Artwork
Annabel Keenan
Caleb Hahne Quintana, Sleeper , 2025. Courtesy of Anat Ebgi.
As summer season involves an finish and the artwork world gears up for enterprise, New York’s Armory Week returns to usher within the busy fall season. Named after the heavy-hitting artwork honest Armory Show, the week can even see the opening of two different artwork gala’s: Independent 20th Century and Art on Paper.
This yr, The Armory Present will welcome over 230 galleries from 30 international locations to the halls of the Javits Heart, together with six exhibiting within the new Perform part. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, senior director at David Zwirner and 52 Walker, the part explores how artists interact with design. The presentation will embody up to date and historic quilts by the storied Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers introduced by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, as an illustration. Together with this new addition to the honest, guests will discover a number of the greatest names in up to date artwork like White Cube and Victoria Miro, in addition to smaller and mid-size sellers like Anat Ebgi and Southern Guild.
With artwork collectors, curators, and fanatics wanting to socialize, galleries across the metropolis are staging buzzworthy exhibitions price a go to outdoors the honest halls. From a Joel Shapiro tribute present at Paula Cooper Gallery to an intimate look into Nancy Holt’s well-known Solar Tunnels (1973–76) earthwork at Sprüth Magers, listed here are the ten must-see gallery exhibits to your Armory Week agenda.
Paula Cooper Gallery
Sep. 4–Oct. 11
Joel Shapiro, untitled, 1977. © 2025 Joel Shapiro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
In honor of the famend artist Joel Shapiro, who passed away in June on the age of 83, his long-time vendor Paula Cooper Gallery is exhibiting a collection of his work from the Nineteen Seventies. Shapiro, a serious determine who pushed the boundaries of Twentieth-century sculpture and the Minimalist style, was celebrated for his geometric, usually colourful compositions that toe the road of abstraction and figuration. Along with sculpture, Shapiro created public artworks, drawings, and prints that examine kind and colour.
The exhibition will concentrate on extra austere works—wooden and metallic sculptures, and charcoal and gouache works on paper—as an exploration of his early years. Included within the present are solid bronze and forged iron sculptures that sit immediately on the ground, simply as they had been displayed when Shapiro first made and exhibited them with the gallery a long time in the past.
Caleb Hahne Quintana, Sleeper, 2025. Courtesy of Anat Ebgi.
In moody figurative work on view in “A Boy That Don’t Bleed,” Brooklyn-based figurative artist Caleb Hahne Quintana depicts a somber adolescent boy in moments of quiet solitude. Utilizing beautiful jewel tones of blue and golden brown, Hahne Quintana exhibits the determine in several settings—mendacity on a sofa, drying himself with a towel on waterside rocks, standing in a nondescript room—following him with a diaristic eye. The portraits evoke a way of introspection and melancholy, as in Boy’s Portrait (2025), a picture of a younger baby whose head and eyes tilt downward in the direction of an unseen ground. Extra mysterious is the topic in Reader (2025), who leans towards a darkish brown wall, his face and half of his physique obfuscated within the shadows. Becoming a member of these figures is an impressive horse that seems to be working via a pond that’s speckled with vibrant blue from the evening sky peeking via the forest timber. That is Hahne Quintana’s second solo present with the gallery.
Brooklyn-based summary artist Dana James has honed a definite type of summary portray, combining patches of pastel colours with naked areas that reveal uncooked canvas. To those she provides intuitive, daring brushstrokes that enliven her compositions. James at instances makes use of a number of canvases, visibly stitching them collectively à la Frankenstein. The works nonetheless retain a gorgeous appeal from the tender, interesting colours, seen, for instance, in Neon in a Previous Life (2025). Made with encaustic, collage, acrylic, and pigment, the totally different mediums add delicate texture and variation to the floor.
Contradictions seem all through the artist’s follow—within the type of contrasting colours and differing paces of her brushwork. This provides stress to her work, making it appear directly sluggish and quick, tender and arduous. Because the exhibition title suggests, the work comprise lunar references, a typical motif for James. All 9 of the items within the present had been made in the course of the artist’s being pregnant, with the opening probably coinciding along with her daughter’s delivery. This time period has had a big influence on James’s life and work, as she realized to embrace the unknown future and channel her feelings via bolder, extra energetic brushstrokes.
