Some Memorable Shows from 2021-2022

The past two plus years have been challenging in so many ways -- no travel, no restaurants, no openings, no hugs -- to mention only a few of the more minor Covid losses....Nevertheless, some important shows happened in New York, and I was able to get to a small fraction of them. Here are images from a few of the standouts. My sincere regrets to all my friends and colleagues whose shows I missed.

 

 Jacqueline Humphries at Greene Naftale

 

 

Joan Mitchell at David Zwirner

 

 

 Richard Pousette-Dart at Pace

 

 

 Thornton Willis at David Richard

 

 

 Michelle Stuart at Lelong

 

 

Ron Gorchov at Vito Schnabel

 

 

David Diao at Postmasters

 

 

Mary Obering at Bortolami

 

 

 Frank Bowling at Hauser & Wirth

 

 

 Svenja Deininger at Maryanne Boesky

 Brice Marden at Gagosian

Maja Ruznic at Karma

Terry Winters at Matthew Marks

 

 

 

 Jasper Johns at the Whitney Museum

A Few Recent Standouts, NYC

 Rebecca Purdum at the Resnick-Passloff Foundation

 Rebecca Purdum

Rebecca Purdum (detail)

 Emily Berger at Odetta

Otis Jones at Jack Hanley

Knox Martin at Hollis Taggart

Joan Mitchell at David Zwirner

David Novros at Paula Cooper

 Matt Phillips at Hollis Taggart

R.H. Quaytman at the Guggenheim

Don Voisine at McKenzie

May and June in New York

Alain Biltereyst at Jack Hanley 

Back Room at Cheim & Read -- Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Gorchov

Hybrid Form at Margaret Thatcher -- Kevin Finklea (above), Frank Badur, 

Omar Chacon, Freddy Chandra, Ted Larsen, Joanne Mattera, Richard Roth  

Felix Gonzalez-Torres at David Zwirner 

 Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks

Jill Moser at Lennon Weinberg

David Novros at Paula Cooper 

Mike Solomon at Berry Campbell

Don Voisine at McKenzie

GREAT WOMEN in New York

To counter the deluge of abject misogyny that has permeated the media for the past year, we are presently and thankfully experiencing a wave of important exhibitions by amazing women. 

Siri Berg at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center

Nan Goldin at Matthew Marks

Carmen Herrera at the Whitney

Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim

Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum

Joan Mitchell at Cheim & Read

Pipilotti Rist at the New Museum

Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westewater

Carolee Schneemann at LeLong and PPOW

Alma Thomas at the Studio Museum of Harlem

Carrie Mae Weems at Jack Shainman

JOAN MITCHELL at Cheim & Read ROBERT DE NIRO SR at DC Moore

Joan Mitchell, Tilleul (Linden Tree), 1977, 37 x 29 inches, oil on canvas

Two wonderful exhibitions in Chelsea feature artists of the same generation but somewhat different worlds: Joan Mitchell: Trees at Cheim & Read (through August 29, 2014), and Robert De Niro Sr, Paintings and Drawings, 1948-1989 at DC Moore (through July 31, 2014). Both artists build paintings of exquisite beauty out of the rawest materiality of the medium and the language. Both retained throughout their lives an essential connection to the impulses and structures of observed reality. Both sustained their dogged individualism and dedication in the face of considerable marginalization. Without exception, their canvases breathe with the deepest exuberance and love.

Joan Mitchell, Trees, 1990-91, 94 x 157 inches, oil on canvas

Joan Mitchell, First Cypress, 1964, 88 x 78 inches, oil on canvas

Joan Mitchell, Cypresses, 1975, 77 x 102 inches, oil on canvas

Joan Mitchell, Red Tree, 1976, 103 x 63 inches, oil on canvas

Joan Mitchell, Trees, 1990-91, 87 x 157 inches, oil on canvas

Robert De Niro Sr, Still Life w/ Vase of Flowers, Lemons, Chair, Guitar, 1989, 34 x 40 inches, oil on linen

Robert De Niro Sr, St. Juste-en-Chavelet, 1963, 28 x 23 inches, oil on linen

Robert De Niro Sr, Nude with Green Pants, 1970, 36 x 28 inches, oil on linen

Robert De Niro Sr, Untitled Still Life with Chair, 1960, 54 x 38 inches, oil on linen

Robert De Niro Sr, Birdcage, 2 Vases and Flowers, 1981, 40 x 30 inches, oil on linen