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Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: March 2024

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / As warmer weather moves into the area many new exhibitions are opening. One of the highlights is a show of drawings and embroidered works by Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Seth Taylor at LABspace in Hillsdale. There are three notable exhibitions opening at KinoSaito in Verplanck, including Kikuo Saito: Unraveling, Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm, and Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot // Root-Rise. On March 16 Elijah Wheat Showroom in Newburgh reopens for the 2024 season with Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes, a solo show of paintings by Michael Hambouz, a Palestinian-American multi-disciplinary artist and musician. Art Omi in Ghent presents a solo exhibition of work by Olalekan Jeyifous, a Brooklyn-based artist whose work examines the relationships between architecture, community, and the environment. Finally, there is still time to visit the Wassaic Project to see their winter group exhibition I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws before it closes on March 16.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide: March 2024

Welcome to the March edition of the only painting-centric guide to art exhibitions in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. We’ll be updating next week, so if you have shows opening in the middle or at the end of the month, and you want us to consider them for inclusion, shoot us a note at staff@twocoatsofpaint.com. Please put “NYC Guide” in the subject line.

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Linda Griggs and Allen Hansen: Two for the show

Contributed by Riad Miah / Artists often become domestic partners. It’s an iteration of human nature. For one person to be attracted to another who has a similar creative sensibility and lifestyle is normal and sensible. Well-known examples include Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. While coupledom can be exhilarating for both partners, it can also be tense, competitive, and destructive. Linda Griggs and Allen Hansen had never considered showing together until settling on their current show at Equity Gallery, aptly titled “Feedback Loop.” They appear to have struck a healthy balance between separation and synergy.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide: February 2024

This month, make sure to double-check gallery addresses because some have changed locations. James Fuentes, Asya Geisberg, and Alexander Gray are moving to Tribeca. Almine Rech and Jack Shainman are down there, too. Nathalie Karg has moved to Elizabeth Street, and Kathryn Markel has a second location in Chelsea on Tenth Avenue. Head to the East Village for “Truth Be Told,” Kyle Staver’s solo at Half Gallery. We also recommend a trip to Henry Street, where all the small spaces are killing it. In Brooklyn, don’t miss “La Banda 2024,” which opens tonight at Tappeto Volante. Organized by Paola Gallio, this big small-work show features a slew of notable artists who want to support a formidable artist-run space. Note to adventurous art collectors: You won’t be disappointed.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Jan 2024

Hello 2024! Last year the art-fair spaceship landed in NYC during September, stealing thunder from the local galleries. Is January now the best month for solo exhibitions? Lots of our favorite local artists are having openings: Joan Snyder at Canada, Jane Swavely at Magenta Plains, Sharon Horvath at Lori Bookstein, Greg Drassler at Betty Cuningham, Bill Carroll at Elizabeth Harris, and Tamara Gonzales at Klaus von Nichtssagend. Former Bushwickers Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher are returning…

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Coherent divergence at John Molloy Gallery

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “Mutability,” a thoughtfully conceived and curated group show at John Molloy Gallery, by its title contemplates the elastic aesthetic capacities of painting, drawing, and sculpture. It further explores the compulsion of the three featured artists to segue from one form to another and thus to produce visually rich hybrids. While such formal nicety is interesting in itself, the work here also touches smartly on a range of more worldly concerns.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023

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Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023

What’s up outside the city? At Jack Shainman The School in Kinderhook, take some time at the sprawling installation by Meleko Mokgosi, co-director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale. Employing a range of media dense with meaningful images and ideas, the show explores the theme of subjugation. Also in Kinderhook, stop by SEPTEMBER for “Of Waves,” a two-person abstraction exhibition featuring London-based Jane Bustin and Hudson Valley-based Anne Lindberg. The two painters investigate the things we can feel but can’t see or touch. Carrie Haddid has an elegant group landscape show called “Vanishing Point.” Also in a landscape mode but perhaps less somber is Mary Breneman’s bold landscapes at D’Arcy Simpson, which recall Marsden Hartley’s paintings of Maine. On view at Pamela Salisbury are Kozloff’s maps and a group show of work inspired by books as well as Robin Hill’s rustic-industrial sculptures.

At LABspace, Julie and Ellen have put together another fine “Holiday” sampler exhibition featuring hundreds of small works by notable artists from the Hudson Valley, Brooklyn, and beyond. Front Room Gallery and Buster Levi too offer group shows of work that would be perfect for heirloom gift-giving.

In Chatham, at Joyce Goldstein, don’t miss “Horizon Line.” Curated by Susan Jennings and David Humphrey, this will be the last show at the gallery unless someone steps up to take over the lease.

Take a look below, as there is a lot more worth checking out. Note that the Guide now includes selected listings for galleries in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Welcome to the Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide!

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Nov 2023

Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint painting-centric guide to galleries in New York. Interesting shows this month include Keltie Ferris at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Katherine Bradford at Canada, Fran Shalom at Kathryn Markel, Ann Craven at Karma, and Yinka Shonibare, who is exploring African abstraction in his solo at James Cohan. A group show at Marinaro called “The Triumph of Death” seems to suit the mood of the past few weeks, as does Yevgeniya Baras’ solo at Sargent’s Daughters. She began the series of paintings while she was on a summer residency in Tel Aviv. We’re intrigued by images of Anna Berlin’s work at Olympia. Are the paintings made in grayscale or are the pictures black and white? Must run over and check them out IRL this week.

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Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: Nov 2023

New stuff for November: Last month we produced a handy interactive map of the galleries in the Hudson Valley region for the Two Coats Gallery Crawl, with links to both the galleries and to their location on Google Maps. As out-of-towners, we found it incredibly helpful driving from space to space, so we have decided to create a version for use year-round. Readers can find a link on the menu bar at the top or click here to take a look. Keep in mind it’s a work in progress, and more galleries will be added shortly. Note that a couple of galleries have closed for the season: Elijah Wheat and the Re Institute.

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Jules and Julian: Painting for generations

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Julian Schnabel and Jules de Balincourt are hardly strangers to socially or psychologically attentive art. Schnabel’s neo-expressionist painting as well as his films have often manifested an acute sense of history and conscience. And de Balincourt in his work has consistently demonstrated a penchant for celebrating the grand resonance of particular moments. At the same time, though, neither has ever seemed overtly essayistic or advocative, as though he were self-consciously speaking for his fellow human beings. With their respective solo exhibitions now up at Pace, that disposition appears to have changed.