Upper East Side: NYC Art Gallery Tour

[Music] so today we're heading up to the upper east side there's a few exhibits that i've been looking forward to seeing including chloe wise's at allman wreck gallery but first we're gonna start at scar's dead gallery and this is their 79th street location they also have a location at i believe 64th street that one's actually my favorite but this one is really beautiful as well and this is a group show titled faces and figures that showcases honestly a really wide variety of mediums they have paintings sculptures photographs and as you could have guessed by the title the exhibit features works that really focus on capturing faces and figures and this exhibit features works by some of the most famous artists from the past century we've got works by francis bacon george basilisk alexander calder george condo willem de kooning robert mabelthorpe picasso richard prince cindy sherman andy warhol i mean the list just goes on and on and on scarsdad has such an impressive collection of artists in their inventory but i am as you know a huge sucker for a george condo so definitely wanted to see this exhibit for this work in particular [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] now we're gonna head right around the corner to all me and wreck gallery to see chloe wise's exhibit that i was talking about earlier and i actually wrote up a blog post about the show that i will link in the description box below dives just into deeper detail about the exhibit and about chloe as an artist [Music] the exhibit is titled thank you for the nice fire which i think is a reference to the dumpster fire of a year that was 20 20. and chloe's known for threading her works with her cheeky sense of humor and this exhibit is no exception i mean look at these caesar salad wall lights i mean they're just yeah just i can't think of another artist that would do something like this she's just absolutely hilarious [Music] do [Music] do [Music] when you walk through the exhibit you definitely get the feeling that the person that created these works was alone and really just left with their thoughts for a long time and i think that describes all of us during this past year and i don't think chloe was any exception to that in general the works in this exhibit highlight everything that i love about wise's work it has her humor her incredible use of color as well as her ability to capture an individual's personality in her portraits when chloe talks about why she paints what she does she said for me it was never really a question what should i paint should it be people it was just like i paint people i'm a lover of humans we have sex and food and shelter and sleep but sleep is boring [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] for our next stop we're gonna head down to levy gorvy gallery to see two exhibits one by paulo montero and one by eleanor micas and apollo's exhibit spans the ground floor and the lower level of the gallery and it's titled the two sides of an empty line and this exhibit features new paintings and sculptures from the artists that are all based on subtle humor and gesture starting to see humor as a theme that might be emerging across a lot of the exhibits that we're going to see today in general i kind of like to think of his works as minimalism with a personality [Music] [Music] and now we're gonna head down to the lower level where the exhibit continues with more of his paintings [Music] [Music] and then on the upper level we have an exhibit by eleanor micas titled voiceless poems and all of the works in this exhibit are reflective of micas experimenting with trying to create works that live in an in-between state between sculpture and painting [Music] [Music] now we're going to head over to hauser and worth's 69th street location to see an incredible exhibit in my opinion by francois morley and the exhibit spans two floors of this gallery space and i've also written a blog post about this exhibit that i will include as well in the description box below but overall this exhibit is really special because it highlights a significant period in the artist's life where he created works of geometric abstraction that would go on to influence future generations and ironically this artist estate used to be represented by the gallery we just visited levy corvy gallery but the estate moved representation to hauser and worth in 2020 and so this is the inaugural exhibit [Music] [Music] the exhibit focuses on the works that morlay created from 1953 to 2013. and he uses so many different materials to create his works including neon tubes painting of acrylic and oil on canvas and even matte adhesive tape on a wall like we saw downstairs the artist is quoting as saying all my work is about doing as little as possible and making the fewest possible arbitrary decisions [Music] [Music] now we've headed next door to david's warner gallery which is i mean it's actually next door to house or north it's very easy to go see both shows which is nice and this is an exhibit of works by william eggleston and john mccracken and apparently this is the first time the works of these two artists have been exhibited together if you watch a lot of my videos you may have noticed that a current trend in exhibitions this year is to pair sculpture with paintings or in this case photography and it makes for a really nice play on the second dimension and third dimension dimensions very complementary to the eyes and you may be wondering what makes these two artists similar their works are initially at first glance so different and the answer is that they both challenge the traditional boundaries of their media that's what they're known for so william eggleston was like i'm going to take pictures of towns in the south with the same style as fine art photography in order to bring a new kind of accessibility to a normally inaccessible medium and mccracken was a rebel in the sense that he introduced color to his minimalist [Music] sculptures [Music] regardless of what kind of art is featured in the exhibits this gallery space is a work of art in itself i absolutely love this location basically for the staircase it's a beautiful iron detail just winding staircase that goes up the center of the building and leads you to each new exhibition space [Music] [Music] the next stop which is our final stop of the day is anton corn gallery and i love anton kern gallery because it's such a large space you can see multiple exhibits at one time and today is no exception we are going to see works by david bird nicole eisenman and david shrigley the first exhibit is are these works by david byrd and it spans the ground level and the upper level of the gallery space and david byrd has a very interesting back story he passed away in 1988 and he had a 30 year career in the psychiatric ward of a va hospital in upstate new york and these works on the ground floor were created during that time kind of capturing what he was going through as he was interacting with the patients in general he didn't actually become well known as an artist until right before his death which i also find really interesting he had his first exhibit at the age of 87 and his works have continued to be shown since his death [Music] and the exhibition continues on the second floor with some even larger paintings [Music] [Music] and this is the third floor of the gallery and here we have an exhibit by nicole eisenman of sculptures as well as works on paper and the sculptures are for bronze bathers which is very classical theme to depict in sculpture but eisenmann has depicted them in a very contemporary way that's filled with her classic humor they honestly kind of look like frat brothers going floating in a river or something [Music] the exhibit also contains works on paper and these works on paper are meant to resemble posters with their bright graphics and colors and if you look closely you can pick out various crude and funny elements that she's collaged onto the paper from photos [Music] [Music] this is the viewing room section of the gallery and honestly probably one of my favorite spaces in the gallery just because it's really quaint and personal and it has a bench which is nice if you get a little tired you can sit down on the couch here and this is a show of works by david shrigley and david is a british artist that's known for these humorous almost child like paintings on paper he's got a great sense of humor and i honestly would highly recommend following him on instagram he often posts pictures of his paintings and it just brings me a little a little laugh every time [Music] [Music] and that's it for the day heading home now so thanks for coming along with me as always and let me know which exhibit or artist was your favorite

Channel: Mary Lynn Buchanan

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Keywords: almine rech gallery, lévy gorvy gallery, david zwirner gallery, anton kern gallery, art tour, art gallery, contemporary art, nyc art gallery, upper east side art, mary lynn buchanan, new york, art world, new york city, art galleries in new york, art galleries tour, art world 2021, skarstedt gallery, hauser & wirth gallery, hauser & wirth, fine art, Chloe Wise, François Morellet, Nicole Eisenmann, david byrd, david shrigley, William Eggleston, John McCracken

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Length: 32min 21sec (1941 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 29 2021