Last chance, Wednesday, August 13: Mary Temple + Nathan Dilworth at Half

Please go by the images here  since this, from the website, is not much to go on: In the 1970s. Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf began spending summers in Nova Scotia, vacating New York for more wide-open spaces. Outside their house in Mabou, they hung a clothesline both for laundry and as a support for Frank’s photographs. He said that his pictures benefited from a background. The result is a force multiplier of the natural world: manufactured by humans, made visible by the possibility of a landscape. 

Our two person show with painters Mary Temple [above right] and Nathan Dilworth [above left] is entitled “Double Nature,” and somehow relates to the Robert Frank story. Both are calls to behold the glory of fauna and first light.  The filmmaker Robert Bresson rightly observed that a green looks different next to a baby blue. With this metric in mind, Dilworth’s “Feeling Dream” mutates - shudders - next to Temple’s “Cibicue Falls.” The viewer is invited to contend with his abstraction as a stand-in for some Arizona waterfall and vice versa.  “A sense of things being recognizable,” says Dilworth, “but the overall logic remaining just out of reach.”

Half Gallery, 235 East 4^th Street, New York, NY Info

Last Chance, Firday, August 15: Nathalie Khayat | Unfolded Proximities at Boesky

For her debut New York solo show, Beirut artist Nathalie Khayat presents a suite of new sculptures that expand the very possibility of expression in clay. Khayat harnesses the material properties of clay to examine the poetic tensions between structure and fluidity, containment and release, fragility and endurance in objects infused with reminders of human ritual. Through an intuitive dialogue with clay, Khayat constructs sculptural forms that oscillate between architectural precision and organic vulnerability. While the artist’s work has long occupied a liminal space between function and form, Khayat’s newest body of work embraces—and prioritizes—clay’s capacity for emotional resonance over use[fulness].

Throughout the exhibition, belts cinch clustered, hollow pillars in a tense embrace while wheel-thrown vessels cling to rigid supports as if grafted. In others, undulating petals and reef-like growths cleave to solid, geometric forms that bear faint traces of their functional histories—handles with no spouts, bowls and plates flung to their sides and flipped upside down. The seams of these sculptures—once stark divides where fluid, organic forms encountered exacting supports—become sites of fusion, as bodies and memories dissolve into one another. 

Marianne Boesky Gallery, 507 West 24^th Street, New York, NY Info 

Saturday, August 23, 4-6pm: Denilson Baniwa | Forest of the Night at Storefront

Blending contemporary and ancestral iconography, Brazilian artist Denilson Baniwa draws from the cosmologies of his Baniwa people and other Indigenous communities of Brazil and the Amazon, whose rich histories told through dance, music, and oral tradition are marked by centuries of loss and extraction. 

This mural becomes a shifting forest across Storefront’s moving panels, with iridescent colors that recall how moonlight dances through the canopy. Quotidian life and myth collide to create a layered scene that resists longstanding colonial narratives of Indigenous erasure embedded in Brazil’s founding histories. 

For Baniwa, the Amazon exists as a vital part of our collective imagination—one often romanticized yet disconnected from the corrosive forces that power city life. Na floresta à noite serves as a bridge between these worlds, inviting passersby to step into the forest’s rhythm and to witness the intertwined fates of its beings, both real and spiritual.

Storefront for Art and Architecture, 37 Kenmare Street, New York, NY Info

Continuing through August 23: Victor Ekpuk | Looking Backward and Forward at Aicon

Aicon is proud to present  the third solo exhibition of Nigerian-American artist Victor Ekpuk at our New York gallery. On the occasion of this exhibition of both new and old paintings and sculpture, Dr. Moyo Okediji offered the following insight into the artist’s practice: “The work of Victor Ekpuk has generated an exciting visual pidginization of cultureß in contemporary art, as he orchestrates a critical dialogue between his indigenous Ibibio traditional idioms and his adopted Western standards of artistic expressions. 

“In the Ibibio tradition, art is defined as Mbre, a term that precisely addresses creativity as play. Mbre, while defined as play, classifies visual objects as part of a larger corpus of creative expressions including music, choreography, literature, installations and performance.  In his research Ekpuk discovered that the visual aspects are principally grounded in sacred Nsibidi forms, which range from cryptic calligraphic writing to elaborate pictorial expressivity with figural forms. 

Nsibidi includes two-dimensional compositions, three-dimensional sculptural configurations, and multi-dimensional installations and performances transformed by mysterious energies connecting human and supernatural forces.”

Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones Street, New York, NY Info
For the closing days of the show, Aicon will be open on Sunday. August 17, from noon to 5pm in addition to regular gallery hours. 

Last chance August 24: David King Publications 1977-2019 at Printed Matter

Now open following its extended inventory closing, Printed Matter presents the first New York survey show of small press publications, zines, ephemera, paste-ups, and early design projects by English artist, graphic designer, and musician David King (1948–2019). The exhibition brings together four decades of the artist’s self-published print output, capturing his unique graphic approach as it intersects with his involvement in the no wave and post-punk scenes in New York, San Francisco, and beyond. Best known as the inventor of the Crass symbol, a band logo which went on to become a metaphor for anti-war and anti-nuke resistance, King’s influences were recently charted by Stephen Heller in Print.

On video: Luca Antonucci (Colpa Press) and Matt Borruso (Visible Publications) present a short slideshow and discuss David King; the artist, graphic designer, and musician best known for designing the Crass symbol. This talk coincides with the release of David King Publications 1977–2019, which surveys King’s small press publications, zines, ephemera, and early design projects. Watch

Printed Matter, 231 11^th Avenue, New York, NY Info

Continuing through August 30; Yuji Agematsu | Zips at  Judd and Brown

Judd Foundation presents an exhibition of work by Yuji Agematsu in Soho, one of two concurrently presented in NYC homes. At the Foundation, on Spring Street, the former living and working space of Donald Judd, Agematsu worked for more than two decades as a building manager.
The second is the Harlem house of Gavin Brown. Spread across both homes are two consecutive years of zips—tiny devotional sculptures Agematsu fashions from detritus that he comes across in New York’s streets and then gardens lightly inside the cellophane sleeve of a cigarette pack.

Three hundred and sixty-six of these zips are displayed on shelves at Judd Foundation, memorializing daily walks taken in succession over the year 2024: one for each day. Another three hundred and sixty-five, from 2023, are on display at Brown’s home. Since 1996, Agematsu has made one zip for each day, twenty-eight years of walking and arranging..

Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Street. On view Fridays and Saturdays,1:00–5:00pm. Gavin Brown, 229 Lenox Avenue. On viewvFridays and Saturdays, 1:00–5:00pm. Info