Nearly a year ago, art dealer and ARTnews memoirist Joel Mesler, the erstwhile proprietor of Lower East
Side galleries Untitled and Feuer / Mesler, put down roots in East Hampton, New York, opening Rental Gallery in a space next to Harper's Books on Newtown Lane.
Exhibition Checklist Main Gallery (clockwise from front desk) Untitled, 2004 charcoal, pastel on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 60 inches ECp 16 Untitled (Roadmap), 2004 charcoal, pastel on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 80 inches ECp 18 Untitled (Paper Airplanes), 2004 charcoal, pastel on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 80 inches ECp 19 Untitled (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), 2004 charcoal, pastel on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 60 inches ECp 17 Misadventures of the Liberating Savages, 2004 acrylic, waterbased oil, pencil, collage, ink transfers on amate paper 8 x 116 inches ECd 43
Side Gallery Untitled (Untitled), 2004 charcoal, pastel on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 60 inches ECp 15 Untitled (Liberty), 2004 charcoal, pastel on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 60 inches ECp14 Poor George (After PG), First Row: Poor George (After PG) # 12, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 38 Poor George (After PG) # 3, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 24 Poor George (After PG) # 15, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 41 Poor George (After PG) # 16, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 42 Poor George (After PG), Second Row: Poor George (After PG) # 14, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 40 Poor George (After PG) # 4, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 25 Poor George (After PG) # 7, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 33 Poor George (After PG) # 8, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 34 Poor George (After PG), Third Row: Poor George (After PG) # 9, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 35 Poor George (After PG) # 13, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 39 Poor George (After PG) # 11, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 37 Poor George (After PG) # 10, 2004 ink on paper 14 x 16 inches ECd 36
Not exact matches
Next comes both a phantasmal oil painting by Ross Bleckner,
Untitled from 1991, and an abstract landscape by Joan Mitchell,
Sides of a River 1, 1981, which is on loan from the Mary Ryan
Gallery in New York.
2006
Untitled Group Exhibition, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles Too Much Love, organized by Amy Adler, Angles
Gallery, Los Angeles LAXed: Paintings from the other
side, Peres Projects, Berlin Argekunst Galerie Museum, Bozen - Bolzano, Italy (catalogue) Hotel California, The Glendale College Art
Gallery, Glendale, California
«
Untitled» (Placebo - Landscape for Roni), from 1993, is composed of a long stream of gold - foil - wrapped hard candies lining the seam between the
gallery's floor and wall; two stacks of paper («
Untitled,» 1989/90)-- one printed with the words «Somewhere better than this place,» the other «Nowhere better than this place» — lie
side by
side on the floor.
Diverse as ever, McLean's select exhibition contains two mixed media works; presented on the ground floor of the
gallery, the
Untitled paintings are comprised of dense, black organic shapes that veer to the abstraction on neutral backgrounds, adorned with daubs of coloured paper that on some
sides have been hastily cut and others impatiently ripped, a nod to the rebellious humour of McLean who's body of oeuvre comprises witty sculptures made of rubbish and even his own body.
Mulherin
Gallery, from New York's Lower East
Side, took one of the new, small paintings to its booth at last December's
Untitled Art Fair in Miami, and - almost as improbably as Kleberg's style changed - he got noticed.
The Other
Side, featuring works such as
Untitled (1938) in
gallery 305,
Untitled (1981) in
gallery 305 and
Untitled (1956) in
gallery 305 by Henri Michaux.
New York's
Untitled and Zach Feuer present Jew York in their respective Lower East
Side and Chelsea
galleries.
As Chelsea prepares to reopen their
galleries, the Lower East
Side presents several new exhibitions including Joshua Neustein at
Untitled.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)--
Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igo
gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East
Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East
Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East
Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igo
gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping
Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igo
Gallery on the Lower East
Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
His
Untitled, 2009, a taxidermied horse on its
side with a wooden sign reading INRI staked in its flank, was placed in a dark
gallery of dreamy Magritte paintings.
Visitors to
Untitled Gallery on the Lower East
Side enter through a door marked by a question mark for Matthew Chambers» newest exhibition.
In the
side gallery there is this
Untitled Drawing (2011), a mandala shape made of carefully placed straight strips of wood (they remind me of lollypop sticks)
Few would have sensed the financial pressure as collectors filed into Sotheby's Upper East
Side galleries to glimpse «
Untitled» last November.
Exhibition Checklist Main
Gallery (Clockwise from entrance) Robert Arneson Splatt, 1983 bronze with unique ceramic base 71 x 21 x 21 inches RAs 130.01 Robert Arneson Elvis II, 1978 conte, pastel on paper 41 5/8 x 29 7/8» RAd 04 Joan Brown Self - Portrait at Age 42, 1980 enamel on canvas 71 3/4» x 60» JBRp 19 Steven Campbell Men Insulting Nature and the Notion of Travel, 1986 oil on canvas 83 x 99 inches SCamp 01 Carol Cole Tar Baby, 2004 mixed media 7 x 13 inches CCs 1 Peter Saul Come and Get Me, 1968 oil on canvas 63 1/2 x42 inches PSp 118 Richard Shaw Figure on a Palette, 1980 glazed porcelain 39 x 13 x 18 inches RSs 68 Andrew Lenaghan Big Sarah, 2005 acrylic on canvas 77 1/2 x 58 inches AnLp 395 Yoan Capote Madness II, 2004 steel 70 1/2 x 40 x 23 inches YCs 19 Collier Schorr Esther's Fine Dream (Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down), 1991 cast paper, acrylic, pencil, and collage L 18 x W 12 x D 10 inches CoSs 1 James Barsness
Untitled (Red nude on street), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen 12 x 9 inches JBARd 60 James Barsness
Untitled (with jack o'lantern), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen, inkjet archival print on paper 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches JBARd 61 Anthony Kulig Look - Out, 2005 plaster, acrylic Two figures 17 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches each AKuls 8 Don Colley Weave 2003 7 x 6 1/2 inches scratchboard, artist's frame DCp 10 Don Colley Reel, 2003 scratchboard, hand - made hardwood frame 6 x 6 inches DCp 09
Side Gallery Diane Edison Self - Portrait Interior (striped robe), 1992 color pencil / black paper 30 x 22 inches DEd 8 Adolph Gottlieb The Watchers, c. 1941 oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches AGotp01 Lesley Dill Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 -
sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 -
sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd 52
Sprawling across the museum's lower level
galleries, the exhibition had the air of a studio or gigantic work - in - progress, starting from the entry atrium where two versions of the same piece,
Untitled (Lego Worm)(1990/2013), lay
side - by -
side like recently excavated paleontological specimens: on the one hand was the completed original, on the other a recreation being assembled section - by - section.
(Photo: Courtesy of Anton Kern
Gallery, NY (Artwork from left,
Untitled [S 1 Full Frontal Face 41.25], 2009/2010;
Untitled [
Side Swiped and Carved Face 41.32], 2009/2010)-RRB-