Art Openings This Week: Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Clic Gallery, Amador Gallery, Nailya Alexander Gallery

Chockablock week of exhibition openings in NYC once again for part two of the opening of fall gallery season.
Thursday nite in Chelsea, Jenkins Johnson Gallery hosts the show Plugged In, featuring works by a group of artists who merge various forms of photography and image-making with new technology and electronic arts. On display are works by Jeremy Bert, Andrew Bovasso, Daniele Buetti, Tim Etchells, Gregory Scott and Timotheus Tomicek.

Lourdes
© Daniele Buetti

Buetti creates radiant installations w/ traditional c-prints mounted on lightboxes, with rays of light infused through perforations in the print surface. He incorporates methodologies from the advertising industry to address the notion of seduction in imagery and media, and to reveal the frailty of popular culture.

Taxi, 2009
© Gregory Scott

Scott combines photography, video and painting into single artworks that recall 19th century trompe l'oeil paintings. The still image above doesn't do total justice to the experience of seeing his works in person; to get a better sense, see this video of Taxi, 2009 from his website, or the video below from his 2009 exhibition at Catherine Edelman Gallery.


Plugged In
the works of Jeremy Bert, Andrew Bovasso, Daniele Buetti, Tim Etchells, Gregory Scott and Timotheus Tomicek
opening Thursday 15 September
6-8pm
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
521 W. 26th St., 5th floor, NYC

Also on Thursday nite, Clic Gallery opens the exhibition The New Gypsies, images from the recently published book by Ian McKell.

from the book The New Gypsies
© Ian McKell

I recently featured McKell's project here on the blog, so I won't rehash all the info again today, but please see that post in the archive if you want to read more about his work.

from the book The New Gypsies
© Ian McKell

The New Gypsies
photographs by Ian McKell
opening Thursday 15 September
6-8pm
Clic Gallery
255 Centre St., NYC

Also, two other NYC shows well worth a look that opened earlier this week:
Amador Gallery has an exhibition of one of my favorite photographers, Lars Tunbjork.

Oland, 1991
from the book Landet Utom Sig
© Lars Tunbjork

This show will feature a selection of Tunbjork's color photographs from 1988-2002, his visual and sociological observations of work, leisure, and home as reflected in his books Landet Utom Sig, Home, and Office.

Lawyer's Office, New York, 1997
from the book Office
© Lars Tunbjork

photographs by Lars Tunbjork
ongoing thru 19 November
Amador Gallery
41 E. 57th St., 6th floor, NYC

And in the same building, Nailya Alexander Gallery is hosting the show Distant Relations, photographs by Lori Grinker.

Untitled, Ukraine, 2008
from the series Distant Relations
© Lori Grinker

Grinker's project is comprised of color photographs made from 2002-2011 in Lithuania, South Africa, Ukraine, and the US. The series traces her family's migration from western Lithuania (and eventually to the US) beginning in the late 1800s. I'm particularly compelled by Grinker's project as I've taken on an interest in sloooowwwly (as in, very very very very slowly) photographing my own family's roots from Transylvania.

Untitled, California, 2011
from the series Distant Relations
© Lori Grinker

Distant Relations
photographs by Lori Grinker
ongoing thru 15 October
Nailya Alexander Gallery
41 E. 57th St., suite 704, NYC