In no particular order other than north to south:
- Despite the Sun at Foxy Production, 547 West 27th Street -- particularly the sculpture/paintings of Yuh-Shioh Wong.
- Larissa Bates at Monya Rowe, 526 West 26th Street, 5th floor -- One of the best shows up in Chelsea right now, and I'm not just saying that because we own one of her works.
- Valaire Van Slyck at Capsule, 521 West 26th Street -- paintings of the Detroit as "the physical manifestation of American failure." The next show there looks great. It's curated by Andrew Guenther.
- Rob Thom at LFL, 530 West 24th Street -- for the drawings especially
- Bozidar Brozda at HaswellEdiger, 465 West 23rd Street -- I'm thrilled to see a new gallery in Chelsea that's more like an edgy LES/Chinatown gallery than the typical Chelsea fare. The two partners are Angela Kotinkaduwa, former director of Maccarone Inc., and Samantha Tsao, former associate director of Thread Waxing Space. See the write-up by James. Also, it looks like there is a performance by Cola Freaks (Danish punk I believe) on November 11, 7:30-8:30.
- Ina Diane Archer's video installation at Heido Cho, 522 West 23rd Street -- Ina creates films in which she inserts herself into older films, ranging from a medley of Richard Widmark films to early African-American Vitaphone films and Fassbinder's Fox and his Friends [Fassbinder's estate should sue Fox for having a fake news show called Fox and Friends]
- Christy Rupp at Frederieke Taylor, 535 West 22nd Street -- I think the poster works are more effective than the sculpture, with quite good use of corporate logos and globalization themes. A lot of people try to work with these issues without making visually compelling art, but she pulls it off.
There are other shows worth seeing, but this is based on what I looked at over the last few days. James and I have already written about some other shows of note in Chelsea.
