Gallery round-up

Three fascinating shows in Chelsea—one closing tomorrow—deserve your attention. The first, Ashley Bickerton at the Sonnabend Gallery, offers a brilliant cross-sampling of Bickerton's sculpture and recent painting. In particular, "Extradition with Computer" (seen above) seems a synecdoche for a number of current fads ranging from cross-cultural chaos and multimedia monomania to tattooing. Bickerton's lush paintings evoke a rush of emotion on such a variety of topics that to attempt to explicate here would do them injustice.
Second of course is the Richard Serra show at the Gagosian, a splendid collection of somewhat less monumental pieces than you would see at Dia: Beacon. In particular, the large room containing 16 of his mammoth metal plates provokes and fascinates, a seemingly deceptively simple yet stellar composition.
Finally, before the Jenny Holzer show closes tomorrow at Cheim and Read you will want to want to examine her quite illuminating take on detention and documentation as pertains to our pervasive political embroglio.

Tags:   ashley bickerton, chelsea, galleries, jenny holzer, richard serra

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Posted on 6/16/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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