Here is just one gallery room in the massive and extensive exhibition on artist Mike Kelly at MoMA PS1.

Museo de Arte Moderno is situated in the middle of the large Chapultepec Park.  I wish all museums were surrounded by this many beautiful trees!  The museum is quite small but I saw two excellent exhibits  by female artists there.

The first was a show of paintings by Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter and anarchist Remedios Varo.  I immediately felt an affinity to her magic realist compositions.  Each image was composed perfectly, each representing it’s own dream world.

 

Remedios Varo with gato

painting with a mother of pearl face

The second show I saw was the “Open Process” exhibit, a partial anthology of the work of Marianna Dellekamp (born in 1968).

She is a multidisciplinary artist who employs a variety of mediums in her exploration of the conception and use of images. The exhibition Open Process shows a review of the work of Marianna Dellekamp, an artist who has experienced in exploring disciplines in various media, design and image applications. Throughout her career she has used photography to other research tools, including accumulating, reorder and meanings to different materials. Her work is directed in part to the practice field, where she establishes dialogues and perspectives with the image: the actual image taken from everyday life, confronted image with text or appropriation of objects as an image. Another interesting aspect lies in the concept of accumulation, an important principle for the development of her projects. In the 1990s works emerge arising from facts related images, actions and objects that surround her life: from body fluids microscopic shots to scenes or elements from the environment and that have meaning in the analysis of the social fabric.

gorgeous chandelier in the entrance

Museo del Objeto del Objeto, Mexico City

Sometimes you just have to take a day off and be a tourist in your own city.  We had Mr. Ties and Atom™  in town to play The Bunker and it was a gorgeous summer day, perfect for playing hooky.  The adventure started out at the Guggenheim Museum which has a James Turrell exhibit on view. I have been a Turrell fan for years but this installation was a bit of a disappointment for me. However this extensive  NY Times article on Turrell is a must read! The real treat of the day was the Kandinsky in Paris, 1934–1944 show that is up at the same time.  After we were refreshed by the gorgeous playful color of these two abstract art exhibits we decided to leisurely walk through Central Park. We had an early dinner at St. Anselm, a steakhouse that has many delicious delights for my pescatarian palette.  Our beautiful day ended with ice cream at Momofuku Milk Bar where we shared cereal milk ice cream and corn cookies.

Our super fun museum day!

Mr. Ties

Atom â„¢

sirens passing by

Central Park obelisk

Central Park boys dancing for tips

Mr. Ties bear love lighter

Momofuko cereal milk ice cream!

Williamsburg Brooklyn sunset

My Botanicals exhibit opens today in Williamsburg.
bconte – 167 N9th St.
Opening is Friday May 3 6-9pm
On view until May 28