Call and Response at Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York

“Call and Response,” a comprehensive group show, of more than 60 contemporary painters including Torey Thornton, Charline von Heyl, Josh Smith, Laura Owens and Katherine Bernhardt, offers an immersive alternative to “Forever Now” at the Museum of Modern Art. Densely installed in a salon style hanging, these works provide an essential overview of the state of painting today, from playful figuration to grand gestures of abstraction. Roberta Smith of the New York Times named this exhibition one of the 15 group exhibitions “not to miss” this January. The exhibition closes February 28th.

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Gianna Commito at Rachel Uffner, New York

Gianna Commito’s architectural paintings utilize vibrant colors, interlocking forms and modules to evoke immersive, energetic structures. Her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Commito incorporates inspiration from her residence in Maine, where she lives among 19th century farmhouses. The frenetic quality of her paintings continuously reveals the complex scaffolding that she has constructed both through her forms and inventive use of texture. The exhibition closes February 22nd.

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Calvin Marcus at Clearing Gallery, Bushwick

In “Green Calvin,” Calvin Marcus’s first New York solo exhibition, the artist installed nine paintings, each titled Green Calvin. A riff on the nature of artistic production, each brightly hued painting consists of a ceramic chicken inscribed with a face. Positioned slightly above the horizontal midpoint of each frame, the eyes both reflect the viewpoint of its creator while functioning as reliefs that serve to confront the viewer, an effect Marcus enhances by employing the green that a film production might use for a green screen. The exhibition closes March 1.

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Jess Fuller at Martos Gallery, New York

Martos Gallery shows the work of Jess Fuller, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Aptly titled Planet without a body, the exhibition presents a series of new work – 8 paintings that each capture a quality of performance that reveals the human scale. While the paintings display a dizzying array of shapes, they easily align, and the seemingly opposed colors coalesce through techniques of collage and the use of Matisse like-cut outs. In the end, the paintings are singular and satisfying compositions. The exhibition closes Feb. 14, 2015

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Lucy Kim at Lisa Cooley, New York

In “A Parrot in a Bell,” Lucy Kim eschews the traditional distinctions between figurative and abstract painting to bring a new sense of realism to this compelling exhibition. Using materials as diverse as oil, resin, epoxy, burlap, and polyurethane in imaginative configurations, Kim integrates the hands, teeth and bodies into forms that draw attention to the materiality of painting itself. With this new body of work, she expands the bounds of painting by blurring the familial, narrative elements with formal devices. The exhibition closes February 15th.

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Charles March at Venus Over Manhattan, New York

In “WOOD LAND,” British photographer Charles March moves from direct representation of nature to a more abstract, emotionally charged imagery, using the camera “as a brush” to evoke the feeling of a drawing or sketch.  March allows his audience to enter into his stirring and mysterious psychological landscapes mediated through his sense of reverence for his subject.

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Philip Taaffe at Luhring Augustine, Bushwick

Philip Taaffe’s ethereal paintings synthesize universal dichotomies of beauty and destruction. Much like an alchemist, he conjures intricately layered forms with the use of complex techniques such as silkscreening, staining, and marbling that incorporate a wide range of carefully researched references with an encyclopedic range.  The result of his complex process is a group of seemingly glowing paintings waiting to be decoded. The exhibition is on view through April 26th. 

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Matthew Chambers at Zach Feuer

Matthew Chambers shows three groups of work at Zach Feuer's West 22nd street Chelsea gallery: two sets of paintings and a set of Chambers' working notes. By linking process to finished painting, the artist reveals for the viewer the optionality of choice, inviting the exploration of not only the "what is" but also the "what could have been," and in some sense de-mystifying the artistic mind. The exhibition closes February 7th.

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Al Taylor at David Zwirner

Through a series of drawings and layered sculptural constructions on view at David Zwirner, the artist Al Taylor (1948-1999) sought to take the everyday, the overlooked, and the mundane and reframe it--through a process of visual and linguistic deconstruction, or simply through the process of dislocation--in order to change perception. The show runs through February 14th. 

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Leif Ritchey at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn

Leif Ritchey presents a set of ten large acrylic on canvas works in his latest exhibition, entitled "Gumbo Shoes," at the Journal Gallery. Apart from the scale of the work, the show is notable for Ritchey's ambitious explorations in color, and for his blending (and obscuring) of form. The exhibiton closes March 1.

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Rascal House at Half Gallery, New York

Blair Thurman, John Armleder, Justin Adian, and Stéphane Kropf collaborate in the project Rascal House currently on view at Half Gallery in New York. A literal and symbolic nod to Edward Kienholz's masterful The Beanery installation from 1965. The exhibition draws its strength from the particular brand of tension and cohesiveness that comes from collage and collaboration among artists. Rascal House closes February 4th.

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Urs Fischer at Gagosian, New York

Gagosian's Madison Avenue space is host to a set of expressionist sculpture rooms from the artist Urs Fischer. The rooms give a feeling of wanting to keep you at a distance, while at the same time tempting interaction and participation. The show closes December 20th.

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Claudio Parmiggiani at Bortolami, New York

Bortolami's solo exhibition of new and old works by Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani provides a haunting and beautiful exploration of memory and trace, in sculptural solid and smoke.  The exhibition closes November 15th.

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Klara Liden at Reena Spaulings, New York

Klara Liden's It's Complicated, the artist's latest exhibition at Reena Spaulings Fine Art on East Broadway, juxtaposes the kind of serenity that comes from simple bench and table iconography with an implied narrative of dislocation, dissection and reconstruction. Paired with her downstairs video Warm Up: Hermitage State Theatre, Liden's work is a study in the beauty that can be found in imperfect combination. The show runs through December 7th.

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Jeremy DePrez at Zach Feuer, New York

Houston-based artist Jeremy DePrez brings a series of wrinkled, warped and shaped canvases to Zach Feuer's Manhattan gallery in a show that examines color, pattern, formalism and chance. The show is on until November 8th.

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Nick van Woert at Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam

Nick van Woert interprets and invites re-interpretation of our contemporary environment in his latest solo show at Grimm Gallery, entitled Hunky Dory Honky Tonk. The exhibition presents works that at various times isolates and encapsulates, pulverizes and recombines, and balances and cloaks. The show closes November 22nd.

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Chris Succo at Robert Blumenthal, New York

Chris Succo continues to explore pattern, gesture and multi-faceted composition in a series of layered, web-like works on display at Robert Blumenthal's New York gallery. Through November 8th.

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Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali, New York

Greene Naftali inaugurates its new ground-floor space with a solo exhibition by Gedi Sibony. Continuing Sibony's fascination with discovery and extracting found objects from the urban landscape, the show brings together a new body of work that highlights unaltered flat panels removed from decommissioned semi-detached trailers. Either seen as ready-mades or paintings, choreographed by the exacting removal of a logo or a single stroke of paint, the result stimulates and engages the viewer on multiple levels. The exhibition will run through November 8, 2014.

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Haley Mellin at Retrospective, Hudson, NY

Haley Mellin finds beauty in noise, data and technology in her pixellated examination of scale, appropriation and virtual reality at Hudson's Retrospective Gallery. Mellin’s solo show at the gallery is open from 9/25/14 to 10/25/14.

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Jean Baptiste Bernadet at Retrospective, Hudson, NY

Hudson New York's Retrospective Gallery brings us a series of new works from artist Jean Baptiste Bernadet. In Studies for Sunsets, Bernadet renders the American flag in various degrees of abstraction that can be read in a celebratory way or, alternately, with a degree of uncertainty as colors dissolve into night. The exhibition ends November 9th.

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