Gallery Listings

ACA Galleries, New York City

“Small and Everlasting: 1897–2008,” small-scale works by important twentieth-century American artists such as Reginald Marsh and George Bellows, along with contemporaries such as Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, whose Language of the Birds suggests the Cloisters Unicorn tapestries. Through January 31, 2009.

 

Arden Gallery, Boston

Norman Laliberte, folk art-inspired composite acrylic and mixed media paintings, with a cheerful palette. These patchwork quilt compositions bring a modernist sophistication to playful motifs. January 3–30, 2009.

 

Artspace, San Antonio, Texas

Kehinde Wiley, “The World Stage: Africa Lagos-Dakar,” epic portraits of contemporary young African men, with dynamic backdrops taken from historical design. Organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem. January 15–May 3, 2009.

 

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York City

“The Figure in American Art,” twelfth annual exhibition featuring gallery artists Paul Oxborough, Gabriela Gonzales Dellosso and Nicholas Raynolds, among others. January 8–February 1, 2009.

 

Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York City

Luigi Benedicenti, “La Dolce Vita,” hypnotically glossy, uncanny, hyper-realist depictions of deserts by an Italian painter. November 6–December 6, 2008.

 

Chase Gallery, Boston

George Gabin, stylized, bird’s-eye views of rolling countryside with a muted blue-grey palette. December 2–27, 2008.

 

DC Moore Gallery, New York City

Studies for paintings by George Tooker, supplementing the retrospective at the National Academy Museum. Also “Eye to Eye,” playful paintings by Alexi Worth, who de-familiarizes images of apples, books eyes and hands by filling the foreground with their simple graphic shapes. Both shows November 13, 2008–January 3, 2009.