Part one is here.

At Jessica Murray’s group show, a new discovery for me was Ivelisse Jimenez. Here is a detail of one of her wall pieces.

Ivelisse Jimenez, IT1104 (10 con 10 series) [detail], 2005, mixed media, 96 × 60 × 70” (dimensions variable)

The show include Lisa Sigal, who also has a small show worth visiting at Frederieke Taylor.

We visited Andrew Kreps while things were still being set up, but we’re headed back soon to see Roe Ethridge and Adam Putnam. The latter has an amazing installation upstairs.

Julia Friedman has a show of affordable art for your shopping pleasure. James has a photo of Alejandro Diaz making one of the cardboard signs we purchased.

Others to see: Will Ryman at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, and Gelitin’s Tantamounter 24/7 lasts until Wednesday night.

Earlier in the season, I wasn’t feeling so excited by the work I was seeing in Chelsea, except for a few exception like the always-reliable Foxy Production.

Our visits in the last couple of weeks, though, have made me much happier. I’ll put of some highlights tonight, and add a few more in the next day or so.

Larry Mantello’s outrageous installations at Kustera Tilton. We first saw his work in a great installation at Henry Urback in 2003.

Julia Oschatz, Untitled (72-05), 2005, Oil, enamel, acrylic, spray paint on canvas, 21 5/8 × 15 inches

Julia Oschatz’s New York debut show of videos, installation, and paintings at Leslie Tonkonow is one of my favorites of the year. Check out the gallery web site for more images, plus some video excerpts.

James has already written about the Josephine Meckseper show at Elizabeth Dee, so go read him.

Mark Napier’s show Empire, at bitforms, manages to combine interactive computer-based art with a beautiful visual aesthetic that I have rarely seen in the field. You know it’s a good tech-y art show when James is really into it. Visit Mark’s web site for more information on his work.

[All photos except Marge are from the respective gallery sites. Marge was photographed by me.]

I found the Hotel Chelsea blog via BlogChelsea. They have a short interview up now with gallerist Daniel Reich. I hadn’t realized he lived in the hotel. We live on the same block.

Check out Tom Moody’s post on Cory and his distant relative Allan D’Arcangelo.

Cory Arcangel

Allan D’Arcangelo

Eric Doeringer, Bootleg “Damien Hirst” Paintings With The Real Thing

You can use the search box on my site, or on James’s, to see how often we have written about Eric Doeringer. We are big fans.

On Saturday, Mike Weiss called the police on Eric. James has the story. This is my favorite part:

He packed up his work and confronted Mr. Weiss, who admitted he had called the police. He said that he didn’t like “seeing people walking around with tiny paintings,” while he was paying high rent for his gallery and, “trying to sell $30,000 paintings.”

When Doeringer told him he was certainly going to let everyone he knew in the art world hear about what he had done, Weiss said, “If that’s the way you want to play it, I’ll call the police whenever I see you anywhere.”

I think 24th Street needs more of art like Eric’s not less.

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Update

Eric has posted his account on his website.

Another Update

The New York Times published an article on the Eric’s adventure on Saturday.

Der Spiegel has a slideshow of art works from what may be the final exhibit in the Palast der Republik, with commentary on the building.

My previous post on this show and the Palast is here. The above image is mine, not from the slideshow.