Line and plane, concept and percept, solid and space, figure and ground, subject and object appear to be so completely correlative as to be convertible into each other. At one moment it seems that there are, for example, no lines in nature: there are only the boundaries of planes, boundaries which are, after all, the planes themselves.

The 22nd Edition of Salon Zürcher seeks to represent an emerging art world inside and outside of New York City. Between our two galleries, Zürcher Paris / New York has hosted 21 mini art fairs, which have been major successes and garnered very positive media attention.

MW Projects is pleased to present Inversions: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Architecture of Louis Kahn, a group exhibition featuring painting, sculpture, photography, film, dance, installation and sound by 24 artists. The exhibition will be on view from October 19 through November 10, with a public opening reception on Saturday, October 19, 6-8pm. The gallery is located on Roosevelt Island, a short walk to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, Kahn’s only design in New York City.

“I was always drawn to Modernist work—anything since the early 1900s. I admire artists who think more abstractly about the world and are influenced by nature, psychology, and philosophy. They were formally trained and slowly condensed things to an essence. When I was young, I became interested in the sprawl of suburban Chicago. It wasn’t necessarily urban, but it wasn’t nature either. It forced me to analyze American culture in terms of landscape. Where do you find beauty amid the banality of things? There was an emptiness to the stretch of strip malls in the suburbs that I felt the need to explore. Why are people happy living in this type of world? Why are they so accepting of it?

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Stratus Lift, an exhibition with artist Carrie Johnson. Johnson will be showing a new body of large paintings that use abstraction to draw attention to the contemporary landscape, and our ability to consider the elements of modern society in an abstract way.

With this exhibition, Lichtundfire, as in previous shows, continues the dialog between work by artists whose diverse practice and artistic expression is contextualized in a way that the works support and stand by each other, however different they may initially separately appear. Carrie Johnson, in her Levels series, uses geometric shapes that float on top of her delicately layered backgrounds which conceal and sometimes reveal traces of underlying structures.

Nat Geo Collages

Make the World Run More Smoothly

20 digital archival prints in a boxed or book limited edition of 30. October 2018. Framed on white 11 x 12 inch paper the collage digital print size varies between 4 x 5 and 6 x 8 inches

What’s the point of abstract painting in the twenty-first century? Why hold steadfast to formal suggestion and ambiguity? Carrie Johnson’s abstract paintings on canvas establish balance and a sense of imaginary space dissociated from the regimen of time. Even if flux is the singular constant, both outside and within the parameters of her canvas, she seeks internal structure. Johnson’s output arrives slowly —repetition and an intuitive sharpening of her vision define her practice. She is at once methodical and open to chance encounters, informed by her interdisciplinary core.

A.I.R, the first and foremost women’s collective gallery in the United States represents artists from across the country. More than 20 of the gallery artists are participating in the Governors Island exhibition with works in various media including painting, drawing, mixed media, video and sculpture. There will be several site-specific pieces both inside and outside the house. A number of these works were first seen in the recent A.I.R. exhibition curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, “In the Secret Garden”.

Anita Rogers Gallery presents a group exhibition featuring works by Carrie Johnson, Gordon Moore and Kazimira Rachfal. Collectively, the show serves as an exploration of line, of balance and of the stylistic and psychological complexity of seemingly simple spatial forms. The show is on view from July 26 through September 6, 2016 at 77 Mercer Street, Suite 2N in New York City.