Cristin Tierney
Sep. 5–Oct. 4
To have fun the gallery’s fifteenth anniversary and its transfer from the Decrease East Aspect to Tribeca, Cristin Tierney is presenting “Fifteen,” an eclectic group present of artists it has proven and labored with through the years. The various vary of works on view encompasses work, video installations, and sculptures by artists together with Joan Linder, Dread Scott, and Judy Pfaff. In keeping with the gallery’s mission of supporting experimentation, collaboration, and neighborhood, the works within the present additionally embody efficiency, an inherently difficult medium for business galleries.
One such piece, Tim Youd’s 100 Novels Mission (2012–ongoing), will happen over the course of the exhibition. The venture sees Youd retype novels in places central to the tales (he started with Hunter S. Thompson’s Concern and Loathing in Las Vegas). For “Fifteen,” Youd is on his eighty fifth novel, retyping Vivid Lights, Huge Metropolis, Jay McInerney’s ode to the yuppie get together scene of New York within the Eighties, typified by the gallery’s new environment of Tribeca.
David Alekhuogie, Standing Determine 1/1 Speculative View, 2024. Courtesy of Yancy Richardson.
David Alekhuogie, Mom Nation Masque 1, 2024. Courtesy of Yancey Richardson.
That includes works from David Alekhuogie’s sequence “A Reprise,” “highlifetime” examines how Western frameworks have formed the presentation and dissemination of African artwork and aesthetics. Alekhuogie based mostly this sequence on pictures taken by Walker Evans in 1935 for the Museum of Modern Art. On the time, the museum commissioned Evans to {photograph} African sculptures in MoMA’s exhibition “African Negro Artwork.” These pictures had been later exhibited in 2000 on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in “Good Paperwork: Walker Evans and African Artwork, 1935.” Critiquing the custom of white, Western documentation of African tradition, epitomized by Walkers’s perspective, Alekhuogie reimagines these pictures via an concerned course of: he creates facsimiles of works of African artwork, just like the well-known Benin Bronzes, onto paper shapes, which he then pictures, leading to items that mix pictures, collage, and sculpture.
Fragmented and fractured, the works query how colonial histories and modernity intersect: Conventional objects are portrayed via supposedly goal pictures strategies. By way of these acts of rephotographing and reimagining supply materials, the artist reframes inherited photos, opening area for brand spanking new readings and better company for these of African descent to inform their very own tales. Alekhuogie, who relies in Los Angeles, has proven at a number of establishments worldwide, together with on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork itself.
Caroline Monnet, Braves One to the Entrance, 2025. Courtesy of Nunu Superb Artwork.
Caroline Monnet, Rose, 2024. Courtesy of Nunu Superb Artwork.
In “The place the Sky Begins,” Montreal-based artist Caroline Monnet attracts on each her Anishinaabe and French heritage in wearable sculptures, works on paper, and wall-based items. Typically utilizing a minimalist, summary type with patterns borrowed from traditions like basketry and weaving, Monnet’s compositions at instances recall maps and digital codes. She usually makes use of synthetic supplies related to building, corresponding to Tyvek, roof underlay, and polyethylene. By utilizing these home building merchandise, Monnet goals to critique the systemic inequality in housing for First Nations communities in Canada, reappropriating the poisonous supplies utilized in these developments for her paintings.
On the coronary heart of the present are Monnet’s wearable sculptures, additionally made with supplies like ground protector and insulation wool, which incorporate conventional Anishinaabe strategies and patterns. Monnet reclaims these chemically-derived supplies to look at post-colonial identification and Indigenous resilience, turning up to date merchandise of extraction-driven capitalism into conventional Indigenous craftsmanship. Monnet’s work has been proven worldwide, together with within the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She can also be making a site-responsive set up for “An Indigenous Current” on the ICA Boston, which can open this fall. Along with her artwork follow, Monnet can also be an acclaimed filmmaker and has participated in a number of festivals, together with Sundance Movie Competition.
Maria Nepomuceno, Untitled, 2025. Courtesy of Sikkema Malloy Jenkins.
“Cunhó” is the nickname given to Brazilian summary artist Maria Nepomuceno by her mom. It’s additionally the title of her third solo present at Chelsea gallery Sikkema Malloy Jenkins that includes colourful, mixed-media wall sculptures, made with a spread of Brazilian craft strategies, together with beading, weaving, and ceramics. Nepomuceno’s a number of media, from fiber artwork to sculpture end in objects with fantastical, amorphous shapes. Nepomuceno’s visually charming items usually incorporate spirals, seen painted and in vibrant beaded patterns and woven serpentine designs.
