Our preview of must-see exhibitions continues with a roundup of exciting shows in New York City!
Cheim & Read: Louise Fishman, opens September 13th.
New York painter Louise Fishman will be presenting her new work in this exhibition. Fishman is known for gestural abstractions characterized by unique intersections of color and space. Many paintings in this exhibition were inspired by her recent stay at the Emily Harvey Foundation artist’s residency in Venice, Italy, where she experimented with different techniques such as painting with her fingers and paintings three or four canvases at a time.
American Contemporary: Daphne Fitzpatrick, opens November 8th.
Daphne Fitzpatrick’s work encompasses a variety of mediums such as sculpture, video, photography, and found objects. Her work is known for incorporating visual puns on sexuality.
Leila Heller: Reza Derakshani, opens September 6th.
Reza Derakshani is a painter, musician and performance artist. Derakshani’s work encompasses challenging techniques, diversity, originality and has gained recognition for its exploration of form and style. Derakshani also incorporates music into his visual art.
Elizabeth Dee: Renaud Regnery – New Deal, opens September 22nd.
Renaud Regnery’s debut American exhibition includes paintings on canvas-mounted, mass-produced wallpaper and silkscreens. These decorative papers and prints are meant to blur the aesthetic and psychological aspects of social conventions, while also embracing the idea of ornamentation.
Foxy Production: Michael Bell-Smith – mbs_dp_090712, opens September 7th.
Michael Bell-Smith’s third solo exhibition at the gallery presents four new single-channel videos using digital tools and the language of commercial design to engage with the histories of experimental film, video art and painting. Bell-Smith mixes stock footage, sound effects, software templates and digital drawing.
Lombard-Freid Projects: Michael Rakowitz – The Breakup, opened September 6th.
Michael Rakowitz’s exhibition is a ten-part radio series originally commissioned by Al Ma-mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, in 2010 for a Palestinian station in Ramallah. The series considers the intricacies of the Beatles’ 1969 disbanding as an example of a collaboration that grinds to a halt amid unraveling negotiations and failed communication. This has been developed by the artist as a multi-media event featuring video, drawings, memorabilia and vinyl LLP.
Marianne Boesky: Diana Al-Hadid – The Vanishing Point, opens September 14th.
The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery presents sprawling sculptures of seemingly impossible architecture. Al-Hadid’s work crosses cultures and disciplines drawing inspiration from a myriad of sources including art history, ancient invention, science, science fiction and myth.