Main Exhibition Space: In his first solo show at RARE, Mississippi-based artist James Davis presents new work derived from profound personal experiences which he has recreated with ordinary, industrial materials. A process of obsessive repetition has transformed these materials into a truly contemporary vision of nature.

RARE PLUS: In "Black and White", Italian-born artist Eugenio Percossi exhibits a furnished room that is focused on a clear, hopeless analysis of human illusions such as life, memory, and religion, which he denounces one by one in images of breathtaking beauty. Read more...

In Erik den Breejen's first solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, his love affair with music and lyrics manifests itself by way of brightly colored, abstract, text-based paintings. Using a wide variety of devices, the artist infuses paintings that reference many modes of abstraction with pop culture. By treating the words as shapes, den Breejen generates conceptual narratives and explores a personal take on movements such as minimalism, "action painting," grid and color-field painting, and hard-edged geometry. The exhibition is a myriad of crude, yet sophisticated, pop-art canvases in which den Breejen plays conductor to a visual symphony starring his rock heroes. Read more...

Luhring Augustine is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Christopher Wool. This is the 10th solo presentation of the artist's work with the gallery.

Christopher Wool was born in 1955 and lives and works in New York City and Marfa, TX. His work is owned by numerous museums and institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Tate Modern and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2006) and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia (2006); a solo exhibition is currently being organized by Ulrich Loock for the Fundação de Serralves in Porto, Portugal scheduled to open in November 2008. Read more...

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present "Fields", its second solo exhibition by Alona Harpaz.

Alona Harpaz' seductive surfaces negotiate the rift between figural and abstract through implied, dramatic shifts of scale. Like fractals revealing the intricately repetitive structures of organic forms, the compositions unify portraiture and ornamentation by fluidly transitioning between micro and macro views. As Christoph Tannert writes, "this kind of painting ... lets the cosmic particles around the figures gleam in psychedelic colors that sound like inwardness with no minor key." Read more...

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by Mika Rottenberg.

In Mika Rottenberg's drawings, the artist's body serves as markmaking tool, creating painterly, expressive graphic elements that both anchor and disrupt microcosmic tableaux. Expressive yet systematic, the drawings start with a vocabulary of marks which the artist continually deploys and reworks. These frenetic symbols flirt with legibility and, like worker bees, organize into structures suggestive of factories or Rube Goldberg machines. Read more...

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Lee Bul. Widely recognized as one of the leading Korean artists of her generation, Lee will present an installation of sculptural works, along with related studies and drawings, comprising a wide range of materials, visual elements, and references. This is Lee Bul's debut exhibition with the gallery.

Anchoring the exhibition is a large, grotto-like sculpture entitled "Bunker - M. Bakhtin". The work invites visitors inside to experience what the artist describes as a "sonic simulacrum" of architectural spaces and landscapes; interwoven is a layered narrative of modernity and historical memory emerging from the complex relationship between Korea and Japan in the 20th century. Read more...

D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present "Precious", new oil-on-panel paintings by gallery artist Delia Brown. Works on view present the latest in Brown's continued, staged performances where she and her friends act out scenes of complicated desire. In this series, Brown casts herself and childless peers in the roles of mothers. This time around, she asks a bit more of her collaborators — to borrow perhaps their most prized possessions, their children. Read more...

D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present "Moving a Mountain", a Front Room exhibition by artist Lisa Tan. Works on display are a result of a trip Tan made from New York to Mexico City in November 2007. Tan's fleeting journeys often provide an impetus for her work, which attempts to poetically encapsulate where desire and melancholia meet. This trip to Mexico City, coinciding with the Day of The Dead holiday, became a quiet discovery on what the artist found to be living. Read more...

Jennifer Bacon and Filippo Fossati are pleased to announce the opening of the gallery's first solo exhibition by Italian conceptual artist, Nicus Lucá.

"Carol Rama, Aldo Mondino and Alighiero Boetti represent an incursion into the ordinary with the desire of reinventing the world over and over again. The three of them introduced themselves into ambiguous terrain where vision and perception split giving birth to a new and specific poetic thought. Lucá, who has once been Mondino's alumni, made his own their linguistic method but sure enough not their style, Italian critic, Alberto Fiz, states. "Under the influence of these three Torinese predecessors, Lucá deconstructs convention and takes his visual language into a diverse sphere with a broad knowledge of what conceptual art means and can do." Read more...

Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Tom Sachs entitled "Animals". Sachs will divide the gallery space into ten small rooms, each containing individual works. Whether literally depicted, or figuratively alluded to, animals will dominate this exhibition of approximately 25 freestanding and wall-mounted paintings and sculptures. Even in the maze-like configuration of the gallery space, Sachs aims to explore the presence of the "animalistic" in our everyday lives. Read more...