The New York Times: SPRING GALLERY GUIDE: 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens
Those who think the gallery scene is all about Manhattan would do well to take the L train to spots like Williamsburg.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
These noteworthy gallery shows outside Manhattan are heavily tilted toward the L train axis that runs through Brooklyn and Queens, from Williamsburg to Ridgewood, and toward the young and artist-run spaces that are those boroughs’ specialties. (For two galleries on the southern edge of Williamsburg, Soloway and Black Ball Projects, take the J train.) Luhring Augustine is not on this list because its show “Sculpture,” running through May 5, was recently reviewed, but it is definitely worth a visit. Altogether, this guide will give you an extensive foundation from which to experience the city’s most dynamic art scene.
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MARVIN GARDENS through April 29; 1532 Decatur Street, Ridgewood,marvin-gardens.org. The Angeleno painter Sebastian Gladstone turned to stripped-down, nearly abstract landscapes after the presidential election, hoping to find safety, and even a kind of moral rejuvenation, in a stark simplification of terms. When you’re looking at two small yellow canvases, divided into quarters like window panes, you can almost believe it. But two irresistibly creepy close-up views of picket fences are proof that you can’t really escape your context: One set of wobbly stakes is battleship gray, the other streaky off-white, and each looks like an infinite row of demonic fingers.
