WHITNEY BIENNIAL.
The Whitney Biennial brings together works of art by a wide variety of artists (60+ this year, I believe), many of them young. Most of the art is recent or new works and includes paintings, sculpture, and video. Overall the art is strange, provocative, disturbing, and sometimes even realistic. We did just one floor of this extensive exhibit and will have to return to see the rest. Here are some samples of what we saw.
One section of a cube by Pope. L, you could walk into whose interior and exterior walls were all covered with these slices of bologna each one with the face of one individual Jew in New York. Almost 2,800 of these slices representing a fraction of a percent of the Jews in the city. Odd and slightly disturbing.
Work by Jon Kessler
La Talaverita, Sunday Morning NY Times, 2016 by Aliza Nisenbaum
One of John Divola’s series of Abandoned Paintings.
Section of stained glass wall by Raul de Nieves. In front of it were several life sized figures made of yard, fabric, beads and the like.
Glimmer Glass, 2016 by Carrie Moyer
Rug, 2015 by Ulrike Muller
The Whitney’s outdoor terraces are a wonderful venue for large scale sculpture. I was particularly taken with the series of red cubes within cubes graduated in the degree of transparency. The sculptor is Larry Bell. The header photo is another view of this captivating work.
Note: All photos by JWFarrington.
