UPCOMING GALLERIES TO BE VISITED

JOIN US FOR SOME FUN !

Some of the exhibitions we will be viewing and discussing...

Catherine Opie 
Mitchell)Innes & Nash
534 W 26th Street

Michelangelo Pistoletto Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street, New York

Ian Davis  Leslie Tonkonow
535 West 22nd Street 6rd floor
New York NY 10011

Ernesto Neto  mayTanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 W 21street

SEEING SPOTS BEFORE YOUR EYES

GAGOSIAN GALLERY HOLDS WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SPOT PAINTINGS BY ARTIST DAMIEN HIRST

The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 by Damien Hirst opens Thursday, January 12th. 

Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, chronicaling the whole of Hirst's creative range "from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot measuring 1-1/2 inch (1996) to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 24,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated."

Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

Damien Hirst has a reputation as the British Artist that outdid Andy Warhol as a businessman and Jeff Koons as a master of kitsch and I agree.  Hirst is offering a free personalized spot print to the first person who is willing to travel to every Gogasian Gallery around the world and sees everyone of the 11 exhibitions. Another reason is that Hirst actually only painted 5 of the estimated 1,400 spot paintings since 1986.

photo: Artlog.com

I must admit that each painting is equally cheery, modern looking and graphically optomistic and psychologically, yes, it triggers the penny-candy on paper strips that one could buy for a treat in our childhood memories.



And...yes there is an APP for that - the 3rd issue of the Gagosian App for iPad will also launch in January providing an interactive, in-depth look at the series of approximately 90 of the 300 spot paintings


Three of the 11 venues for this exhibition will be at the Gagosian Galleries, 980 Madison Avenue,  555 West 24th Street and 522 W 21st Street in Chelsea opening on January 12th and closes on February 18th in New York.

A HAPPENING - TERRANCE KOH

Rough Cuts

NYC Art Gallery Walks Chelsea Highlights CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

THE CLOCK @ Paula Cooper Gallery

The film is shown in the gallery in real time that corresponds to real time on one's own watch when you enter and when you leave.  Art Enthusiasts seem to think that it is a cool way to spend those quiet off beat hours before daybreak from Midnight on Fridays thought 5AM Saturdays when the gallery is open to the public.

THE CLOCK viewing Schedule:

January 21 - February 19, 2011

534 W. 21st Street 

Tuesdays - Thursdays, 10am - 6pm

24-HOUR SCREENINGS EVERY FRIDAY:

Fridays 10am - Saturdays 6pm

WEEKDAY SCREENINGS:

Tuesdays - Thursdays, 10am - 6pm 

24-HOUR WEEKEND SCREENINGS:

Friday February 4, 10am - Saturday February 5, 6pm

Friday February 11, 10am - Saturday February 12, 6pm

Friday February 18, 10am - Saturday February 19, 6pm

Christian Marclay 

 "The Clock"  January 21 - February 19, 2011

Paula Cooper Gallery is located at 534 W 21st Street in Chelsea - closes February 19th

52 CARD PICK-UP

52 VARIABLES at the PACE GALLERY 

In Chelsea is an exciting exhibition featuring painted facsimiles of large playing cards, oil on aluminum, that have been  collected by the artist Keith Tyson and spans a history of 200 years.

Keith Tyson @ Pace Gallery from The New York Observer on Vimeo.

It was fascinating to see the large hand made reproductions of actual playing cards used, and seldom noticed by the card players, who are usually concerned with the card game that is taking place.  At the Pace Gallery, they are offering a deck of reproductions of these art cards in the exhibition for the low cost of  $15 for a souvenir.  I doubt if they will have any other value in the art world.. .but who knows? 

Witness Judy Pfaff's 'Five Decades

Photo/Artchick1

Judy Pfaff, an unconventional artist who was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, has a current exhibition at the Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe Gallery, appropriately titled 'Five Decades.'

Neither a painter nor sculptor, but an inclusive artist who uses materials and processes associated with both. An artist whose work has ranged from temporary site-specific installations to large expansive pieces that are permanently attached to a wall. Instead, she is an artist whose work slips in and out of every category, making such distinctions irrelevant.

