaume Plensa' figurative sculpture constructed of letters, and/or projected video (S/O)
!!! (top pick) James Cohan- #533- 'Bill Viola: bodies of Light' work from two decades..."video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. His works focus on universal human experiences—birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness—and have roots in both Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual traditions"
!! Mitchell Innes and Nash- #534;'Justine Kurland: This train is bound for Glory' "photographed over two years of travel, Kurland focuses on the distinct, nomadic subculture of the hobo. Her images of trains, train-hoppers, and the American West allude to a hobo mythology developed in folk songs and literature."
!Lehman Maupin - #541; 'Jurgen Teller' new photographs that keep the incessant probing of the border between commercial, banal and fine art photography in play. (S/0)
! Tony Shafrazi - #544; 'Dennis Hopper: Signs of the Times' photographs by "counterculture" iconoclastic actor
W. 27th
!! Paul Kasmin- # 293 10th Ave. and 511 27th St; ' Frank Stella: Polychromed Reliefs' recent sculptural works
!! Nancy Hoffman- #520; 'Hung Liu' opulent figurative paintings explore themes of personal and cultural identity (S/O)
!!! Aperture...#547; 'New Dutch Landscape in Photograpy and Video Art' " In keeping with the golden age of Dutch landscape painting four hundred years ago, a new visual statement on the landscape has emerged from the Netherlands. Expressed through the modern mediums of photography and video art, this new imagining of the Dutch landscape is urbanized and altered, depicting the Netherlands as the most artificial country in the world."
!! Flomenhauft...#547; 'Jaune Quick -to-see Smith' paintings mix personal and Native American themes (S/O)
!!! Foley...#547; 'Andrea Mastrovito: Love is a Four Letter Word' Obsessive images constructed of tisssue paper and the heads of pins.
!? Derek Eller Gallery – # 615; 'David Cutler Kennedy: No More, Right Now, Forever' expressionist plexiglass sculpture.
W. 29th
!!Peter Blum- # 526 ; 'Rosy Keyer: The Moon Ate Me' Large abstarct assemblage/paintings (S/O)
!! Sean Kelly- #528; 'Juliao Sarmento' new works use multiple visual and auditory media to communicate about complex interpersonal issues (S/O)

SOHO DISTRICT: refer to map handout! The Soho district is bordered (North/South) by Houston and Canal Sts. and (East/West) by Lafayette and Hudson- once the most vibrant art scene in the world, many of SoHo's gallerists moved to Chelsea. Still, there are some excellent galleries here, including the Swiss Institue, Spencer Brownstone, Drawing Center, Artist Space, Feldman, Deitch Projects and the nearby Grey Gallery at NYU
! OK Harris... #383 WEST Broadway Five revolving spaces focus on emerging artists engaged in traditional media usuing traditional and untraditional styles… always worth a look
!! (top pick) Deitch Projects… #18 Wooster St; ' Tara Auerbach; Here and Now/and Nowhere' painting, photographs and sculpture explore the exhibit's title as an anagram
!!(top pick) The Drawing Center...#35 Wooster St; 'Ree Morton; At the Still Point of the Turning World' "highlights Morton’s influential body of work, remarkably all produced in a single decade between her decision to turn to art full-time in the late 1960s and her tragic death in an automobile accident in 1977, shortly before her 41st birthday. While reflecting many of the currents of post-Minimal art of the 1970s, Morton’s work also looked to a pioneering use of personal narrative, intimacy, humor, and poetic imagination."
!!? Spencer Brownstone gallery...#39 Wooster St; 'Jaime Pitarch' will be an installation the details of which the gallery would not share. very mysterious, but this usually relaiable gallery is right next door th the Drawing Center...Take a look.
!! Peter Blum...#99 Wooster St; 'Alex Katz' straightforward figurative drawing
!!Artists Space...# 38 Greene Street; ' Marc Camille Chamowicz; Enough Tyrrany Recalled 1972- 2009'
!!! Location One… #26 Greene St; 'Levels of Undo' is a virtual artist-in-residency. This is a truly cutting edge gallery that is pushing the possibilities of new media. Always worth a look!
!!? Glowlab...30 Grand St; presents the work of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.
!! Deitch Projects…76 Grand St; 'Kurt Kauper; Barak and Michelle Obama' portraits of the first couple "are not what one would expect in Presidential portraiture. Kauper is interested in imagery that seems at first to look neutral, in which visual cues do not confirm the expected ideology associated with a visual icon." PLUS 'Francine Speigel; Mud and Milk' "Stitched together porno-Frankenstein style, the fragmented females depicted in her paintings are half-alive and half-dead, half-confused and half-horny. Built up from imagery stolen from monster magazines, horror films, or fetish websites,"
!! Ronald Feldman… #31 Mercer St; 'Allan Wexler; Overview' installation of many formal and psychological permutations of what a chair is and might be.
!! Swiss Institute...#409 Broadway ( 3rd floor) specializes in cutting edge concetually driven work; ' Das Institute; DI Why" Das Institute is an Import/export '"firm" that uses " advertising strategies to manipulate and exchange information. Comprised of paintings by Kerstin Brätsch and computer-generated images by Adele Röder, the exhibition D I WHY? is set in a context of reproduction (copy), advertisement (announcement) and branding (pattern). The trade mode of DAS INSTITUT develops products such as printed reproductions, silkscreened fabrics, posters, napkins and stickers." PLUS 'Jurg Lehni and Alex Rich; Empty Words' "playfully addresses the development of printing technology, as well as the interface between machine and user."
!Janet Borden Gallery...#560 Broadway( suite 601); 'Michael Collins; London Cityscapes' highly detailed photographic views of the city taken from the city's tallest towers
!! Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art...#594 Suite 401($5 admission); check for current exhibit phone: 212-254-3511
!! TEAM… 83 Grand St.; 'Muntean/Roenblum; Untitled' allegorical paintings delve into contemporary psychology using classical formal and technical painting methods

