Gallery Visits

Maya Lin at the Pace Wildenstein

Blue Lake Pass - Wooden terrain divided into grids.

Water Line - Wire terrain of an underwater location.

2x4 Landscape - Over 50,000 vertical 2x4 pieces make a picturesque hill.

Josiah McElheny at the Andrea Rosen

There's a tower of different colored hexagonal prisms of glass and some primary-colored shelves with matching vases and jars.

Barthelemy Toguo at the Robert Miller

There's a movie of Barthelemy flipping a column end-over-end through an urban environment while people follow him. There is also some photography, including character-play self-portraits. The majority of the work is what seems to be water-color paintings, the most notable being a mouth enveloping a pack of bananas, some bread and an AK-47.

Enoc Perez at the Mitchel, Innes & Nash

These are mainly textured paintings of architectural subjects. Two of the paintings are focused on people, but his main focus seems to be buildings.

Juergen Teller at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery

These paintings are either of classical sculptures, naked women, or both. All are in a museum setting.

Nature as Artifice at the Apeture

The point of this exhibit is meant to challenge the romantic notion of the Netherlands being a beautiful land by displaying only pictures of it's most man-made locations. The most effective set is Gert Jan Kocken's "Enschede." It's three city-scape pictures taken of the same view over time. The first picture is of a demolished fireworks factory that suffered an accident. The second picture is of that same building now cleared out and ready for new construction. The third shows the houses built in it's place, but most interestingly, a building labeled "Grolish" which was present in the background of the first two pictures is now destroyed itself. I don't know if I should consider that ironic or depressing, but it struck me how temporary even the biggest structures can be.