ArtWalk: Chelsea
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 4–6 p.m.

    

A special tour of three provocative gallery exhibitions on view in Chelsea.

• 4 p.m., David Zwirner Gallery, 519 West 19th Street
  Doug Wheeler’s first “Infinity Environment” installation in New York, a cavernous light and space project featured in The New York Times

• 5 p.m., Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street
  Damien Hirst’s Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011, part of a worldwide exhibition in which the artist’s signature dotted canvases are being shown simultaneously in all eleven Gagosian spaces

• 5:30 p.m., Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street
  Shirin Neshat’s The Book of Kings, a photographic series and video installation inspired by the recent uprisings in the Arab world

Representatives from the respective galleries gave guided tours through each exhibition.

Images: Doug Wheeler, SA MI 75 DZ NY 12, 1975/2012. Reinforced fiberglass, LED lights, high intensity fluorescent lights, UV fluorescent lights, quartz halogen lights, DMX control. Architecturally modified space, composed of two parts, 564 x 702 in. (total space). Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART, courtesy David Zwirner, New York . © 2012 Doug Wheeler / Damien Hirst, Myristyl Acetate, 2005. Household gloss on canvas, 180 x 180 in. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2011 / Shirin Neshat, Roja, 2012. Ink on LE silver gelatin print, 60 x 45 in. Edition of 5 + 2 Aps. © Shirin Neshat. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels