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06/22/2026

at Andrew Kreps Gallery exhibition walkthrough

🎨 Eileen Agar: Leaves of the World
🗓 April 24 – June 20, 2026
📍 Andrew Kreps Gallery, 394 Broadway

Leaves of the World at Andrew Kreps Gallery brings together works spanning more than five decades of Eileen Agar’s career. Moving between surrealism, cubism, and abstraction, Agar developed a personal visual language built through collage, layered imagery, found objects, and experimentation with materials. The exhibition traces her evolving practice from the late 1920s through 1980, highlighting recurring motifs drawn from the sea, mythology, flowers, shells, and geometric forms that remained central to her work throughout her life.

06/21/2026

🎨 Joan Witek: A Survey of Paintings: 1969–2012
🗓 Sep 4–Nov 1, 2025
📍 Hunter Dunbar Projects
🎟️ FREE
✨ Joan Witek spent five decades exploring the expressive power of black through repeated forms, layered textures, and precise mark-making. Her paintings balance geometry and emotion in a language all their own. This exhibition walkthrough of A Survey of Paintings: 1969–2012 at Hunter Dunbar Projects captures the scale and depth of her work, from early geometric canvases to later pieces that pulse with movement and restraint.

06/21/2026

at Matthew Marks Gallery exhibition walkthrough ✨ On view through June 27

🎨 Joan Brown: The Golden Age
🗓 May 8–Jun 27, 2026
📍 Matthew Marks Gallery

Joan Brown’s exhibition The Golden Age at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York brings together twelve paintings and sculptures made between 1982 and 1988 — the final years of the artist’s life before her death in 1990 at age fifty-two. Marked by vibrant color, flattened compositions, and graphic directness inspired by Henri Rousseau, the works collage imagery from disparate cultures and historical moments into scenes of unlikely animal companions and mythological self-portraiture.

06/21/2026

🎨 Wyatt Kahn
🗓 Sep 18–Dec 13, 2025
📍 Rodder Gallery

Wyatt Kahn returns to the flat surface with new paintings that expose their own construction. Transparent vinyl, hand-shaped wooden bars, and stained-glass paint reveal how light, color, and structure merge into one image—bridging painting and sculpture.

06/21/2026

📆 Sep 11–Oct 18, 2025
📍 kurimanzutto New York
🎟️ FREE
Curated by Gabriel Orozco, this group show invites artists to respond to Einstein’s 1949 text on socialism. Through sculpture, video, and research-based practices, they reflect on power, inequality, and the shape of social life.

Featured artists:
Ariel Schlesinger, Forensic Architecture, Minerva Cuevas, Petrit Halilaj, Robert Longo, Roman Ondak, Wilfredo Prieto, Zoe Leonard, and special guests

06/20/2026

🎨 Chiharu Shiota: Echoes Between
🗓 Nov 6, 2025–Jan 22, 2026
📍 Galerie Templon

Step inside Chiharu Shiota’s immersive installation for her second solo exhibition in New York. Known for her thread-based environments, Shiota uses glowing strands and everyday objects—like chairs and boxes—to create poetic spaces that explore memory, presence, and the invisible connections between us. The show features large-scale installations, thread-filled vitrines, and delicate works on canvas.

06/20/2026

Ju at Cristin Tierney Gallery exhibition walkthrough ✨ On view through June 20

🎨 Julian V.L. Gaines: Fly in the Sugar Bowl
🗓 May 15–Jun 20, 2026
📍 Cristin Tierney

Julian V.L. Gaines’s exhibition Fly in the Sugar Bowl at Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York — the artist’s first solo show with the gallery — spans painting, sculpture, and assemblage to examine the tensions between Black experience and the structures of systemic inequality in the United States. Taking its title from Greg Tate, Thomas J. Lax, and the folk song ”Skip to My Lou,” the exhibition uses the “fly in the sugar bowl” as a central metaphor for existing as insider and outsider at once: influential yet unable to fully partake in the nectar of prosperity.

06/20/2026

🎨 Alex Foxton: KNIGHT OF THE SORROWFUL COUNTENANCE
🗓 Sept 10-Nov 1, 2025
📍 Salon 94 (via Galerie Derouillon)

Alex Foxton’s latest works investigate masculinity through a controlled palette and composed groupings of men. Uniform color fields echo the codes of power, tracing how bodies mirror authority, discipline, and collective identity.

06/20/2026

🎨 To define a feeling: Joan Mitchell, 1960–1965
🗓 Nov 6–Dec 13, 2025
📍 David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, New York

Focused on a pivotal five-year period, this exhibition traces how Mitchell reworked landscape, memory, and emotion into densely layered abstractions. Central forms, darkened palettes, and forceful brushwork show her experimenting with structure while using paint to carry the complexity of lived experience. Between 1960 and 1965, Joan Mitchell was rethinking how a painting could translate memories. She worked with oil paint on large canvases, building dense, energetic central forms through repeated brushstrokes and layered color. During this time, she spent long periods sailing along the Mediterranean, then returned to her Paris studio to paint from memory. Rather than showing specific places, Mitchell used abstraction to translate movement, light, and emotion into physical marks on the canvas.

06/19/2026

🎨 Omar Ba: Promises and Glory
🗓 Sep 3–Oct 25, 2025
📍 Galerie Templon, New York

Omar Ba’s latest paintings blend pencil, acrylic, oil, and ink to craft suspended portraits layered with textured pattern. Rooted in both Dakar and New York, his work explores diasporic ties and the quiet force of shared history. Ba creates intricate portraits that seem to float in textured space. Working with acrylic, oil, pencil, ink, and even Bic pen, he layers each surface with careful mark-making. His figures, more realistic than in past works, emerge from patterned fields that echo diasporic memory. Moving between Dakar and New York, Ba reflects on shared heritage and silent kinships across continents—offering a quiet, resonant vision of connection amidst cultural fragmentation.

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