Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20th Street
September 8 – October 8, 2005
Lara Schnitger is showing large-scale sculptures at Anton Kern Gallery that expand her exploration of the boundaries between craft and high art.
This Fall in New York
Michael Paulson
Lara Schnitger
Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20th Street
September 8 – October 8, 2005
Lara Schnitger is showing large-scale sculptures at Anton Kern Gallery that expand her exploration of the boundaries between craft and high art. Using a variety of materials, including wood, fabric, and faux fur, Schnitger’s three-dimensional collages reference domestic architecture, fashion, and labor. Her use of unassuming materials demonstrates some affinities with second-generation feminist art, but Schnitger’s newest work contains little overtly political content.
Jim Isermann
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street
September 7 – October 15
Jim Isermann’s work engages the tendency to synthesize contemporary art and design. Through painting and installations, Isermann works in the intersecting areas of modernist abstraction, popular culture, and late-20th century design. His most recent work revolves around site-specific installations, including a thirty-five foot chandelier installed at the University of California in April 2003. Isermann’s pieces display a pointed interest in exploring the gap between modern and post-modern design and architecture.
The Art of 9/11
Apex Art, 291 Church Street
September 7 – October 15
Featuring Audrey Flack, Leslie-King Hammond, Jeffrey Lohn, Mary Miss, Lucio Pozzi, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Westman, Robert Rahway Zakanitch. Curated by Arthur C. Danto
Arthur C. Danto has curated a show at Apexart to commemorate the 4th anniversary of 9/11. Immediately in the wake of the attacks, and over the past few years, Danto contacted various artists to get a sense of how the art community would respond. In choosing works for the show, Danto was more concerned with artists responding to 9/11 with their role as artists acting as a central motif in their works, ultimately questioning the context and ultimate purpose of art itself. As a result, a great deal of the work does not engage directly with the terror attacks, but rather continues to justify itself in spite of large-scale human suffering, or, alternatively, attempts to draw the viewer away from horror into healing abstraction.
Ian Hartshorne
RARE Gallery, 521 West 26th Street
Rare is showing a variety of new paintings by Ian Hartshorne, the bulk of which are delicate landscapes. The work has certain affinities with Eastern art, from classical painting to Japanese animation. Although the cartoonish elements, as well as his tendency to use overly warm pastel highlights, give these paintings an ironic air, Hartshorne exercises an intelligent restraint, deftly keeping his work ambiguous.
"Appurtenancia"
Featuring Sven Kroner, Ola Kolehmainen, and Anj Smith
September 8 — October 8, 2005
Robert Miller Gallery
"Appurtenancia," a three-person show at Robert Miller, showcases work concerned with man’s relation to both the natural environment and the imagined landscape. As the title suggests, these artists ask the perhaps irresolvable question: What belongs to whom, and who belongs to what? German artist Sven Kroner makes large-scale paintings that depict a brushy, ambiguous terrain that could just as easily be an ethereal Arcadia as a post-civilized wasteland. Finnish photographer Ola Kolehmainen offers images of land- and skyscapes reflected on glass buildings, raising questions of artificiality, and the romantic imagination. Rounding out the group is English artist Anj Smith, whose small paintings depict various figures–human and animal–physically merging with the elements of a fantastic, goth-inflected landscape.
Image gallery
Jim Isserman
Robert Rahway, Zakanitch, 2001. Acrylic on canvas, 66 x 78"
Ian Hartshorne, After? 15 x 18.5 in.
Sven Kroner, Untitled, 2004.
