While New York’s Frieze Week is drawing to a close—and Independent, Future Fair and TEFAF have come and gone—there’s thankfully always more art to experience in NYC. Here are four must-catch shows in three Chelsea galleries that reawaken the multidimensionality of landscapes and nature—peculiar, mechanically engineered, pure, surreal, nostalgic and all too human.

No Vacancy, the current exhibition at C24 gallery, takes some time to appreciate since there are no visible inhabitants in the colorful interiors depicted, aside from the occasional cat. What we do get are distinct inklings of persons suggested in all of the painterly roomscapes touched off by the magnetic perspectives, dazzling color, and lofty eye levels.

 Micha Serraf won Honorable Mention for the Best Booth Award in the Tomorrows/Today section of the 2023 Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo's five-channel video “Platform” will be on view in the new Grand Central Madison terminal, alongside photographs by ​​Paul Pfeiffer and mosaics by Kiki Smith and Yayoi Kusama.

Lisbeth Firmin’s Two Young Women, Chinatown perfectly illustrates Mira Jacob’s “Home is Where Your Best Friend Is,” for Harper's Bazaar. Jacob explores the grief that overtook her when her best friend moved away after living in the same city for 22 years.

Brainard Carey of Yale University Radio chats with Ryan Sarah Murphy about her inaugural solo exhibition at C24 Gallery, Structural Integrity. They discuss her process-driven practice that encompasses sculpture, drawing, and video. 

For more than ten years C24 Gallery has brought strong visual programming to NYC’s Chelsea Arts District, and the world. Gallery Manager Deborah Oster Pannell speaks to Beez and Honey podcast's Nicollette Ramirez about the history of the Gallery, current exhibition, and plans for the future.

For his fifth solo exhibition at C24 Gallery, Everyday Heroes, on view through July 9, 2022, Irfan Önürmen presents a series of fifteen new monochromatic tulle wall hangings. In addition to these physical works, the exhibition includes Önürmen’s first series of NFTs, NFTulle: Origins, 150 unique digital works that explore contemporary society through its complex system of codes and symbols.

Eleen Lin and Tammie Rubin insightfully reinterpreted fiction and history in “Mythodical” at C24 Gallery. The title parses the show’s themes of personal and cultural mythologies—both the making and undoing thereof—and how each artist brings method to that madness.

C24 Gallery opened in 2011 and serves as a contemporary international art gallery. The past few years they have been on a mission to include more underrepresented artists and to better reflect political and social issues in the works they choose to display.

An interview with artist Eleen Lin about her series Mythopoeia, a nearly decade-long project investigating the unlikely results of a series of mistranslations between english and mandarin versions of the classic novel, Moby-Dick.

"In Mythodical, the heavens drip into the sea, horns hang from the ceiling in a silent siren, and marshy debris on canvas and entangled sculpture suggest mysteries unseen," writes Madison Ford in her review of Eleen Lin and Tammie Rubin's two-person exhibition at C24 Gallery.

In this Interlocutor podcast episode, titled “Cardboard Whisperer,” Ryan Sarah Murphy discusses her reclaimed cardboard relief sculptures, video animations, and drawings traced from video stills.

Charles Moore explores how artist and curator David C. Terry brings  a nonprofit perspective to C24 Gallery.

Using car hoods, shovels, and oil drums as her base, Canadian artist Cal Lane cuts generic lace motifs found on the shelves of mass-market retailers. Her quotidian designs adorn tools and commodities typically associated with masculinity, warping both assumptions about gender and the limits of construction and craft.

Photographer Marie Tomanova’s portraiture is the perfect argument against the age-old cliché that “youth is wasted on the young.” Her latest photo book, New York New York, provides the reader with slices of the ethereal essence that defines the capital-C City, infused with the attractively messy characters within it.

C24 Gallery in NYC presents a selection of works by Cal Lane and Roxa Smith, two dynamic artists whose intricately patterned works combine to create a nuanced visual conversation about space, identity and perspective.

Nicholas Rutolo reviews Marie Tomanova's Finding Magic Together at C24 Gallery, writing "This whole collection is filled with people that don’t necessarily fit in with normal experiences and expression, but I think that not only do we see the magic coming from them, we see that their unique differences make them perfectly human, and that might be the greatest magic we can find by just looking at pictures in a gallery or a book."

If you want to see tons of contemporary art, Chelsea is the one-stop-shopping place to be. To help find your way around, check out our select list of the best Chelsea art galleries.

