Looking down on Chelsea from a rooftop vantage point… Gorgeous and cold, and so much going on. Took a walk to a few Chelsea galleries to have a peek at current shows.
At Mixed Greens, Howard Fonda “Squonk’s Tears”
531 W. 26th Street
At James Cohan Gallery, “Demons, Yarns, & Tales,” Tapestries by Contemporary Artists
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Demons, Yarns & Tales featuring hand-woven tapestries created by thirteen internationally renowned artists, including avaf, Peter Blake, Gary Hume, Jaime Gili, Francesca Lowe, Beatriz Milhazes, Paul Noble, Grayson Perry, Shahzia Sikander, Fred Tomaselli, Gavin Turk, Julie Verhoeven, and Kara Walker. The exhibition was created by the London-based art organization, Banners of Persuasion, who commissioned each artist to design a tapestry, a medium foreign to his or her usual practice.
I stopped keeping track of where we were for a bit … in an art coma I guess…
… until we got to the Stephen Haller Gallery, where Nobu Fukui’s ‘mixed media on panel’ paintings really knocked my socks off. Gorgeous, frenetic, a bit ridiculous, and dense.
I fell in love with ‘Anna Jóelsdóttir, priest chews velvet haddock : A painting installation’ at Stefan Stux Gallery, too.
And last was an interactive, very full and overwhelming installation of image and text, complete with hundreds of framed sketchbooks in vitrines by Jay Schmidt and David Dunlap called “The Living Breathing Thing” at CUE Art Foundation.
Bye bye, New York. Lots of good art, but I am still glad I live in Baltimore.
