FALL GALLERY SHOWS: Chelsea+
What a beautiful November we’re having, and this fall offers a fantastic group of worthwhile gallery shows to see. Here is a selection of shows—a bright blue show opening downtown that we did want to highlight, and twelve in Chelsea—that should make it onto your list.
James Turrell: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue at Almine Rech
We are loving blue right now, and are so excited to see James Turrell’s forthcoming show at Almine Rech! Featuring over fifteen work including Turrell’s new Shallow Space, new pieces from the Glassworks series, plus a new Cross Corner work, this exhibition will present landmark bodies of work at a gallery the artist has shown at since the 1989.
November 12-January 30
361 Broadway
James Turrell, Raemar, Blue, 1969
Elaine de Kooning at Berry Cambell
If you missed the fabulous article in The New York Times featuring this wonderful exhibition, you might not know that Berry Cambell is showing an important selection of historic paintings by Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989). Spanning four decades, from 1948-1988, this wonderful exhibition presents the evolution of this acclaimed Abstract Expressionist and portrait artist and is the first major presentation of Elaine de Kooning's work since the National Portrait Gallery' exhibited her in 2015-2016.
Through December 19
Elaine de Kooning, JFK #7, 1963
Inka Essenhigh at Miles McEnery
The colorful, figurative dream-scapes of Inka Essenhigh suspend us somewhere between reality and our fantasies, often featuring cartoonish figures from our world and the imagination in uncanny scenes. Essenhigh first began her investigation of imaginative work in the early 1990s and was heralded for her use of enamel, a high-gloss paint often applied to house exteriors, and honing this method, her lines and blobs evolve into anthropomorphic figures that appear so alive.
Through January 9
Tschabalala Self: Tools of Worshipat Petzel
On the heels of the artist’s monumental public sculpture for the New Museum’s façade on the occasion of its reopening as well as her major Fourth Plinth commission in London, Tools of Worship follows Tschabalala Self’s incredible investigation into the human figure. Depicting the body as weighted sites for memory, desire, and meaning, her layered practice continues with these new works where figures inhabit a theatrical world, featuring figures constructed with repurposed textiles that bear the memory of their original use.
Through January 30
520 West 25th Street
Tschabalala Self, Clockwork, 2026
Elmgreen & Dragset: TRANSITION at PACE
World-renowned for their large-scale public installations, which include a full-scale replica of a Prada boutique installed along a Texas highway (Prada, Marfa, 2005) or their enormous swimming pool placed in front of Rockefeller Center called Van Gogh’s Ear (2016), Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, b. 1961, Copenhagen, Denmark; Ingar Dragset, b. 1969, Trondheim, Norway) investigate the social, cultural, and political structures that bring us together. For their show at Pace, Elmgreen & Dragset will present one of their most ambitious projects yet with an enormous, 40-ton, traversable steel sculpture, among other works.
Through January 16
508 & 510 West 25th Street
Jenna Gribbon: Projections at David Kordansky
Jenna Gribbon is known for her figurative painting practice, often depicting her wife Torres through profound investigations of the psyche. For her upcoming show at Kordansky, Gribbon continues her layered practice of using a projector to layer images onto eachother as well as onto figures physically present in her studio. Her newest works layered the figure of her wife with images of the artist herself, merging shadow, form, identity and selves. These works meticulously excavate our relationships with others and ourselves and could be looked at over and over again.
Through December 19
520 West 20th Street
Jenna Gribbon, Harpy, 2026
Mary Lovelace O’Neal at Boesky Gallery
An exhibition of work by Mary Lovelace O’Neal (b. 1942, Jackson, MS; d. 2026, Mérida, Mexico) from the 1980s and 1990s, Requiem presents beautifully-expressionist paintings across abstraction and figuration. First discovered in David Driskell’s class at Howard University, the artist infuses childhood memories with ongoing investigations into color, shape, light, and form. The result are lyrical works, filled with life and beauty.
Through December 19
Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Panthers with Socks (from the Panthers in My Father’s Palace Series), 1985-90. Photo credit: Pierre Le Hors.
Sharon Core: Flowering at Yancey Richardson
Sharon Core’s highly-controlled yet utterly artful photographs examine the artful qualities of plants and perennials. Documenting from Core’s own garden, Core’s Flowering series began with her project 1606-1907, a restaging of three-hundred years of floral painting in Western art from the Dutch Golden Age through modernism. The resulting works are stylish and grounded in epic study.
Through December 19
Sharon Core, Dahlia: Emory Paul, 2024. Archival pigment print, 23 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches.
Yoshitomo Nara at David Zwirner
For the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York in a decade, David Zwirner will fill both of their galleries with the iconic works of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959). Featuring paintings, drawings, recent sculptures, and early works selected by the artist, this exhibition will offer an expansive look into Nara’s practice, which was shaped by his solitary childhood in rural Japan—and the encounters with nature, pop culture, children’s fables, and fantasy that came to define it.
Through December 12
533 West 19th Street & 537 West 20th Street
Sandra Cinto: The Path to the Stars at Tanya Bonakdar
São Paulo-based artist Sandra Cinto creates intricate line drawings that deconstruct the separation between paintings, drawings, sculptures, and the world. Her newest paintings put the sun and the stars under her lens as sites of inspiration, offering how these elements create powerful means of connection, particularly during difficult times.
Through December 18
Michaela Yearwood-Dan: A Woman of Will at Boesky Gallery
With her lyrical gestures, London-based artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan transforms Boesky Gallery into the sacred space of a cathedral. Her paintings—paired alongside hand-built, lustrous ceramic vases—are vibrantly bold and sensuously gestural, imbued with personal reflections written on the surfaces. These meditative works of all scales lean against a wall on gold supports or small scale placed in an intimate gallery space paired with ceramic wall vases.
Through December 12
509 West 24th St
Hannah Levy: Boiled at Casey Kaplan
The young, Brooklyn-based sculptor Hannah Levy combines blown glass with hand-carved and polished stainless steel to draw on the anatomies of everything from serpents and arthropods to furniture, Art nouveau ornamentation, and mobility aids. These bubbling glass forms in warm organic hues emphasize the relationship between the manufactured, design world and natural forms as “creature-objects” that hover the ground.
Through January 9