{"title": "Kikuo Saito: Alphabet Paintings", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "James Fuentes LLC", "address": "Delancey Street 55", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Kikuo Saito: Alphabet Paintings is an exhibition at James Fuentes Gallery presenting a major series of abstract paintings. It introduces the Alphabet Paintings, works on gridded canvases stenciled with random Latin letters that the Tokyo-born artist Kikuo Saito (1939–2016) produced from the 1990s to the 2010s. After moving to New York in 1966, Saito worked in both visual art and theater, assisting Color Field painters and bringing improvisation and chance from the stage into his art. The series explores color, form, and vision, treating letters not as messages to read but as a new world to live with and transform.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kikuo-saito-alphabet-paintings-53285/", "official_url": "https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/kikuo-saito-alphabet-paintings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e1114b3db0d9f64645d63c7c898663382bd7ee64064db513579240d03f1d8f5-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "James Fuentes LLC", "address": "Delancey Street 55", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Giorgio Griffa/Kamrooz Aram: Paintings", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition presenting paintings by two artists, Giorgio Griffa and Kamrooz Aram, at the American Academy in Rome, curated by Ilaria Puri Purini. The show sets the two painters in dialogue, examining how abstract painting speaks across time, touching on ornament, presence and loss, and the relationship between modernism and its so-called non-Western response. Griffa, born 1936 in Turin, works with elementary gestures on unstretched, foldable canvases, while Aram, born 1978 in Shiraz, draws on motifs from Islamic artistic traditions such as the arabesque, beginning each composition with a grid he then wipes away. The two artists met in Turin in 2024, and the exhibition extends the conversation they began there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/giorgio-griffakamrooz-aram-paintings-70965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a047383c1cfd1ceafd08c07d45988a3f5127bf05637364a92b5978aac471f83c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ALBERT IRVIN To New York and Back Again", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Nino Mier Gallery", "address": "Crosby Street 62, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-expressionism"], "description": "The exhibition \"ALBERT IRVIN To New York and Back Again\" is a solo show of paintings by the British artist Albert Irvin at Nino Mier Gallery. It brings together works spanning his turn from figuration to abstraction, shaped by a 1968 visit to the United States, where he met artists including Jack Tworkov and Robert Rauschenberg and was deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionism. The show follows his shift from oil to acrylic in 1972, with paintings whose color, gesture, and mark-making express, in his words, \"the experience of being in the world.\" Irvin, who lived and worked in London and taught at Goldsmiths College, was elected a Royal Academician in 1998 and named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2013.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/albert-irvin-to-new-york-and-back-again-66932/", "official_url": "https://www.miergallery.com/exhibitions/albert-irvin2", "image": ""}, {"title": "Robert Swain Recent 5x5 Color Grid Paintings from 2026 and Smaller Studies from 2015 to 2020", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "David Richard Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://davidrichardgallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new 5x5 color grid paintings and smaller studies by Robert Swain at David Richard Gallery. The gallery presents it as Swain's ninth solo exhibition there, pairing recent large paintings on aluminum panel with acrylic studies on canvas from 2015 to 2020. His grid compositions use individual squares of one color each, with color itself as the content, exploring how adjacent hues blend in the viewer's perception. The presentation is part of a series focused on studies for his most important and experimental grid painting series of the past two decades.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/robert-swain-recent-5x5-color-grid-paintings-from-2026-and-s-52269/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Robin Feld: Captured Brushstroke", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Painting Center", "address": "West 27th Street 547, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-expressionism"], "description": "Captured Brushstroke is an exhibition of new collaged paintings by Robin Feld, showing works made between 2023 and 2026. Feld, a Brooklyn-based painter, has evolved from straightforward oil painting to a process using acrylic paint and collaged imagery printed on acetate. She remains close to her abstract expressionist roots, captivated by the geometry found in nature, with matte and glossy surfaces merging and patterns repositioned within the composition. The title work grew from a small watercolor done by a stream on Vancouver Island, its swirling linework blown up onto acetate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/robin-feld-captured-brushstroke-56828/", "official_url": "https://www.thepaintingcenter.org/robin-feld-captured-brushstroke", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c595f5e49641481ae638bf0224879e82134c3440c28c1a4fe313bbbb8795f3dc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sandra Mazoy I Revelations | SoHo NY", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Space Gallery", "address": "Broome Street 428, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://spacegallerystbarth.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Sandra Mazoy: Revelations is an opening reception for a solo show of works on paper and large-scale paintings. Space Gallery presents Mexican-born, Madrid-based artist Sandra Mazoy in her inaugural US exhibition, built around her signature abstract language of form and color. She conceives the works as a way of sharing her emotions and way of perceiving the world, with each painting treated as a revelation, a fragment of her inner universe that becomes visible. Her process begins with lines that form balanced compositions, with color added afterward to complete and transform each piece.