Continuing through November 6^th: Riccardo Veccchio | The 31 Degree Project, Open Studio

31 Degrees project gives visibility to environmental injustice through disparities in tree coverage in prosperous or marginalized neighborhoods in NYC, and sets out to work with city agencies, organizations and communities to plant trees in neighborhoods that need them most.

Join Riccardo for the launch of this public, multi-site mapping and mural project which draws attention to ecological inequalities in NYC neighborhoods. Ed. note: This project was funded by the NYC Artists Corps grants program. At Brooklyn Public Library on November 15. For Open Studio: DM @RiccardoVecchio70

Opening Thursday, November 4: Ruth Asawa | All is Possible at David Zwirner Gallery

Organized by Helen Molesworth, this exhibition aims to situate Asawa’s (1926–2013) iconic looped-and tied-wire sculptures in the context of her extraordinary drawings and her lesser-known sculptural forms, offering viewers one of the most comprehensive looks at this artist’s work to date. This presentation illuminates the practice of an artist in pursuit of form as a means to reshape how we see and perceive the world as well as offering a model for thinking about the avant-garde’s long-held desire to place art and life in a permanently dynamic conversation.Above: Ruth Asawa by Imogen Cunningham, courtesy of David Zwirner

Included in this exhibition will be a selection of “meander” drawings, a motif that emerged from exercises assigned by Josef Albers in his legendary Basic Design class at Black Mountain College, which Asawa attended in the late 1940s. This undulating pattern, created with a spiraling line, suggests a field of fluctuating positive and negative forms akin to the interplay of inside and outside that Asawa would conjure in her “continuous” looped-wire sculptures. 

Asawa’s lesser-known drawings of the minutiae of everyday life—sleeping children, garden plants, and cane and wicker chairs—as well as the ceramic masks of her friends and many visitors to her home, which she would habitually cast in plaster, provide an intimate glimpse into the day to day. Placed in dialogue with the voluminous tied-wire sculptures she devised in 1962, when frustrated by her attempts to draw in two dimensions a desert plant whose branches split exponentially, these works illuminate Asawa’s near-constant devotion to her creative pursuits and distinct way of seeing the world around her.

Ruth Asawa | All is Possible ontinues through December 18 at David Zwirner, 537 West 20^th Street, NY, NY Info

dieFirma, an artist-run platform anchored in New York’s Cooper Square, relaunches it’s exhibition space with site-specific installations by celebrated Japanese photographers Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu. Their immersive, sensorial installations present an array of prints, books, and photographic objects. Bold and rich, aesthetically as well as politically, their work is a reaction and an antidote to our isolating digitized world.

In Looper Syndicate (above), Kanemura makes collages and artists’ books by dismantling and rebuilding other photographs, texts, and printed matter: employing an remixing an endless loop of left-behind images. By doing so, Kanemura touches upon the concepts of non-editing, offering collectors the opportunity to also serve as curators.

On Thursday, November 4, 7:00 pm -  8:30 pm Pauline Vermare will join in conversation with Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu. RSVP for live; also livestreamed; information here

Looper Syndicate Sincerity Department Loyal Division continues through December 18 at dieFirma, 32A Cooper Square, New York www.diefirmanyc.com

Gitterman Gallery launches its new space at 3 East 66^th Street with seven unique chemigrams from the late 1950s by the German artist Chargesheimer (1924—1971). Working without a camera, Chargesheimer applied and manipulated photographic chemistry directly on the surface of photosensitive paper to create captivating abstract works that are the result of physical gesture and chemical reaction. 

These objects, which include elements of both painting and photography, have a correlation to the evolution of abstract painting of the time which had begun to expand beyond the surface of the canvas and to emphasize the physicality of painting. Though Chargesheimer's chemigrams are on paper, their variety of visual textures and detail bear a similar tactility to the painting of his era, and yet they also possess a luminosity that feels particularly photographic.

Gitterman Gallery, 3 East 66^th Street, NY, NY   Info by appointment

Opening Thursday, November 4: Fred Cray | Singular, at Janet Bordem. Inc.

With this exhibition of new works on paper, Cray culminates his Fragments series and his Fingerprint series. The feelings of change, temporality, and fragility prevalent during the pandemic, are indicated by fingerprints, which embody Cray’s unique identity, stamped over the sites. All these works are collages, unique works made of paper or with ink.

Cray’s multiple layers imply movement, both of time and image. Photographs from his camera, made on his circuitous walks through various cities, pictures from the internet, and Cray’s own artwork, offer the artist's kaleidoscopic capture of life today

Fred Cray | Singular continues through December 22 at Janet Borden, Inc. at 91 Water Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY Info

Opening Thursday, November 4: China Marks | Ghosts in the Machine at Owen James Gallery.

Through a combination of textile collage, machine and digital embroidery, and witty texts that imbue her narrative works with poignant humor, China Marks reflects on the absurdities of life. Though most often considered as collage, her work can simultaneously be considered assemblage or illustration, with strong visual ties to traditional animation as well. 

Her use of textile fragments that range from the beautifully delicate to the cartoonishly absurd, from Dutch-wax African designs to those of French toile motifs, she tells eerily familiar stories full of the emotions and contradictions we all face: desire vs. despair, belonging vs. loneliness, confusion or absolutism. The characters are hybrid: sometimes they rely on the native imagery of their source material, and at other times they are almost sculptural bodies molded with embroidery accents.

China Marks | Ghosts in the Machine continues through December 18 at Owen James Gallery, 59 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info

Thursday, November 4-Sunday, November 7: ADDA The Art Show returns to The Park Avenue Armory

The Art Dealers Association of America presents The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit Henry Street Settlement, the 2021 edition features 72 dynamic presentations, including more than half the fair dedicated to solo artist exhibitions.

The fair kicks off with the Benefit Preview on Wednesday, November 3, at 4 pm. Complimenting the fair is a range of in-person and online programming, providing access to ADAA galleries, leading industry experts, curators, and artists. The full schedule follows below and at this link.

Check out Hyperallergic's concise guide the The Art Show here

The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY Info
On Saturday, October 6, 3-5 pm: 30 member galleries the Upper East Side Gallery Walk. Map