Fall Preview 2003

Fall Art Calendar

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The Comeback Adults

This fall, an unprecedented number of solo shows return once-“It” artists to the limelight.

A Ken Price sculpture

(Photo: Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery)

Ken Price

Then: The L.A. artist and Ferus Gallery alum admired for his ceramic sculptures has made appearances at Franklin Parrasch Gallery.

Now: He’s with Chelsea powerhouse Matthew Marks (523 West 24th Street; September 20– November 1).

Judy Pfaff

Then: Her last New York show was in 1997, at the late, great André Emmerich Gallery.

Now: The installation artist and sculptor of fantastical, found-material structures (made of steel tubing, driftwood, fiberglass, and blown glass, among other things), who broke ground for a slew of younger artists (including Jessica Stockholder), has hooked up with a similarly blue-chip 57th Street gallery. Her new site-specific installation, Neither Here Nor There, will be at Ameringer & Yohe (20 West 57th Street) September 4–October 11.

Sally Hazelet Drummond

Then: This 79-year-old abstract painter—who was included in “Americans 1963” at MoMA and had a Corcoran Gallery retrospective in 1972—was known for her minimal, targetlike compositions that were light at the edges and dark in the middle. But her last solo show here was in 1979.

Now: Turns out she’s still painting away, and is showing her latest efforts—which are dark at the edges and light in the middle—in Chelsea. (Mitchell Algus, 511 West 25th Street; October 16–November 16.)

Janine Antoni

Then: The ever-surprising Bahamas-born performance artist and sculptor literally gnawed, licked, and winked her way to prominence in the late nineties.

Now: After four years, she’s back with To Draw a Line, two lead-ingot-loaded, nine-foot steel reels placed on inclined planes and linked by a 24-foot-long expanse of hemp rope, on which the artist will balance herself for as long as she can, eventually (or inevitably) falling onto a cloud of raw hemp fiber below. (Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street; September 6–October 25.)

Adam Fuss

Then: Fuss—known for his eerie photograms of newborn babies and snakes—has had only one show at Cheim & Read since 1997.

Now: His second show will include daguerreotypes of human skulls. (547 West 25th Street; October 16–November 15.)