Spend the Day in Chelsea: A Neighborhood Gallery Guide
This week, we are offering a curated neighborhood gallery guide as a new format of our newsletter.
Whether you want to spend an afternoon in Chelsea or have just an hour, we invite you to use our Chelsea Gallery Guide as a walking map through this vibrant neighborhood.
Takashi Murakami at Gagosian
Superstar artist Takashi Murakami continues to mine the art historical cannon and, in particular, Japanese art, exploring Japanese art's influence on European artists. This expansive exhibition is a must-see for art history lovers and features 121 works responding to Utagawa Hiroshige’s famed 100 Famous Views of Edo, reworkings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and more.
May 8-July 11
522 West 21st Street
Marco A. Castillo at Nara Roesler
The Cuban artist Marco A. Castillo’s first solo exhibition in New York City will introduce Castillo’s intricate works that connect architecture, art, and design to an American audience. These sculptural pieces meditate upon Cuba’s modernization process during the 1960s & 1970s and reference both influential and “forgotten” Cuban artists and designers.
May 1-June 5
511 West 21st Street
Beverly Fishman at Miles McEnery
The neon-hued geometric wall sculptures by Beverly Fishman are full of paradoxes: they are both playful and serious, beckoning and dynamic, and seemingly machine-made. In reality, these works are painstakingly handmade from wood and automotive paint. This exhibition presents bold new works by Fishman that are intricate, fluid, and compositionally complex, reflecting the artist’s continuous exploration and ever-expanding vision.
May 8-June 21
515 West 22nd Street
Francis Picabia at Hauser & Wirth
Traveling to New York from Hauser & Wirth’s Paris gallery is the first major Picabia exhibition to focus solely on the artist’s final period, presenting 40 works that chart the impresario of the avant-garde’s return to Paris in 1945 through his death in 1953.
May 1-August 1
542 West 22nd Street
Alicja Kwade at Pace Gallery
Polish-German artist Alicja Kwade fills Pace’s galleries with monumental sculptures that resemble disintegrating organic forms and ticking clocks suspended by bronze tree branches in space. Always interested in the abstract, metaphysical, and conceptual aspects of existence, Kwade’s amazing new pieces are based on Aristotle and his theories of causation and invite you to leave your reality to join Kwade in her meditation on being.
May 7-August 15
508 & 510 West 25th Street
Robert Indiana at Pace Gallery
The iconic pop artist Robert Indiana (1928-2018) is having a posthumous revival and reassessment championed by two major New York galleries. Indiana‘s early works were shown at Kasmin earlier this spring, and now Pace presents an ambitious exhibition charting the artist’s work from the 1960s through the end of his career, focusing on Indiana’s more politically and historically charged works.
May 9-August 15
540 West 25th Street
Theodora Allen at Kasmin Gallery
Theodora Allen creates transcendental atmospheric oil paintings on linen that depict, with hyper-precision, profound natural phenomena that have endured throughout history as meditative symbols ripe with meaning.
May 7-July 25
297 10th Avenue
Devon DeJardin at Ross + Kramer
Referencing the enigmatic landscapes of the Dutch Golden Age by 17th century painters such as Aelbert Cuyp, Jan Both, and Aert van der Neer, Devon DeJardin creates sprawling, ethereal landscapes with enigmatic “Guardian” figures that are informed by the artist’s study of world religion and spiritual tradition.
May 8-June 28
515 West 27th Street
Sam Moyer at Sean Kelly
Sam Moyer presents an elegant suite of new “stone paintings”, the artist's beautiful and impressive practice of combining reclaimed stone with painted canvases, as well as oil paintings and handmade paper works. These sculptural abstractions evoke natural forms, emphasizing variations in surface and light as well as the natural beauty of her materials.
May 2-June 14
475 10th Avenue