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sandra-mazoy-i-revelations-soho-ny-56005/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/43ccbb2d06965bfc914a958c70c3760fd82a6aaba70579a5f33a97f92ab199ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Io sono un pittore", "start": "2026-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The exhibition \"Jannis Kounellis: Io sono un pittore\" is the first to examine the work of artist Jannis Kounellis (Piraeus, 1936 – Rome, 2017) taking painting as its main focus. Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and organised in collaboration with the Archivio Kounellis in Rome, it takes its guiding theme from the artist's often-uttered phrase \"I am a painter\", a statement concerned with his approach to reality rather than technique or medium. Spanning the entirety of Kounellis's career, the show brings together over 35 works from the late 1950s to 2014. Rather than a chronological narration, it unfolds as a constellation of lines linking matter and weight, language and signs, memories and silence, forging a broader, more radical perspective than the conventional view of the artist as a leading figure of Arte Povera.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/io-sono-un-pittore-66528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/743c8ed8a7eaebb8213f32099b2de2c8e37613104030cd790b6ee69aa48885b3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kenneth Victor Young: Works 1970 - 1972", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Andrew Kreps Gallery", "address": "Cortlandt Alley 22, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by Kenneth Victor Young titled \"Works 1970 - 1972\", held at Andrew Kreps Gallery at 394 Broadway. It focuses on the artist's \"orb\" paintings from the early 1970s, a series said to have pushed the vocabulary of color field painting. Young, born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1933 and who died in Washington, D.C. in 2017, studied physics and chemical engineering before turning to painting, and used a stain technique of soaking diluted acrylic into unstretched, unprimed canvas. His soft-edged floating forms, tied to his love of jazz and his scientific background, express what he called a desire for \"unity in the midst of a chaotic existence\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kenneth-victor-young-works-1970-1972-66138/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f5f79e8a274117d99f17406c9610f447e5418e3d4eec21352c4fbba6c6ef686-1200.webp"}, {"title": "heavens", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Hole", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Heavens\" is a solo exhibition of paintings and light works by the abstract artist Nick Thomm, held at The Hole's Bowery space. In a dramatic installation, Thomm activates all corners of the gallery to place color on parade, with glossy, glowing color lozenges and lightbox works that bounce colored light around the rooms and onto the viewer. Taking cues from the California Light and Space movement as well as contemporary design and car culture, he uses hidden light sources, protective resin, slick printing and smooth paint to overwhelm and intrigue. Thomm, born 1988 in Melbourne and splitting his time between Los Angeles and Melbourne, is known for his large-scale hyper-color \"spectral paintings\" and immersive digital installations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/heavens-77053/", "official_url": "https://thehole.com/exhibitions/nick-thomm-2026", "image": ""}, {"title": "Alison Knowles: by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Grey Art Museum", "address": "Cooper Square 18", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)\" is the first comprehensive survey of the American artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025), whose career spanned more than six decades. Knowles, based in New York with studios in Chelsea and SoHo, was a founding member of Fluxus, the international community of experimental artists formed in the early 1960s, and the exhibition refocuses attention on her pioneering individual production. Her work invites audiences to explore daily life through simple actions engaging sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, combining visual art, musical scores, and live performance across genres—a practice her husband and collaborator Dick Higgins termed \"intermedia\" in 1966. More than two hundred objects are shown, from painting and mixed-media prints to event scores, sculpture, sound work, and artist's books.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/alison-knowles-by-alison-knowles-a-retrospective-19602022-53286/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15f317557510e525685254fef2b5d6e8bcdb02033db2311fc5a224a747bddd2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Teruko Yokoi: Seasons", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hollis Taggart Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 521, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Teruko Yokoi: Seasons\" is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Teruko Yokoi at the Hollis Taggart gallery in Chelsea. It is the second solo show of the artist's work organized by the gallery since it began partnering with her estate in 2025, and it runs through November 25, 2026. The show gathers works from the mid-1950s through the early 2000s that reflect her lasting engagement with the natural world. Across five decades, Yokoi turned her observations of the surrounding landscape into compositions of lyricism and restraint, with the seasons appearing as sensations of light, darkness, growth, and decay rather than literal subjects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/teruko-yokoi-seasons-53038/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8906a76897d81d0e233bc45f23b46ae5f54dd053fa9a82f73a4a72a31c52dad0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jasper