Last Thursday I was getting ready to go to David Zwirner for the Richard Serra opening when I happened to open instagram and see that Lee was giving a guided talk at the Drawing Center show. I hopped on my bike and made it to Soho not long after he started. Some nice insights on his early career and processes. Saturday I started at Al Diaz opening in LES (need to go back and spend more time with the work) and then over to Chelsea for Kaws opening. A lot of splatter on his usual iconography. Saturday I missed two friends events Matt Ellers block party and Kate and crews Landmark sorry guys!

Monday Morning Quarterbackin’ 10/7/24

Fall in NY never disappoints, some highlights... Coupla weeks ago I was waiting for SPone outside ACA Gallery and Serf walked by coming from just seeing the Doug Wheeler installation at Zwirner on 20th. He said it was mind blowing and that I had to go. Walking down I saw a long line and realized at the hour it was I probably wouldn’t make it but could always go another time. Finally, one Tuesday mid afternoon I go first to 19th St. location and see Overture by Stan Douglas it’s old found ‘phantom’ footage of a locomotive in the rockies with excerpts read from Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust layered in. Walking over to 20th st. location I spot a fresh Riff170 tag and then randomly the gallery is closed for a private event, Reese Witherspoon sheepishly looking at me while going in to her Escalade. A coupla days later while helping out a friend I had to take ferry and then bike to a storage facility in Jersey City and while not following google maps I chanced upon pieces by Wane, Zephyr, Duster and Disto. Later that night I caught the tail end of the Slippery Slope Monster series by Kevin Lyons at Fridge Gallery opening. The next afternoon I finally got to experience the Day Night Day installation by Doug Wheeler. Waiting a half hour and then putting on paper slip-ons over my sneakers I walked in with three others. It was all bright white and seemingly two of the walls foggy/misty. That is all I will say at least until it closes on the 19th. Also on second floor was Ad Reinhardt: Print—Painting—Maquette but I didn’t take photos. The next day I spotted this EKG in the East Village later that evening he had his show at Skewville.

Schematic for Wheeler installation

Art Happenings this week…

Plan B

A Pop-up Exhibition, March 6–9, 2019
 

Plan B is a pop-up exhibition, featuring galleries and artists from all over the world, which was built with love and support for the arts. The show is occurring within the heart of the Chelsea Arts District. Wednesday–Saturday, during New York’s art week—with special late opening hours on Friday until 8PM.

Plan B is made possible thanks to the generosity of Peter Hort, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, David Zwirner, and RiSBE, as well as colleagues within the arts community, coupled with support and facilitation by team VOLTA and Quang Bao (1969 Gallery director).
 

Plan B
525 W 19 St + 534 W 21 St
Opening Wednesday, March 6, 9AM – 5PM
Thursday, March 7, 10AM – 6PM
Friday, March 8, 10AM – 8PM
Saturday, March 9, 10AM – 6PM
Free Admission
#planBpopup

Double bill tonite at Zwirner:

Josef Albers
Sonic Albers

January 8–February 16, 2019
Opening reception: Tuesday, January 8, 6–8 PM
537 West 20th Street

Sonic Albers examines Josef Albers’s relationship to music, musical imagery, and sonic phenomena. Organized in collaboration with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the show provides a far-reaching look at this underexplored facet of the artist’s practice. It features a wide selection of paintings, glassworks, drawings, and ephemera from throughout Albers’s career, including a number of the album covers he designed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Charles White
Monumental Practice
January 8–February 16, 2019
Opening reception: Tuesday, January 8, 6–8 PM
537 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor

David Zwirner presents a significant group of works by American artist Charles White (1918–1979). On view for the first time since the 1970s are four monumentally scaled ink and charcoal drawings made by the artist as studies for the figures in his mural Mary McLeod Bethune, completed in 1978 for the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, as well as related preparatory works and ephemera documenting the project—White’s last major artistic endeavor during his lifetime.