January's Gallery Lineup 🪩

Issue #93

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Art Pulse NYC
January 05, 2026

📌 Highlights

🚨 Franz Gertsch at Hauser & Wirth & Duane Linklater at Dia Chelsea are closing at the end of the month.

🎉  William Eggleston at David Zwirner, Gideon Appah at Pace, and many more exhibits are opening in mid-January. It’s a perfect time for gallery walks!

🚨 Last Chance

Franz Gertsch: Presence

📍 Hauser & Wirth

⏰ closing Jan 31

❓exploring how Gertsch transformed photographic imagery into hypperrealistic paintings and woodcuts

Ana Mendieta: Back to the Source

📍 Marian Goodman

⏰ closing Jan 17

❓seminal works from 1972-1985, a prolific period of Mendieta’s work, spanning stages of time spent in Iowa, Mexico, and Cuba, including digitally remastered films, photographic works, photographic prints and drawings, and ephemeral sculpture

Image: Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1977. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Duane Linklater: 12 + 2

📍 Dia Chelsea

⏰ closing Jan 24

❓new sculpture, music, and dance collectively considering the North American buffalo—its typical behaviors and future rebounding, as well as the weathering of its body as it traverses landscapes

🗓️ Related Events: Public Tour (Jan 10, 1pm), Film Screening Program

If you’re hungry for more…

Jana Euler: The center does not fold closes at Greene Naftali on Jan 10

Reinhard Mucha (exploring collective identity, memory, and more) closes at Luhring Augustine on Jan 17

Ana Benaroya: Eternal Flame (works reimagining women’s bodies such that femininity and masculinity coexist) closes at The Flag Art Foundation on Jan 17

🎉 Just In

William Eggleston: The Last Dyes

📍 David Zwirner, 19th St

⏰ opening Jan 15, reception at 6-8pm

❓new dye-transfer prints, specifically the final prints ever produced from Eggleston’s images

William Eggleston, Untitled, 1970. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner

Also opening at David Zwirner:

Elisheva Biernoff: Elsewhere (intricate portraits of anonymous photographs) opens on Jan 8 at the 69th St location

Breakthrough: Prints from ULAE (postwar printmaking) opens Jan 15 with a reception at 20th St

Dan Flavin: Grids (grid installations) opens Jan 15 with a reception at 20th St

 

Gideon Appah

📍 Pace Gallery, 25th St

⏰ opening Jan 16, reception Jan 15, 6-8pm

❓paintings inspired from everyday life in Ghana, including personal memories, dreams, and family histories

Gideon Appah, Detail of Night Catch (Prise de nuit), 2025 © Gideon Appah, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Also opening at Pace:

Wang Guangle: Delayed Gravity (abstract paintings) is opening — same day, same location

Richard Pousette-Dart: Geometry of Summer (geometric abstraction and spiritual modernism) is opening — same day, same location

Sol LeWitt: Works from the 1960s

📍 Paula Cooper Gallery, 21st St

⏰ opening Jan 15

❓tracing the development of LeWitt’s guiding principles — sequence, seriality, union of word and image, and three-dimensionality

➕ Bruce Connor: THREE SCREEN RAY is opening Jan 8 with a three-channel film installation

If you’re hungry for more…

Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed (crosshatch paintings) opens Jan 22 at Gagosian, Madison Ave

Ali Cherri: Last Watch Before Dawn (intimate watercolors) opens on Jan 16 with a reception

Glenn Ligon: Late at Night, Early in the Morning, At Noon (abstractions meditating on the color blue) opens at Hauser & Wirth on Jan 15

Pier Paolo Calzolari: Saudades (paintings drawing on the ethos of Arte Povera) opens at Marianne Boesky on Jan 15 with a reception

Kurt Kauper: Housekeeping (domestic interiors) opens at Ortuzar on Jan 15 with a reception

gabriel kuri: your cost-benefit calculations (conceptual sculture) opens at kurimanzutto on Jan 15

John Kelly: A Friend Gave Me a Book (epic 182-panel hand-illustrated graphic memoir) opens at PPOW on Jan 9

 Zarina: Beyond the Stars (artworks across her seven-decade career) opens at Luhring Augustine on Jan 17 with a reception

Troy Brauntuch & Allan McCollum exhibits open at Pace on Jan 15

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