Art Market: New York`s Art Shows 2021

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - 2021 was a strange year - even in the art world. Covid-19 slowed our lives and my wife and I visited fewer art shows as usual. But we could see some interesting exhibitions anyway.

 

 

Fortunately the global auctions houses resumed their big auctions and we visited the galleries for the autumn sales @ Christie`s, Sotheby´s & Phillips. We enjoyed hundreds of amazing art works. They showed the usual suspects - like Basquiat & Warhol - but also a lot promising newcomers. 

 

Above some impressions from the "Macklowe Collection", including work Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko & Cy Twombly, sold @ Sotheby´s plus Cecily Brown @ Phillips.

 

 

I was also fascinated by Georges Mathieu`s wall filling cosmic explosions @ Perrotin, one of the few classy  galleries which survived on Manhattan´s  Lower East Side

 

 

I was happy to see David Mellen`s "Heart Worn Thin" @ Ivy Brown Gallery. I follow this artist since his show at BOSI Contemporary, one of the now defunct Lower East Side galleries (driveby ).

 

  

 

@ Hashimoto Contemporary I enjoyed Jilian Evelyn´s Lack Of Pleasure

   

 

 

 @ Mizuma & Kips I discovered Ogino Yuna`s Erotic Abstracts

   

I found Carlo D’Anselmi`s Wake Up @ Thierry Goldberg (one of the few Lower East Site survivors).

 

     

 

  

Richard Taittinger Gallery had a group exhibiton, called "Narrative Figuration".

 

 

  

 

The same gallery also showed "Transmogrified" with work by South African artist Frances Goodman. The exhibition contained a series of sequin paintings the artist did during the 2020 lockdown based on social media platforms.

 

 

The Hole Gallery New York had also a group exhibtion, called "Density Betrays Us". The sculpture above by Casja Von Zeipel is called "Friends of Grapefruit" (2020. Pigmented silicon, Aqua resin, fishing flies, plastic plants, aquarium plants, curly shoelace, canoe paddle, muscle hook, “New York” sun protection hat, neon green camelbak, car window phone holder, arrow thing, “Pumpkins for Peace” pin, “Hot girl vs tiger” lenticular, key board, book, paint bucket tool belt, camouflage fabrics, pixel printed fabrics, camouflage dog vest, Minnewaska State Park Trail band, iPhone case)

 

 

 

 

 

I saw Meg Lionel Murphy `s “Traumatica Dramatica” @ The Untitled Space New York 

 

 

 

 

Gallery James Cohan on Manhattan´s Grand Street (the inofficial border between Lower East Side & China Town)  had a show with work by Josiah McElheny. The exhibition was called "Libraries", which is a reference to Jorge Luis Borges` famous short story "The Library of Babel". The press release discribed: "Installed across the walls within the space were six elegant, glazed wood frames that each provided a window into interior, mirrored spaces that created an effect of limitless expansiveness “behind and beyond” the surface of the wall".

 

To be continued