— ARTSPACE PICK —
Opening Reception for Will Ryman's "America" at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27th Street, 6–8 p.m. (Through March 30th)
In an exhibition that would have been so much cooler had Lincoln won the Oscar for best picture, the artist has appropriated Honest Abe's boyhood cabin and covered it—and all the objects it contains—with gold resin. A critique of America's consumer capitalist values? Perhaps. While you're there this Thursday, also be sure to check out the opening reception for mononymous French artist Arman's "Cycles" show at the gallery's nearby Tenth Avenue location, which will be hosting the U.S. debut of his "Bicycles" series featuring large, multimedia works on canvas that incorporate the means of their production into their structures.
— WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH —
Opening Reception for John Finneran's "Goin' Home" at 47 Canal, 47 Canal Street, 2nd Floor, 6–8 p.m. (Through April 7th)
This exhibition—the title of which was inspired by one of the artist's favorite jazz albums—proves promising, as Finneran's loosely composed drawings and paintings of inverted animals are as familiar as they are inventive.
— THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH —
Opening Reception for Baker Overstreet's "Frown Upside Down" at Fredericks & Freiser, 536 West 24th Street, 6–8 p.m. (Through March 30th)
In a departure from his previous bodies of work, the new paintings in this show incorporate more spatial movement, focusing less on compositional structure and more on the painterly process itself.
Opening Reception for Peter Hujar at Pace/McGill Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, 9th Floor, 5:30–7:30 p.m. (Through April 20th)
This exhibition of photographs by the widely celebrated downtown New York cult figure—the first since the announcement that Pace/McGill will represent his estate—will also include a never-before-exhibited triptych of his portrait of the dancer Bruce de Saint Crox, a frequent subject of his work.
— FRIDAY, MARCH 1ST —
Opening Reception for Walter Robinson's "Indulgences" at Dorian Grey Gallery, 437 East 9th Street, 6–9 p.m. (through March 31st)
Though perhaps most commonly associated with his work as an art journalist, a career he is happily now continuing with his new column here on Artspace, Walter Robinson is also an accomplished painter, and this exhibition of irresistably tempting pop-culture images certianly proves it.
Opening Reception for Virginia Overton at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th Street, 6–8 p.m. (Through April 6th)
Never one to use elaborate and costly materials in her work—see her recycled pickup truck sculpture on the High Line for an example— this exhibition will incorporate lumber from her family's farm in Tennessee that promises to "engage the gallery architecture."
Opening Reception for Paul Ramirez Jonas's "Witness My Hand" at Heliopolis, 154 Huron Street, Brooklyn, 7–10 p.m. (Through March 24th)
There might not be many exhibitions inspired by copy centers—places where people come to appropriate, publish, duplicate, and distribute work—but with this show the artist gives viewers a chance to do all four in the name of art, placing a copier alongside various sculptures that can be facsimiled.
— SATURDAY, MARCH 2ND —
Opening Reception for James Angus, Jonathan Horowitz, and Rirkrit Tiravanija at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street, 6–8 p.m. (Through March 23rd)
Well this should be interesting: dealer (and, as you now know, painter) Gavin Brown has grouped three of the more diverse artists in his roster—an Australian sculptor, a New York-based media splicer, and everybody's favorite relational-art icon—for an exhibition that will almost certainly elude expectations.
Opening Reception for "Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition" at McKee Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, 6–8 p.m. (Through April 20th)
Definitively classified as a celebration rather than a retrospective, this exhibition of 25 paintings and drawings by the genre-busting painter opens only a few months shy of what would have been Guston's 100th birthday.
Closing Exhibition for Art Hack Day: "God Mode" at 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, 7–11 p.m.
Sixty artists and hackers have been invited to create works over a three-day period that are inspired by the theme of invincibility, with visitors invited to celebrate and interact with the new creations at the closing party (which will also fature a number of live performances).
— SUNDAY, MARCH 3RD —
Opening Reception for Paul D'Agostino's "Twilit Ensembles" at Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry Street, 6–8 p.m. (Through April 21st)
This exhibition of new work by the poet, writer, and artist examines a number of intersections between image and language, and spans a variety of media, from painting and sculpture to drawing and collage.
— MONDAY, MARCH 4TH —
Opening Reception for Jon Kessler's "The Web" at Swiss Institute, 18 Wooster Street, 6 – 8 p.m. (Through April 28th)
Commissioned by the Metamatic Research Initiative (MRI) to create works that reflect the legacy of the explosive late Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, the artist and Columbia University art guru will be presenting a new, immersive installation that focuses on our modern-day technological dependencies.
Opening of "Salon Zürcher" at Zürcher Studio, 33 Bleeker Street, 5–8 p.m. (Through March 10th)
Serving as a bite-sized warm-up to (and refreshing change of pace from) all the art-fair craziness that next week will inevitably bring, the NoHo gallery is hosting the fifth edition of their week-long mini art fair that will showcase six contemporary art galleries from six different cities across the country.
