This is a week of major statements by artists and extensive possibilities of curators and gallerists, past and present. If you have not yet made the trip to Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook -neighborhood to see the exploration of the American artist of author Octavia E. Butler, we strongly recommend it. The new work by multimedia artist Nick Cave also completes a number of quite large explanations, while an overview of the black and targeted gallery acts of the 1960s art and a Hilton as-a -curbent show about the limits of language and silence offers sufficient thoughts. And filmmaker Ericka Beckman’s Solo presentation in the drawing center is perhaps the most surreal “pictures generation” show you will ever see. –Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor
Arts of Art in Greenwich Village
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College132 East 68th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Up to and including March 29
‘[Acts of Art] Only operated for six years, but was an example of the spirit of a subversive and consistent period in black art history. ” –Jasmine Weber
Read the full review here.
Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts
Jack Shainman Gallery46 Lafayette Street, Civic Center, Manhattan
Up to and including March 29
“Cave does not visualize himself so safe and separate from the powerful, as his earlier work seemed, but as constantly open to the interpretation of his audience.” –HRag Vartanian
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Writing is on the wall: language and silence in the visual arts
Hill Art Foundation239 Tenth Avenue, 3rd Floor, Chelsea, Manhattan
Up to and including March 29
“The exhibition is relatively simple – although no less rich and suggestive – asking and suggesting answers to the question: what is the relationship between language and silence with visual art?” –Lisa Yin Zhang
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American artist: Shaper of God
Pioneer Works159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Up to and including April 13
“What would it mean for the survival of the planet if we were to take serious black feminist visions of climate justice in which we are prioritized with nature with nature with nature?” –Alexandra M. Thomas
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Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin
Drawing center35 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
Up to and including 11 May
“Visual, [Beckman’s] Schematic images are closer to Russian constructivism and even some of the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico than to everything from New York from the 1980s. ” –NH
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