In an attempt to share the best exhibitions in art galleries across America each month, Galerie has scoured the country to present a selection of fascinating solo shows by artists working in a variety of media. From New York and Miami to Houston and Los Angeles and then back to Boston, the array of paintings, photographs, and sculptures in the roundup below are worthy of prime placement in any art collector’s home or equally in a global museum.
1. Elizabeth Glaessner at P·P·O·W in New York
Nude figures, strange creatures, and ancient objects fill the canvases of rising star Elizabeth Glaessner. After creating her improvisational sketches and painterly studies, she creates her mystical paintings by pouring liquified pigments onto the canvas while coaxing her dreamlike characters from the watery realm. Striking a balance between controlling the material and letting the paint have its own voice, the young artist calls on past times by pulling psychologically charged figures from a primordial soup. Radiantly colored and sensually stimulating, the nine paintings in the exhibition “Phantom Tail” present an “in-between world,” where the mythical marvelously meets the make-believe. Through March 19