Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Spend Valentine’s Day Grabbing Bjarne Melgaard’s Sloppy Seconds
Bjarne Melgaard is going through a reinvention phase, which means he’s giving away his entire $500K wardrobe for free on Valentine’s Day at Red Bull Studios. Then he’s launching his new project: a streetwear line with an installation a department store at the same spot Thursday night. Then two painters offer unique takes on domesticity through still lives—Sydney Licht at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts and Crys Yin at Amy Li Projects.
Friday night, things get weirder with a dystopian video game from Jeremy Couillard at yours mine & ours, artwork lost in translation at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and a late-night performance from Actually Huizenga and one-time-AFC-contributor SSION (video above). The weekend brings two more all-women shows conceived in response to Trump’s sexism: BODY/HEAD Saturday night at Be Fluent NYC and BEAT at On Stellar Rays Sunday afternoon. Lookin’ good, NYC.
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Red Bull Studios New York
220 W 18th St
New York, NY
5:00 p.m.Website
The Purge: Bjarne Melgaard's $500K Designer Fashion Giveaway
This Valentine’s Day, Bjarne Melgaard is breaking up with his half-a-million-dollar designer wardrobe. In a performance tied to his solo show The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, the artist is opening a free “department store” of both his personal high-end clothes and new line of streetwear. 100 at a time, visitors will be invited to fill up Melgaard-designed trash bags with items from the installation. The flier also promises “Hardcore Porno” and “Sex Booths,” so I guess no one has to be lonely this February 14th.
I would imagine every single in the city (and likely a few couples) will be heading to this most romantic looting spree, so get there early (it’s first-come, first serve).
Wed
Hauser & Wirth
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Serialities
One complaint we’ve had after viewing several exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous 22nd Street former-gay-roller-disco space is that it’s hard to fill well. From Rashid Johnson’s latest solo show to an underwhelming Phillip Guston retrospective, the strategy for conquering a surplus of wall/floor space tends to be repetitive hanging—rooms with multiple versions of essentially the same artwork. It can be a bit boring.
Now it seems Hauser & Wirth is turning this problem into the conceptual keystone of an exhibition. Serialities has an impressive line up of A-listers, each with a body of work based on experiments with repetition. Think multiples, photographs, formal interests that jump from medium-to-medium, etc…
Carl Andre, Yuji Agematsu, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Liz Deschenes, Isa Genzken, Eva Hesse, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Robert Kinmont, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Paul McCarthy, Roman Opalka, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, August Sander, Karin Sander, Mira Schendel, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Ian Wallace, and Mark Wallinger. Organized with Olivier-Renaud Clement
Thu
Red Bull Studios New York
220 W 18th Street
New York, NY
12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Website
Bjarne Melgaard: The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment
Beyond purging his wardrobe, Bjarne Melgaard is launching a whole new identity: “the retirement of Bjarne Melgaard as a fine artist, abandoning the humiliating context of the exhibition platform for the much worse context of cult streetwear: a market pretending to be a community, pretending to be a violent assault on reproduction.”
Yes, Bjarne Melgaard is launching a fashion line and renouncing fine art. He’s doing this with a pop-up department store at Red Bull Studios that sounds suspiciously like an art installation. Huh.
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
529 West 20th Street
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
Sydney Licht: This Side Up
Sydney Licht’s painterly still lives are a bit weirder than they seem at first glance. They’re mainly focused on the domestic realm—so there’s an unshakable association with decor. But they’re composed almost-always slightly-off kilter, with unstable, clashing prints. They vaguely evoke interior decorating catalogue imagery gone awry. Her inclusion of mass-produced consumer goods—packaged fruit or a tissue box, for example—further pushes the association with “product,” but their aesthetic is anything but sleek or advertisement-like.
Amy Li Projects
166 Mott Street
New York, NY
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Website
Crys Yin: If You Were Home, You'd Be Here By Now
Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Crys Yin has a pretty-similar solo show. Yin’s still lives, however, have a strangely scientific-personal feel. She lays out groups of domestic objects reflecting her upbring on a plain table, arranged almost like specimens or evidence. The clinical treatment is somewhat negated by the paintings’ lack of perspective and un-naturalistic shadows. Nothing seems to sit quite firmly in the picture plane.
