Postcard from New York I Sept 09-13, 2024
Here is our weekly Postcard from New York, in collaboration with Clio Art Fair!
In this article, we will explore some of the highlights of this week, looking for the most interesting and inspiring exhibitions and events in NYC.
Let's discover our selection of NYC-based art events!
In Museums
HARD GROUND
16 MAY - 14 OCT, 2024
Hard Ground brings together work by seven New York-based artists who employ processes of erosion, subtraction, and compression. Using an economy of means, the works hold residues of action in tension with a distillation or displacement of matter. Sculptures by Matt Browning, for example, each emerge from a single block of Douglas fir, whittled down to expose interlocking wooden forms. Dora Budor’s frottages result from rubbing sandpaper and Lexapro against the walls and floors of her studio as a form of automatic drawing. Kern Samuel quilts together steel plates whose surfaces are etched with marks of their handling, while Maria VMier’s gnarled bronze door knockers invite visitors to bang on the walls of the institution—generating a luster born from accumulated touch. Some works amplify density, honing in on a core; in others, reduction unveils the trace of an image. Diverging from a logic of assemblage and juxtaposition, these practices query how correlations between productivity, value, and surface are forged. Discover more
In Galleries
WE ARE EACH OTHER - SONYA CLARK
THROUGH SEPT 22, 2024
Highlighting thirty years of art-making dedicated to the Black experience in America, Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other is the first comprehensive survey of the communal art projects that form the heart of the artist’s pioneering creative practice. Accompanied by a selection of Clark’s photographs, prints, and sculpture, the exhibition features five of Clark’s large-scale, collaborative projects, including her barrier-breaking The Hair Craft Project (2014) and the ongoing performance, Unraveling.
In Brooklyn
WELCOME STRANGER
6 SEPT - 28 SEPT, 2024
Tempest gallery presents the exhibition Welcome Stranger. For September 2024 NY Textile Month, a group of artists will present new work on layette pincushions. Titled Welcome Stranger, the group show will focus on amuletic craft and Palestinian steadfastness.. The current genocide and displacement of Palestinians stands in discussion with the hopeful beauty and labor inherent in these objects. We see layette pincushions as a punctum of resourcefulness, resilience, and evidence of a gifting culture amongst a community that supported each other through the serious mortal threat that childbearing and birth could be. Currently, giving birth in Gaza is more dangerous than it was for the Victorian women sewing layette pincushions in the 1800s..
Outside
PINK CHAIRS - CJ HENDRY
26 APRIL - 31 OCT, 2024
Prospect Park Alliance, NYC Parks and CJ Hendry Studio present “Pink Chairs” on view in Prospect Park! As part of her “Inflatable” series, artist CJ Hendry set out to reconceptualize public art through the lens of public space and its utilitarian components, like seating. The “Pink Chair” is an experiment in weight and scale by subverting the idea of the usually light and impermanent inflatable chair. Visit “Pink Chairs” on view near the Southeast Corner of Prospect Park near the Prospect Park Lake through October 2024.
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