Gallery Club Tonight – Cre8tive YouTH*ink

Shirin Neshat at Gladstone Gallery

The new photographic series, titled The Book of Kings, is named after the ancient book Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), a long poem of epic tragedies written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 AD. Shahnameh retells the mythical and historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th Century. Divided into three groups—the Masses, the Patriots, and the Villains—Neshat’s portraits of Iranian and Arab youth comprise black and white photographs with meticulously executed calligraphic texts and drawings inscribed over each subject’s face and body. These texts and illustrations—drawn from Shahnameh as well as from contemporary poetry by Iranian writers and prisoners—both obscure and illuminate the subjects’ facial expressions and emotive intensity, intimately linking the current energy of contemporary Iran with its mythical and historical past. In this arresting body of work, Neshat returns to the confrontational nature of her iconic Women of Allah series, while re-focusing on themes of revolution and the bold-faced defiance of youth. — Shirin Neshat

Joyce Pensanto at Freidrich Petzel

Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to announce “Batman Returns,” the third exhibition of new work by the New York-based artist Joyce Pensato. An illustrated catalogue, published by 38th Street Publishers with an accompanying essay by Ira G. Wool, will be available on the occasion of the exhibition. The book commemorates the 32 years that the artist worked in her Olive Street studio in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before re-locating to a new space in the spring of 2011. — Donald 2009 Enamel on Linen

Glenda Leon: Listening To Silence at Magnan Metz

Magnan Metz Gallery is proud to announce Listening to Silence, the first U.S. solo exhibition for Cuban artist, Glenda León. Listening to Silence will be on view from January 12 – February 18, 2012 with an artist reception on Thursday, January 12th from 6-8PM. — Chewed Cloud from the series Chewed Ideas, 2007. Chewing gum on photographic paper.

Paula Scher: MAPS at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

The Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is Pleased to announce it's first exhibition in collaboration with Paula Sher — Paula Scher World Trade acrylic on canvas

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