Plan Ahead

The summer's almost over and I'm planning my return to regular gallery hopping in Chelsea with some really interesting-looking shows.

Christopher Morris leads off at Hasted Hunt with a series of politically themed photographs titled My America. Ordinarily I don't go in for photos, but I liked the last show I saw at Hasted Hunt, and furthermore I'm just totally seduced by the spare beauty of this photo, "Underground Agent."

The always-interesting Bellwether Gallery will be showing paintings by Everest Hall. Ordinarily I wouldn't be overjoyed by these paintings, but this one with the bee, if you combine it with a couple other works in the show, reminds me of a painting idea I had but never executed. No crystal skulls in mine, though.

Goff + Rosenthal will be showing new paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders. I'm curious to see what these look like in person; online they're kind of flat and not very exciting, but they could be really good.

Maki Tamura, meanwhile, looks very good online, and will hopefully look even better in person at Lucas Schoormans. This is the kind of fiddly detailed work I admire and enjoy.

Sixtyseven will be showing Wendy White, a definite head-scratcher for me. Maybe I'm just happy to be going to galleries again, but even this weird stuff looks good to me right now.

And finally, I'm thinking of seeing what Jade Townsend is going to do at Priska C. Jushka. Usually I avoid installations if at all possible, but seeing what Jade did with his last installation, I think this will be worth a visit.