I went to Chelsea yesterday to see the Simon Evans’ show at James Cohan before it closes on April 4th. I think I saw his very first solo show at Adobe Books in San Francisco maybe five years ago. Of course he is very famous now, but I can still strangely remember almost all his work from that first show. The cassette tapes, little bags of crumpled paper packed like consumer goods, all the tape and little scrawled phrases. This show is very good, but I still think that one, in Adobe’s closet size space was better.
Another show not to be missed is Tanyth Berkeley’s at Danziger Projects, up until April 25th. They just moved into a new, larger space on W. 24th. Every photograph in the show is a portrait of an albino woman named Grace that the artist has been photographing for seven years. I loved Tanyth’s description of her subject from the press release as “a combination of Marilyn Monroe and the moon.”
