{"id":399536,"date":"2026-11-10T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/399536\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:10:43","slug":"abstraction-shows-to-see-during-art-week-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/399536\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstraction Shows to See During Art Week NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSatiating your hunger for abstraction will take you all over New York this fall, from the Upper East Side to Chelsea to Tribeca. The works on view in the city\u2019s galleries range from decades-old works to fresh interventions into ongoing series. Each show offers one artist\u2019s singular approach to a never-ending investigation into how to create and derive meaning from non-representational painting and sculpture. By visiting these shows, you\u2019ll see how artists from different generations have employed gesture, mark making, color, and form in different ways\u2014all of which are feasts for the eyes.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor even more abstraction, be sure to check out MoMA PS1\u2019s \u201cHard Art\u201d exhibition, which looks at the legacy of abstract art by Black artists. The show includes work by three of the artists highlighted below\u2014 Mildred Thompson, Mary Lovelace O\u2019Neal, and Virginia Jaramillo\u2014all of whom have gallery shows on view this month.<\/p>\n

\tVirginia Jaramillo at Hales<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor the past seven decades, Virginia Jaramillo\u2019s practice has been concerned with the simplicity of the line. \u201cAs simple as they were, they were the most complex because it\u2019s hard to get to simplicity right away,\u201d she once told ARTnews<\/a> about her line drawings. For her latest solo show, titled \u201cPause in Time,\u201d Jaramillo will present new entries into two longstanding bodies of works: her \u201cCurvilinear\u201d series, in which two bending lines stretch across a monochrome canvas, and linen-fiber works, rough-hewn collages of cut and torn fragments of a medium of Jaramillo\u2019s own making (water, linen-fiber pulp, and hand-ground earth pigments). Both are stylistic approaches that she has revisited again and again in her practice, adding a new level of understanding between her well-known highly formal works and the materiality of her collage pieces.<\/p>\n

\n\t547 West 20th Street, November 12\u2013December 18<\/p>\n

\tMildred Thompson at Galerie Lelong<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9The Mildred Thompson Estate\/Courtesy Galerie Lelong\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCosmos Calling\u201d presents four 1996 paintings from Mildred Thompson\u2019s \u201cMusic of the Spheres\u201d series alongside three from her \u201cHeliocentric Series,\u201d made a few years earlier. In the earlier works, we see Thompson approaching the organization of the solar system, via spinning lines that mark planetary movements, in vertical canvases. When she homes in on individual planets\u2014Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter here\u2014 the canvases are turned horizontally, and her use of color becomes kinetic and eye-popping. \u201cI seek to portray some of the profound meanings and influences indicated by the invisible dimensions and realities around us,\u201d Thompson once said of these works. In doing so, she makes tangible the intangible, revealing forces just beyond our physical and intellectual grasp.<\/p>\n

\n\t528 West 26th Street, through December 19<\/p>\n

\tNorman Lewis at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor its seventh exhibition of the late and great Norman Lewis, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has on view \u201cJumping Jive,\u201d which looks at the influence of music, from jazz to classical to reggae, across the artist\u2019s four-decade career. Surprisingly, the exhibition includes two of Lewis\u2019s early figurative works, Jumping Jive (1942) and Musicians (1943). Chronologically, the next work, an untitled canvas from ca. 1945, shows how Lewis began to translate the sonic into paint, taking inspiration from the intuitive and improvisational nature of jazz. As the 1940s progress into the \u201950s and \u201960s, we see how Lewis\u2019s work became even more abstracted, often suspending various marks across deep color fields. The paintings on view are complemented by several works on paper that give further insight into the artist\u2019s way of working. The back of the gallery also includes a DJ booth, displaying Lewis\u2019s record collection. Each Saturday, from 2\u20135 p.m., DJ Adrian will spin these vinyls; a recording of the session will play in the gallery for the following week.<\/p>\n

\n\t100 11th Avenue, through November 14<\/p>\n

\tMary Lovelace O\u2019Neal at Boesky Gallery<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe first solo exhibition since Mary Lovelace O\u2019Neal\u2019s death<\/a> in May, \u201cRequiem\u201d will present historical works by the artist. Made between the 1980s and \u201990s, the paintings on view in this show look at the period immediately following Lovelace O\u2019Neal\u2019s relocation to the Bay Area in the late \u201970s. Her formalist Minimal paintings of that decade give way to a much more expressive use of mark-making and a vibrant color palette. In the works on view, limbs and other familiar forms and figures seem to emerge from the depths of the built-up paint, part of the artist\u2019s subversion of the typical rules of abstraction. The titles she gives to these works\u2014Juke Joint, Panthers with Socks, or What\u2019s time to a pig, for example\u2014further complicate their readings.<\/p>\n

\n\t507 West 24th Street, through December 19<\/p>\n

\tDia al-Azzawi at Richard Saltoun Gallery<\/p>\n

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\n\tFollowing an exhibition this spring at Richard Saltoun Gallery\u2019s homebase in London, Dia al-Azzawi will have his first-ever gallery solo show in New York and the first since his memorable inclusions in \u201cTheater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991\u20132011\u201d at MoMA PS1 (2019\u201320) and \u201cTaking Shape: Abstraction from The Arab World, 1950s\u20131980s\u201d at the Grey Art Gallery (2020). Born in Baghdad in 1939 and based in London since 1976, al-Azzawi is known for his abstract works that typically make use of Arabic script in their compositions. Titled \u201cTell Us a Tale to Break the Waking Night,\u201d the exhibition brings together works from across his career, ranging from Arabic Letters (1970) to Man in Yellow Field (2020\u201321).<\/p>\n

\n\t19 East 66th Street, through December 19<\/p>\n

\tAlejandro Corujeira at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor his second solo show with Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, Alejandro Corujeira is showing 11 paintings made over the last three years. Of his way of working, he has said, \u201cI am not slow. I am delayed.\u201d With a muted color palette of turquoises, coppers, and yellows, Corujeira continues his investigations into the properties of light and how to make them visible, as indicated by the exhibition\u2019s title \u201cLa Sonora Luz de lo Invisible\u201d (Sounding Light of the Unseen). The works\u2019 titles give a clue to these ponderings, too: La levedad de la luz (The lightness of light) or El viento en la luz (The wind of the light). Lines and blobs vibrate until fuzzy, achieved via a mix of colored pencil and acrylic on linen.<\/p>\n

\n\t47 East 64th Street, through January 30<\/p>\n

\tNairy Baghramian at Marian Goodman Gallery<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe only sculptor included in the mix, Nairy Baghramian will show a range of recent works at Marian Goodman Gallery, including examples from her \u201cnameless\u201d series, made of neon tubes, glass, aluminum, and silicon, that debuted last year in her solo show at WIELS in Belgium. These will be paired with works from her \u201coreiller\u201d series, nearly translucent sculptures made of epoxy resin, wood, and metal, and her \u201cselves\u201d series, abstract works made from applying layers of pigmented wax onto oiled maple. Taken together, the works on view present various ways of thinking about paradoxes, a hallmark of Baghramian\u2019s work: What does it mean to name something \u201cnameless\u201d? Can a self-portrait be a relief of built-up pigment? As Baghramian has said, \u201cWhat draws me to neon is its tendency to flicker, as though its eternal promise were already showing signs of fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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