Art for Sale in New York & Tokyo: Shizuka Yokomizo and More

NEW YORK—For this week’s picks, we sent our New York and Tokyo correspondents out to find their favorite works available. Despite being on opposite sides of the world, they came back with a list that is unusually heavy in works on paper and installations, but those looking for painting and video will also find a few choice pieces.

Tokyo native Shizuka Yokomizo currently has a solo show on view at Wako Works of Art in her hometown, and a photograph from her “Phantoms” series grabbed our attention. (For more on Shizuka Yokomizo and other Tokyo exhibitions see this week’s Regional Roundup).

We also found a great example of Belgrad-born Djordje Ozbolt’s new work at Taro Nasu, and a recent installation by revered Belgian artist Jan Fabre. One of the most rewarding surprises to be found in Tokyo this month, though, was the first Japanese solo show of 25-year-old British artist Maya Hewitt, whose clever, if macabre, work was at Misako & Rosen.

Meanwhile, our New York editors covered a lot of territory, but surprisingly found many of our favorite works at galleries outside of the high-density Chelsea neighborhood.

Moti Hasson inaugurated his new 25th Street space with “Beyond the Pale,” a group show—from which one of Shinique Smith’s signature arrangements of clothing and other textiles caught our eye, along with Kerstin Brätsch’s combination of photocopied wallpaper and painting.

At Casey Kaplan, we spent a long time contemplating Pamela Fraser’s deftly executed experiments with color theory. And we found entirely different but equally rewarding investigation at Lombard-Freid Projects, where Michael Rakowitz has used packaging from Middle Eastern products and Arabic newspapers to methodically reconstruct artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq following the American invasion.

Going from perception to politics to the uncanny, the current group show at Thomas Erben offers many strange scenes crafted from somehow familiar images, and we found two works by Pia Maria Martin and Yuh-Shioh Wong that were difficult to forget.

Leaving Chelsea and heading to Hell’s Kitchen, excellent work from both shows at Hosfelt Gallery are still available, including a space-defining painting by Naomie Kremer and a more delicate collage on paper by Crystal Liu.

Out in Williamsburg, Amanda Church’s first New York solo show, “Adults Make Kids,” is on view at Sarah Bowen. We loved the painted tile work from her “Book of Orphee” and “Dogs of Mexico” series.

Back in Manhattan, the East Village’s most prominent gallery, Rivington Arms, has a group show titled “Cabin Fever” that examines drawing as a solitary—and sometimes isolating—practice, and works on paper by Shara Hughes and Michael Wang stood out from the others.

Finally, curator/art-world entrepreneur James Fuentes has opened a new gallery in a part of Chinatown that could be considered the extreme Lower East Side but is just a few blocks from the South Street Seaport. The inaugural exhibition, a solo show of Brian DeGraw’s work from the past few years, includes an impressive, if cryptic, installation and several works on paper that are definitely worth the trip down.