David Behringer

1 week ago | design-milk.com | David Behringer

On view at Pace Gallery in New York now, Alicja Kwade’s “Telos Tales” offers a hypnotic and sensory-heightening experience of material, movement and time. Born in Poland and currently living/working in Berlin, Alicja Kwade is a master at fusing nature, technology, and perceptual glitches in a range of material, and now with her first solo exhibition at Pace Gallery, presents new monumental sculpture and confounding glass works that are not what they first appear.

1 month ago | design-milk.com | David Behringer

For one week in May, New York City is a scheduling race for contemporary art lovers, with multimillion dollar auction previews at both Christie’s & Sotheby’s, over eight major art fairs, and over a 100 peak gallery openings. In the scheduling competition to see it all, it’s no small feat for an artwork to pull you back for a second view or a longer pause. Below are the two most “paused” artworks from my visits to the four biggest fairs in New York this spring.

2 months ago | design-milk.com | David Behringer

Spanning two galleries in New York City, artist Kennedy Yanko presents her largest exhibition to date with 30 crushed metal and “paint skin” sculptures that pack a resonating gravitational punch. In Tribeca, “Epithets” at James Cohan Gallery is a gray-walled gritty exhibition, while “Retro Future” at Salon 94 on the Upper East Side occupies all three floors that crescendos into sunlit rooms and a bonus group exhibition curated by the artist.

Mar 18, 2025 | design-milk.com | David Behringer

Julian Opie’s distinct artistic language is recognizable across the world – whether in massive pubic sculpture, digital animations, or paint, his human figures always surprise with how much individuality is conveyed in such reduced forms. His newest work, on view now at Lisson Gallery in New York plays with scale, movement, and three different materials while also debuting a new series of work that is his first to depict children.

Feb 18, 2025 | design-milk.com | David Behringer

Brooklyn-based painter Jennifer J. Lee’s current exhibition “The Falls” reveals 11 new paintings at Klaus von Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. Lee continues to level-up her technique of painting photorealistically on jute burlap – a fabric that is so coarse and porous that any representational image seems technically impossible, let alone capturing the perfection and resolution of digital images.