Although summary, every work incorporates hints of organic kinds like wombs and cells. Playfully embedded in these sculptures are ceramics, gourds, and vessels, generally containing beads, giving the assemblage-like compositions the sensation of a galaxy or cornucopia. The artist is fascinated by the concept of infinity, and based mostly this present across the thought of abundance. Nepomuceno’s work is in main collections worldwide, together with the Guggenheim Museum, and it was featured in “Panorama,” a 2024 roving exhibition throughout 4 small Italian hilltop cities, organized by ITALICS.
Shara Hughes, Rift, 2025. Photograph by JSP Artwork Images. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery.
Identified for vibrant panorama work with fantastical natural world, rising American artist Shara Hughes furthers her exploration of this style in her solo present “Climate Report” at David Kordansky. Every of the 9 new large-scale works incorporates hints of motifs typical of Hughes’s follow—our bodies of water, meandering timber, geological components, and hovering moons–painted with wealthy, saturated hues and vigorous brushstrokes. Whereas nonetheless incorporating acquainted options, the scenes at instances verge on otherworldly, usually achieved via distorted views. In Rift (2025), a seemingly countless fracture within the floor creates a snake-like canyon. The mountain cliffs surrounding the rift mix right into a rainbow sky, blurring any sense of a horizon. Leaving her topic open-ended, Hughes provides viewers area to search out their very own which means in these psychologically charged compositions. Hughes’s work was proven within the 2017 Whitney Biennial and is in collections worldwide, together with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.
Nancy Holt, Daylight in Solar Tunnels, 1976 © Holt/Smithson Basis, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York, Courtesy Sprüth Magers
Late artist Nancy Holt had a powerful follow in pictures and experimental movie. But the American multidisciplinary artist is greatest recognized for formidable earthworks, out of doors installations, and public sculptures. Amongst her most well-known earthworks is Sun Tunnels (1973–76), 4 austere concrete cylinders laid in a cross and put in within the distant Nice Basin Desert in Utah. The work is a exceptional achievement: The cylindrical tunnels are fastidiously oriented to completely body the solar rising and setting within the winter and summer season solstices. Moreover, the large-scale concrete tubes have smaller holes within the floor via which mild from the solar and moon casts the constellations of Capricorn, Columba, Draco, and Perseus. One of many main initiatives of Holt’s profession, Solar Tunnels illustrates how far the artist might push the definition of artwork, in addition to the setting wherein it may be seen.
In “Echoes & Evolutions: Nancy Holt’s Solar Tunnels,” pictures, sculptures, drawings, and collages on view supply perception into Holt’s feat in making Solar Tunnels. The method of arranging and putting in the cylinders, which took three years, is documented in exceptional element, shedding mild on Holt’s pioneering experimentation and meticulous course of.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, NEVER LET ME GO | XLIV. the zenith [45], 2025. © the artist. Photograph by Frankie Tyska. © White Dice. Courtesy of White Dice.
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, NEVER LET ME GO | XXXVII. keep prepared [37], 2025 © the artist. Photograph by Frankie Tyska. © White Dice. Courtesy of White Dice.
Working in movie, sculpture, and set up, multidisciplinary artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden explores identification, queer politics, Black selfhood, and African spirituality. In “PURE GAZE,” McClodden makes use of kinbaku-bi, a conventional Japanese bondage follow as a solution to look at energy, air circulate, and the idea of relinquishing management. A part of her “NEVER LET ME GO” sequence (2023–ongoing), the sculptural work on view encompass leather-based canvases certain with ropes organized in kinbaku-bi strategies. McClodden hand-dyed the canvases to imitate bruising, each bearing scars and marks of strain. On this presentation, McClodden approached the sequence with a indifferent perspective, prioritizing aesthetics and the fantastic thing about kinbaku-bi binding, whereas nudging on the boundaries of bodily containment.
McClodden’s work has been exhibited extensively, together with on the Kunsthalle Basel and the New Museum, and in 2019 she obtained the Whitney Biennial’s Bucksbaum prize for her video and sculpture set up I prayed to the fallacious god for you (2019) that exhibits her private ritual to the Afro-Cuban deity Shango.
