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# Exploring Art Beyond Boundaries: Diverse Exhibitions in the Fall Art Season
As the fall art season reaches its peak, art spaces across New York City are offering an eclectic array of exhibitions that promise to engage art enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. These exhibitions, spanning painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations, highlight the vast range of artistic expressions, themes, and histories while positioning lesser-known artists and art forms into the spotlight. With so much to see, here’s a curated guide to some of the most intriguing exhibitions happening this season.
## 1. **Samuel Hindolo: Eurostar**
**Location:** Galerie Buchholz, 17 East 82nd Street, Manhattan
**On view until:** November 9, 2024
Samuel Hindolo’s latest exhibition, *Eurostar*, at Galerie Buchholz features haunting knotted narratives framed by a contemporary lens. His muted, atmospheric palette evokes a sense of mystery and nostalgia, reminiscent of artists like Luc Tuymans. Rooted in a silent 1913 comedy, the recurring motif of an escaped leopard creates an allegorical tension between whimsy and danger. The quiet antics of the leopard amid surreal atmospheres make this a thought-provoking venture into storytelling and abstraction.
## 2. **Charles Cajori: Turbulent Space, Shifting Colors**
**Location:** Hollis Taggart Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, Manhattan
**On view until:** November 16, 2024
Charles Cajori, an influential figure and teacher in the New York School movement, is celebrated with a retrospective at Hollis Taggart Gallery. Cajori’s intricate blend of figuration and abstraction is demonstrated beautifully through his life-drawing-influenced works. His affinity for figures does not follow traditional forms but instead distills body movement into dynamic brushstrokes. His early Abstract Expressionist works, alongside his later life drawings, reflect his ongoing engagement with exploring space, color, and form in American art.
## 3. **Francis Picabia: Femmes**
**Location:** Michael Werner Gallery, 4 East 77th Street, Manhattan
**On view until:** November 23, 2024
Francis Picabia’s *Femmes* offers a deep dive into the artist’s post-Surrealist oeuvre, particularly his provocative representations of women. Known for his blending of high art and kitsch, Picabia often highlighted the absurd through camp and erotic imagery. His use of pin-up aesthetics and dramatic portraits evoke a sense of playful disdain towards conventional “taste” culture. In this exhibition, viewers are invited to reconsider Picabia’s place in art history through a contemporary lens that acknowledges humor, surrealism, and cultural critique as integral to his work.
## 4. **John Graham: A Mentor of Modernism**
**Location:** Rosenberg & Co., 19 East 66th Street, Manhattan
**On view until:** December 3, 2024
John Graham’s undervalued contribution to American modernism is celebrated in this two-level exhibition at Rosenberg & Co. Born Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowsky in Ukraine, Graham’s mentorship inspired notable 20th-century figures like Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Jackson Pollock. His eclectic style saw him borrowing generously from various modernist movements. The diversity in his work — from Picasso-inspired acrobats to still-lifes — invites visitors to explore the richness of his influence. Graham’s greatest achievement might not be in his individually striking works, but in the ways he shaped modernism’s course through his guidance of younger talents.
## 5. **Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN**
**Location:** Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA), 225 West 13th Street, Manhattan
**On view until:** January 12, 2025
Tina Girouard, a core member of the renowned artist-run restaurant FOOD and the downtown New York art scene of the 1970s, has long been overlooked in mainstream art historiography. This exhibition sheds light on her multi-disciplinary approach in arts, textiles, and performance. At CARA, Girouard’s rich legacy is celebrated through a broad selection of her work: drooping textile sculptures, decorative grids, video documentation, and sequined works. Her art, defined by collaboration and artistic exploration, presents a poetic narrative of “life-making” as art-making.
## 6. **Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala**
**Location:** Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, Manhattan
**On view until:** January 5, 2025
One of the season’s most powerful displays of non-Western art, the *Maḏayin* exhibition at the Asia Society brings together decades of work from the Yolŋu