With both a historic storm and election now behind us, New York braces for the approaching Nor'easter... just when things were being to get back to normal. Gathered together in this week's slate of upcoming events occurring across the country and internationally are a number of gallery openings and artist talks that will help welcome in a new season of change. Here at Artspace our thoughts are with everyone on the Eastern Seaboard still affected by Hurricane Sandy. Many organizations have seen their venues and schedules impacted by the storm, and there is sure to be significant flux while the recovery process progresses.
** WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH **
Opening reception for "Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios" at the Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 4th)
The opening exhibition at the Drawing Center's newly renovated space will feature Diarios by Guillermo Kuitca, paintings in which the artist has restretched recycled canvases and covered them in notes, doodles, and drawings from his life. In addition to the Diarios, the Drawing Center will also be projecting an image from the artist's studio that will document the newest Diario as it is being made.
Opening reception for Viktor Kopp's "Four Corners" at Bureau Gallery, 127 Henry Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 21st)
In this exhibition of recent paintings, the chocolate-loving artist continues to toy with representational and illusory elements as he blurs perceptions of figuration and logical perspective.
Opening receptions for Michal Rovner: "Topography" and Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz: "The Ozymandias Parade / Concept Tableau" at Pace Gallery, 508 West 25th Street and 510 West 25th Street (through December 22nd)
This pair of openings presents new videos by Michal Rovner, many of which are landscapes projected on slabs of black limestone - a process yielding abstract and eerie imagery that touches on elements of archaeology and cultural identity. Similarly disconcerting is the accompanying exhibition of work by the pioneering late L.A. sculptor Ed Kienholz, which is comprised of a procession of mannequins that satirize politics and religion in contemporary society (timely in light of the recent election), among other things.
Artist's talk with Claire Fontaineat CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, 7-8 p.m.
The Paris-based artist collective Claire Fontaine, which is also featured in the concurrent conceptual art exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form Become Attitudes" at the Wattis, will discuss their unique approach to appropriation as a "readymade artist."
Opening reception for "Harland Miller: The Next Life's on Me" at White Cube, 48 Hoxton Square, London, 6-8 p.m. (through December 22nd)
The artist and writer best known for his large-scale paintings of classic Penguin Book covers presents new paintings in his signature humorously sardonic style.
** THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH **
Opening reception for Nathlie Provosty's "Book of Hours" at 1:1 Gallery, 121 Essex Street, 2nd Floor, 6-8 p.m. (through December 9th)
This show of recent work is a product of the painter's analysis of the underlying forms and inherent geometric structures present in images of various cultures throughout history. In balancing the art historical with more formal geometry, the passing of time becomes incapsulated within visual experience. Provosty's work is also featured alongside Alma Thomas, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, and Grace Hartigan in the stellar group show "To Be a Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts," on view at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery through January 18, 2013.
Opening receptions for "Marc Asnin: Uncle Charlie" and Leon Levinstein at Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street (through December 22nd)
A survey of over 50 vintage photographs from the celebrated New York City street photographer will be exhibited alongside Marc Asnin's stunningly intimate and honest series Uncle Charlie, in which the artist documented his uncle's struggle with illness over the past 30 years.
Opening reception for "Trenton Doyle Hancock: And Then It All Came Back to Me" at James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 22nd)
Known for his densely layered mixed-media works, this show of new paintings and self-portraits by the artist, which he refers to as works of "radical autobiography," attempt to demystify yet not completely explain the creative process through playful juxtapositions of complex and chaotic imagery and text.
Opening reception for "Richard Artschwager: The Desert" at David Nolan Gallery, 527 West 29th Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 22nd)
Coming only a few weeks after the opening of the veteran artist's retrospective at the Whitney, this exhibition focuses on the Artschwager's colorful pastel landscape drawings, which were inspired by the terrain of his childhood home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Opening reception for "Pier Paolo Calzolari: Abstract in Your Home" at Marianne Boesky Gallery, 118 East 64th Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 21st)
Following up on last spring's extensive exhibition that combined Marianne Boesky and Pace Gallery's spaces in Chelsea, this exhibition similarly looks back on the Arte Povera hero's prolific and varied career, presenting smaller and more intimate works made from a variety of elemental materials such as salt, lead, and neon.
Opening reception for "Ryman, Scully, Serra: Prints" at Galerie Lelong, 13 rue de Teheran, Paris, 6-8 p.m. (through January 12th, 2013)
The stylistic similarities between these three renowned artists—Robert Ryman, Sean Scully, and Richard Serra&mdashbecome strikingly apparent in this exhibition of their works on paper, as does their skillful sense of formal composition and manipulation of basic forms within minimal color palettes.
** FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH **
Opening reception for "Vaginal Davis: HAG-small, contemporary, haggard" at Participant Inc., 253 East Houston Street, 7-9 p.m. (through December 16th)
This exhibition, which is itself inspired by and a tribute to the original HAG Gallery in Hollywood that Davis opened in the late 1980s, will present new works Davis created over the past few years while living in Berlin, including a number of her signature cosmetic-and-tempura paintings.