LOWER EAST SIDE: refer to map handout!! This burgeoning district is anchored by the New Museum. The gallery spaces are more intimate, and the work often a lot more "emerging." This is an area where a year ago 12 galleries existed. Today, there are over 40 - and the number is growing! There is an incredible energy going on here.

- NORTH/SOUTH DIRECTION STREETS: (listed from West to East)
! 33 Bond...#33 Bond St;
!! ( top pick) DCKT....#195 Bowery St.; ' Ted O'Sullivan; Reclamation of the Modern Tongue' lush, neo-surrealist painting PLUS 'Tom Gallant' astonishing cut paper and collage works
!Janos Gat Gallery...195 Bowery;
!!Thrust Gallery....#114 Bowery St; 'Ana de la Cueva; El Paquete' ironic photographs of men in their underwear
! Envoy Gallery ...131 Chrystie St; 'Slava Mogutin; Food Chain' ....past work has been photgraphic esays of life in Russia, and homoerotic relationships
!! Canada...# 55 Chrystie St.; ' Michael Williams' complex, illustrative paintings explore the nature of human and animal relationships as a deep, often humorous relationship
!Cuchifritos...Essex Street Market;
!! Sunday....#237 Eldridge St; ' Guy Zanisnik; Dry Bones Can Harm No Man' a recent Hunter College grad's photography. This is generally a very good gallery.
!! Nichele Beauchene Gallery...# 163 Eldridge St: 'Racel Foullon; Grab a Root and Growl' installation sculpture "Foullon engages the cyclical nature of rural living patterns past, present and future in eight new wall-mounted sculptures. Specifically focusing on shared living spaces inhabited by both humans and animals "
!! Miguel Abreau Gallery....#36 Orchard St; 'Scott Lyal' sculptural installation straddles furniture, as in desktop, and the personal detritus that may have fallen off to the floor. (S/O)
!! Lisa Cooley....# 35 Orchard St; 'Jon Pestoni and Zak Prekop' large abstract paintings
!! Invisible Export....# 14A Orchard St; 'Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; 30 Years of Being Cut Up' is a retrospective of the groundbreaking performance artist's work, documented through various media.
!! Blackston Gallery....# 29 C Ludlow St; 'Christina Hejtmanek' B+W cprints use high contrast to evoke organic form
!? Number 35....# 39 Essex st; 'Marianne Viero; Modern Indoor Gardening' is an installation exploring ambiguity in a multitude of natural, synthetic and industrial materials."
- EAST/WEST DIRECTION STREETS (Listed from North to South)
!! Participant Inc. Gallery...# 235 E Houston St; ' My Barbarian; Night Episodes" is a site responsive video installation by an LA collaborative group that explores sci-fi television
!! Luxe...53 Stanton St; 'Marie Maillard' specifics of exhibitions not announced at time of publication, but past work has been etherial video installations.
! Satori...#164 Stanton St; 'Benjamin S. Jones' sculpture and video installation
!! Sue Scott Gallery...#1 Rivington St; 'Franklin Evans' large scale drawing installations blend abstaction and materiality with representational imagery
!? Thierry Goldberg....# 5 Rivington St ; ' Barbara Ess' dark, brooding c-prints
!! Eleven Rivington...#11 Rivington St ; 'Caetano de Almeida' colorful paintings are lyrical explorations of figure and ground relationships (O/N)
!! Kumukumu Gallery....#42 Rivington St; 'Pink Panther' is a group exhibition "by twenty artists that explores the diverse and divergent meanings associated with the color pink."
!! (top pick) Salon 94…#1 Freeman Alley (on Rivington St between Bowery and Chrystie Sts) ;' Carter and Within Area Although' Large scale B+W patially representational, partly abstract images derived through alteration and additive media to lazer prints
!! Gallery 128...# 128 Rivington St; Contemporary Japanese works
!! Jen Bekman…#6 Spring St; 'Hosang Park; A Square' nine aerial photographs of urban Korean parks
!! Simon Preston Gallery...# 301 Broome St; ' Caragh Thuring; Assembly' large abstract narrative paintings use color saturation and gestural marks to imply more representational imagery
!Woodward Gallery...133 Eldridge Street; 'Keith Haring; Early works'