Will Heinrich highlights Euler, Rosenfeld and Heckel gallery shows in New York

In his Newly Reviewed column, Will Heinrich highlights three New York gallery shows: Jana Euler at Greene Naftali in Chelsea, Lotty Rosenfeld at the Wallach Art Gallery in Harlem, and Erich Heckel at the Neue Galerie on the Upper East Side. Heinrich describes Euler’s show, titled "The center does not fold," at Greene Naftali through Jan.

10, noting works that range from a nine-foot painting of an electrical outlet, "Where the energy comes from, connected," to an enormous owl, a Frankenstein of dog breeds and two pastel "morecorns." The review says Euler uses absurdity to engage with contemporary forces such as smartphone photography, capitalist zeros and artificial-intelligence "slop," folding that material into a long painting tradition; the critic returns to the outlet image as something that can read as a face or emoji and as a nearly monochrome exercise in painting.

At the Wallach, "Disobedient Spaces," billed as the first American retrospective for the Chilean artist and activist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020), runs through March 15.

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Culture, Jana Euler, Lotty Rosenfeld, Erich Heckel, Greene Naftali, Wallach Art Gallery