Chelsea NYC Art Gallery Walks

UPCOMING GALLERIES TO BE VISITED

2012-03-24T13:01:00.001-04:00

JOIN US FOR SOME FUN !

Some of the exhibitions we will be viewing and discussing...

Catherine Opie
Mitchell)Innes & Nash
534 W 26th Street

Michelangelo Pistoletto Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street, New York

Ian Davis Leslie Tonkonow
535 West 22nd Street 6rd floor
New York NY 10011

Ernesto Neto mayTanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 W 21street

SEEING SPOTS BEFORE YOUR EYES

2012-01-12T12:12:00.000-05:00

GAGOSIAN GALLERY HOLDS WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SPOT PAINTINGS BY ARTIST DAMIEN HIRST

The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 by Damien Hirst opens Thursday, January 12th.

Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, chronicaling the whole of Hirst's creative range "from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot measuring 1-1/2 inch (1996) to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 24,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated."

Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

Damien Hirst has a reputation as the British Artist that outdid Andy Warhol as a businessman and Jeff Koons as a master of kitsch and I agree. Hirst is offering a free personalized spot print to the first person who is willing to travel to every Gogasian Gallery around the world and sees everyone of the 11 exhibitions. Another reason is that Hirst actually only painted 5 of the estimated 1,400 spot paintings since 1986.

photo: Artlog.com

I must admit that each painting is equally cheery, modern looking and graphically optomistic and psychologically, yes, it triggers the penny-candy on paper strips that one could buy for a treat in our childhood memories.

And...yes there is an APP for that - the 3rd issue of the Gagosian App for iPad will also launch in January providing an interactive, in-depth look at the series of approximately 90 of the 300 spot paintings

Three of the 11 venues for this exhibition will be at the Gagosian Galleries, 980 Madison Avenue, 555 West 24th Street and 522 W 21st Street in Chelsea opening on January 12th and closes on February 18th in New York.

A HAPPENING - TERRANCE KOH

2011-02-20T23:03:00.000-05:00

Rough Cuts

NYC Art Gallery Walks Chelsea Highlights CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

2011-02-06T12:00:00.000-05:00

THE CLOCK @ Paula Cooper Gallery

The film is shown in the gallery in real time that corresponds to real time on one's own watch when you enter and when you leave. Art Enthusiasts seem to think that it is a cool way to spend those quiet off beat hours before daybreak from Midnight on Fridays thought 5AM Saturdays when the gallery is open to the public.

THE CLOCK viewing Schedule:

January 21 - February 19, 2011

534 W. 21st Street

Tuesdays - Thursdays, 10am - 6pm

24-HOUR SCREENINGS EVERY FRIDAY:

Fridays 10am - Saturdays 6pm

WEEKDAY SCREENINGS:

Tuesdays - Thursdays, 10am - 6pm

24-HOUR WEEKEND SCREENINGS:

Friday February 4, 10am - Saturday February 5, 6pm

Friday February 11, 10am - Saturday February 12, 6pm

Friday February 18, 10am - Saturday February 19, 6pm

Christian Marclay

"The Clock" January 21 - February 19, 2011

Paula Cooper Gallery is located at 534 W 21st Street in Chelsea - closes February 19th

52 CARD PICK-UP

2011-01-29T16:55:00.002-05:00

52 VARIABLES at the PACE GALLERY

In Chelsea is an exciting exhibition featuring painted facsimiles of large playing cards, oil on aluminum, that have been collected by the artist Keith Tyson and spans a history of 200 years.

Keith Tyson @ Pace Gallery from The New York Observer on Vimeo.

It was fascinating to see the large hand made reproductions of actual playing cards used, and seldom noticed by the card players, who are usually concerned with the card game that is taking place. At the Pace Gallery, they are offering a deck of reproductions of these art cards in the exhibition for the low cost of $15 for a souvenir. I doubt if they will have any other value in the art world.. .but who knows?

Witness Judy Pfaff's 'Five Decades

2011-01-28T00:44:00.001-05:00

Photo/Artchick1

Judy Pfaff, an unconventional artist who was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, has a current exhibition at the Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe Gallery, appropriately titled 'Five Decades.'

