Galleries: September 2006 Archives

Esko Mannikko, Cocktails
From my nearly two years of working on Nokia advertising, I've gotten an affinity for the Finns and their distinctive culture. Minnikko underlines a Finnish coworker's assertion that it's only been 50 years since they crawled out of the forest and joined the rest of Europe. There's a great affinity with rural America here.

Through Oct 21 at Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 W 22nd St, 3rd Flr
(646) 230-9610

Jeff Brouws, Approaching Nowhere
Brouws' previous show at Mann was a sort of typology of pop architecture and multicolored optimism. This show is the reverse, the broken American Dream. Can't help but notice that all photos save one were taken from 2001 onwards, but perhaps that's too neat a bow. Some great night photography.

Exit 24 Off of I-90, Erie, Pennsylvania, 2005, by Jeff Brouws

Through Oct 14 at Robert Mann Gallery
210 11th Ave, btwn 24th and 25th
(212) 989-7600

Reiner Leist, Eleven Septembers
For eleven years Leist made 8x10 photographs from his loft window, capturing the distant World Trade Center between other, nearer buildings. In the volume of photos, strangely absent is an image from Sept. 11 2001, while Leist was in Boston. But, of course, we have enough photos of that.

Through Oct 14 at Julie Saul Gallery
535 W 22 St, 6th Flr
(212) 627-2411

Walter Niedermayr
Neidermayr's deliberately blown out, high contrast ski slopes and hiking scenes, pieced together in multi-photo panoramas, can nearly give the viewer vertigo.

Through Oct 7 at Robert Miller Gallery
524 W 26th St
(212) 366-4774