Fri
yours mine & ours
54 Eldridge Street
New York, NY
12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
Jeremy Couillard: Alien Afterlife
The description for this solo show is a narrative about a woman in a dystopian future finding a contemporary video game. We’re expecting this to be a downright trippy dive into a fully-imagined alternate reality. The video game itself will be playable in the gallery, along with physical artifacts from Couillard’s universe.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid
yours mine & ours
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
x ≈ y: An Act of Translation
Nina Katchadourian is one of those artists who can pull off art pranks that are smart, aesthetic experiences, and also extremely funny. She once had all the cars at a commuter college park in lots according to color—a surreal, unexpectedly beautiful happening that was documented by local news traffic helicopters. Here, she’s showing “Talking Popcorn,” a contraption that translates the sound of a popcorn machine to morse code messages. I’ve seen that piece before, and it produces both a tasty snack and bizarre bits of poetry.
Indeed, all the works in x ≈ y: An Act of Translation sound like they captures moments of humor and accidental beauty in transcription. Asuka Goto, for example, translates her father’s writing from his native Japanese to her native English bit by bit, resulting in often garbled passages that reveal the limits of language and cross-cultural communication.
Artists: Chloë Bass, Torkwase Dyson, Asuka Goto, Mona Saeed Kamal, Nina Katchadourian, and Byron Kim
Curated by Andrew Prayzner and Naomi Reis
Baby's All Right
146 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
11:59 PMWebsite
SSION and Actually Huizenga
SSION and Actually Huizenga are two of our favorite performers mixing pop music catchiness with art-school weird. Huizenga is based in L.A., so this is a somewhat-rare chance to catch her on the East Coast. Tickets are $12-$15, a total steal for what’s likely to be a memorable evening.
Sat
Be Fluent NYC
15 West 39th Street
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
BODY/HEAD
Here’s yet another all-women show organized in opposition to the Trump presidency. Inspired by Trump’s comments about women’s bodies, curators Jacob Rhodes, Rachel Frank, and Katrina Slavik have assembled 12 female figurative artists. The show addresses the body from the perspective of the female gaze, in a variety of media. If the image above (Jen Schwarting, “Drunk Girls #19”) is any indication, this will be a refreshingly broad look at “figuration” and the subject of the body.
Artists: Sachiko Akiyama (+ Rick Fox), Julie Curtiss, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Amy Khoshbin, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Sarah Lubin, Nicole Maloof, Danielle Orchard, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Katarina Riesing, Jen Schwarting, Virginia Wagner
Sun
On Stellar Rays
213 Bowery
New York, NY
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website
BEAT: Closing Party + Benefit for Planned Parenthood
After the election, friends Kate Gilmore and Karen Heagle decided to have a two-woman show together. Every weekend, female performers have come to On Stellar Rays to bang on Heagle’s minimalist metal sculptures, slowly eroding an imposing monolith. The show ends with one final performance, and a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood.
Pierogi
155 Suffolk St
New York, NY
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website
Elliott Green: Human Nature
Elliott Green’s latest paintings flit between cheery abstraction and brooding fantasy landscapes. That makes for an engaging viewing process—one shape might read convincingly as a cloud or rock formation due to context, but a brush stroke or pallet knife scrape on closer inspection. With works ranging in size from 18″ x 24″ to 6 ½’ x 11 ½’, it should be interesting to see how those illusions function at different scales.
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BLACK OWNED ART GALLERIES
Compiled by Richard Beavers Gallery, December 2022
Above Art Studios, NJ | @aboveartstudios
Addis Fine Art, LDN | @addisfineart
Anderson Brickler Gallery, FL | @andersonbricklergallery
Annie’s Art Gallery, MD | @anniesartgallery
Anthony Gallery, IL | @galleryanthony
Artlanta Gallery, GA | @artlantagallery
