odic words upon returning

Blue city, at 7pm you're a glowing silhouette.

Blue in many hues, brick blue, steel blue, legs in tights blue, cold lips blue, sky reflected in glass blue, atmospheric distance blue, neon blue

I can only catch glances while I cross the bridge into you from Queens. Eyes on the road, friend.

But walking your streets when I arrive, oh blue city.

And when I go underground, yes, the subway's blue, too.

This Week's Show List

'The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis’, David Zwirner Gallery

Upper East Side
Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs, March 2 – April 30, 2010, Americas Society, 680 Park Ave on 68th St
“Collecting Biennials”, through Nov. 28 at the Whitney Museum of American Art
MILTON AVERY: INDUSTRIAL REVELATIONS, FEBRUARY 18–MAY 1, KNOEDLER & COMPANY, 19 EAST 70TH STREET


Midtown
Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E. 52nd St., SOLACE, THURSDAY FEB 04 - SATURDAY MAY 15
"Smoke+Mirrors/Shadows+Fog", Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, 450 West 41st St, Feb 18th - April 17th
Antony Gormley, "Event Horizons", public installation around Madison Square Park and the Flatiron district
Robert Ryman: ‘Large-Small, Thick-Thin, Light Reflecting, Light Absorbing’, Pace Wildenstein, 32 E 57th, through March 27th


Chelsea
JAMIE ISENSTEIN, Andrew Kreps, 525 West 22nd Street, Through March 20
Jacco Olivier, Feb 19 - Apr 3, 2010, Marianne Boesky, 509 West 24th Street
‘The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis’, David Zwirner Gallery, 519 West 19th Street, Through April 17
Luis Camnitzer, "Memorial", Alexander Gray Associates, 508 West 26 Street #215, March 17 – April 24, 2010
Charles W. Hutson, ‘A Survey’, Edward Thorp Gallery, 210 11th Avenue, at 25th Street, Through March 27
WILLIAM BAILEY, Betty Cuningham, 541 West 25th Street, Through March 27
Self-Fulfulling Prophecies, Leo Koenig, Inc. 545 W 23rd, March 5 - April 10, 2010
"Bank of Bikers", ZieherSmith Inc., 516 W 20th, Feb 25th - Mar 20th
Joan Jonas, Yvon Lambert, 550 W 21st, Feb 27 - April 10
Yun-Fei, "Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts", James Cohen Gallery, 533 W 26th, February 19 - March 27


Soho/Greenwich
Swiss Institue: Tobias Madison, Carissa Rodriguez, and Andro Wekua, 495 Broadway / 3rd Floor, Mar 6 - Apr 24
‘THE BRUCENNIAL 2010: MISEDUCATION,’ through April 12, 350 West Broadway, between Broome and Grand


LES
Jessica Jackson Hutchins, LAUREL GITLEN (SMALL A PROJECTS), 261 Broome Street, February 21–March 28
In Print, e-flux / reading room, 41 Essex Street, March 16 – May 15, 2010
MUSEUM 52, 4 East 2nd Street: Benjamin Degen, ends April 2
NEW MUSEUM: ‘SKIN FRUIT: SELECTIONS FROM THE DAKIS JOANNOUS COLLECTION,’ through June 6


North Brooklyn
JIM TOROK, Portraits and Clowns, Pierogi, 177 N 9th St


South Brooklyn
“Kiki Smith: Sojourn” continues through Sept. 12 at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park


LIC
NOGUCHI MUSEUM: ‘NOGUCHI REINSTALLED,’ through Oct. 24, 9-01 33rd Road, at Vernon Boulevard


Out of Town
Dia: Beacon, Agnes Martin paintings 1957-60 and 1999-2002, ongoing
Philadelphia, Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni, November 21, 2009 - April 4, 2010

Vitrines

Shoes, abandoned

From the beginning, when I start out

Dawn Clements "Untitled (Color Kitchen)”

"From the very beginning I’ve tried to work without a net. The possibilities for real exchange and surprises and emotions become increased if you’re not mapping it in advance."
-Michael Silverblatt

"When I start out to make a panoramic piece, I often work from left to right. But when a small scrap of a drawing turns into a giant drawing the progress is less linear, a more intuitive process. “Untitled (Color Kitchen)” started with the flowers. Mariah Corrigan cut me these beautiful old roses, which I put in a yellow pitcher. The next day I was all packed up and walking out the door to go to my studio when I saw the roses and thought, “Those flowers are going to be gone by tomorrow.” So I stayed home and painted them just to always remember them. Eventually the drawing grew to include the table, the wall, the curtain, and the next wall"
-Dawn Clements on her drawing "Untitled (Color Kitchen)”