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Late at night, early in the morning, at noon is a two-part presentation of new and historical works on paper by Glenn Ligon. Engaging language, abstraction, and the color blue, the works draw on writings by James Baldwin to examine shifts between legibility and atmosphere. Across layered rubbings, silkscreens, and prints, text fragments dissolve into fields of color, addressing perception, memory, and the emotional register of light.

Jan 15 - Apr 4

Luhring Augustine presents works by Yasumasa Morimura and Charles Atlas that examine identity through performance and self-representation. Morimura’s photographs restage iconic images using his own body, challenging cultural authority and fixed notions of gender. Atlas contributes a new film program of drag portraits drawn from footage shot in the 1980s and 1990s, foregrounding gender play through long-standing collaborations.

Jan 29 - Mar 21

Ron Nagle: Irrational Discovery features fourteen new sculptures created over the past three years. The works are small in scale and meticulously constructed, using ceramic, porcelain, polyurethane, and resin to produce varied textures and vivid surfaces. Influenced by painting, design, and diverse visual traditions, the sculptures emphasize form, material experimentation, and an intimate viewing experience.

Feb 12 - Apr 18

Anish Kapoor presents mirror sculptures made since 2010, using stainless steel and painted mirrors to warp space, light, and the viewer’s own reflection. Monumental concave and folded forms create shifting illusions that blur object and environment, pulling the body into unstable, immersive perception. Works like Non Object (Plane), Double Vertigo, and Stave (Red) turn reflection, void, and color into active sculptural forces.

Feb 11 - Apr 11

Plein Air presents recent sculptures by Robert Gober alongside an exhibition organized by Gober featuring paintings by John Folinsbee and Harry Leith-Ross. Gober’s sculptures, produced over the past three years, incorporate diverse materials and, in some cases, internal light. The accompanying presentation situates works by Folinsbee and Leith-Ross, associated with the Pennsylvania Impressionists, in dialogue with Gober’s sculptural practice.

Feb 12 - Apr 18

A Partial Refusal is a group exhibition bringing together works that engage language as material, absence, and constraint. The artists approach words as containers and gaps, using opacity, redaction, and refusal to resist fixed meaning and easy interpretation. Through varied material strategies, the works emphasize what remains unsaid and the limits of translation, inviting slow and partial forms of understanding.

Feb 12 - Mar 20

Denali presents new paintings by Cynthia Daignault centered on repeated views of the Alaskan mountain. Working across multipart canvases, Daignault deconstructs Denali as both landscape and symbol, addressing ideas of national mythology, climate change, and mediated perception. The works unfold serially, emphasizing repetition, fragmentation, and duration rather than a single sublime image.

Feb 19 - Mar 28

Yuko Mohri’s first solo exhibition with the gallery features new installations from her Moré Moré series, still life works with decomposing fruit translated into sound and light, and a new group of paintings. Using water leaks, found objects, electrodes, and organic processes, Mohri creates responsive systems shaped by gravity, moisture, and time, examining the movement of energy and matter across natural and built environments.

Feb 19 - Apr 18

Bones in the Canal and Other Photographs marks Torbjørn Rødland’s return to New York with two bodies of work. Using ultra-compact 35mm cameras, he revisits early concerns, placing figures within charged landscapes that evoke dream and romanticism. Larger-format images probe intimacy, power, and religion through staged encounters. Embracing improvisation and analogue process, Rødland creates unsettling scenes where familiar forms yield strange, irreducible presence.

Mar 12

The exhibition surveys David Lamelas’s multifaceted practice across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and film. A performance, a nonlinear presentation of works from 1965 to the present, and a film program together reflect his ongoing investigation of information, communication, and perception.

Mar 6

Greene Naftali is pleased to present Paul Chan: Automa Mon Amour, featuring kinetic sculptures, models, and works on paper in the artist’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. The works on view include new entries in Chan’s ongoing series called the Breathers: nylon vessels filled and animated by currents of air, which the artist calls “clothing for spirits.” These pneumatic objects collapse art historical differences between figuration and abstraction, positing what a work that makes no distinction between sculpture, performance, and the moving image might look like. Alongside the Breathers, Chan exhibits new drawings that diagram the flow of air that brings them to life, and the fabric models that materialize his experimental approach to this self-propelling art.

