Perrotin

For Nikki Maloof, painting is a way to convey the experience of existing in the world—the light, the dark, and all the shadows in between. Her language is figuration: she started out with portraits of individual animals, progressing onto still lifes and, most recently, domestic interiors and landscapes populated with a mix of creatures—human and non-human; alive, dead, and inanimate. These subjects, on one level, have an everyday familiarity. Indeed, they are in many instances collected from Maloof’s immediate environment: for the past few years, her house and studio in rural Massachusetts. But the resulting depictions, however vivid, never feel quite real.

through April 15, 2023

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

The ground floor gallery space features the New York debut of Barth’s most recent work, …from dawn to dusk. A nearly 360-degree installation of images, this project was commissioned by the Getty Research Institute and was featured as part of Barth’s recent major survey exhibition, Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision, at the Getty Museum. In the upstairs galleries, a very special survey includes works shown in exhibitions the artist has presented at the gallery since 1995. 

through April 22, 2023

Sapar Contemporary

The exhibition features a selection highlighting a key period in Bilgé’s oeuvre. The works illustrate the artist’s elaborate visual vocabulary, manifested in her minimalist, sensual, mathematically defined, and yet dimensionality-expanding approach. Through floating squares and poetically ambivalent lines, in superimpositions of fractal paper tears and painted illusions, by contrasting blacks on black and by sculpting shadows of white, Bilgé takes us on an experiential, philosophical journey through her soulful universe.

through April 10, 2023

Galerie Lelong & Co.

Throughout a career spanning over five decades, the New York-based artist Nancy Spero foregrounded women’s experiences, challenging systems of authority and subverting aesthetic conventions in the process. Frustrated with the pervasive silencing of women’s voices in society, Spero was an activist who devoted herself to the advancement of women in the arts through hosting and participating in discussion groups, many held in her SoHo loft. Beginning in 1976, Spero made women the sole subject of her work to elevate their status from “other” to protagonist. In celebration of Spero’s unapologetic advocacy for the presence of women in the arts, the exhibition will coincide with Women’s History Month.

through March 25, 2023

DC Moore Gallery

Then & Now, an exhibition bringing together fabric paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, many on view in the United States for the first time in forty years, side-by-side with recent paintings on canvas. Inviting conversations between these two bodies of work created decades apart, Then & Now highlights Robert Kushner’s deep and continuous exploration of the intersection of fine art and decoration, drawing from an expansive love of art and visual history.

through March 25, 2023

Paula Cooper Gallery

The artist continues her practice of interrogating and re-contextualizing multiple archives, concerning herself with the power and responsibility of language and the radical possibilities of narrative. The exhibition title You Smell Like Outside… is a Black Southern phrase that foregrounds the artist’s specific cultural origins with discursive traditions that invoke an interior knowledge. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Laureate lecture, Gary attempts to heighten the contradictions between a living and a dead language. Notions of domesticity, interior and exterior, and the conflict between perception and being perceived are explored in the show. 

through March 11, 2023

Philippe Labaune Gallery

Kunz relays an expert understanding of art history with her mordant sense of humor in Another History of Art through subversive, feminist-minded recreations of iconic works by white, European-based male artists of the Western tradition. Contemporary aesthetics are juxtaposed onto art from the past through the point of view of "a secular female," breathing new life into works by Old Masters as if painted by women of the modern era. “Renée Magritte” decorates the nude female body in The Daughter of Man with floral, jungle green tattoos interlocking from head to toe. Olive Oyl cradles the limp, lifeless body of Popeye the Sailor Man in Popeye Pieta by “Ronya Van der Weyden,” lamenting the loss of her hero and savior. The Snog by "Gertrude Klimt," Woman with Monkeys by "Leona da Vinci," and Portrait of a Lady with a Titi by "Dame Petra Paula Rubens" incorporate primates as metaphors for human behavior in tribute to her animal advocacy efforts with an Ontario-based monkey sanctuary.

through March 4, 2023

Anna Zorina Gallery

Mosby reinterprets familiar stories from history, myth and fantasy by representing each narrative through his distinctive use of texture, composition and symbolism. The artist specifically examines the morality at play during critical turning points. With his exhibition title, Mosby refers to a New Testament passage from the Bible in which, Jesus is telling his disciples that he will be counted as a criminal and they will all soon face persecution. The titular instruction is interpreted as Jesus preparing his disciples for the difficult times ahead and encouraging them to be ready to defend themselves.

through February 25, 2023

Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Lost & Found, an exhibition of rediscovered early exhibition prints by one of the founding members of the Kamoinge Workshop. These extraordinary photographs, created in the first decade of the artist’s sixty-year career, depict and immortalize members of the artist’s community who were all too often overlooked and unseen, serving as a window into the origins of the artist’s creative practice.

through March 11, 2023

Hauser & Wirth

One of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, artists of his generation, Cuoghi is known for an exacting, almost obsessive, research- and process-driven practice that spans the full spectrum of styles and genres. ‘Pepsis’* will debut works from Cuoghi’s ongoing, all-consuming project of the same name—a complex, multi-faceted investigation initiated in early 2020 after a fully immersive stay in New York City. Much of this body of work focuses on a rarely explored aspect of his ever-expanding practice, a medium infrequently associated with Cuoghi but central in contemporary art discourse now: painting.

through April 1, 2023

Marlborough Graphics 

A French-American sculptor whose body of work in fabric, bronze, and stone continues to influence subsequent generations of artists, Bourgeois was also a prolific printmaker throughout her storied career. An avid experimenter, she utilized a variety of printmaking techniques including drypoint, aquatint, embossing, and lithography. The private mythologies of Louise Bourgeois, comprised of cryptic fascinations that are simultaneously dark and playful, became her own kind of visual public biography. Spiders as stand-ins for the matriarch and a precocious child within an artistic adult are among the evocative staples of her drawn and painted vocabulary.

through March 11, 2023

Whitney Museum of American Art

For Edward Hopper, New York was a city that existed in the mind as well as on the map, a place that took shape through lived experience, memory, and the collective imagination. It was, he reflected late in life, “the American city that I know best and like most.”

through March 5, 2023

Paula Cooper Gallery

An exhibition of works by Hans Haacke from 1975–1985 examines the deeply intertwined networks of politics, capital, and corporate sponsorship in the art world. With a profound commitment to social issues and razor-sharp wit, Haacke critiques bankers, brokers, advertising moguls and oil executives, each of whom have sought to offset contentious financial gains via strategic investment in art institutions. 

through February 25, 2023

Gagosian

Juxtaposing works by Twombly with ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern artifacts from the museum, along with objects from the artist’s personal collection, Making Past Present explores Twombly’s engagement with the art, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean.

through March 4, 2023

Gagosian

Night and Day juxtaposes two distinct bodies of work by Kami: the portrait paintings that have been at the center of his practice for more than three decades, and Night Paintings, a series that he began in 2017. In conjunction with Endless Prayers, Dome paintings, and other ongoing projects, the Iranian American artist’s oeuvre represents a deep consideration of representation and abstraction, humanism and spirituality.

through February 25, 2023

New Museum

Interweaving dialogue in her first language, Ze’eng Eté—a dialect of the Tupi-Guarani trunk—and Portuguese, Guajajara’s video works examine contemporary indigenous identities and experiences amidst ongoing struggles for land rights and against ecological exploitation in the aftermath of colonial invasion.

through February 5, 2023