Hello readers,
It’s been just under a month since my last post, and today I will recommend some fantastic exhibitions in New York City.
We have quite a few new subscribers after successful Twitter reach outs (including a thoughtful tech and business writer Tanay Jaipuria). For those that are new, my hope is to keep emails brief and easy to understand, so that readers can learn a lot in little time.
Thank for taking a look, and welcome!
Clay Pop: Curated by Alia Williams at Jeffrey Deitch, open through October 30th.
SoHo: 18 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
Early followers of the newsletter will know that I like to recommend group shows as they’re a good way to encounter many artists, and develop a better idea of what you like and what you don’t. Here you’ll find thirty artists in a whimsical and intricately designed exhibition. The shows focuses on emerging and mid-career ceramicists.
Paralleling current concerns in painting, many of the artists featured in Clay Pop are also exploring issues of gender, race and identity, using clay in new ways to engage with social issues. Artists are using the medium to create a personal narrative. Clay is being pushed beyond the confines of craft and design.
Jeffrey Deitch’s gallery is a favorite of mine. The dealer is well known for his experimental approaches towards marketing and collecting artists, and is responsible for building out art lending as an industry in the 1970s and 80s.
Jorinde Voigt: Trust and Rain at David Nolan, open through October 2nd.
Upper East Side: 24 E 81st Street, New York, NY 10028
Voigt has long been a favorite artist of mine, since I first saw her work in the excellently curated group show Clear at Gagosian in 2014. This was very early in the development of my taste, for some reason Voigt’s work caught my eye. They’re mediating the space between structure and sensation, building a networked lexicon of the systems she engages, such as music, literature, and philosophy.
More simply, she’s creating an abstract language to interpret and re-interpret media. The sculptures are a particularly intriguing continuation of her language. If you’re not yet familiar with her work, she’s perhaps best known for her studies of Beethoven.
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise at James Cohan, open through October 23rd.
TriBeCa: 48 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013
Oh, what a beautiful show.
Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s timely wooden collages (marquetry) are at once meditative, understated, and poignant. Resilient is the word used in the press release. They remind me of strong photographs, stuck in time but intense and resonant across contexts.
In the greatest art I believe skill is present but only so long as it propagates the story that the artist intends to tell. Taylor’s narratives are rich with complexity but do not sacrifice clarity for fanciful technique.
The galleries are free and open to the public.
Thanks for reading.
Yours,
Gabe
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