To help our readers navigate through the vertigo-inducing maze of events each week, ARTINFO offers a few choice selections. This week features media experimentation in Chelsea, John Baldessari on 57th Street, and some promising excursions to Brooklyn. Happy art exploring! (Click here for more event listings.)
OPENINGS
WED 10/17 “Aperture Remix” at the Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, Chelsea, 6 – 8 pm
The Queen of England is not the only one celebrating a Diamond Jubilee, as the Aperture Foundation also marks its 60th anniversary. This group exhibition has artists taking inspiration from Aperture’s legacy of contemporary photography publications, including work by Vik Muniz, Alec Soth, James Welling, Taiyo Onorato, and Nico Krebs.
— Allison Meier
THURS 10/18 Doug Rickard: “A New American Picture” at Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, 6 – 8 pm
Doug Rickard’s barren, low-res photographs based on Google Street View screenshots make reference to the street photography of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore, while acknowledging Google’s weirdly omniscient, technocratic God’s-eye view of the world. — Chloe Wyma
THURS 10/18 “Life & Death” at the SVA Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th Floor, Chelsea, 6 – 8 pm
This exhibition stretches over four decades to offer a look at some of the experimentation that shaped contemporary video art, with work by appropriation-master Dara Birnbaum, interactive video pioneer Peter Campus, natural phenomenon examiner Frank Gillette, and influential new media innovator Bill Viola. — AM
FRI 10/19 John Baldessari: “Double Play” at Marian Goodman, 24 West 57th Street, Upper East Side, 6 – 8 pm
Baldessari tackles the art historical in this show of recent paintings. Relying on both image and text, “Double Play” is a series of juxtapositions, hybridizations, and contrasts simultaneously subtle and bold. — Sara Roffino
SAT 10/20 Juliette Losq: “Lucaria” at Theodore:Art, 56 Bogart Street, Bushwick, 6 – 9 pm
Witness the oddly compelling decay of abandoned places in Losq’s ink drawings, presented in the British artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition. The forgotten edges of our modern civilization, from drainage ditches to decrepit buildings, have rarely looked so much like enchanted landscapes. — AM (Read ARTINFO’s profile of Juliette Losq here.)
ON THE RADAR
Diana Al-Hadid: “The Vanishing Point” at Marianne Boesky, 509 West 24th Street, Chelsea, through October 20
Before it disappears after this weekend, catch Al-Hadid’s tumultuous architectural structures, on which frozen cascades flow and figures melt in mythical dimensions. — AM
“Next time you see me it won’t be me” at Kunsthalle Galapagos, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, through October 21
For their first collaborative project, Mexican artists Alejandro Almanza Pereda and José Luis Cortés-Santander have crashed through the Kunsthalle Galapagos space with a neon sign towering over other space interventions that bring minor and major destruction to everyday objects, while the detritus from all their action is strung up in a black trash bag above.
— AM
Mark Mastroianni: “Natural Wisdom” at Woodward Gallery, 133 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, through October 28
You might be surprised at how interested you become in the wrap of a hay bale or the fermenting details of a compost pile when viewing Mastroianni’s mixed media works, in which familiar natural and rural sights are given a distinct feel through dense lines over gessoed tarpaper, a technique which the artist has been experimenting with for two decades.
— AM
Juergen Teller: “Irene im Wald” at Journal Gallery, 168 North 1st Street, Williamsburg, through November 4
Teller, best known for his high-end fashion photography, takes his bright exposure to contemplate the woods near the house in Erlangen, Germany where he grew up, with appearances by his mother and personal stories.
— AM
Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, Greenwich Village, through December 8
An empty bed is a haunted place in Moore’s work, whether it’s roamed by tiny buffaloes like a snowy plain or pooled with water in which blood from an open IV bag streams. It’s one of the many surreal stand-ins for commentary on the environment and health care in this ambitious retrospective for a painter who died early in his career from AIDS. — AM
(Image: Doug Rickard, “#33.665001, Atlanta, GA. 2009″ (2010), archival pigment print. Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery.)
