Sight Scene: All Is Quiet

FOR THE ART SPHERE, the entire month of January feels like New Year’s Day, as galleries recuperate after the overindulgence of December’s Art Basel Miami Beach fairs. Many of the December shows wind down this week, giving viewers one last chance to see the work they overlooked during the holiday rush.

» The place to snag that belated gift is Flashpoint Gallery, which will be hosting a closing party for “Consume.” Curated by Angela Jerardi — whose cynical take on the consumer experience of looking at art is as much on display as any of the artworks — the show features work in a faux environment designed to resemble something between a gallery and a shopping-mall kiosk. (Works are very much on sale, and the show takes pains to remind that art is commodity.) The party sounds like a softer take on the show’s cynical edge: Look + Listen will incorporate dance (Jane Jerardi and Brian Buck), music (Joe Lally, Willie Hoffman and Jerry Busher), and a little of dance and music (DJ Name Names).

» Among the December shows closing this weekend, the top spots are G Fine Art and Fraser Gallery. At the former, iona rozeal brown‘s recombinant drawings and paintings blend hip-hop with J-pop. But it’s Jefferson Pinder‘s subtle video installation series, Duke, that will stay with viewers. Among critics heaping praise on the young artist’s video work are Jeffry Cudlin, Jessica Dawson in The Post and this writer in the City Paper.

» Fraser Gallery is closing “Sky Light,” a show of recent photographs from the lonesome Midwestern plains by local photog Maxwell McKenzie. McKenzie has made a nearly documentary effort to photograph Minnesota and the environs that his ancestors called home in dignified silver gelatin prints.

» At Project 4, Gregory McLellan and Tim Pittman collaborate in “There’s No Time for This,” in which they throw seemingly everything on the wall in a fit of John Bock-esque enthusiasm. The artists work in video, photographs, painting and mixed media — in other words, anything goes.

Images courtesy the galleries