It is a joy to discover the range of materials and cohesiveness of this work while perusing this small retrospective. Judy Pfaff's 'Five Decades' closes October 16.

The Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe Gallery is located at 525 West 22nd Street, near 10th Avenue.

FEMALE BODY BUILDERS HAVE BIG BREASTS

ARTIST MARTIN SCHOELLER is exhibiting at HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER GALLERY


Video: James Kalm Report/Rough Cuts/YouTube

MONET- LATE WORKS IN CHELSEA

MONET'S LATE WORK AT GAGOSIAN GALLERY IN CHELSEA


This is the garden (not in full bloom) that Claude Monet  painted over and over again as his muse.  The exhibition of late work has no resemblance to this photograph as he was unfortunately losing his eyesight.
  






Therefore, the late work, not often curated to be seen together, highlights the work that shows an inadvertent transition towards abstract expressionism in many of the late paintings. The echoes of the future are apparent.'

SIZE DOES MATTER - Flag Foundation Exhibition

CURATED BY SHAQUILE O'NEAL

Peter Max

VIDEO: PBS NETWORK
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/03/shaq-attacks-art-world-in-size-does-matter.html

CHELSEA ART GALLERY WALK HIGHLIGHTS

September Highline Art Gallery Walks and Artists Studio Tour (Rogue Gallery-Chelsea)

CHELSEA ART GALLERY WALK HIGHLIGHTS

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MISSED LAST WEEK here are some of the highlights in Chelsea nicely documented in a video by Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic at New York Magazine.  We were in the audience while he was filming and took advantage of the Q & A that ensued, which was cut out when this video was edited . I'm not going to list the exhibitions we visited soooooooo...check out the video to know where we were!

SEE VIDEO HERE:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/10/video_jerry_saltzs_fall_2009_g.html

It's always so much fun to run into Jerry in Chelsea and get his take on the exhibitions as well!  He pumped the crowd at Gogo's on Murkami's process of making this large painting displayed in the side gallery and then the discussion got really lively!

Check back for highlights from the next gallery walk with the "additional back stories"... Oh Yeah!

CHELSEA GALLERY WALK FALL MURAKAMI- RYMAN - MARY BOONE

Ryman/Malborough, Murakami/Gogasian,Tuttle/Pace, Ron Warren/Mary Boone (ptg Halley)

FORTHCOMING SERRA EXHIBITION AT GOGO's

RICHARD SERRA SCULPTURE
being installed October at GOGO's 


VIEW VIDEO:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=136646913231

Perhaps it is just a quick look see at how this huge art work is installed in the gallery at 21st Street in Chelsea, however, it is breath taking non the less to watch it happening

What are your thoughts?

SO MUCH TO SEE - SO MUCH TO DO

FIRST LOOK...

Art Opening Gallery Receptions on Thursday Night with lots of people flooding the streets of Chelsea for the beginning of the FALL 09 ART SEASON

Just a few of the Exhibitions visited were (left to right) Artists Matthew Weinstein at Sonnebend Gallery, Eli Ping at Susan Inglet, Jaume Pleensa at Galerie LeLong, Magnus Plessen at Gladstone Gallery, Matthew Weinstein at Carolina Nitsch, and Raul deNieves at Newman Poplisahvill Gallery

TIL NEXT...

ART WALKS RELAUNCHING ON SEPTEMBER 12

We begin again on Saturday, September 12th... the Art Gallery Walks begin at 2PM.

Tomorrow evening is the Preview of the Fall 09 Art Season  with gazillions of Art Opening Receptions all over the city.  I will be in CHELSEA  promptly at 5PM.   I have my list of invitations and I will do a quick  look see run through while I also visualize  planning the first art walk for Saturday.

JOIN US...it will be a blast!

MURALS ARE EVERYWHERE AND ON EVERYTHING

AWESOME JAPANESE CROP ART WORK

Another offering from my personal Clip Gallery Art

From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the work.

Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew out of

meetings of the village committee.

Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. However this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategicaly arranged and grown in the paddy fields.

As the summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge...