Mar 12

Sam Gilliam: STITCHED focuses on works developed during the artist’s 1993 residency in Ireland, where he cut and stitched pre painted canvases into new compositions. The exhibition includes wall mounted works and hanging sculptures that merge painting and sculpture through color, geometry, and constructed form, extending Gilliam’s exploration of abstraction and material process.

Mar 12 - Apr 25

NEED presents Nicola Tyson’s return to large-scale charcoal drawing, her first major exhibition of drawings in years. Working with charcoal, pastel, and conté on sanded paper, Tyson creates textured, painterly images driven by intuition. Figures, animals, and hybrid forms appear in charged encounters that probe intimacy, dependency, and identity. Through humor and psychological intensity, the drawings use portraiture as a means of questioning human connection and selfhood.

Mar 12 - Apr 25

Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to present From Out of Space, an exhibition of never previously exhibited work by Ralph Lemon, including a video and a series of photographs emerging from the artist’s travels in the Southern United States in the last two decades. The exhibition marks the artist’s first one-person exhibition at the gallery, following his critically acclaimed survey, Ceremonies Out of the Air, recently presented at MoMA PS1 (November 2024–March 2025).

Feb 26 - Apr 11

Lottery is an exhibition by Martine Gutierrez presenting photographs and a video installation derived from a participatory performance. Originating from a live event in which Gutierrez relinquished control of her image to audience members selected by chance, the works examine power, authorship, spectatorship, and vulnerability. The exhibition foregrounds ethical tensions around consent, control, and participation within image-making.

Feb 26 - Apr 4

RÍO is Ana González’s third exhibition with Sean Kelly. Conceived as a metaphorical river, the exhibition presents works informed by indigenous understandings of land and water as living entities. González addresses ecological fragility through material transformation, deconstruction, and repetition, with imagery drawn from forests, rivers, and tropical landscapes, emphasizing nature as both resilient and vulnerable.

Feb 27 - Apr 11

Édouard Vuillard: Early Interiors focuses on works from the artist’s Nabi period, tracing his sustained engagement with domestic spaces between the 1890s and early 1900s. Depicting intimate interiors drawn from family life, the paintings emphasize surface, pattern, and color over narrative clarity. Flat planes, dense ornamentation, and spatial ambiguity create tension between figuration and abstraction, rendering everyday scenes psychologically charged and visually unstable.

Mar 3 - Apr 25

This presentation of recent oil paintings by Dike Blair depicts windowsills, airport lounges, museum walls, and other tightly framed interiors. Developed over the past two years, the works emphasize surfaces, framing devices, and repeated motifs such as flowers, drinks, and screens. Through layered references and varied textures, Blair extends his sustained inquiry into perception and the act of painting.

Feb 19 - Mar 28

Gladstone presents a selection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs shown at oversized scale. The works depict singular subjects set against stark backgrounds, emphasizing form and contrast. Drawn from the late 1970s through the 1980s, the images feature recurring motifs including flowers, the human body, and portraiture, reflecting Mapplethorpe’s established visual language.

Mar 5 - Apr 18

Courtside Sermon presents a new body of tapestries by Noel W Anderson that examine how Black culture is mediated through sports and entertainment. Using digitally altered archival images of NBA players and musicians including Nina Simone, Magic Johnson, and James Brown, Anderson produces jacquard weavings that he abrades, dyes, bleaches, and plucks. The works reference art-historical techniques and the histories of textile labor.

Feb 19 - Mar 21

Skinnin’ the Game marks Matthew Kirk’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring paintings, sculptures, and a collaborative installation. Of Diné and European descent, Kirk uses building materials like Sheetrock, plywood, and roofing paper alongside vivid paint and textile motifs. Guided by an ethic of resourcefulness, he repurposes found elements to reflect family, labor, memory, and his navigation of dual heritage.

Mar 5 - Apr 18

Sanguine and Spiraling is Kevin Umaña’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting new and recent hybrid paintings that combine glazed ceramics with painted canvas. Oscillating between biomorphic and geometric forms, the works explore memory, psychology, and nature through layered abstraction, integrating contrasting textures and fragmented compositions.

Mar 5 - Apr 11