Opening tonight: June 14th

It's Thursday again and that means it's the best night to get out of the house and sip some free red at various opening receptions around the city.
Here are my picks of this week:

Awul Erizku: "Awul Erizku" at Hasted Kraeutler

Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009 Digital chromogenic print  50x65"  ed 2

Hasted Kraeutler 
537 West 24th Street, 212.627.0006
Chelsea
June 14 - July 20, 2012
Opening: Thursday, June 14, 6 - 8 PM

 Seung Woo Back: "Memento" at DOOSAN Gallery

A-#008 (21th, Nov, 2001), 2011 Digital print 16.5 x 11.7 inches

Doosan Gallery 
533 West 25th Street, New York, NY, 212 242 6343
Chelsea
June 14 - July 14, 2012 
Opening: Thursday, June 14, 6 - 8 PM

Erik Schoonebeek: "Phantom Hand" at Jeff Bailey Gallery

Erik Schoonebeek ,Untitled (C-18.5), 2010, gouache and acrylic on book cover,, 5.1875" x 5.375"

Jeff Bailey Gallery 
625 West 27th Street, 212-989-0156
Chelsea
June 14 - July 13, 2012 
Opening: Thursday, June 14, 6 - 8 PM

Have a great Thursday everyone!

WATCH YOUR STEP in Chelsea

Stop looking at facebook for a moment, don't update your twitter and refrain from checking in on fourssquare. Be careful where you put your feet at the new exhibit of the FLAG Art Foundation at the Chelsea Towers.
You have  until August 24th to check out (and stumble over) some great pieces like the ones below.

Grimanesa Amoros, Uros, 2012. LEDs, diffusion material, vinyl, custom lighting sequence, electrical hardware, 5 x 7 x 1 ft

“Watch Your Step” examines the relationship of the work to the floor and how the viewer experiences the work, shifting one’s perspective from eye-level to start from the ground. Various works emanate directly from the floor, while others use the space between ground and wall to increase one’s perception of the horizontal plane and the architecture. " 

So put that phone away for a while and enjoy works by: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Patricia Cronin, Tara Donovan, Steven & William Ladd, Richard Long, Michael Phelan, Kiki Smith, Julianne Swartz, Richard Serra, and Corban Walker.

Lynda Benglis, Untitled , 1970 Pigmented polyurethane foam; Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York

Michael Phelan, Tomorrow's a new day... (No.5) , 2009-2011. Glass; Courtesy of the artist

Kiki Smith, Untitled , 1992. bronze with patina; © Kiki Smith, courtesy The Pace Gallery Photo by: Sarah Harper Gifford / Courtesy The Pace Gallery

FLAG Art Foundation
June 7 - August 24, 2012
Watch Your Step 
545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor

HOURS: During the Summer FLAG is open to the public every Wednesday through Saturday in June and Tuesday through Friday in July and August, 11am to 5pm.

Opening today

Another Thursday I won't be able to attend one of my my favorite NYC activities: Gallery hopping in Chelsea. This is what I am missing tonight:

Marco Pinter, Reflections and Object Permanence

"Marco Pinter explores the fusion of physical movement with visualizations in the virtual world. He finds inspiration in dance and sculpture, but also in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics.  His work frequently has two manifestations: one in performance; and the second as an installation, where the public can interactively experience the piece.  This process becomes cyclical, wherein Pinter can observe participants creating new ways of interacting with the installation, which can later be integrated into the evolving piece. "

AC Institute

547 West 27th Street, 6th floor
Chelsea
January 12 - February 4, 2012
Opening: Thursday, January 12, 6 - 8 PM

Ai Weiwei, Wang Xingwei, and Ding Yi: Persona 3

"First exhibited in Beijing in 2004, Persona 3 is an audacious experiment in which the three artists agreed temporarily to exchange artistic profiles in a demonstration of their mutual admiration for the Chinese art scholar Hans van Dijk who had died in 2002. "

Chambers Fine Art
522 West 19th Street, 212-414-1169
Chelsea
January 12 - February 25, 2012
Opening: Thursday, January 12, 6 - 8 PM

Spacepod II

"The Spacepod is a chamber that projects auditory architecture around a listener.  Using an omnidirectional array of speakers, it produces a sensation of auditory surfaces using ambisonic localization, psychoacoustic cues, and parametric mapping. Effectively, one finds oneself navigating by ear a world in which every surface is covered in sound-emitting pores."

Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street, 718.222.3982
Chelsea
January 12 - February 4, 2012
Opening: Thursday, January 12, 6 - 8 PM