THURSDAY
Collier Schorr: “8 Women” at 303 Gallery
February 27 – April 12
Opening: February 27, 6-8pm
507 West 24th Street
303 Gallery will present “8 Women,” works spanning from the mid-nineties to the present. Schorr’s earliest works utilized appropriated ads from fashion magazines to address issues of authorship and desire.
Harold Ancart, Kevin Beasley, Mateo López at Casey Kaplan
February 27 – April 26
Opening: February 27, 6-8pm
525 West 21st Street
Casey Kaplan presents an exhibition of solo projects by Harold Ancart (b. 1980, Brussels), Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Virginia), and Mateo López (b. 1978, Bogota).
Klara Kristalova: “Underworld” at Galerie Perrotin
February 27 – April 12
Opening: February 27, 6-8pm
909 Madison Avenue
For her first exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, New York, Kristalova presents a series of new characters who form an ambiguous circus cast: performing acrobats, a bird with a girl’s face, a boy with mosquito wings, a magician’s daughter.
Germaine Richier at Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin
February 27 – April 12
Opening: February 27, 6-8pm
909 Madison Avenue
Germaine Richier will present more than forty important sculptures ranging from early torsos and figures, to startling hybrids of humans crossed with bats, toads, spiders, and vegetal organism, that brought the artist international recognition before her untimely death at the age of 57.
FRIDAY
Erwin Wurm: “Synthesa” at Lehmann Maupin
February 28 – April 19
Opening: February 28, 6-8pm
504 West 26th Street
Working in a variety of media, including photography, performance, video, and painting, Wurm always considers his practice from a sculptural perspective, and the artist transforms these influences into a presentation of surprising and introspective objects for his second show at Lehmann Maupin.
Chuck Close: “Nudes 1967 – 2014” at Pace Gallery
February 28 – March 29
534 West 25th Street
A survey of Chuck Close’s Polaroid and daguerreotype nudes and Big Nude (1967), a 10-by-21 foot painting never before publicly exhibited in New York.