Neither a painter nor sculptor, but an inclusive artist who uses materials and processes associated with both. An artist whose work has ranged from temporary site-specific installations to large expansive pieces that are permanently attached to a wall. Instead, she is an artist whose work slips in and out of every category, making such distinctions irrelevant.

It is a joy to discover the range of materials and cohesiveness of this work while perusing this small retrospective. Judy Pfaff's 'Five Decades' closes October 16.

The Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe Gallery is located at 525 West 22nd Street, near 10th Avenue.

FEMALE BODY BUILDERS HAVE BIG BREASTS

2010-08-13T15:03:00.002-04:00

ARTIST MARTIN SCHOELLER is exhibiting at HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER GALLERY

Video: James Kalm Report/Rough Cuts/YouTube

MONET- LATE WORKS IN CHELSEA

2010-06-16T00:33:00.013-04:00

MONET'S LATE WORK AT GAGOSIAN GALLERY IN CHELSEA

This is the garden (not in full bloom) that Claude Monet painted over and over again as his muse. The exhibition of late work has no resemblance to this photograph as he was unfortunately losing his eyesight.

Therefore, the late work, not often curated to be seen together, highlights the work that shows an inadvertent transition towards abstract expressionism in many of the late paintings. The echoes of the future are apparent.'

When I saw this painting, one of three on view of this same scene, it was obvious that Monet's eyesight was faltering, however, not the spirit of this garden or his memory.

L'Allee de Rosiers, 1920-1929

This museum quality upscale gallery exhibition can be viewed until the end of the month of June at the Gagosian art gallery in Chelsea at 21st Street, New York City.

Above is one of the paintings in the Exhibition that indicates the likely transition to Modernism toward the style of a Contemporary painting that could have been made yesterday. A few of what I consider the masterpieces are shown as well in all three galleries. A breathless experience to be sure.

SIZE DOES MATTER - Flag Foundation Exhibition

2010-04-27T20:08:00.000-04:00

CURATED BY SHAQUILE O'NEAL

Peter Max

VIDEO: PBS NETWORK
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/03/shaq-attacks-art-world-in-size-does-matter.html

CHELSEA ART GALLERY WALK HIGHLIGHTS

2010-01-06T01:19:00.001-05:00

September Highline Art Gallery Walks and Artists Studio Tour (Rogue Gallery-Chelsea)

CHELSEA ART GALLERY WALK HIGHLIGHTS

2009-11-05T12:49:00.001-05:00

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MISSED LAST WEEK here are some of the highlights in Chelsea nicely documented in a video by Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine. We were in the audience while he was filming and took advantage of the Q & A that ensued, which was cut out when this video was edited . I'm not going to list the exhibitions we visited soooooooo...check out the video to know where we were!

SEE VIDEO HERE:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/10/video_jerry_saltzs_fall_2009_g.html

It's always so much fun to run into Jerry in Chelsea and get his take on the exhibitions as well! He pumped the crowd at Gogo's on Murkami's process of making this large painting displayed in the side gallery and then the discussion got really lively!

Check back for highlights from the next gallery walk with the "additional back stories"... Oh Yeah!

CHELSEA GALLERY WALK FALL MURAKAMI- RYMAN - MARY BOONE

2009-11-05T12:31:00.004-05:00

Ryman/Malborough, Murakami/Gogasian,Tuttle/Pace, Ron Warren/Mary Boone (ptg Halley)

FORTHCOMING SERRA EXHIBITION AT GOGO's

2009-09-30T00:53:00.000-04:00

RICHARD SERRA SCULPTURE
being installed October at GOGO's

VIEW VIDEO:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=136646913231

Perhaps it is just a quick look see at how this huge art work is installed in the gallery at 21st Street in Chelsea, however, it is breath taking non the less to watch it happening

What are your thoughts?

SO MUCH TO SEE - SO MUCH TO DO

2009-09-17T16:11:00.003-04:00

FIRST LOOK...

