Been too busy the last few days to post here - a lot of important meetings - most which belong in my Webmetricsguru.com blog.  Did not see any good openings this week till today - nothing that really attracted me to want to show up.   But that’s different today - a couple of good openings happening now in NYC, in Art in New York City.

So tonight I’ll try to make an opening of Alfred Jenson: The Number Paintings at Pace Wildenstein Gallery.  Here’s a little part of the writeup describing the work in this show: Alfred Jensen:  The Number Paintings will be on view at 545 West 22nd Street, New York from September 29 through October 28, 2006.  The public is invited to attend the opening on Thursday, September 28th from 6 to 8 p.m.

“Alfred Jensen:  The Number Paintings looks at how the artist used Pythagorean theory, the Mayan Calendar, and other numerical systems as well as Goethe’s color theory in his work.  The exhibition consists of 11 paintings and 16 works on paper spanning two decades from 1960 to 1980. 

It was in the early 1960s that Jensen read the work of J. Eric Thompson, the pre-eminent scholar of the pre-Columbian Maya Civilization and soon thereafter, Jensen earnestly began to investigate the relationship between numbers and color through his art.  In his catalogue essay, William Agee discusses how Jensen pursued this investigation and how his life and art intersected. Agee remarks in his introduction that Donald Judd and Allan Kaprow, then young artists in New York, viewed an exhibition of Jensen’s in 1963 and had the highest praise for it, although for different reasons. “In retrospect,” Agee writes, “this seems fitting, for Jensen’s world view was based on the opposing dualities that he saw as the source and substance of life – light and dark, positive and negative, male and female, life and death, among them.”

I think I’ll also attend the opening of Junko Komatsu, David Harry, Atsumi at Caelum Gallery W 26 street, 526, Suite 315.  The photographs and paintings look pretty good based on what I can see on the Caelum Gallery website.

It looks like a new gallery called MEHR is opening up with a debut exhibition (if I have it right that it’s a new gallery) located at 436 West 18th Street, again between 6-8PM. 

That’s enough for one night.  I’ll let my readers know what I thought about these openings after I attend them (and anything else that strikes on my way to or after the openings).