Primary and Secondary Palettes in Chelsea 9/27/13

Charlene Von Heyl at Petzel in their new 18th St. space

As many have noted, a very strong show. This painting's lumininous lavender areas, covered by patterns, become interior space that is denser than its surroundings.

Shockingly simple spaces comprised of black lines on yellow surface

Dense, rich, simple, simultaneously

Jonas Wood at Anton Kern, this painting 80 x 90 or so

Looks posterized and painterly

Patterns, patterns

Back room

Delicate and painterly

Paul Feeley at Garth Greenan (the old Gary Snyder space, same roster, venue)

Reviewed by John Yau in Hyperallergic, for one

Bright, luminous, Matisse-like surfaces

and doppelgangers

at Paula Cooper's 7-month temporary popup space on 10th, Alan Shields

Shields was an outdoorsman, who loved to sew and fabricate

He showed with Paula Cooper for 20 years

and was known for working from myriad cultures

and for stained, delicate surfaces

detail

Alan Shields

Tatiana Berg at Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden

From one side

From the other

Steve Roden at CRG (reviewed by Roberta Smith this day)

Detail--a compelling mix of pencil, charcoal and blueprint

More sculpture

Records

That coordinate with drawings and the artist's musical compositions--he is a sound artist

Irish artist Diana Copperwhite at Thomas Jaekel

Painter Kylie Heidenheimer told me about this show

She does strange things with primary color--bleaching it, straining the triadic harmonies. Her small scale works feel perfectly pitched.

Robin Lowe at Lennon, Weinberg

Rhythmic patterns, desaturated color

combines with richer notes from the 1990s figure work

Implausible landscapes one wishes to travel

The last days of summer.

Oil as Water: Pour is reviewed in artcritical by Franklin Einspruch

Welcome back from summer, with a review of Pour:
ww.artcritical.com/2013/09/19/pour/

Travel Slide Show II: Wupatki National Monument Residency

Approaching Great Falls on Navajo land, one hour's drive from Wuptaki National Monument where I spent 8 days in July.

Mud flows through lava formations

...into the Little Colorado, surprisingly full for the summer months. San Francisco Peaks beyond

Overview of the stepped falls into space, as far as the eye can see

Mesas loom, seemingly from nowhere...

View from the Visitor's Center. 

Daily light show, 5 am

Asked about the day one could say, "the earth turned." Near Citadel and Lomaki ruins.

Rock piles at Wukoki.

Near Wukoki, an old dirt road to the Little Colorado.

Passing through the forest near Sunset Crater Volcano's lava flows

Cinder cone

A Brooklyn sunrise, after 37 days in the desert.

A Florida sunset

Wupatki, the largest trade center in the area was built after the 1100 Sunset Volcano eruption.By 1250 its inhabitants had moved on, yet rocks on the pueblo collect water, and plants grow in the volcanic cinders even now. Read, and view more here: Wupatki National Monument: NPS Link