Latest from the Chelsea scene

by gabherman

I made the Chelsea rounds last night and thought I’d share some of the incredible work I saw.

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I started out at Daniel Cooney to see Timothy Briner’s show, Boonville. It’s open til Feb 27 and well worth the visit. Beautiful silver gelatin prints and a stunning example of a well executed singular vision.

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Next up was Alex Prager who I love at Yancey Richardson Gallery with a series titled “Week-end”. Her work is eye-candy to me.

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Then off to Hasted Hunt Kraeutler for Paolo Ventura’s Winter Series. Incredible to see the photographs together with the original illustrations and the model figures he used.

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After hitting up those must see’s I moved on to the opening circuit and went to Danziger Projects to see the opening of James Danziger’s show curated from his blog The Year in Pictures. It was a smorgasbord of images displayed in a salon setting featuring Jowhara AlSaud, Chan-Hyo Bae, Thomas Bangsted, Mandy Corrado, Stephen Gill, Joseph Holmes, Alejandra Laviada, Greg Miller, David Schoerner, Patrick Smith, Tommy Ton, Scout Tufankjian, Oliver Warden, Katherine Wolkoff, and Tsukasa Yokozawa.

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And finally went to the Hendershot Gallery for the opening of the show ‘Trying Them On’ curated by Jon Feinstein featuring Claire Beckett, Helen–Maurene Cooper, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, and Michael Bühler-Rose. This was one of those events that was so packed that you ended up being there to schmooze as opposed to seeing the art. They also served fancy mixed drinks, score!

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Was happy to run into Deidre Schoo, Kris Graves, Greg Miller, Elizabeth Barragan, Rachel Hulin, Will Stacey and Zach Gross out and about.