fltgc: rivington st

volker hueller at eleven rivington

behind closed doors - salon 94 freemans

back entrance for mulherin + pollard

kris knight

wendy truong

fltgc: eleven rivington & salon 94

katrín sigurdardóttir @ eleven rivington

cunning linguist in freeman's alley

william wegman

c.l. on rivington

takeshi murata at salon 94

fltgc: kara walker, katy grannan, caetano de almeida

must fltgc trifecta: lehmann maupin + salon 94 + eleven rivington.

first up, the new kara walker exhibit at lehmann maupin. a series of videos kara made with shadow puppets depicting one, miss pipi. the video montage melds delta blues and the mythology of white southern womanhood. it's up until june 4.



next up was caetano de almeida at eleven rivington. this brazilian painter creates colorful bursts that you can't help but love. layers of lines and circles cover his pieces. i would gladly purchase one for my imaginary loft with my non-existent six figure salary.



last but not least was salon 94, where the photos of katy grannan donned the walls. spread across two gallery spaces, one in freemans alley and the other around the corner on bowery, depicts regular peeps walking the streets of my home state california - la to sf. set against a plain white stucco wall. the bright sun doesn't seem to wash them out, but highlight the quirkiness of the folks i grew up walking by everyday. catch it before is closes may 14.




walking back on the conclusion of our crawl, i realized that storefront for art and architecture had a cool interactive exhibit up called dig. artist daniel arsham literally dug and picked through styrofoam blocks.

results kinda remind me of reliving luke skywalker's time in the hoth system circa empire strikes back.

virginia's feet in the styrofoam oasis

fltgc: eleven rivington and scaramouche

first timers to fltgc: brooke and jesse. jesse is a pal that my buddy marie introed me. she told me that her pal needed someone to gallery crawl with in ny . hello, i am shar. i welcome all orphaned crawlers. brooke was visiting from philly and is a art lover extraordinaire.

we hit up eleven rivington for the hilary berseth exhibit. hilary is a pal of my coworker rachel. she'd raved about it last weekend, so we had to check it out. he does amazing things with honey bees, but that wasn't on show. instead there are some great coral-like copper sculptures and methodical dotted grids. that's me mesmerized on the right. you can't see the dots but they are there. hilary reveals the method to the dot madness on the sides of his paintings. fun!

next up was lehmann maupin for the lee bul exhibit. this was an impromptu visit, and i was pleasantly surprised by the by the hanging smorgasbord of metal and wood. it's an interesting juxtaposition of mixed materials into intricate, yet weird pieces.

last up was scaramouche. this was a jesse pick. cristiana palandri's "sculptures" are a bit morbid for me. she, too, like hilary uses bees wax, but she throws in human hair and some animals bones to round it out. i'm not entirely sure i got this.