Chelsea Gallery Visit

Oh Chelsea, how many more times is Mason Gross going to assign visits to you. Wasn't 50 required visits enough for one semester? It sure was for me.

Mitchell, Innes & Nash, 534 W 26th- Enoc Perez: Perez’s work consists of architectural paintings, usually oil on paper. His style of painting was somewhat loose but still realistic and very recognizable. The canvas was weathered and looked distressed which was an interesting aspect to his work. His palette is interesting; it is almost like there is a color filter over some of his paintings. For example Perez chooses to keep the palette for the Swiss Re building in London in hues of blue. The gallery space itself was interesting and almost distracting. Depending on where you stood, the columns in the middle of the space could be an obstruction of your view, or used to help the eye focus on single pieces of work. The size of the work was perfect. I feel like his work was very calculated because of how you could see where he taped off sections to keep the ink or paint “neat” I always thought that if someone painted architecture than he or she finds the beauty in the idea of being mathematical and calculated (just the architecture of what they are painting)

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 W 26th- Juergen Teller: Juergen Teller’s photos were almost insipid. They were not very appealing to me. What was most exciting about this work is that Teller had access to Louvre and was able to photograph his subjects in such a prominent museum. His photographs of two nude females in the Louvre standing next to famous statues and pieces of art lacked excitement due to their dull poses and straight forward photography which made for some uninteresting pictures.

Robert Miller Gallery- 524 W 26th- Barthelemy Toguo: There was way too much going on in one gallery space to make this show enjoyable. Although the work was separated into different rooms, the abundance and assortment of photographs and videos versus watercolors and installations made this show too much to take in. Not only was there a ridiculous about of work, but the political statement Toguo was trying to make was definitely made many times over which added to the predictability of the work.