CHELSEA

Listed from South to North. Most galleries are open 10am-6pm Tuesday-Saturday.

Nate Lowman @ David Zwirner Gallery, 519 W 19th St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
The perfect quick warm up (speed through it but see it), it’s Warhol meets Jasper Johns meets the Home Depot key section. It gives both “welcome” and “do not enter”, as mysterious and story generating as finding a stranger’s keychain on the sidewalk (One of them is his actual house key). 

Ugo Rondinone @ Gladstone Gallery, 530 W 21st St, thru 10/31, exhibition link
Full discloser I haven’t seen it yet, but after seeing his “lighting bolts” a couple of years ago, I’m too curious about these “20-foot waterfalls”.

Lee Bul @ Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 542 W 22nd St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Her sanded gobstopper-like paintings draw you super close, but the surprise is turning the corner for the massive mirrored blimp!  Feeling like something from the past and future simultaneously, overwhelming and yet likely quite fragile (don’t touch). 

Hiroshi Sugimoto @ Lisson Gallery, 504 W 24th St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Does a photograph look more real than the actual thing?  Early work from his “Diorama Series”, created by photographing dioramas as the American Museum of Natural History confuse reality, and NEW works in the series photographed recently (in color), 50 years later. Like all Sugimoto’s exhibitions, just take in the air and space and light in the room - so calming and perfe

Lynda Benglis @ PACE Gallery, 540 W 25th St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
5 decades of sculpture confuse their own materials… from extruded ceramic curls to their enlarged bronze counterparts. There’s also an unannounced drawing/print Pollock show on 3rd floor!!! (No photos allowed, so you know it’s a rare treat).

Anthony McCall @ Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 10th Ave (at 36th St), thru 10/31, exhibition link
100% worth the walk up!!  Do it do it do it!  The #1 most magical exhibition on view. Step inside cones of “solid light”. Great for instagram, but I HIGHLY recommend staying longer than you think with your phone in your pocket to experience what’s happening to the shapes over time.

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Alix Vernet @ Chapter NY Gallery, 60 Walker St, thru 10/17, exhibition ink
”Aluminum air conditioner condenser coils” (that weird metal surface on the back of a window AC that I try not to cut my hand on when I’m installing mine every summer) are dented with with extreme precision to create letters and words in beautiful script.

Michael Wilkinson @ PPOW Gallery, 392 Broadway, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Photo-real painting of flowers twist your mind as each also holds an image of raw canvas…on raw canvas, merging precision painting with conceptual art.

Edith Dekyndt @ Marian Goodman Gallery, 385 Broadway Fl 2, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Once inside gallery, take elevator to 2nd floor to see pieces of knotted wood with “algorithmically generated 3D extensions” and a shelf of ocean trash displayed like precious specimens. It’s a mind-bending fusion of nature and technology.

Claire Oswalt @ Broadway, 375 Broadway, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Many small sections of painted canvas are cut and stitched together into compositions that feel like an exceptionally beautiful Frankenstein’ed abstraction.

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