Monday's Marks

As the Daily Razzler heads home for the holidays, Monday’s Marks is giving you a heads up on some galleries, exhibits and events to be sure to check out if you’re sticking it out in NYC for the festivities.
 

Hot Glue Hullabaloohttp://www.slamxhype.com/

 The Hole, 104 Greene Street: Hot Glue Hullabaloo; collaboration between downtown art legend Kenny Scharf and Virgina Beach art collective Dearraindrop (originated in my own Providence, RI!) Until December 4, this ground-floor gallery houses the wild collaborative of bright pop-ed, cartoonish, street-junk influenced paintings, sculpture and even a mini blacklight disco that are sure to brighten those gloomier post-thanksgiving days. 

Leah Tinari, Perfect Strangers www.artreview.com



Mixed Greens, 531 W 26th St, 1st Floor, Perfect Strangers, exhibit of Leah Tinari (older sister of a close friend of At's!) She incorporates photography into her paintings by working off digital images and turning them into painted collages of her world. We're loving Tinari's funky, cariacature-like approach to imagery--makes you feel like you're in on the subjects' amusing jokes... The images in Perfect Strangers in particular were created from snapshots taken of visitors during her last exhibition at the same gallery—interesting documentation of the relationship between viewer, artist and exhibition.  Plus, Mixed Greens as a gallery space is right in tune with the daily razzler’s mission; it was founded in the aim of promoting and supporting emerging artists, visions and spaces—their original goal was to make contemporary art accessible to the public—props for that!



Roxy Paine, Distillationhttp://www.artobserved.com/



And while you’re in the neighborhood, definitely wander next door to the James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, for Roxy Paine’s, Distillation. Part of the artist’s Dendroid series, this winding, metallic structure brings to mind the knobby roots of the now exposed trees winter has revealed.  It is very different to see the structure in this environment than the open air of the Metropolitan rooftop that his piece Maelstrom inhabited, but in some ways equally compelling in inspiring thoughts on the aesthetics of shape and materials.





Claire Pentecoste, Little Curl, Big Curlhttp://www.higherpictures.com/





For those razz girls staying warm on the Upper East Side this holiday, don’t miss Claire Pentecost’s exhibition Interior Studies, at the Higher Pictures Gallery, 764 Madison Avenue. These black-and-white photographs of pencil etchings—made on studio and apartment walls and ornamented with pushpins, flower petals and plastic toys—are the perfect whimsical, imaginative imagery to inspire your holiday shopping and get you seeing the world in an ingenious if a bit weird, light. 





Last but certainly not least, heavy-hitting institutions, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney and the MOMA all pack a big punch going into this holiday season.  Our top 3 picks:

*Abstract Expressionists at the MOMA (our Christmas wish? Make this show part of the permanent collection!)

*The World of Khubilai Khan at the MET

*Modern Life: Edward Hopper at the Whitney

            -if you manage to get there before November 28, don’t miss Lee Friedlander’s America by Car, snapshots taken through rental car windows.

That's only the beginning of the shows and artists brightening the beginning of this festive season so stay tuned for more--until then, hope these exhibits get you out walking after that second helping of turkey!  XX ms