Art Spiel (2025)

18/09/2025

Maya Perry’s solo exhibition at RAINRAIN gallery is both tender and powerful, full of tranquility and wonder. It is a conversation on humanness and existence. With the drawings, we see snapshots of thoughts, memories, feelings, and with the paintings we see narratives and longer moments of growing, returning, and becoming. This exhibition navigates the spaces where memory fractures and re-forms, dealing with the complications of the past.
This breaking and rebuilding of memories evokes the sensation of a dream that is remembered before it was ever had, before it ever existed. Perry uses many symbols and motifs within the works to depict memories and how life is formed around them, growing into many new forms and directions in the process. Like a small seed that grows into a sapling, extending in many directions within its foundations, into new directions, however, it always returns to what first created it.

Special thank to our writer: Taylor Bielecki .bielecki
Featured Show: The Moon Takes Shape of an Outsider’s Light
Featured Artist: Maya Perry
Featured Venue: RAINRAIN Gallery
110 Lafayette St, Suite 201, New York NY 10013
On View through: October 11, 2025

17/09/2025

Curating an exhibition at Cornell doesn’t require waiting until after graduation or climbing a long academic ladder. The Art Department makes the process unusually accessible—for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty alike. Within the department, there are two dedicated galleries, and under the larger umbrella of the AAP College, a third gallery also accepts exhibition proposals. Each semester, a committee comes together to review applications for the following term. It was within this framework that two graduate students took on the challenge of organizing a large group exhibition. Michael Morgan, who co-curated the exhibition with Elina Ansary, tells us about the process behind the show.

Special thanks to our writer Etty Yaniv .yaniv

Featured Show: Magnum O-Pspsps
Curators in Dialogue:
Elina Ansary .m.ansary
Michael Morgan
Featured Venue: Cornell - Olive Tjaden Gallery, Tjaden Hall
The show includes works by: Kiki Smith, Pamela Sneed, Leeza Meksin, Eric Hibit, Dona Nelson, Joanna Malinowska, Leslie Brack, George Boorujy, Julianne Hunter, Steve Keister, Kate Clark, Will Hutnick, Erika Ranee, Catherine Haggarty, Lisa Lebofsky, Emily Henretta, JJ Manford, Aimée Burg, Emily Weiskopf, Jan Baracz, and more; as well as occasional contributions by the artists’ cats.

16/09/2025

With the excitement of the art fairs behind us it’s time to take one look back at The Armory Show and note a couple artists to watch this year who clearly stood out in the whirlwind of that weekend.

Special thanks to our writer: Anna Shukeylo
Featured Artists:
Doron Langberg
Josh Raz
Featured Galleries:
Victoria Miro
Ronchini Gallery

15/09/2025

September in New York is a sensory crescendo—fashion, tennis, and art converge in a city that thrives on spectacle. At the center of it all, The Armory Show 2025 returned to the Javits Center from September 4–7, hosting over 230 exhibitors from 35 countries and drawing more than 50,000 visitors. This year’s edition, the second since its acquisition by Frieze, was slightly smaller than last year’s—but no less ambitious. Dealers reported strong momentum from VIP day onward, especially for works at lower price points, while higher-priced pieces moved at a measured pace. Many noted a noticeably younger crowd—engaged, curious, and eager to discover.

Under the leadership of newly appointed Director Kyla McMillan, the fair has evolved into a dynamic platform for dialogue. It retains its New York identity while embracing a sharper, more inclusive curatorial focus. “We want to be the essential American fair,” McMillan says—not in dominance, but in resonance.

European participation added a vital layer to the fair’s international scope. Fifty-two galleries from across the continent brought curatorial rigor and regional nuance.

For detailed review of the highlights, please see link in bio.
Special thanks to our writer Eva Zanardi

12/09/2025

ArtSpiel Pick - Part 2

Featured Show: Piece By Piece
Featured Gallery: Elza Kayal Gallery 368 Broadway, Suite 409, New York, NY
Featured Artists: Shira Toren, Carol Salmanson, Ward Yoshimoto, Christina Massey, Teri Gandy-Richardson, Elizabeth Riley, Heather Cox
On View through Oct 10 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, Sep 12, 6-8pm

P1: Teri Gandy-Richardson .gandyrichardson
P2: Carol Salmanson
P3: Ward Yoshimoto

Organizer: Jaynie Gillman Crimmins

12/09/2025

ArtSpiel Pick - Part 1
Featured Show: Piece By Piece
Featured Gallery: Elza Kayal Gallery 368 Broadway, Suite 409, New York, NY
Featured Artists: Shira Toren, Carol Salmanson, Ward Yoshimoto, Christina Massey, Teri Gandy-Richardson, Elizabeth Riley, Heather Cox
On View through Oct 10 2025
P1: Shira Toren
P2: Christina Massey
P3: Elizabeth Riley
P4: Heather Cox
Organizer: Jaynie Gillman Crimmins
More to come…

09/09/2025

Sparkling surfaces abound in Backscatter, OVERLAP’s quietly radiant summer show of works by Funlola Coker, Katherine Mitchell DiRico, Jesse Kaminsky, Joetta Maue, Leah Piepgras, and Esther Solondz, curated by Alicia Renadette. On a clear summer midmorning, sunshine falls across shimmering layers of glass, crystal, gold leaf, copper, bronze, salt, acrylic, and clear liquid. Materials catch and refract light. The overall effect is of a hushed brilliance that draws you in, inviting a closer look.

