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04 The Inventory of
the Unseen

Three artists in Chelsea are recovering what institutional history either couldn’t accommodate or actively chose to forget.

60 Years an Art Dealer: George Henoch Shechtman
Anchor · 60 Years an Art Dealer: George Henoch Shechtman · Gallery Henoch

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints people who don’t exist — composites assembled from scrapbooks, life drawings, and imagination — and titles them like a writer titles a chapter. Her invented Black subjects occupy a timeless present that could be now or a hundred years ago, refusing the specificity that would make them into social documents rather than paintings. Sheida Soleimani reconstructs her parents’ experience of exile after the 1979 Iranian Revolution by staging dense, surreal studio tableaux using archival materials and living subjects. The work doesn’t testify — it reconstructs, which is a different act entirely. And Louisa Chase, who in the early 1980s showed at the Whitney Biennial and Venice Biennale alongside Salle and Schnabel, died in 2016 without the retrospective her work deserved. This is the first major New York show of her work in 25 years. All three artists are making the same move: insisting that what didn’t make it into the official record was not absent — it was here all along. The inventory of the unseen is longer than the one we have.

Chelsea · 0 Stops · South to North
    The Route · 6 Shows
    01 / Gallery Henoch

    60 Years an Art Dealer

    60 Years an Art Dealer: George Henoch Shechtman · Gallery Henoch
    555 W 25th Street Tue – Sat 10:30am – 6:00pm Closes Sat May 9 Gallery site → Walk to here →
    60 Years an Art Dealer: George Henoch Shechtman
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    Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.

    02 / Miles McEnery Gallery

    April Gornik

    April Gornik: Liminal States · Miles McEnery Gallery
    525 West 22nd Street Tue – Sat, 10:00am – 6:00pm and by appointment Closes Sat May 9 Gallery site → Walk to here →
    April Gornik: Liminal States
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    Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.

    03 / Miles McEnery Gallery

    Elise Ansel

    Elise Ansel: Duetti · Miles McEnery Gallery
    511 West 22nd Street Closes Sat May 9 Gallery site → Walk to here →
    Elise Ansel: Duetti
    Pending

    Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.

    04 / Miles McEnery Gallery

    Bo Bartlett

    Bo Bartlett · Miles McEnery Gallery
    515 West 22nd Street Closes Sat May 9 Gallery site → Walk to here →
    Bo Bartlett
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    Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.

    05 / Albertz Benda

    Christopher Le Brun

    Christopher Le Brun: Works on Paper · Albertz Benda
    515 W 26 Street Mon – Sat, 10:00am – 6:00pm Closes Sat May 16 Gallery site → Walk to here →
    Christopher Le Brun: Works on Paper
    Pending

    Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.

    06 / Dean Borghi Fine Art

    20th Century Masters

    20th Century Masters · Dean Borghi Fine Art
    529 West 20th Street Closes Mon May 18 Gallery site → Walk to here →
    20th Century Masters
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