Johns: a whole can be only a part", "start": "2025-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An exhibition of seventy works on paper by Jasper Johns, spanning more than six decades. It was organized by Jessica Eisenthal, the inaugural Jasper Johns Curatorial Fellow at the Powers Art Center, working with the Ryobi Foundation's collection. The works are arranged alphabetically by title, using the alphabet as a found structure that mirrors Johns's own interest in signs, seriality, language and chance. The title comes from a poem the American composer John Cage wrote about the artist, and refers to the relationship between a fragment and its whole, a central preoccupation in Johns's work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jasper-johns-a-whole-can-be-only-a-part-66839/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a4a1cc9e042930ba2cd10979af6a5073e2b2e6e9f37898085275ddf363dd898-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spotlight: Sam Mattax", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fredericks & Freiser", "address": "West 24th Street 536, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "'Spotlight: Sam Mattax' is an exhibition at the Fredericks & Freiser gallery, showing three recent large-scale paintings. It is the first presentation in the gallery's new Spotlight series, conceived as a focused studio-visit-style view of an artist's work as it takes shape. The paintings by Sam Mattax are built through dragging, scraping, and rebuilding, and mark a shift in his practice as forms multiply. The result is a new density and intricacy, as the works move from accumulation toward structure within the abstraction itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spotlight-sam-mattax-52780/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d9a7287dcfd181545406680e63ba879ffac481c861e21a36d783e2f36d82f42-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ADAA Fair: Michael West & Teruko Yokoi", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hollis Taggart Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 521, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": "45.00", "tickets_url": "https://adaa.artsvp.com/624bbf?link=adaa-fair-2026-website", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-expressionism"], "description": "Hollis Taggart's booth presentation at the ADAA fair, held at the Park Avenue Armory, shows work by two early students of Hans Hofmann who were among the few women in the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s. Michael (Corinne) West was a prolific painter, poet and essayist active in the New York avant-garde from the mid-1940s, exhibiting alongside artists such as Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. Japanese-born Teruko Yokoi moved to New York in 1955, and through friendships with Joan Mitchell, Kenzo Okada and Mark Rothko developed a lyrical abstraction that integrated East Asian landscape. The gallery aims to rectify the two women's omission from the understanding of Abstract Expressionism, highlighting their shared emphasis on the painterly process and the spiritual nature within abstraction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adaa-fair-michael-west-teruko-yokoi-53039/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01b13e5040e3c5590e7af113a944096737adc44c12aae2dae8b0c19e350d6be8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Opening Reception: The New York Town Musicians by Hikaru Yamamoto", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Kato Sake Works", "address": "Troutman Street 379, 11237 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.katosakeworks.com/events/book-club-nov26", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An opening reception for a new gallery show at Kato Sake Works. The exhibition, The New York Town Musicians, is a solo show by the artist Hikaru Yamamoto.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-opening-reception-the-new-york-town-musicians-by-hik-71366/", "official_url": "https://www.katosakeworks.com/events/gallery-june-aacdc", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff09df84290112ea590b2ed59c20a253e2f5e22447fbeb2d3fb042958aedebec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Clever, Quick, Magnetic: The Art of Witty Banter", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://oklahomacontemporary.org/events/calendar/?date_filter=this_year&free_only=1&ticketed_only=1", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition of paintings exploring how works can feel connected even when they appear visually distinct, and whether a painting can possess something akin to a personality. It is presented by Oklahoma Contemporary and curated by David Salle, a painter who helped define the postmodern sensibility in painting. The show features works by artists including Amy Sillman, Joe Bradley, Cecily Brown, Josh Smith and Rosa Loy. Admission is free and tickets are not required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/clever-quick-magnetic-the-art-of-witty-banter-66535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14e85d5ec3a071617e90eca48cc0da0a8eab2432d8170861341ec2484659e4a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Andrea Fourchy: No show", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Lomex", "address": "Walker Street, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Lomex presents \"No show\", an exhibition of new paintings by Andrea Fourchy, on view from September 18 to October 31, 2026. Fourchy's canvases layer checkered patterns, animal prints, and Scottish knitwear motifs in tense juxtapositions that nod to Roland Barthes's idea of fashion as a cultural myth. Figures such as Ann-Margret, Mona Lisa's eyes, and crawl babies surface where there is only pattern, in works the gallery calls a constructed mess that borrows from both Abstract Expressionism and Pop. The exhibition takes its name from the cancellation policy line that closes the gallery's text.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/andrea-fourchy-no-show-53631/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6b94b390fc5a2283369a01e4d45af8bd7776c2188887e92c67b0e26ebaddade-2000.webp"}]}