Thursday, October 13, 2022

Translucent obsessions

I don't check out the Chelsea galleries nearly often enough, but yesterday afternoon had a chance to immerse myself in two. At one, a work by light-obsessed Spencer Finch (one of whose works I saw and loved eight years ago) mesmerized. Originally created for an indoor space with only color blocks taken from Monet's garden at Giverny, here it interacted through windows with the natural light and movement of Chelsea. Downstairs in another gallery, work by another artist whose work I have enjoyed, dometic space-obsessed Do So Suh. In "Jet Lag" he arranges meticulous polyester fabric reproductions of knobs, handles, switches, locks, faucets from the places he has lived.