Hundreds of people wound their way from gallery to gallery on two art walks through Chelsea Thursday night. The walks sponsored by BLOUIN ARTINFO and Hendricks’s Gin entitled “The CURIOUSLY Inspired CHELSEA ART TREK” each hit four galleries with exceptional exhibitions. Clues were given at each gallery in each walk and the answers became the invitation to a reception that followed at the Hotel Americano.
The first walk, called “The Exquisite Spatial Adventure”, brought participants to the Driscoll Babcock Gallery where Jenny Morgan is showing her figurative paintings entitled “How to Find a Ghost”.
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is showing paintings by Eric Blum. “Foreign Parts” is a series of poetic interpretations of uncertain spaces.
The Mixed Greens exhibition is showing “Unauthorized Biographies”, paintings by Brad Greenwood. Residing somewhere between abstraction and figurative work, the works are modestly dramatic and very personal.
The fourth gallery on the walk, C24 Gallery is showing paintings by New Orleans-based artist Regina Scully. Entitled “Entrance”, the works are labyrinth-like and suggestive of architectural or urban spaces. All four exhibitions on the path of “The Exquisite Spatial Adventure” have an uncanny relation to each other through the explorations of subjective space by four young artists.
The second walk was called “The Journey Through History and Time”. The DC Moore Gallery has an exhibition by the well-known artist Mary Frank. Her “Elemental Expression” title refers to her unorthodox use of clay accompanied by paintings and photographs which complement her innovative sculptural works. A catalogue by the well-known critic John Yau accompanies the exhibition.
At Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Varujan Boghosian riffs on the legend and history of Marcel Duchamp in a series of collages and humorous constructions.
At Fischbach Gallery, Jeff Gola is exhibiting is first New York solo exhibition of exquisite egg tempera paintings of luminous and mysterious landscapes in a show entitled “Unspoken Beauty”.
At Leila Heller Gallery, “FAKE: Idyllic Life”, new, complex, works by Shoja Azari are shown with both paintings and video works melded. The works are innovative in creating slow-moving narratives on paintings through video. Persian miniatures are the basis of new images, quickened by the video images with which they overlap.
The eight shows included in the Chelsea Art Trek are staying up for varying lengths of time. Check gallery websites for more information.
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