Since most of the shows for September have already opened this weeks art viewing was limited. I went to 47 Orchard Street to see Sadie Benning's show hoping to see the large drawings that were in her film "Press Play" but they were not on view. Somehow I got that wrong. What was on the walls were small drawings made with color pencil or crayon with rounded edges, they were (to me) simultaneously abstract and figurative.
I also stopped in to see Chris Marker's photographs in Soho at Peter Blum Gallery. The photographs all from a series called "Staring Back" are images of people Marker has encountered over many years. Its a collective portrait of chance encounters and vacant stares, of strangers caught unaware.
I spent more time with Eddo Stern's show at Postmasters as I am reviewing it for Art Papers.
The exhibition at Eyebeam Interference includes works by:
Forays | Angie Eng | Jill Magid | Carrie Dashow | Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg | Trevor Paglen | neuroTransmitter | Robert Ransick | Yury Gitman | Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena | IAA | Graffiti Research Lab | Caspar Stracke | Eyebeam R&D Lab | Michael Frumin | Jonah Peretti
Like many of the shows I have seen at Eyebeam they are more didactic than visual. This falls into that category. Viewing requires time and patience and quite a bit of reading.
The NY ART Book Fair hosted by Printed Matter held at the Dia Foundation was like a trip down memory lane where the hand made was presented along side the mechanically produced. This is an annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 120 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers. Each press or artist set out their publications on tables that covered two floors of the space. The modest crowd was able to look at and even touch the works of art. Something that makes books so special is that they are tactile. Its also a small community where everyone seems to know each other and is open to looking and talking about what they love--artists books of all kinds.
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