Chealsea visits

over the past week i went to visit chelsea's gallery scenes

these are the shows i saw,

James Turrell- Hollograms @ Pace Wildenstein

"the Female Gaze"@ Cheim & Read

William Ryman- A New Beginning@ Marlborough Chelsea

Anselm Reyle And Takashi Murakhimi@ Gagosian Gallery

Group Show @ Mary Boone

Janine Antoni- "Up Against"@ Luhring Augustine

Paulina Olowska, Stephen Rhodes, & Catherine Sullivan @ Metro Pictures

Maya Lin- "three ways of looking at the Earth"@ Pace Wildentein

Min Bavington@ Jack Shainman Gallery

D'Amelio Terras- Hollywood Squares @525 W 22nd St.

Chris Ofili- "Afro Margins @David Zwirner

most of these gallerys had a few random peices that i would really enjoy.

i dont really know exactly what was linked to what, it was just a big blur of arts, running from gallery to gallery, amazing peices, and complete garbage. some of my highlights i would have to say would be "the female gaze" show that we saw, defintally Joan Mitchell was an insperation to me as i staired at her painting for almost a half hour. the way she used such vivid color on the body was just thrilling, the stern look upon the womans face, and the exuberant style with the thick paints and charm of color just invigerated my body. Another was Chris Ofili, usually i dont care much for his dung paintings, but his drawings were just so creative, funny, and containted this mejestic surface and movement as these forms from little afro people grew into this nature like creative repition. Maya Lin's "three ways of looking at the Earth", was this epic landscape weaved out of wooden 2x4's, and another wooden woven creative perspective of a geologoical formation. I was blown away by how this was almost more fun and interisting than it was bueatiful. i also took well do D'Amelio Terras for his geometric colorful paintings, and Tim Bavington's color theory and awesomly inspring compisition. Most of the other ones i saw wern't that awesome, i didnt like whatever garbage was this eye and wrecking ball and this exaggerated view of women. I was inspired by the price of James Tarrell's work.

i also went to the moma with drawing teacher Hanneline Rogeberg, she is one of the most descriptive and genius people ive met at this university. when she showed us James Ensor, it was such a bulk of work that it had so many dimensions of inspriring me, with his goya like etchings to his picasso style masks. this was such a great study of an artist.