New exhibitions open this weekend in the Big Apple, ranging from Ghada Amer’s work at Cheim & Read to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs with sculpture by Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt at Paula Cooper Gallery. Blouin Artinfo curates a list of such must-see art shows in New York this week:NEW AND RECENT OPENINGSGhada Amer at Cheim & ReadApril 5 through May 12, 2018The show features recent painting and sculpture by the New-York based artist. Amer’s paintings sometimes refer to art history in a subversive and humorous way. Her work such as “White Girls and White-RFGA” also makes racial commentary in a subtle manner. For the first time, the artist’s more into ceramics is highlighted.http://www.cheimread.com/Yto Barrada’s “How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself” at Pace GalleryApril 5 through May 5, 2018Dedicated to the work of Yto Barrada, the exhibition is a survey of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York. Barrada drew her inspiration from her hometown Tangier. Her works comprise photography, film, sculpture, prints, and installations. Awarded the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2011, Barrada is also the founding director of Cinémathèque de Tanger.https://www.pacegallery.com/Jonas Wood at GagosianApril 5 through May 25, 2018The first survey of prints by Los-Angeles based artist Jonas Wood features the artist’s domestic world. His environment is filled with plants and household objects, vases, flowers, and basketballs. These overlap within skewed perspectives that often confound expectations of scale, perspective, and color.https://www.gagosian.com/Erwin Blumenfeld at Edwynn Houk GalleryApril 5 through May 25, 2018This is an exhibition of works by photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, who is considered to be one of the early pioneers of fashion photography. He used experimental methods in the darkroom and was greatly influenced by Dada, Surrealism, and groundbreaking street work. Blumenfeld paved the way for photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Herb Ritts. His work was a combination of elegance and eroticism that transformed fashion into high art.http://www.houkgallery.com/“Bernd and Hilla Becher: In Dialogue with Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt” at Paula Cooper GalleryMarch 31 through April 28, 2018The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Max Becher and Antonio Homem. The works of Bernd and Hilla Becher are presented alongside sculpture by Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt. Bernd and Becher’s partnership began in 1959 and continued for almost 50 years. They systematically photographed industrial structures. The show explores the artists’ relationships, friendships, and creative dialogue. The display also includes photographs by Matthias Schaller. These document the space where the artists lived and worked.https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/LAST CHANCE TO SEE“Isa Genzken : Sky Energy” at David ZwirnerRunning through April 12, 2018The show includes new and recent works by artist Isa Genzken. The display highlights the diversity of her practice and features a selection of new concrete sculptures, wall-mounted paintings and assemblages, and iterations of her continuing Schauspieler (Actors) series. Genzken’s oeuvre is a combination of different materials and imagery to create complex works. These belong to a variety of different mediums such as sculpture, painting, collage, drawing, film, and photography.https://www.davidzwirner.com/Robert Mapplethorpe at Gladstone GalleryRunning through April 14, 2018This is an exhibition of historic works by Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by artist, Roe Ethridge. The show is also the gallery’s first solo presentation as the New York representative of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Ethridge’s own perspective is as a contemporary artist who works in the same genres of portraiture and still life as Mapplethorpe's well-known oeuvre. The display draws from the archive of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Ethridge has selected both famous images and those exhibited for the first time to evoke his own experience of Mapplethorpe’s use of process and composition.https://gladstonegallery.com/“Martial Raysse: VISAGES” at Lévy GorvyRunning through April 14, 2018French artist Martial Raysse is considered to be a key figure in the European neo-avant-garde. He is a self-taught artist who first achieved recognition as a painter in the late 1950s in Nice, collaborating with such peers as Arman, Yves Klein, and Ben Vautier. Portraiture has been an important aspect of Raysse’s practice throughout his career. On view are more than 20 of his recent paintings along with his seminal work “Portrait de Gabriella la jolie vènetienne” (1963). These works focus on the subtleties of appearance. He is the most expensive living French artist.https://www.levygorvy.com/“Year of the