Opening: Hassan Sharif at Alexander Gray Associates
Currently on view at the Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates is a large retrospective for Hassan Sharif, who is most known for his obsessive accumulations of everyday objects. But for those who can’t travel halfway around the world for that show, Alexander Gray Associates will put on a smaller survey of the late Emirati artist’s work. As Sharif’s career went on, his work got bigger, so much so that the Venice Biennale this past summer played host to a room-size work that featured shelves with what appeared to be garbage. This show, however, will look at some of Sharif’s more lo-fi works, with an emphasis on his use of grids, rules, and geometry in such performances as Drawing Squares on the Floor Using a Cube (1982), for which Sharif traced a cube over and over to create linear patterns.
Alexander Gray Associates, 510 West 26th Street, 6–8 p.m.
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