NY galleries

Art in America, Oct, 2004

Chelsea

Bespoke Gallery

453 West 17th Street, 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10011

Tel: 646.642.4437 * Fax: 646.219.6372

Email: rtkubicka@bespokellc.com

Website: www.bespokellc.com

Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00

Through October 30: Tina Hejtmanek, "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere," photographs (C-prints).

Denise Bibro Fine Art

529 West 20th Street, 4th Fl, NY, NY 10011

Tel: 212.647.7030 * Fax: 212.647.7031

Email: bibroart@aol.com

Website: www.artnet.com/denisebibrofineart.html

Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00

October 7-November 6: Don Perlis, recent paintings; Space 4: Michael Mut, "Scrapings," recent works.

Bowery Gallery

530 West 25th Street, 4th Fl, NY, NY 10001

Tel/Fax: 646.230.6655

Website: www.bowerygallery.org

Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00

Through October 2: Ian Tornay, new paintings. October 5-30: David J. Holt, "Natural History: Paintings and Works on Paper," painterly works based on natural history displays that include birds, fossils, monkeys, rocks, minerals and archaeological fragments.

Kiana Malekzadeh Gallery, Inc.

526 West 26th Street, Suite 713, NY, NY 10001

Tel: 212.414.1715

Email: kmalekzadeh@nyc.rr.com

Website: www.kianamgallery.org

Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00

October 14-December 4: Christian Sampson, "Vegetable Jewelry and Parlor Oceans," a painted expedition and archeological exploration into the natural history worlds of paint.

Rush Arts Gallery

526 West 26th Street, #311, NY, NY 10001

Tel: 212.691.9552 * Fax: 212.691.9304

Website: www.rushartsgallery.org

Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00

Through November 6: "Naked-In-Waiting," the portrayal of the nude body in Realist painting. A provocative large-scale painting exhibition exploring nontraditional issues of representation and objectification of the nude black body acknowledging and expounding on the traditional language of portraiture. Exhibiting artists: David Cruz, Misty Lynn Hawkins, Sedrick E. Huckaby, Sylvia Maier and a performance by Kalup Donte Linzy.

Downtown

Symbol Gallery

226 Front Street, NY, NY 10038

South Street Seaport

Tel: 646.283.1263

Email: klaratamas@yahoo.com

Tuesday-Sunday: 1:00-7:00

September 24-November 10: "Dramatic Realism," group show featuring paintings by Daniela Codarcea Kamiliotis, Jeff Faerber, Nancy Linden, Kathryn Myers, Yuri L. Yurov, David Campbell Wilson and tapestries by Klara Tamas.

Midtown

Gallery @ 49

322 West 49th Street, NY, NY 10019

Tel: 212.767.0855

Fax: 212.664.1534

Email: info@gallery49.com

Website: www.gallery49.com

Tuesday-Saturday: 12:00-6:00

October: "American," group show including Aimee Chappelle Hertog, Iouri Fedorov, Anna Van Matre, Eugene Rodriguez and Fidel Rodriguez.

SoHo

Ward-Nasse Gallery

178 Prince Street, NY, NY 10012

Tel: 212.925.6951

Fax: 212.334.2095

Email: markherd@wardnasse.org

Website: www.wardnasse.org

Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00, Sunday: 1:00-6:00

October 2-31: Silent auction of donated and unclaimed works. Bypass the dealers and go straight to the artists' gallery. Low priced original works of art. "The Year Round Salon" continues with 300 works on the walls, 300 in the print racks & 700 artist reference books in our Resource Center.

Woodward Gallery

476 Broome Street, 5th Fl, NY, NY 10013

Tel: 212.966.3411

Fax: 212.966.3491

Email: woodwardgallery@aol.com

Website: www.artnet.com/woodward.html

Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00

September 14-October 30: Deborah Claxton, "Still-Cut Paper." Deborah Claxton combines nearly four hundred shades and thousands of tiny hand-cut pieces of paper with precision to develop complex, original "paper paintings."

Tribeca

Franklin 54 Gallery

54-56 Franklin Street, lower level, NY, NY 10013

Tel: 212.732.0009

Email: franklin54@rcn.com

Website: www.artnet.com

Wednesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00

and by appointment

October 1-30: Caroline Paget Leake, constructions and collage. Luminous, layered and gem filled boxed pieces. Visit the Art Card Sanctuary with original cards made by gallery artists.

Studio 18 Gallery

18 Warren Street, 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10007

Tel: 212.385.6784

Wednesday-Saturday: 1:00-6:00

September 18-October 23: "Mirage & Metaphor," recent abstract paintings by Karl Kasten, Norman Kanter, Ed Clark, Joe Barnes and Haywood Bill Rivers.

Atlantic Avenue

Bruno Marina Gallery

372 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tel: 718.254.0808

Fax: 718.254.0505

Email: info@brunomarinagallery.com

Website: www.brunomarinagallery.com

Thursday-Sunday: 12:00-6:00

October: Vivien Bittencourt with Vincent Katz, color photographs of Rome's famous umbrella pines in the Villa Doria Pamphili on the Gianicolo hill. Texts by Katz are parallel excursions into a man-made modality of urban nature.

Metaphor Contemporary Art

382 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tel: 718.254.9126

Email: metaphorart@aol.com

Website: www.metaphorcontemporaryart.com

Thursday-Sunday: 12:00-6:00

Through October 10: Julie Evans, "Swish of the Yak tail Fly Whisk," brightly incandescent and meditative new paintings inspired by Indian miniatures.

Mezzanine Project Room: Ilene Sunshine, new wall sculptures and works on paper.

October 13-November 14: Tricia Wright, filigreed curling poured shapes interact with smartly brushed passages quoting the history of design.