Akwaaba Gallery, NJ | @akwaabagallery
Arnika Dawkins, GA | @arnikadawkins
Art Lead Her, NY | @artleadher
Art for the Soul Gallery, MA | @artforthesoulgallery
Art of Noize, DC | @artofnoizedmv
Art Melanated, CA | @artmelanated
Astah’s Art Gallery, NJ | @astahsartgallery
Axiom Fine Art Gallery, LA | @axiomartgallery
Band of Vices, CA | @bandofvices
Baar Art, | @barartjourney
Bill Hodges Gallery, NY | @billhodgesgallery
Bisong Art Gallery, TX | @bisongart
Black Artists+Designers Guild | @badguild
Black Art In America, GA | @blackartinamerica_
Black Gotham, NY | @blackgotham
Black Wall Street Gallery, NY | @bws.gallery
BlkMrkt, NC | @blkmrktclt
Boom Concepts, PA | @boom_concepts
Bridge Art Gallery, DE | @bridgeartgallery
Calabar Gallery, NY | @calabargallery
Cane Roots Art Gallery, USVI | @canerootsartgallery
Carter Fine Art Services | @carterfineart
Chela Mitchell Gallery, DC | @chelamitchellgallery
Ciera Britton Gallery, NY | @cierrabrittongallery
Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY | @ruckergallery
Curtiss Jacobs Gallery, NY | @curtissjacobsgallery_harlem
Dada Art Gallery, LDN | @thedadagallery
Daisha Board Gallery, TX | @daishaboardgallery
Dominque Gallery, CA | @dominique.gallery
Dorsey’s Art Gallery, NY | @dorseysfineartgallery
Dupp & Swat, NC | @duppandswat
E&S Gallery, KY | @eandsgallery
Essie Green Gallery, NY | @essie.green.gall
11:Eleven Gallery, DC | @11eleven_gallery
5 Points Art Gallery & Studios, WI | @5ptsartgallery
Galerie Myrtis, MD | @galeriemyrtis
Gallery 90220, CA | @gallery90220
Gallery Chuma, SC
Gallery Guichard, IL | @gallery_guichard
Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, NY | @gallerykendrajaynepatrick
Ground Floor Gallery, NY | @groundfloorbk
Hausen, NY | @welcometohausen
Hannah Traore Gallery, NY | @hannahtraoregallery
Harper Galleries of Art, MI | @harpergoaai
Hearne Fine Art, AR | @hearnefineart
HMAAC, TX | @houstonmaac
Homme DC, DC | @homme_dc
Housing, NY | @housingny
Jac Forbes Gallery, CA | @jacforbes
Jenkins Johnson, NY | @jenkinsjohnsongallery
Johnathan Carver Moore, CA | @johnathancarvermoore
June Kelly Gallery, NY | @junekellygallery
KAWD Art Gallery, LA | @kawdartgallery
Kente Royal Gallery, NY | @kente_royal_gallery
Knowhere, MA | @knowhereart
Left of Center Art Gallery, NV | @leftofcentergallery
Legendary Art Gallery, IL | @legendaryartgallery
Long Gallery, NY | @longgallery
Mackey Twins Art Gallery, NY | @mackeytwinsart
Mahogany Gallery, WI | @mahoganygallery
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, IL | @marianeibrahimgallery
Martyr Sauce, WA | @martysauce
Medium Tings, NY | @mediumtings
Mehari Sequar Gallery, DC | @meharisequargallery
Mitochondria Gallery, TX | mitochondria.gallery
Moody Jones Gallery, PA | @moodyjonesgallery
Muse GR, MI | @mymusegr
Nicola Vassell Gallery | @nicolavassellgallery
N’Namdi Center for Conetemporary Art, MI | @nnamdicenter
N’Namdi Contemporary, FL | @nnamdi_gallery
Neema Gallery, SC | @neemagallery
NoName Gallery, PA | @nonamegalleryphilly
Norwest Gallery of Art, MI | @norwestgallery
Overdue Recognition Gallery, MD | @overduerecognitionart
Peg Alston Fine Arts, NY | @pegalston
Pencil on Paper Gallery, TX | @pencilonpapergallery
Prizm Art Fair, FL | @prizm
Residency Art Gallery, CA | @residencyart
RichesArt Gallery and Studio, TX | @richesartgallery
Richard Beavers Gallery, Brooklyn
Richard Beavers Gallery, Soho | @richardbeaversgallery
Rush Arts Philanthropic, PA | @rushartphilly
Sabree’s Gallery of the Arts, GA | @sabreesgallery
September Gray Fine Art, GA | @septembergrayart
SK ArtSpace, NY | @sk.ArtSpace
Skoto Gallery, NY | @skoto_gallery
Stella Jones Gallery, LA | @stellajonesgallery
Superposition, CA | @superpositiongallery
Terrance Osbourne Gallery, LA | @terranceosborne
The Bishop Gallery, NY | @thebishopgallery
The Compound Gallery, NY | @compoundgallery
The Heath Gallery, NY | @heathgallery
The Sold Firm, DE | @thesoldfirm
The Spite Haus, PA | @thespitehaus
Thelma Harris Gallery, CA | @thelmaharrisgallery
Tripoli Gallery, NY | @tripoligallery
Urban Art Gallery, PA | @urbanartgallery
Wa Na Wari, WA | @wanawariseattle
Waller Gallery, MD | @wallergallery
WaterKolours Fine Art Gallery, TN
Welancora, NY | @welancora
Worth Gallery, | @worth_gallery
Youth Concept Gallery, FL | @youthconceptgallery
Zimstone Gallery, DC | @jeffbrown_zimstonegallery
ZuCot Gallery, GA | @zucotgallery
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