4 Can’t-Miss Art and Design Exhibitions to Catch in a City Near You This Fall 👀
With the crisp, contemplative energy of fall upon us, art and culture is top of mind. It’s that familiar, back-to-school feeling that makes our minds ripe for knowledge and discovery. But what to see? What to look at? Below, we’ve outlined a few of our favorite exhibitions currently on view in New York City (and in Portugal!) to give you something to think about over your pumpkin spice latte. Enjoy!
“A Six Boed Poynt in a Wave” by Joanne Burke at ADZ Gallery
Lisbon, Portugal
Reach into any alchemical text from the early Renaissance and you will find the common rendered uncommonly. Brass and lead turned to gold; herbs and spices transformed into elixir. Joanne Burke’s jewelry and precious sculptures are similarly concerned with transformation, specifically that which marks the beginnings of new life. In her first solo show, “A Six Boed Poynt in a Wave” at ADZ Gallery, Burke’s painstakingly cast sculptures take on a grander scale, maintaining the same witchy quality that has impregnated her work over the past decade. The making itself is mystical, relying on equal parts control and chance. If you find yourself in Lisbon, the show is a rare opportunity to experience the divine in physical form. On view through October 7. —Camille Okhio
“Event Horizon” by Davide Balliano at Tina Kim Gallery
New York City
Control is the word that comes most readily to mind upon entering the Italian artist Davide Balliano’s new show at Tina Kim Gallery, “Event Horizon.” Balliano, who was originally trained in photography, draws inspiration from “the enigmatic nature of black holes” and juxtaposes of a series of marble sculptures against 11 new wall works in plaster, gesso, and varnish on linen. The work feels masterfully choreographic and results in thoughtful, room-scale compositions that reveal a deep curiosity underpinning his explorations with form, material, and perception. The forms themselves expand on shapes Balliano previously executed in stainless steel and ceramic, shown in a solo exhibition at the gallery, which was designed by the firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero. Meanwhile, his introduction of color—two sculptures, evocative of relics, are in an oxblood Rosso Laguna marble, while a throne-like work is crafted from Rosso Agadir red marble—add a welcome layer of architectural intrigue, nodding to centuries of quarrying and fabrication while appearing firmly as if they were culled from Mars. On view through October 7. —Sean Santiago
“Crowds and Crate Diggers” by Lotte Andersen at Helena Anrather
New York City
Collages are one of the artistic mediums most closely related to a puzzle. In “Crowds and Crate Diggers” at Helena Anrather, British artist Lotte Andersen presents the pieces to a generations-long puzzle of family, migration, movement, and emotion. The components of her large-scale collages, wall sculptures, and works on paper are photographs of herself and more senior members of her family, some still here, some lost to time. Easing these remembrances together are the intuitive forms Andersen creates like notes in a symphony, swirling upward and out of the frame, urging forward momentum while failing to not look back like Lot’s biblical wife. Hers is a percussive visualization, with satisfying shapes you can feel in your bones and sounds you can see. Andersen’s first solo show on this side of the pond is very much worth a visit. On view through October 21. —C.O.
Dom Hans van der Laan at Form Atelier
New York City
A monastic mode of living has been espoused by some of our favorite architects, artists, and designers—John Pawson, Axel Vervoordt, and Donald Judd, to name just a few. But rarely is the monk himself the designer. This month, Form Atelier has organized a show of Dutch Benedictine monk Dom Hans van der Laan’s furniture for the first time on U.S. soil. Van der Laan was a key figure in the postwar Bossche School of architecture, encouraging simplicity in the extreme; his buildings and furniture were based on the mathematical rigor found in nature. On view at Form Atelier are a sampling of his benches, stools, daybeds, and seats from the 1960s and 1970s. This show is a quiet celebration of a previously underappreciated architectural light. On view through October 21. —C.O.
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