ArtSeen
Tim Wilson: PG-13
By Peter EleeyTim Wilson PG-13 at Schroeder Romero In his first New York solo appearance, Tim Wilson shows a staid group of paintings that attempt to turn the cast-off plastic figurines of childhood playtime into a meditation on nostalgia and the ways in which personal recollection interacts with greater cultural memory.
Marek Cecula: Interface
By Suzanne De VeghMarek Cecula’s exhibition entitled “Interface” at Garth Clark references the perfect, seamless union of two people enmeshed to the point where individual identity is dissolved.
Wim Delvoye: Cloaca
By Peter Eleeyat New Museum of Contemporary Art If you made it to the Rose Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History before March 1, you were likely reminded that we barely register on the cosmic radar screen.
Ruth Miller
By Deborah Everettat Bowery Gallery January 29 – February 23, 2002 Distilled and serene, these gentle still-lifes present a wealth of observation through the artist’s engagement with kindred objects.
Making China
By Megan Heuerat Ethan Cohen Fine Arts If anything can characterize contemporary China, it is the experience of rapid social and environmental change.
Kim Jones: "New Work"
By John Hawkeat Pierogi A dumb, looming head in space eyes the visitor from the first drawing of Kim Jones’s “New Works” at Pierogi. The lips are fleshy, the ears pronounced.
Judith Rothschild: Image and Abstraction
By Rachel Youensat Knoedler&Company This small retrospective highlights a selection of works that span the 50-year career of Judith Rothschild, from early gouaches and paintings that were exhibited during her twenties to a selection of later paintings.
Claude Carone
By Rex Auchinclossat Maurice Arlos Gallery Some artists use abstraction as a simplified pictorial means to access sunken emotional experience and psychological orientation.
Angela Wyman and Leslie Roberts: Eyewash
By Rachel Youensat Figureworks Angela Wyman’s “Super Deformed” series, inspired by Japanese toys, includes watercolors and two larger paintings.
Andrea Claire, Karen Dow, Kirsten Hassenfeld: Frigid; Adam Cvijanovic: Disko Bay
By Megan HeuerFrigid and Disko Bay at Bellwether FRIGID: 1. Intensely cold; lacking warmth or ardor. 2. Lacking imaginative qualities. 3. Abnormally adverse to sexual intercourse – used esp. of women.