Dog” by Oliver Laric at Metro PicturesRunning through April 14, 2018The artist’s first one-person exhibition at the gallery looks at the concerns about time and the complex dynamic between human and non-human lifeforms. The animation “Laric” presents is an inquiry into the concepts of metamorphosis. Set against white backdrop, linear animations of fish, fungi, and other figures move and change shape. Also on view are three sculptures all titled “Hundemensch.” Each sculpture consists of a figure with the head of a dog and body of a human crouching down holding a smaller dog protectively in its arms.http://www.metropictures.com/“Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris” at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtRunning through April 15, 2018The exhibition reunites for the first time a dozen boxes from Cornell’s Gris series together with the Cubist masterpiece “The Man at the Café.” This work by artist Juan Gris captivated Cornell when he visited the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. The artwork is now a promised gift to the Museum as part of the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection. It also inspired Cornell to begin a new series which comprised of some 18 boxes, two collages and one sand tray created in homage to Juan Gris. The boxes took over 13 year to complete.https://www.metmuseum.org/ALSO WORTH SEEING“Robert Gober: Tick Tock” at Matthew Marks GalleryRunning through April 21, 2018An exhibition of new work by the artist features more than a dozen wall-mounted sculptures and a similar number of works on paper. This is Gober’s first show in New York since his 2014 MoMA retrospective. The images depicted including apples, robin’s eggs, and a prison window are all recurrent subjects. Also on view is a sculpture of a cellar door inspired by the artist’s childhood home that was built by his father. It is on view for the first time in the US and prior to this was exhibited in 2001 when Gober represented the United States at the Venice Biennale.http://www.matthewmarks.com/“Weeds” by Sarah Crowner at Casey KaplanRunning through April 21, 2018For Crowner’s second solo show at the gallery, the artist presents a new paintings and a site-specific installation. The suite of paintings is staged above a curved, wooden platform that mirrors the elemental, semi-circular shapes contained by her compositions. These artworks are made up of individual segments of canvas that are cut, collaged and sewn back together. Crowner draws her inspiration from organic and botanical forms of nature, particularly the weeds that grow outside her studio.http://caseykaplangallery.com/“Movement Field” by Xu Zhen®at James CohanRunning through April 22, 2018The exhibition features new sculptures and wall-works alongside an immersive installation. These works act as an exploration of protest and popular expression. The artist created the installations using white pebbles and green grass. The result was a network of crisscrossing but delineated paths, which map the route of several protests from across the globe. U ZHEN® uses installations as a platform to showcase other artworks such as “I Believe the Sun is the Center of the Universe” and “I’m not allowed to answer that.”http://www.jamescohan.com/“Anna Craycroft: Motion Into Being” at New MuseumRunning through May 13, 2018The exhibition explores the rights and ethics of personhood. Questions of whom and what qualifies as a person are becoming increasingly common from nonhuman animals to corporations to artificial intelligence. To highlight these facts Craycroft has developed an animated film will she will develop over the course of the show. Viewers can enter the stage where the artist shoots new footage every week for the duration of the residency. She draws from traditions of folklore and fables. These often use anthropomorphism to narrate moral tale. The animation looks at the physical and philosophical lenses that make up the concept of personhood.https://www.newmuseum.org/“Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II” at International Center of Photography MuseumRunning through May 6, 2018The show sheds light on one of the dark chapters in US history. Citing the reason of national security, the government incarcerated 120,000 citizens and legal residents during World War II. This was done without any proper process or other constitutional protections to which these US citizens were entitled to. This was the forced removal of and imprisonment of people of Japanese ancestry both citizens and non-citizens alike from the region around the West Coast. The exhibition features works by photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and incarcerated photographer Toyo Miyatake. Their works document the displacement of Japanese Americans and permanent Japanese residents from their homes and their lives in the incarceration camps.https://www.icp.org/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibitions.
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