Wednesday, July 13, 6-8 pm: Power Tools at Candace Madey

Power Tools, an exhibition of artists who reference tools in their work, and by extension, explore a history of objects and their symbolic and practical importance for individual and collective agency. The exhibition further considers our dissociated relationship to tools and a consumer culture that has largely relinquished the skills required to make, repair, and reuse. Artists, craftspeople, and technicians are important exceptions to this trend; and artists specifically are in a unique cultural position to critique how tools, and technology, relate to power structures and autonomy. Above: Judith Bernstein, Hardware (1960)

The exhibition includes recent and historic works by Ilana Harris-Babou, Mary Bauermeister, Judith Bernstein, Lee Lozano, Em Kettner, Jake Kean Mayman, Keegan Monaghan, Marina Pinsky, Gabriela Salazar, and Erika Vogt.

Candace Madey, 1 Rivington Street, New York, NY 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

Thursday, July 14, 4-7 pm: Together/Apart at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109

Together | Apart highlights the artwork created during the pandemic by adults who participate in the Covello Older Adult Center's Making Art Work program. It will feature over 75 textiles, clay works, prints, Chinese painting, cut paper, and mixed media pieces that were completed in 2020-2022 either in-person or remotely through Zoom classes during the COVID crisis. Above: Peggy Roalf, Untitled, Monotype, 2022

El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, 215 East 99^th Street, New York, NY Info

Thursday, July 14, 6-8 pm: Unfolding Forms | Multiple Approaches to the Book at the Center for Book Arts and Miriam Gallery

The exhibition features works by 12 artists who were Artists-In-Residence at Center for Book Arts in 2020 and 2021. Each of these individuals has their experimented with new techniques and crafted boundary-pushing works. These richly diverse and interdisciplinary projects will be on view through September 24 at CBA, and concurrently at Miriam Gallery through August 21. Above: artwork by Oswaldo García Info

Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, New York, NY Info

Friday, July 15, 2 pm: Somatic Partnering Workshop at the New Museum

In this two-hour Somatic Partnering Workshop, led by New Museum artist-in-residence Ilya Vidrin, participants will explore the roots of physical interaction through movement. Combining dance with questions that challenge and enhance interaction, this unique experience features exercises that engage relational movement, including touch, proximity, and mutual gaze. No prior dance experience is necessary; all bodies and physical abilities welcome. Register $15

New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY Info

Closing Friday, July 15: Daisy Parris | The Warm Glow at James Fuentes

From a review in The New Yorker: … such are the hazards of emotional directness and sincerity—qualities fundamental to Parris’s charming art. “I will always ache when I think of you” reads text painted onto a raw-canvas flag, hanging like a Post-it at the bottom of one small painting.…The centerpiece of the exhibition, “I’d Rather Get No Sleep Next to You Than Sleep Alone,” is an effusive triptych—a gardenlike composition, whose brushwork suggests an homage to the gestural tangles of Joan Mitchell. A concurrent presentation of Parris’s drawings, on the gallery’s Web site, reflects the same earnestness, ardor, and pain as the canvases, albeit in a more intimate register.

James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, New York, NY Info

Continuing through June 27: Small Works at Carter Burden Gallery

Over sixty gallery artists present artwork using identical 10” x 10” canvases in The Small Works Show. The resulting paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and collages vary considerably, highlighting Carter Burden Gallery artists’ diverse strengths. The pieces have all been priced at $200 to be accessible to first time collectors. On the Wall: Make Your Mark accompanies the exhibition, creating a space for visitors to add to the collaborative piece in the public installation space. Above: Karin Bruckner,BreakoutBluems

Carter Burden Gallery, 548 West 28^th Street, New York, NY Info