CHELSEA

Listed from South to North. Most galleries are open 10am-6pm Tuesday-Saturday.

Ugo Rondinone @ Gladstone Gallery, 530 W 21st St, thru 10/31, exhibition link
Translucent sculptures are 11 to 20 feet tall, made from cast resin and colored by precious minerals like topaz, rose quartz, amethyst, and more. I liked them most when you get really close - almost seeing one through another. 

Lee Bul @ Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 542 W 22nd St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Her sanded gobstopper-like paintings draw you super close, but the surprise is turning the corner for the massive mirrored blimp!  Feeling like something from the past and future simultaneously, overwhelming and yet likely quite fragile (don’t touch). 

Hiroshi Sugimoto @ Lisson Gallery, 504 W 24th St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Does a photograph look more real than the actual thing?  Early work from his “Diorama Series”, created by photographing dioramas as the American Museum of Natural History confuse reality, and NEW works in the series photographed recently (in color), 50 years later. Like all Sugimoto’s exhibitions, even the air and light in the room feels magical.

Arlene Schechet @ PACE Gallery, 508 W 25th St, thruh 10/24, exhibition link
The BEST works are the smallest. Walk into 508 and go straight on the LEFT side of the front desk. The longer I look at these the more interesting, textured, and colorful they appear.

Lynda Benglis @ PACE Gallery, 540 W 25th St, thru 10/24, exhibition link
5 decades of sculpture confuse their own materials… from extruded ceramic curls to their enlarged bronze counterparts. There’s also an unannounced drawing/print Pollock show on 3rd floor!!! (No photos allowed, so you know it’s a rare treat).

Anthony McCall @ Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 10th Ave (at 36th St), thru 10/31, exhibition link
100% worth the walk up!!  Do it do it do it!  The #1 most magical exhibition on view. Step through and inside these cones of “solid light”. Great for instagram, but I HIGHLY recommend staying longer than you think to experience what’s happening to the shapes over time.

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Alix Vernet @ Chapter NY Gallery, 60 Walker St, thru 10/17, exhibition ink
”Aluminum air conditioner condenser coils” (that weird metal surface on the back of a window AC that I try not to cut my hand on when I’m installing mine every summer) are dented with with extreme precision to create letters and words in beautiful script.

Asher Liftin @ 125 Newbury, 395 Broadway, ends 10/31, exhibition link
The smallest works are again the best - with amazing drawings using only 4 colors of pencil. (Note: The name of the gallery can be confusing.. so to be clear: the address is 395 Broadway, on the SW corner of Walker & Broadway)

Edith Dekyndt @ Marian Goodman Gallery, 385 Broadway Fl 2, thru 10/24, exhibition link
Once inside gallery, take elevator to 2nd floor to see pieces of knotted wood with “algorithmically generated 3D extensions” and a shelf of ocean trash displayed like precious specimens. It’s a mind-bending fusion of nature and technology.

Gordon Parks @ Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette St, thru 11/7, exhibition link
He may be one of the greatest photographers of all time. Exceptionally composed and perfectly-timed photographs from 1942-1985, revealing the pain, hope, and unbelievable persistence of the Black experience, that pulls you closer and deeper as a human being, regardless of who you are.

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