Structure and Imagery

Phyllida Barlow's recent commission, prop , the first artwork ever installed on the Northern Spur Preserve at 16th Street on the High Line. Last Saturday  Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, led a walkthrough of the Phyllida Barlow exhibition, "tilt", currently on view at Hauser & Wirth on 22nd Street in Chelsea. The group met at the site of Barlow's commission, "prop", on the the High Line at 16th Street then moved on to the gallery. Below you will find a photo essay of the exhibition on view through December 22. "Prop" will remain on view on the High Line Through March 2019. Cecilia Alemani address the crowd. From the Press Release: For more than fifty years, British artist Phyllida Barlow has created sculptures and large-scale installations using a direct and intuitive process of making. She transforms humble, readily ava...

Double Cross , 2012, colored pencil on paper, 8 x 8 in. Mi O Minus , 2012, oil on panel, 14 x 14 in. Mono Para , 2012, oil on panel, 14 x 14 in. Orange Realigned , 2012, oil on panel, 16 x 16 in. From the press release: Rob de Oude makes straight lines bend. He achieves this perceptual effect through a rigorous and meticulous painting process, layering and weaving matrices of straight lines until, between the contrasting colors and crisscrossing patterns, grids begin to bow and warp. This visual slight, a more painterly and maximalist type of Op art, tricks the eye through sheer ocular overload. In an age of unabated visional stimulation, these super-imposed networks speak of digital delirium, increased connectivity between disparate points and, perhaps most crucially, unbridled visual pleasure. Much like a web — whether of fiber-optic cables or spider-spun silk — de Oude’s compositions have a seductive power that’s difficult to escape. Indee...