chelsea crawl

opie goes fnl

best saturday about to rain activity: chelsea gallery crawl.  hit up a few shows, including catherine opie at mitchell-innes & nash, elaine reichek at nicole klagsbrun, rebecca morris at harris lieberman, and michael scoggins at freight + volume.

rebecca morris

elaine reichek inspires me to cross stitch again

this michael scoggins makes me think of a wild rumpus

fltgc: jack hanley, gavin brown, harris lieberman and kate werble

best fltgc to make for not being at art basel: quad-fecta crawl. while the cool kids are hanging out at miami beach, shar took newbie beth on a crawl of my favorite lower west side haunts. first up was erwin wurm's delightful gherkins. shar is not a fan of pickles, but these brought a smile to my face.

up next was gavin brown, which i was shut out of last visit.
a most fitting pic of beth with her home country symbol albeit a bit rusty.

mark handforth

rebecca morris at harris lieberman

john lehr's stet at kate werble (who happened to win the NADA best booth award in miami)

fltgc: harris lieberman and kate werble galleries

perfect fltgc pairing: harris lieberman and kate werble galleries. i've paried the two of these galleries together previously, but today the exhibits seemed to especially flow nicely together. starting with alexandre singh's assembly instruction (tangential logick) at harris lieberman, the monochromatic pieces align to diagram a playful commentary on religion to consumerism. singh is giving four free lectures at white columns at the conclusion of his exhibit on november 9-12.

at the front gallery of hl is bernd ribbeck's vibrant small paintings of geometric composition. he uses indian inks to create these eye catching works. these were my favs.



the bright colors flowed nicely into the newly opened pinch pots and pyramids exhibit at kate werble. i was first drawn to liliane lijn's rainbow glazed pyramids. it was color goodness for this week's fltgc.

liliane's sig is niiiiice. i think she was behind me when i took this.

oops, shot vert and i don't have fancy edit capabilities. turn your head. looks about right. liliane lijn's fire and ice.

sam moyer, brings our gallery crawl from color back to mono.

fltgc: soho trifecta

return to soho fltgc: harris lieberman + marc jancou + zurcher = soho trifecta. back on the east coast, so there is much needed gallery crawlin'. this crawl is not for the faint of heart, so shar and cofounder jac crawled thine route.

first up, harris lieberman for no bees, no blueberries. shar loves how hl uses it's gallery space. i was impressed but the last show of monochromaticness and the color involvement in the latest installation was niiice.

jac got this entire sheet of stickers.

we made a pit stop in kate werble because the whimsical cut outs by emily landon. shar vs. bear!


continuing the crawl we hit marc jancou, which is situated in the lovely great jones alley. there was the ny debut of brit ross chisholm. tony did a nice write-up a couple weeks back.



last but not least was zurcher studios for the wild feature group show. i liked john hodany's his geometric works of paper.

james benjamin franklin

melissa brown

FLTGC: karl haendel @ harris lieberman

must monochromatic exhibit: karl haendel at harris lieberman. it was a solo fltgc because someone was stuck in a meeting. sad but true. so hit this up alone. i thought i was closing tomorrow but this is not was the ingenious show flyer stated otherwise.yup, that's a brown paper bag. haendel is an interesting cat blending pop culture, war propaganda and humpty dumpty. in his how to have a socially responsible orgasm and other life lesson. his intricate and detailed graphite drawing envelop the space at harris lieberman. here are just some of my favs:

humpty #3

these remind me of warhol's brillo boxes.