Opening Friday, July 8: Sensory Poetics | Collecting Abstraction at the Guggenheim

Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction brings together highlights from the Guggenheim’s growing collection of contemporary art. Acquired over the past ten years, and shown at the museum for the first time, this selection of artworks reflects developments in painting, sculpture, and video from the 1960s to today that demonstrate an expression of gesture as a response to the constraint of Minimalism. An appeal to the human hand, whether through the tactility of materials or the gestural marks that comprise the compositions is a theme that runs through the show in diverse aesthetic approaches taken by the artists, which reaffirm the Guggenheim’s commitment to expanding the story of abstraction that is at the core of its history. 

On view will be works by artists originating from Europe and the Americas:  Carlito Carvalhosa, Jessica Dickinson, Jorge Eielson, Sonia Gomes, Virginia Jaramillo, Caroline Kent, Senga Nengudi, Zilia Sánchez, Vivian Suter, and Stanley Whitney. Above: Stanley Whitney, Untitled, 1997, Photo: Allison Chipak

Through October 17 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Info

Opening Thursday, July 7, 6-8 pm: Sasha Douglas-Nares | The Snake that Holds our House Together at dieFirma

The exhibition is comprised of  seven large-format photographs taken from a body of work in which the artist contemplates—through images and poetry—the  catastrophe of climate change. Through the lens, she confronts her surroundings and seeks a way forward through uncertain terrain.  The exhibition will be accompanied by a zine published by the gallery.dieFirma Gallery, 32A Cooper Square, New York, NY Info

Closing Friday July 8: Bryan Graf | Telepathic Jungle at Yancey Richardson

With Telepathic Jungle, Graf continues his exploration and interpretation of place and memory through experimental, process-driven photographs. Balancing conceptual, visceral and narrative approaches to the medium, Graf conjures a sensorial view of nature and its effect on our consciousness. Click to hear Jungle Waves, a playlist curated by the artist for the exhibition. 

Yancey Richardson, 525 West 22^nd Street, New York, NY Info

Opening Saturday, July 8, 6-8pm: James Welling | Iconographia at Regan Projects

For Iconographia Welling’s camera becomes a time machine, reanimating images of Greek and Roman busts. The exhibition debuts these Personae, as well as a selection of images from his Cento series. Welling has used the camera as a vehicle to “time travel” in previous bodies of work such as Diary/Landscape, Seascape, Wyeth, Buildings by H. H. Richardson, Glass House, and Maison de Verre, but rarely with the emotional intensity of this latest exhibition. The exhibition’s title, Iconographia, refers to a seventeenth-century portfolio of intaglio portraits made by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.

Through August 20 at Regan Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA Info

Opening Sunday, July 9, noon-5pm: Kelli Connell | Double Life / 20 Years

Kelli Connell’s twenty-year project with one model represents an autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of the self in intimate relationships. The project explores polarities of identity such as the masculine and feminine psyche, the irrational and rational self, the exterior and interior self, and the motivated and resigned.

By combining multiple photographic negatives of the same model in each image, the dualities of the self are defined by body language and clothing. The importance of these images lies in the representation of interior dilemmas portrayed as an external object: a photograph. Through these images, the audience is presented with “constructed realities”.

Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8^th Avenue, Portland, OR Info

Wednesday, July 13, 7:00 pm: Book launch | Michelle Dunn Marsh, Seeing Being Seen at Foley Gallery

Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography (Minor Matters 2022) offers a glimpse into the challenging and rewarding choices of a career in publishing, and in the arts. This text-based memoir by a woman who, as she notes in the introduction, "began reading picture books and ended up publishing them," is punctuated by iconic photographs—gifted to the author from projects, obtained through trade, or purchased in support of non-profit arts organizations—by some of American photography’s master practitioners. Above: Photo by Eugene Richards, from Stepping Through the Ashes

With photographs by Robert Adams, Endia Beal, Paul Berger, Elinor Carucci, Catherine Chalmers, Adrain Chesser, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Jeff Dunas, Larry Fink, Marina Font, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Isaac Layman, An-My Lê, Eirik Johnson and Daniel Carillo, Mary Ellen Mark, Jim Marshall, Graham Nash, Sylvia Plachy, Eugene Richards, Meghann Riepenhoff, Charlie Rubin, Stephen Shore, Jonathan David Smyth, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Carrie Mae Weems, Alice Wheeler, Will Wilson, and others. Afterword by Nancy Salguero McKay, Executive Director, Highline Heritage Museum. Read the interview with Jon Feinstein at Humble Arts Foundation

Foley Gallery, 52 Orchard Street, New York, NY Info

Saturday, July 16, 6:00pm: Doug Menuez talk at Rezny Gallery Kingston

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) presents an artist talk with photographer Doug Menuez and reception to celebrate the closing of his exhibition Wild Place: People of Kingston. Menuez will discuss his unique documentary photography and his approach to the exhibition. The talk will be followed by an audience discussion moderated by Barry Mayo, CPW board co-president.

Also on view will be a special exhibition showcasing photography by students who participated in a three-week youth program conducted by Menuez. With Menuez’s instruction and guidance, each student created their own long-term documentary photo project that will be available to view from July 14 to 17 at CPW’s new facilities at 474 Broadway. 

Rezny Gallery, 76 Prince Street, Kingston