Julia Scher: American Landscape

Ortuzar Projects, 5 White Street

Opening reception: Thursday, March 7, 5-7pm

Ortuzar Projects is pleased to present 'American Landscape, the gallery's second exhibition with Cologne-based artist Julia Scher. The exhibition features works made over the past four decades centered around the gallery-scaled installation, 'Security By Julia XLV, alongside new marble sculptures and previously un-exhibited paintings from the 1980s.

Chad Murray • Landscapes

Opening Thursday, March 7, 6-8pm

105 Henry St

Sadie Laska's (@sadiealaskaa) 'Homesick'

Opening reception is March 7, 6 - 8

60 Lispenard, NYC.

With oil paintings, fabric works and monoprints, Laska creates a spectacle that is political but not polemical, posing questions and provoking reflection as she takes on the ambiguities of contemporary life. While opposing the normalization of war, environmental destruction and social dysfunction, Laska stands up for people living in conscientious connection with one another, able to fulfill authentic desires. Through image and text, Laska endeavors to wrest the power of language away from double-talking politicians and pushers of rapacious consumerism, delivering its innate power back to people.

Stan VanDerBeek: Transmissions

March 7 from 6-8pm

159 Canal St

Transmissions, a solo exhibition of the artist's collages, drawings, and films. The exhibition expands across three floors to include a curated selection of works made between 1950 and 1970 that demonstrate how VanDerBeek's experiments with transmission, animation, and recomposed fragments of ephemeral media ramify throughout his rich archive.

COSMIC ALCHEMY

175 Rivington St

Where Thought and Matter Merge, an exhibition in various media that reflects upon the age-old quest of humanity to change matter and substances by turning them into precious elements- and to materialize the immaterial. As time passed on Earth, and with developing scientific knowledge, the alchemist's quest of transmutation became a chemist's endeavor; and it was not far from there - and not long from then- that physicists discovered particle collision that set the stage for astrophysicists to discover stellar or large particle cluster/galaxy collisions that can create the heaviest elements in the periodic table, from precious metals through to the heaviest radioactive elements.