Alex Hawgood profiles Marie Tomanova for The New York Times. Tomanova spent the pandemic working on a new photo book, “New York New York," which is also the subject of her inaugural solo exhibition at C24 Gallery, Finding Magic Together.

A deep dive interview covering the career to date of the multidisciplinary and provocative artist Coby Kennedy.

Artist Lisbeth Firmin discusses her subdued and introspective figurative paintings and lithographs, currently on display in C24 Gallery’s group exhibition, “Street Life.”

Ryan Sarah Murphy talks about her unique sculptural work made with repurposed cardboard - now on display as part of C24 Gallery's Street Life group exhibition.

Since 2012, Czech-born, New York-based photographer Marie Tomanova has been documenting New York City’s vibrant youth culture, and earning herself a cult following in the process.

Farah Abdessamad's recap of Art on Paper 2021  includes Marion Fink's work, She silently prepared for the inner evolution, described as a "dream-like print underscoring the solitude of a young woman caught between the longing to fulfill parallel, unexplored aspirations and the complexity of engaging in an alienating reality."

Sculptural ceramic artist Brendan Lee Satish Tang discusses his “Manga Ormolu” series of work currently up at C24 Gallery’s group show Earthen Delights.

Detroit-born ceramic artist Steven Montgomery discusses his works currently up at C24 Gallery’s group show Earthen Delights.

Berlin-based ceramic artist, Hinrich Kröger, discusses his painterly approach to pottery, erotic subject matter, and artistic family. A selection of Kröger's works are included in C24 Gallery’s group show Earthen Delights.

Artist Cheryl Molnar discusses her striking multilayered collage paintings up now at her “Sites Unseen” show at New York’s C24 Gallery.

The artists featured in On the Inside each realize their images through distinctive versions of an insider’s perspective.

A group of artists, who had exhibited in the 2019 DE Exhibition, were invited to show in the C24 Gallery, New York. Inside this edition is a report by art critic Anthony J Lester, who attended the Private View with Elizabeth R Meek, one of the DE artists involved.

Viktor Popović's photographic display at C24 Gallery (Booth F21, Pier 90) combines old postcard images of the Croatian coast, when it was a popular leisure spot, with new photographs of these same sites in postwar decrepitude - a simple but effective visual essay on the lasting effects of war.

The exhibition, REFLECTION OF DREAMS consists of seven new large-scale and two new small-scale oil paintings, including new portraits of women gazing into mirrors and Dargas’ favored subject of flowing honey and chocolate over female faces.

In the aptly titled show “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” artists Seçkin Pirim, Dana Levy, Suzanne Song and Cheryl Molnar employ stone, paper and various technologies to create works that highlight man’s complicated relationship to nature.

Talk: “The Power of the Feminist Fourth Wave” at C24 Gallery
This panel will focus on the relevancy and power of feminist art in the 21st century. Concurrent with C24 Gallery’s group show “Transfigured,” which focuses on contemporary artists’ representations of sexuality and gender, the panel will be moderated by the artist and writer Melissa H. Potter and will feature the artists Jaishri Abichandani, Swati Khurana, Emma Sulkowicz, and the writer and critic Anuradha Vikram.

“From the Cradle to the Boat” is on view at C24 Gallery in New York through Friday, August 24. The group exhibition, curated by Tommy Hartung, includes work by Tamy Ben-Tor, Miki Carmi, Justin Cloud, Clark Filo, Michael Guardiola, O.K. Fox, Reagan Holiday, Monilola Ilupeju, Bahareh Khoshooee, Jeremy Olson, Lynsey Peisinger, and Tommy White. The show also hosts performances by Linda Fletcher, Lynsey Peisinger, Reagan Holiday, and Tamy Ben-Tor.

Thinking Projects Pop Up at C24 gallery can seem at first glance to be an expedition: before you, wonders of the world are arrayed in complex configurations. However, unlike expeditionary forces venturing to faraway lands these works are brought to New York audiences by artists Nadiah Bamadhaj (Jogjiakarta), Irfan Önürmen (Istanbul), and Sumakshi Singh (Delhi). Each artist adapts images relevant to their particular cultures, presenting their work within the context of Asia Contemporary Art Week 2017.

Queer history is the subject of Skylar Fein’s art, particularly the untold stories and omitted passages that may never be

known. His project at C24 Gallery included a recreation of a small house (and even smaller bed) that US President

Abraham Lincoln shared with another man.