Kick off 2011 with some new and exciting shows in Chelsea:

© Todd Hido

Todd Hido: Fragmented Narratives at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Renowned as a master of sequencing in book format, Todd Hido juxtaposes images from his influential monographs House Hunting, A Road Divided, Outskirts, and Between the Two with portraits and new images never before exhibited. Hido successfully extends his narrative from a linear book format to an almost cinematic storyline forged by his grouping and pairing of images unrelated in time or place, his female subjects acting as the characters in his photographic sequences. Hido’s eerily lit nocturnal images of suburban houses allude to the often discomforting, lonely American scenes by the painter Edward Hopper as well as mirror the director David Lynch’s interest and attention to the seedy underside of suburban American culture.

Fragmented Narratives
January 6 – February 12, 2011

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY

Also on view:

Christopher Williams
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12)

As the title may suggest, this show is just a subset of a larger ongoing project; Revision 1-11 were shown at David Zwirner as well as other institutions throughout Europe. In Christopher Williams’s fifth solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, the Conceptual artist stays true to form and presents a series of crisp and clean photographs that do not have evident relationships to one another. He offers no explanation for his works, and instead invites the viewers to draw the links and connections themselves.

Although the show may present itself as more of a riddle, the lush/stark photographs can stand on their own and are worth seeing.

For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12)
January 7 – February 12, 2011

David Zwirner Gallery
525 West 19th Street
New York, NY

January White Sale
curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody

January White Sale, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, is an exhibition of white works from over fifty well-known and emerging international artists. A play on the slightly dated term for a department store bedding clearance, January White Sale is anything but. The exhibition blends both important post-war American works, the focus of the gallery, with DeWoody’s playful and sometimes highly provocative aesthetic.

Works in various media such as painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, assemblage, and video arise from a surreal and rarely seen all-white installation. It is also in this viewing that the overlooked differentiation in shades of white becomes apparent. The combination of titaniums, bones, antiques, and ivories, along with the intricate silhouettes, create an even more compelling installation. With the lack of color in art, the form becomes most important, and emerges front and center.”

January White Sale
January 13 – February 12, 2011

Loretta Howard Gallery
525 West 26th Street
New York, NY