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Mary Lucier, Wisconsin Arc, 2009-2013, Single-channel video installation. Color. Sound. 26:00 (installation view). Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
closing this weekend at Lennon, Weinberg ...
 
Gabriel Orozco, Island Within an Island, 1993. Silver dye bleach print, 16 x 20 inches, Edition of 5. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, © 2009 Gabriel Orozco.
On view through May 26 ...
 
Marina Adams, Spin, 2010. Acrylic on Linen, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Hionas Gallery
Quietly audacious abstract paintings on the Lower East Side ...
 


Sandi Slone, Sex With Strangers, 2012. Oil, acrylic, resin on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Allegra LaViola Gallery

Sex With Strangers: Sandi Slone at Allegra LaViola


Her  aggressively voluptuous paintings are on view through October 6


Stephen Ellis, Marine, 2012. Oil and alkyd on linen, 26 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, NY

Digital Space: Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel


The veteran of “conceptual abstraction” embraces a new metaphor.


Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square, not dated. Oil on blotting paper (with gouache, pencil, and varnish), 29.5 x 29.5 cm © 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society New York

“The Greens are Envious of Each Other”: Josef Albers at the Morgan


Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper at the Morgan Library & Museum


Kris Scheifele, Hate Fade, 2012. Acrylic and acetate, 16 x 12 x 1-1/2 inches. Courtesy of Janet Kurnatowski Gallery and the artist

Box Cutter Sensuality: The Peeled-Off Paintings of Kris Scheifele


Fade is at Janet Kurnatowski through October 7


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Nuances That Carry Weight: Jesper Just at James Cohan


The quiver of a lip, a glance, the color of a dress…
Up through October 27


Xaviera Simmons, Untitled (Pink), 2008 © Xaviera Simmons, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery

Arousing Desire in Post Black America: Mickalene Thomas’s Tête-à-Tête


Provocative  show was at Yancey Richardson this summer


Wu Guangzhong, Pines and Rocks of the Lao Mountains," 1987, Ink and color on rice paper, H. 70.9 in x W. 37.4 in (180 x 95 cm), Shanghai Art Museum

A Triumphant Survivor: The Ink Paintings of Wu Guanzhong


His show this spring was at the Asia Society


Claudia Chaseling, Rat, 2012. Egg tempera and oil on canvas, 35-1/2 x 31-1/2 inches. Courtesy of Slag Contemporary

Fast and Loose Play of Planes: Claudia Chaseling at Slag


Ambitious Bushwick show includes video, installation and “painting away from the canvas”


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Spatialism in Action: Lucio Fontana at Gagosian Gallery


His Ambiente Spaziale were on view in May and June


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Beyond the Studio & Out of the Closet: Art and Sex on the Waterfront, 1971-83


Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art