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Gallery Openings Today
Drawn From Photography: The Drawing Center, 6 - 8 PM, 35 Wooster Street, 212-219-2166
Drawn from Photography, on view in the Main Gallery from February 18-March 31, 2011, showcases 13 artists who use drawing to meticulously translate images originally received through photo-based media or digital circulation. Drawings feature scenes of social transformation from the last two centuries including scenes of war and protest as well as views of urban landscapes and industrial developments. Whether using found media sources or their own snapshots, the artists share a reconstructive, labor-intensive impulse that counteracts the rapid dissemination of information that defines the media age.
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Lee Wells, Actions for Freedom: New Work: Rooster Gallery, 6 - 8 PM, 190 Orchard Street, between Houston and Stanton, 212-230-1370
Lee Wells (born 1971), offers a complex intermix of images, which engage issues of war, sexuality, freedom and liberation. Deeply rooted in the history of painting and dialogue of the Avant-garde, "Action For Freedom", presents portraits of humanity as an attempt to create order within the chaos, confusion and wonder of the early 21st century.
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Mark Sheinkman: Von Lintel Gallery, 6 - 8 PM, 520 West 23rd Street, 212-242-0599
Mark Sheinkman's linear abstractions explore notions of time, space and transition. The black and white compositions' subtle variations in tone are directly related to the artist's process and material. A base layer of white oil and alkyd paint is applied to the canvas before powdered graphite is spread over its surface. Sheinkman then goes through a multi-layered process of application and removal, erasing the graphite to create a visual effect of curvilinear forms moving through space.
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Coke Wisdom O'Neal's "Blue Nude": Mixed Greens, 6 - 8 PM, 531 West 26th Street, 212-331-8888
Mixed Greens is thrilled to announce Blue Nude, Coke Wisdom O'Neal's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past five years, O'Neal has become known for his monumental plywood boxes, where people are invited to climb in and be photographed. In this new series, the box and its participants-a now diminutive and transparent container with nude inhabitants-have changed significantly. What was once a project about space, identity, and identification has become a venture exploring anonymity, constraint, and escape.
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Minor Cropping May Occur (selected diaries 1962-2011) co-curated by Lea Freid and Nick Haymes: Lombard-Freid Projects, 6 - 8 PM, 518 West 19th Street, 212-967-8040
Lombard Freid Projects is pleased to present Minor Cropping May Occur (selected diaries 1962-2011), an exhibition connecting thirteen international photographers-both established and emerging-whose works were created between the 1960s and the present. The artists exhibited employ a diaristic style in approaching their subjects. All the photographs presented in this show avoid classification as documentation while firmly capturing reality. The images are carefully edited, often directly through the camera's viewfinder, to create complex, emotional stories that ultimately transgress the private/public boundaries.
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Shanna Waddell, Misshapen Chaos of Well-seeming Forms!: Thomas Erben Gallery, 6 - 8:30 PM, 526 West 26th Street, 4th Floor, 212-645-8701
 Playing impasto against splattered veils and contrasting urban colors with a new age palette, these works distort material flatness into a warped spatiality and combine figuration with abstract symbols and uninhibited brushwork, holding together a spectrum of sensibilities that precipitates early American modernism into an apocalyptic, prophetic hyperbole and personal vision.
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