NYC art map and recs, 2/10/25 - 2/16/25
Hi all! I hope everyone is staying warm. It’s a bit of a light week for openings, but some good shows opening (particularly on Thursday!) to hopefully drag us out of the winter doldrums and general hellscape that is reality right now. In some ways, art feels kind of pointless to care about right now, but is also a welcome distraction and one of the only things keeping me going.
I want to give a particular shoutout this week to the Laura Owens show opening across two Matthew Marks spaces this week. In case you didn’t know, Laura Owens is one of my absolute favorite artists and in my opinion one of the defining artists of her generation, and I think is absolutely crucial to any serious discussion on post-analog painting, or post-internet art. I maintain that her mid-career solo show at the Whitney is still the best solo painting show at a museum that I’ve ever seen, and there’s still so much about the work that continues to be of interest to me when we talk about the vital questions of painting.
This is her first NYC show since the Whitney show in 2017, and her first solo NYC gallery show since 2009 (!) at Gavin Brown (save for a one day book launch show at Karma in 2012). This is also her first major show with Matthew Marks (I say “major” since she did a show of books at the Los Angeles space in 2019) since the gallery started (quietly) representing her. I hope to see you there, and then at a couple of downtown openings after!
Also once again linking my running list of current gallery shows recommendations in list and map form!
Exhibitions / Openings
Tuesday, February 11th
Invernal Spore group exhibition at Field Of Play
6pm - 8pm
Thursday, February 13th
Tatsuo Miyajima: Many Lives at Lisson
6pm - 8pm
Laura Owens at Matthew Marks
6pm - 8pm
Mariel Rolwing Montes: Good Heavens at Blade Study
6pm - 8pm
Jacob Jackmauh: Admissions at Parent Company
6pm - 8pm
Friday, February 14th
Fleurs du mal group exhibition at Silke Lindner
6pm - 8pm
The Sixth Somewhat Annual Meeting group exhibition at a83
6pm - 8pm
Saturday, February 15th
Social Photography XI group exhibition at Carriage Trade
Events
Tuesday, February 11th
Artist talk by Mary Mattingly at SVA
3pm - 5pm
Wednesday, February 12th
Alice Proujansky and Kelli Connell in Conversation at Baxter Street Camera Club
6pm
Thursday, February 13th
Judith Bernstein in Conversation with Catherine Morris at Kasmin
6pm - 8pm
Girl Crush: a screening of video and software-based work prsented by 𝐻𝐸𝒜𝑅𝒯 at 442 Broadway
7pm
Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door
Saturday, February 15th
”The Other Betty Parsons Gallery” lecture by art historian and curator Rachel Federman at Alexander Gray Associates
11am
Women in New York City in the 70s: Art and Activism panel discussion with Brenda Miller, Poppy Johnson and Mary Miss moderated by Barbara Stehle at Zurcher Gallery
2pm
Sunday, February 16th
Zine swap at Bullet Space
3pm - 6pm
Closing reception for George Simonds: Player Piano at Five Myles
4pm - 6pm
Saturday, February 15th & Sunday, February 16th
Communiqués, an anthology by Moira Sims of original and found texts and images
8pm on February 15th, 2pm & 6pm on February 16th
Disclaimer: I try to be as accurate as possible with dates and times that things are happening, but things are subject to change and I am subject to human error so please always check links before venturing out