BY PAUL LASTER
Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie journeyed from New York to Los Angeles to discover the top solo shows for November. From Laurent Grasso’s imaginary films and paintings envisioning a fascinating yet unsettling view of the future at Sean Kelly in New York to Vicky Colombet’s meditative abstractions representing aerial views of rolling Ocean waves at Fernberger in Los Angeles, these are the shows that are not to be missed this month.
2. Hannah van Bart at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Painting atmospheric pictures, Hannah van Bart curiously conveys the psychological states of her imaginary sitters, a poetic understanding of objects, and an impassioned connection to nature in the eighteen engaging canvases on view in her exhibition “Inner Homeland,” the painter’s seventh solo presentation with the gallery.
Informed by a semi-realistic drawing style and painterly mark-making, her poetic portraits, sensitive still lives, and emotional landscapes capture the mood, spirit, and aura of her sublime subjects. From hazy portrayals of rosy-cheeked, stylishly dressed people from the past to romantic renderings of old boots and tea cups and sketchy scenes of forests, farmland, and houses, the Amsterdam-based artist pays homage to both Rembrandt and Van Gogh while creating a way of painting with distinctive outlines, repeated patterns, and layered brushwork that’s very much her own.
Through November 16
