Art for Sale in Chicago & New York: Alex O’Neal to Indre Serpytyte

NEW YORK—For this week’s picks, ArtInfo’s editors in Chicago and New York selected their favorite works currently on the market and came back with a wide-ranging batch of works, selected from both solo and group shows.

Painting ruled the day, with everything from abstraction to figurative work among our picks, but to round out the list, we also have a few excellent photographs and installations.

Our Chicago correspondent sent a few favorites from two very different solo exhibitions in the Windy City. Two of Alex O’Neal’s frenetic and sometimes bawdy paintings stood out at his show, titled “Lick the Sun,” at Linda Warren Gallery.

And while viewers may not recognize her at first, Sally Mann’s daughter Jessie—the formerly gaunt subject of her mother’s most famous photographs—has grown up to inspire a recent body of work by photographer Len Prince, on view at Catherine Edelman Gallery.

Meanwhile, in New York, we found excellent paintings in an eclectic group of solo exhibitions. They range from Stephanie Campos’ assertive geometries, at Kustera Tilton, and Angela Dufresne’s semi-abstract work in bold colors, at Monya Rowe, to Brooklyn painter Greg Lindquist’s elegiac renderings of neglected sites and new construction, on view at McCaig-Welles.

But painters weren’t the only artists with exciting New York shows. At Zach Feuer gallery, we found two outstanding installations cleverly assembled from old magazines by Johannes VanDerBeek. And Carolyn Salas distilled many different folklore traditions into mesmerizing ur-objects for her series of installations at Priska C. Juschka.

And the recently expanded Yossi Milo gallery inaugurated its new space (just down 25th Street from the main gallery) with an attention-holding series of photographs by Lithuania-born, London-based artist Indre Serpytyte—three of which made our list.

Finally, we came across a few remarkable works while perusing several well-curated group shows. Jason Rulnick’s “Small Group Show,” which opened in February, wins for most to-the-point title, and two of the most absorbing works in the show (by Lawrence Seward and Katherine Bernhardt respectively) are still available.

At Dinter Fine Arts, painting by Andrew Guenther and Brent Ridge—plus a particularly impressive work by Valaire van Slyck—stood out in the show “A Cloudy Day’s Epiphany.”

And from a show guest-curated by the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s Dan Cameron, a painting by Ellen Harvey from her Invisible Self-Portraits series and a work by painter Douglas Bourgeois both grabbed our attention at Nicole Klagsbrun.