"A balancing act between collapse and spirit" by Oscar Murillo
Where: David Zwirner
When: October 9 - November 16, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Colombian artist Oscar Murillo is best known for his paintings, but his oeuvre spans sculpture, installation, video, and performance. For this presentation, Murillo will stage a performance, titled A song to a tearful garden, at the gallery on Oct. 12.
Know Before You Go: Of the exhibition, the artist writes, "Darkness a place of radical freedom / Markings, reading and sending telegrams… constellations of thoughts and gestures / Untraceable landscapes. Concealed - irrational!"
“Rudiments” by Kapwani Kiwanga
Where: Goodman Gallery
When: October 5 - November 6, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Kapwani Kiwanga—returning to Goodman Gallery after representing Canada at the Venice Biennale and being honored with a traveling retrospective, “The Length of the Horizon”—uses the body as a vessel to explore cultural constructs, challenging the structures of society with multimedia works.
Know Before You Go: In this exhibition, Kiwanga builds sensorial worlds with essential elemental materials, evoking earth, rock, fire, and water, as well as the continued impact of transoceanic trade exchanges.
"Machine Painting"
Where: Modern Art
When: October 7 - December 14, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Featuring work by Seth Price, Christopher Wool, Wolfgang Tillmans, Avery Singer, Tauba Auerbach, and more, this show brings together a group of intergenerational artists who craft their pieces with assistance from machinery.
Know Before You Go: Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio’s Industrial Painting, 1958, is a keystone of the exhibition. It was created with rollers by a free-operating painting machine to confront the automization of the 1950s.
“Early Works on Paper” by Yayoi Kusama
Where: Omer Tiroche Gallery
When: October 8 - December 20, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: This exhibition explores some of Yayoi Kusama’s earliest and most formative work, which laid the ground for motifs that would follow her throughout her storied career.
Know Before You Go: In her adolescence, Kusama began suffering from hallucinations, imagining auras around objects and speech from animals and plants. It was her doctor who encouraged her to express these visions artistically.
“Mirror and Bear” by Jordan Wolfson
Where: Sadie Coles HQ
When: October 7 - November 2, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Channeling both the euphoric and the gruesome, Jordan Wolfson harnesses the uncanny in a new large-scale sculptural animation.
Know before you go: Through animation, digital imaging, and animatronic sculpture, Wolfson explores the distinction between reality and imagination in the burgeoning world of virtual reality. His work examines the projection of inner impulses onto constructed selves, challenging the structure of the society that surrounds us.
“Louise McQueen” by Roe Ethridge
Where: Neither
When: October 9 - November 16, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Ethridge uses realism to dismantle the ideal, playing on the fanciful worlds of fashion and advertising, where he began his work as a commercial photographer.
Know Before You Go: Little information has been released about the contents of this latest presentation, but visitors can expect a fresh dose of Ethridge's polished, high-octane imagery.
“Meraki” by Dominic Chambers
Where: Lehmann Maupin
When: October 8 - November 9, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: The artist’s first solo presentation in the United Kingdom displays his vivid and whimsical exploration of the natural world, inspired by his creative mysticism. Across two floors, Dominic Chambers dives into painting, color studies, and works on paper.
Know Before You Go: Of the show, Chambers says, "When the sprites of ideas enter the studio and marry themselves to the resolve of the artist committed to fully realizing them, one enters the summoning world—a state of creative immersion, that inner greenfield home to those things that shimmer: ideas, memory, dreams, and bodies without form or language, and perhaps angels live there too."
“Studio Jumps” by Lucy Otter
Where: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
When: October 5 - November 14, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Lucy Otter celebrates her first solo exhibition with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery with a selection of pieces exploring her trailblazing work in gestural abstraction, made between 1978 and 1979.
Know Before You Go: The pieces were created for the artist's friend Paul Hickey to be used as cover art for his band Duchamp Widows's Plastic Thief EP. Ultimately, Otter took it upon herself to create new work inspired by each of the EP’s seven tracks.
“A MILLION RABBIT HOLES” by Rirkrit Tiravanija
Where: Pilar Corrias
When: October 4 - November 9, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: From serving pad thai to playing ping pong, Rirkrit Tiravanjia has been at the pinnacle of collective, immersive art for three decades. And now, he's done it again.
Know Before You Go: "A Million Rabbit Holes" creates a forested environment in Pilar Corrias's downstairs gallery, with the wall-hanging work extending into the room via a plush carpet and loose firewood. Within the space, Tiravanija captures the tumultuous world of American politics as the 2024 presidential election looms.
“On the Lost Highway” by Olivier Mosset
Where: Massimodecarlo
When: October 7 - November 9, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Dark canvases awash in gradients of color comprise Olivier Mosset's solo at Massimodecarlo's London outpost. The new works follow in the tradition of his well-known black circle paintings, but add depth and nuance that need to be seen up close.
Know Before You Go: The Swiss artist utilizes minimalism in his development of post-war abstraction, and worked alongside such artists as Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni before eventually forming the Parisian BMPT group in the 1960s.
"Jonas Wood"
Where: Gagosian
When: October 7 - November 23, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Jonas Wood plays with dimensionality as he flattens the intimate world around him onto the page, integrating historical references into his deeply individualized work. Here, the artist presents a new collection of his signature compositions.
Know Before You Go: Wood’s work proves incredibly personal. He has gone so far as to refer to it as a “diary” of sorts. In this exhibition, each piece corresponds directly to a distinct moment in the Los Angeles-based artist's life.
“Searchers” by Robert Longo
Where: Thaddaeus Ropac and Pace Gallery
When: October 8 - November 20, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Among the many mediums Longo has explored throughout his career, he is likely best-known for his work in large scale charcoal drawings. His use of scale and intense detail explores the Jungian ideas of life in an image-saturated world.
Know Before You Go: Here, Longo translates drawings to the scale of large painting as a means of delaying consumption of the image, harnessing the intimacy and grandeur of the respective mediums.
“In the Sharp Gust of Love” by Seb Patane
Where: Maureen Paley: Studio M
When: October 4 - November 9, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: The exhibition explores queer desire and yearning in the artist's drawings and compositions of found materials. Patane blends the historical with the biographical to build an inherently subjective exploration of pining.
Know Before You Go: The title of the exhibition is taken from the Siouxsie and the Banshees song, “The Last Beat of My Heart.” The ballad declares a longing for the return of a lover.
"Speedchaser" by Jack Whitten
Where: Hauser & Wirth
When: October 7 - December 21, 2024
Why It’s Worth a Look: Over six decades, Jack Whitten has crafted deeply personal work through gestural abstraction. From painting to sculpture, the exhibition focuses on an experimental juncture in the 1970s, which found Whitten pivoting his career away from Abstract Expressionism.
Know Before You Go: At the time, Whitten expressed, "The black + white paintings have forced me to be cooler, imposed a limitation upon my work habit and structure; forced me to tighten the visual concept; provided a personal framework of references plus a stamp of originality: THEY SAY WHITTEN."