Art Opening Gallery Receptions on Thursday Night with lots of people flooding the streets of Chelsea for the beginning of the FALL 09 ART SEASON

Just a few of the Exhibitions visited were (left to right) Artists Matthew Weinstein at Sonnebend Gallery, Eli Ping at Susan Inglet, Jaume Pleensa at Galerie LeLong, Magnus Plessen at Gladstone Gallery, Matthew Weinstein at Carolina Nitsch, and Raul deNieves at Newman Poplisahvill Gallery

TIL NEXT...

ART WALKS RELAUNCHING ON SEPTEMBER 12

2009-09-09T19:39:00.006-04:00

We begin again on Saturday, September 12th... the Art Gallery Walks begin at 2PM.

Tomorrow evening is the Preview of the Fall 09 Art Season with gazillions of Art Opening Receptions all over the city. I will be in CHELSEA promptly at 5PM. I have my list of invitations and I will do a quick look see run through while I also visualize planning the first art walk for Saturday.

JOIN US...it will be a blast!

MURALS ARE EVERYWHERE AND ON EVERYTHING

2009-08-23T21:37:00.004-04:00

AWESOME JAPANESE CROP ART WORK

Another offering from my personal Clip Gallery Art

From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.

Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of

meetings of the village committee.

Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. However this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategicaly arranged and grown in the paddy fields.

As the summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge...

Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies, created by precision planting and months of planning between villages and farmers in Inkadate

A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colours created by using different varieties, in Inakadate in Japan The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Toyko, where the tradition began in 1993.
The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall. More than 150,000 vistors come to Inakadate, where just 8,700 people live, every summer to see the extraordinary murals.

Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields.

The different varieties of rice plant grow along side each other to create the masterpieces...
In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a
simple design of Mount Iwaki every year. However, their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice
paddy art.

A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

MURALS IN SOHO RIVALS KEITH HARRING

2009-08-10T02:12:00.000-04:00

Escape the frustration of the heat! Get yourself down to SoHo to view the new ART WALL MURAL...so cool!
SLIDE SHOW & DETAILS HERE

PICASSO AT GOGO's

2009-06-17T18:42:00.000-04:00

PICASSO at GAGOSIAN GALLERY

IT'S ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS...

2009-06-03T14:38:00.002-04:00

http://artchick1.blogspot.com/2009/04/it-all-done-with-mirrors.html#links

MADOFF SPOTTED IN CHELSEA

2009-04-24T01:04:00.003-04:00

COULD THIS HAPPEN HERE

2009-04-12T13:36:00.000-04:00

NBC-TV "NY NON STOP"

2009-04-02T12:10:00.002-04:00

GALLERY WALKS FEATURED ON NBC-TV NEW 24HOUR STATION KICK-OFF PRESS RELEASE

ART WARRIORS, YES!

2009-03-30T15:16:00.004-04:00

FEATURED IN: NON STOP NY

NBC-TV VIDEO

(click on left hand side of page to view video)

"CITY BY SUBWAY"

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around_town/shopping/City-by-Subway-Springtime-in-Manhattan.html

MELISSA MEYER...SHE DANCES!

2009-03-28T10:26:00.006-04:00

ALSO our gallery walk on March 21, the second Artists' Talk was with Melissa Meyer at Lennon Weinberg

I was reacquainted with MEYER at the exhibition having been to her studio many years ago when she was an emerging artist. It was great speaking to her about how she makes her paintings. I knew that the paintings are worked flat on the floor, and MEYER moves around the canvas with her brushes and colors and does what she called a "little dance" working spontaneously from the inside out creating strokes with the motion of her body.

I have always admired her spectacular use of color and her style of lyrical abstract painting. Her work is now in many private, corporate and museum collections.

ANNE NEELY...SHE PAINTS!

2009-03-27T14:52:00.004-04:00

Our Art Gallery Walk on March 21st was full of surprises... Not only did we have a multitude of wonderful new artwork to view, we also were fortunate to have 2 Artists' Talks... Anne Neely at the Lohin Geduld Gallery. At that time we were very fortunate because the video below was taken by one of our group members, who is also the blogger ART RAVELS. I truly enjoyed viewing this exhibition. The artist is very definite with every stoke of the application of paint. Her marks are deliberate and come together to make exceptional pixilated landscapes. Her use of color is dynamic as well as meditative.