Closing reception for "Ed Osborn: Albedo Prospect" at Bitforms Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8:30 p.m. (through November 10th)
Working in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based arts center Issue Project Room, Bitforms Gallery presents a video installation by the artist that pairs footage he shot on location in the Svalbard archipelago with an ambient sound score, detailing the transformation of glaciers in the arctic.
Opening reception for "Miriam Bohm: Before in Front" at Ratio 3, 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, 6-8 p.m. (through December 14th)
In this show of new photographs, the artist continues to challenge the viewer's perceptual preconceptions with her playful tromp l'oeil creations that involve her photographing complex arrangements of objects in her studio and then rephotographing those developed images.
** SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH **
Opening receptions for "Darren Blackstone Foote: Flesh and Bone" and "Bigger Than Shadows" at Dodge Gallery, 15 Rivington Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 22nd)
"Flesh and Bone," Darren Blackstone Foote's first solo exhibition at the gallery, is a series of sculptures that look at the inherently oppositional yet symbiotic forces of natures, while the group show "Bigger Than Shadows," which was curated by Rich Blint and Ian Cofre, presents works by emerging and established artists that examine the ways in which the black male is&mdashand could be&mdashrepresented in society.
Opening reception for Alex Katz and Jeremy Deller at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 15th)
Postponed due to last week's hurricane, Gavin Brown's Enterprise presents an unexpected but surely interesting pairing of work by English video installation artist Jeremy Deller and legendary painter Alex Katz.
Opening reception for "Lynne Cohen: Occupied Territory 1971-1988" at Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Avenue, 4-6 p.m. (through December 8th)
The artist's series of photographs of manufactured interior spaces will be presented for the first time since their 1988 debut exhibition at PPOW in New York. Though not much has changed in the empty living rooms, laboratories, and offices, these environments proffer new interpretations by examination in light of social and political change over the past 25 years.
Opening reception for Leonard Reibstein at English Kills Art Gallery, 114 Forrest Street, Brooklyn, 6-9 p.m. (through December 16th)
Reibstein's paintings are clashes of oppositions, both thematically and formally, as the artist combines elements of ancient mythology with contemporary genres of heavy metal and science fiction&mdashall the while maintaining a delicacy of color composition and brushstrokes.
Opening reception for "Robert Overby, Erik Frydenborg, John Henderson, Noam Rappaport" at Cherry and Martin, 2712 South La Cienega Boulevard, 6-8 p.m. (through January 5th)
By framing a group exhibition around the work of sculptor Robert Overby, who embraced a self-adopted outsider status, viewers are asked not only to reconsider his oeuvre but also his historical context in relation to three contemporary artists who raise questions about the nature of sculpture and the process by which it is created.
** SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH **
Opening reception for "James Hoff: Milking the Flat Cow" at Callicoon Fine Arts, 124 Forsyth Street, 6-8 p.m. (through December 16th)
Idiosyncratic and inventive in his practice, the aritst displays a host of works that present ordinary objects in newly reinvented contexts, like enlargements of stationary store scratch pads and time-telling lotto machine, creating new modes of perception and understanding for the viewer.
Opening of "Fore" at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, 12-6 p.m. (through March 10th, 2013)
Organized by Thomas J. Lax, Lauren Haynes, and Naima J. Keith, "Fore" is the fourth installment of the Studio Museum's "F" series, which also includes the shows "Freestyle," "Frequency," and "Flow." Featuring the works of 29 emerging artists, the exhibition reflects on the cultural and social changes that have taken place over the last half decade, represented through traditional media, including painting and sculpture as well as performance and time-based pieces.
Artist talk with William Kentridge at the Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, 2-3:30 p.m.
The acclaimed South African artist will discuss his prolific creative practice, which has led him to produces works in a variety of media ranging from paintings and sculpture to performances, books, and collage. The talk coincides with the first presentation of I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine (2008), a video installation by the artist which will be on view in the Tanks at the Tate Modern until January 20th.
** MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH **
"An Evening with Wael Shawky" at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, Titus Theater 2, 7 p.m., $12
After a screening of his video Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo (2012), the second in a four part series, the artist will discuss his project, which recreates historical accounts of the Crusades into massive musical performances involving marionettes. Part one of Shawky's series will be features in the museum's exhibition "Performing Histories (2)," which opens in April 2013.
** TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH **
Panel discussion "Hans Hofmann: A Closer Look" at New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 6:30 p.m.
Curator and critic Karen Wilkin is joined by renowned painter and sculptor Frank Stella, art historian William Agee, and artist Walter Darby Bannard for a conversation about the famed Abstract Expressionist godfather's legacy as a painter, which is often overshadowed by his immensely influential role as teacher. The panel discussion will coincide with the exhibition "Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper from the 1940s," which is on view at the Studio School through January 5th.
Opening reception for "Amy O'Neill: HLUSA" at the Swiss Institute, 18 Wooster Street, 6-8 p.m. (through January 27, 2013)
Inspired by an abandoned religious theme park, the artist transforms the entirety of the gallery space through large-scale video projection and burlap sculptural installations, invoking references to both ancient religions and ultramodern texts.