Special thanks to our writer: Persephone Allen
Featured Show: Backscatter
Featured Artists:
Funlola Coker
Katherine Mitchell DiRico .mitchell.dirico
Jesse Kaminsky
Joetta Maue
Leah Piepgras
Esther Solondz
Featured Venue: OVERLAP

08/09/2025

The 2025 art fair season has descended upon us, and with it comes a myriad of activities. Amidst the hustle and bustle of moving around the cities to see what’s on view, there were many standouts at this year’s presentations at the Armory and Art on Paper.

Special thanks to our writer: Yasmeen Abdallah
Art Fairs:
The Armory:
Art on Paper:

03/09/2025

When artist Alexandra Limpert invited Janet Rutkowski to co-curate Reclamation in honor of her longtime friend and Holland Tunnel founder Paulien Lethen, Rutkowski accepted without hesitation. Although she had just finished curating and exhibiting in several projects, she embraced the challenge with what she describes as her “devil-may-care” approach. The exhibition’s title emerged quickly, reflecting her interest in the idea of recovery and renewal.
Reclamation was conceived around the use of found and reclaimed materials. The show brings together Hudson Valley artists who relocated from Brooklyn and New York, alongside those who remained in the city. This duality echoes the trajectory of Holland Tunnel Gallery itself, founded in Williamsburg in 1997 and expanded to Newburgh in 2018. For Rutkowski, the project became about relationships, reconnecting with artists from the Williamsburg and Greenpoint scene of the 1980s—many of whom she had not worked with or spoken to in decades.

Featured Show: Reclamation
Featured Venue:
Holland Tunnel Gallery
46 Chambers Street, Newburgh, NY
Co-Curators:
Alexandra Limpert
Janet Rutkowski tudios
Featuring artists: , .hamm @
nestorartstudio .artist

02/09/2025

“Coming full circle and making whole” is how Holly Wong describes her process of repair—working with memory, reassembling fragments, and layering paint, fabric, and light into new forms. On view at SLATE Contemporary in Oakland from September 5 through October 11, 2025, Full Circle is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. It brings together collaged paintings on shaped aluminum and wood panels, mixed media drawings, wall-based fiber and LED installations, and a heat-molded acrylic assemblage, presenting a mid-career survey of her work.

Featured Show: Full Circle
Featured Artist: Holly Wong
Featured Venue: SLATE Contemporary Gallery 473 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
On View: September 5 - October 11, 2025
Book launch: Saturday, September 20, 3-5pm

28/08/2025

In MIST, four artists are brought together to take the inspiration of summer, and find a way to break through the heatwaves that have recently hit New York. There is a dialogue between the artists and their various takes on works on paper, bringing forth summer sensibilities, airiness, freshness, and a feeling of being free. Each artist offers a different series of works.
Walking into the gallery, I gravitated immediately to the back corner. Lined with deckled- edge papers that slightly hovered off the wall, I was greeted with the work of Nell Waters. These pieces become an abstraction of nature and an illustration of ethereal, hovering feelings. The fleeting flashes of greens and yellows washing over handmade paper resemble sunspots. It’s as if the washes of watercolor are leaves falling slowly in the breeze, the sun glowing vibrantly through them. These small-scale watercolors explore gesture, transience, and the meditative quality of diluted pigment on paper. Separate from Waters’ usual large-scale oil paintings, these works reflect a quiet, poetic response to the natural world, and carry with them the show’s theme of a misty oasis, an escape into nature.

Special thanks to our writer: Taylor Bielecki .bielecki
Featured Show: MIST
Featured Artists:
Nell Waters ,
Sue Carlson
Holly Miller .art
Sylvia Schwartz .art
Featured Venue: Helm Contemporary 132 Bowery, New York NY
On View through: September 6, 2025

27/08/2025

Water Way, Mary Heilmann’s newly opened show at Guild Hall in East Hampton and her first large-scale museum show on Long Island’s East End, is a joyous celebration of 40 years of the artist’s career. The water-themed exhibition includes not only paintings and works on paper but also chairs, a small table, and ceramics, the latter either on its own or incorporated into a painting as in the 2020’s red acrylic Barrel and Tube. Heilmann is a longtime resident of Bridgehampton and her reverence for the ocean reverberates throughout, underpinned by an underground, punk rock/new wave, California surf culture ethos.

Special thanks to our writer: Amanda Church
Featured Show: Water Way
Featured Artist: Mary Heilmann
Featured Venue: Guild Hall East Hampton, NY
Curated by: Melanie Crader
On View through: October 26, 2025

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