Napolean on horseback can be seen from the skies, created by precision planting and months of planning between villages and farmers in Inkadate A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants, the colours created by using different varieties, in Inakadate in Japan The largest and finest work is grown in the Aomori village of Inakadate, 600 miles north of Toyko, where the tradition began in 1993. The village has now earned a reputation for its agricultural artistry and this year the enormous pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback, are visible in a pair of fields adjacent to the town hall. More than 150,000 vistors come to Inakadate, where just 8,700 people live, every summer to see the extraordinary murals. Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields. The different varieties of rice plant grow along side each other to create the masterpieces... In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year. However, their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention. In 2005 agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art. A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

MURALS IN SOHO RIVALS KEITH HARRING

Escape the frustration of the heat! Get yourself down to SoHo to view the new ART WALL MURAL...so cool!
SLIDE SHOW & DETAILS HERE

PICASSO AT GOGO's

PICASSO at GAGOSIAN GALLERY

IT'S ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS...

http://artchick1.blogspot.com/2009/04/it-all-done-with-mirrors.html#links

MADOFF SPOTTED IN CHELSEA

COULD THIS HAPPEN HERE

NBC-TV "NY NON STOP"

GALLERY WALKS FEATURED ON NBC-TV NEW 24HOUR STATION KICK-OFF PRESS RELEASE

ART WARRIORS, YES!

FEATURED IN: NON STOP NY

NBC-TV VIDEO

(click on left hand side of page to view video)

"CITY BY SUBWAY"

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around_town/shopping/City-by-Subway-Springtime-in-Manhattan.html

MELISSA MEYER...SHE DANCES!

ALSO our gallery walk on March 21, the second Artists' Talk was with Melissa Meyer at Lennon Weinberg

I was reacquainted with MEYER at the exhibition having been to her studio many years ago when she was an emerging artist. It was great speaking to her about how she makes her paintings. I knew that the paintings are worked flat on the floor, and MEYER moves around the canvas with her brushes and colors and does what she called a "little dance" working spontaneously from the inside out creating strokes with the motion of her body.

I have always admired her spectacular use of color and her style of lyrical abstract painting. Her work is now in many private, corporate and museum collections.

ANNE NEELY...SHE PAINTS!

Our Art Gallery Walk on March 21st was full of surprises... Not only did we have a multitude of wonderful new artwork to view, we also were fortunate to have 2 Artists' Talks... Anne Neely at the Lohin Geduld Gallery. At that time we were very fortunate because the video below was taken by one of our group members, who is also the blogger ART RAVELS. I truly enjoyed viewing this exhibition. The artist is very definite with every stoke of the application of paint. Her marks are deliberate and come together to make exceptional pixilated landscapes. Her use of color is dynamic as well as meditative.

WE'RE ON TV!

FEATURED ON NBC-TVs "NON STOP NY"

Helene Forbes

Private Art Consulant/Adivsor

Organizer: NYC Art Gallery Walks

MICHAEL WEISS GALLERY

Gallery Walk March 21

Register: SPRING ART SEASON

email: forbes.art@verizon.net

ART WARRIORS, YES!

I LOVE SATURDAYS! "Art is like grand music, an eternal act of generosity..."

TONY OURSLER

You Tube Video/watch

THE VIDEO KING has a new exhibition at Metro Pictures. Artist, Tony Oursler has done it again. To our delight and facination, the show is fabulous.

HEY, YOU!

Well, well...you never know what you will see or who you will run into strolling in CHELSEA. On Saturday, March 14, we had a lot of fun chatting it up with Artist Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor, at his retrospective exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery. He was kind enough to speak with our group and answer questions. Here is the link to the YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pXwXSUl3KU

There will be a Book Signing at Marlborough Gallery on Thursday, March 19th. All are welcome to attend.

Another highlight of our "walk" was seeing Video Artist, Tony Oursler's exhibition at Metro Pictures later in the day. Another extraordinary view into a remarkable perspective on "Smoking"... a looped video of cigarettes projected on stacks of metal poles placed very carefully in the main gallery. I am posting a link to the YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUu6z12h2A

TOMORROW! TOMORROW...I love you tomorrow

GOING FOR IT...

I have planned an extremely exciting walk...the weather report is good and I'm ready to begin an adventure in ART

GETTING STARTED:

Relaunching the gallery walks on March 14th, Saturday at 1:00PM in CHELSEA