{"id":2090,"date":"2010-06-20T01:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2010-06-20T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T12:08:05","slug":"chelsea-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/20\/chelsea-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful day yesterday, slowly moseying around Chelsea and surrounds from gallery to gallery, afternoon drinks with good friend and great artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanslemon.com\">Sean Slemon<\/a>, dinner with brilliant writer\/thinker\/academic and all-around fabulous lady <a href=\"http:\/\/research.brown.edu\/myresearch\/Rebecca_Schneider\">Rebecca Schneider<\/a> (and our respective partners &#8211; can&#8217;t get enough of that Nicole Ridgway, so it&#8217;s a good thing I convinced her to spend her life with me).<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights in Chelsea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2010-05-01_claude-monet\/\">Monet at Gagosian<\/a> &#8211; absolutely stunning. I wish the catalog was less than $100! Me wants.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brycewolkowitz.com\">The New Grand Tour at Bryce Wolkowitz<\/a> &#8211; works by &#8220;Suitman&#8221; &#8211; especially the one not on their site &#8211; were witty and fun.<\/li>\n<li>A brief tour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/printshop.org\/\">LES printshop<\/a> with Dusica Kirjakovic, a real sweetie. Saw some fun work by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williampowhida.com\/\">William Powhida<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/visitsteve.com\/\">Steve Lambert<\/a> (recent and\/or current residents; dude, <a href=\"http:\/\/visitsteve.com\/\">Lambert&#8217;s web site<\/a> is nice &#8211; awesome wordpress hack!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2093\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/armanious.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2093\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2093\" title=\"Hany Armanious at Foxy Productions\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/armanious.jpeg?resize=499%2C324\" alt=\"Hany Armanious at Foxy Productions\" width=\"499\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/armanious.jpeg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/armanious.jpeg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hany Armanious at Foxy Productions<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxyproduction.com\/exhibition\/view\/1767\">Hany Armanious at Foxy productions<\/a> &#8211; all diligently casted works to look like an &#8220;unfinished&#8221; show &#8211; clever, surprising, well-made.<\/li>\n<li>Two shows at <a href=\"http:\/\/winkleman.com\/\">Winkleman<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/winkleman.com\/exhibition\/view\/1915\">Yevgeniy Fiks<\/a> (his drawings are smart and meticulous) and <a href=\"http:\/\/crl.winkleman.com\/exhibition\/view\/1920\">Reflective Reflexion<\/a> (curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpulseprojects.com\/joy.html\">Joy Garnett<\/a>). Also had a light catch up with <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com\/\">the man himself<\/a>, which reminded me both how great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Start-Run-Commercial-Gallery\/dp\/1581156642\">his book<\/a> is and also how lucky I am in my current job and life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/jkfa.html\">Jim Kempner Fine Art<\/a> &#8211; some nice work, but I admit the highlight was that they were editing a new episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/themadnessofart.com\/\">The Madness of Art<\/a> in the basement; I giggled, and told the two folks working in Final Cut that I was a fan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppowgallery.com\/exhibitions.php\">Ben Govker at PPOW<\/a> made me laugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carstennicolai.de\/\">Carsten Nicolai<\/a> &#8211; if you don&#8217;t know his work, you really really should, especially the sound sculptures &#8211; at <a href=\"http:\/\/thepacegallery.com\/\">Pace<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The show and a catch-up chat with the ladies at <a href=\"http:\/\/davidkrut.com\/\">David Krut<\/a> &#8211; I miss Johannesburg!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magnanmetz.com\/\">MagnanMetz&#8217;s<\/a> new space is AMAZING! Not a huge fan of the current show, but I commend them for doing it &#8211; it&#8217;s a bit risky and it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> well curated. The aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanslemon.com\">Sean Slemon<\/a> is with them, as well as a few others I <em>am<\/em> a fan of. Watch these guys, for real.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2094\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/luise2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2094\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2094 \" title=\"Et Cetera 2009 - Gudjon Ketilsson and Gudrun Kristjansdottir at Luise Ross\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/luise2.jpg?resize=500%2C420\" alt=\"Et Cetera 2009 - Hany Armanious at Foxy Productions\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/luise2.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/luise2.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Et Cetera 2009 - Gudjon Ketilsson and Gudrun Kristjansdottir at Luise Ross<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luiserossgallery.com\/\">Gudjon Ketilsson and Gudrun Kristjansdottir at Luise Ross<\/a>. I also chatted briefly with the lady herself, and she is a force to be reckoned with, I must say&#8230; This is a really solid show, and I highly recommend it. I was tempted to purchase one of the small drawings (and LOVED the installation of sand, above), but a family of three on an art professor&#8217;s salary, ah, you know how it is&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were a few other works that made me happy throughout the day, especially some at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawingcenter.org\/\">The Drawing Center<\/a> (though that&#8217;s not in Chelsea), but above are the ones that stand out to me most a day later. Lemme know if you hit any up and have any other thoughts on them.<\/p>\n<p>PS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitforms.com\/current.html#id=139&amp;num=1\">Upcoming show at Bitforms<\/a> looks AWESOME. Curated by Emily Bates and Laura Blereau (don&#8217;t know the former, think very highly of the latter), with brochure essay by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahcook.info\/\">Sarah Cook<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12071\">Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media<\/a>, which I am currently reviewing for <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/\">Rhizome<\/a>). It opens on Thursday; I will be there and so will T.Whid of <a href=\"http:\/\/mteww.com\/\">MTAA<\/a> &#8211; come say hi and see great work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful day yesterday, slowly moseying around Chelsea and surrounds from gallery to gallery, afternoon drinks with good friend and great artist Sean Slemon, dinner with brilliant writer\/thinker\/academic and all-around fabulous lady Rebecca Schneider (and our respective partners &#8211; can&#8217;t get enough of that Nicole Ridgway, so it&#8217;s a good thing I convinced her to spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,40,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-exhibition","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-xI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2316,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/chelsea-highlights-october-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":2090,"position":0},"title":"Chelsea Highlights, October 2010","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 October 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Whirlwind visit to Chelsea On Tuesday for a quick tour of great art before the Nurture Art Benefit. 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