CHELSEA GALLERIES

JOSIAH MCELHENY Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism @ Andrea Rosen Gallery
The bright primary colors and shininess of the glass appeal to me in the same way that children are drawn to candy. The simplicity of the shapes used force the viewer to appreciate the innate beauty in common objects and the surface of the glass.
























BARTHELEMY TOGUO The Pregnant Mountain @ Robert Miller Gallery
The artist often offsets the soft, marble-like texture of watercolors with small hard-edged lines. The focus is often on monsters, or composite human/animal figures. Maybe its because of the medium or the subject, but the works seem to have an raw, earthy quality.
















MAYA LIN Three Ways of Looking at the Earth: Selections of Systematic Landscapes @ Pace Wildenstein
The name of the exhibition indicates that the spaces created were mathematically constructed, but the large scale installations have curves that seem to speak of the gesture.