Gallop's picks for New York galleries, November 5–11, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 4 openings and 3 last chances, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
Horizonless seascapes and full-moon paintings in black and deep blue use layered pigments and meticulous brushwork to suggest moving light and depth. The seascapes draw in part on photographs Gunderson took during whale-watching trips off Cape Cod.
Christopher Williams opens a game in which each later player must keep at least two objects from the previous show. Williams supplies walls brought forward from past exhibitions, sculptures marked by earlier use that later players may hang work on.
Wade Guyton’s newest work includes objects made from bronze, aluminum, steel, plaster, plywood, and carpeting. A group of recent paintings is also included in the exhibition.
Mildred Thompson’s Music of the Spheres paintings and accompanying electronic music compositions receive their first public showing together. Thompson created the compositions using electronics, toy instruments, and found objects.
In the first exhibition of sculpture by Alexandre de Betak, the trusses and stage lights behind live shows become the work itself. The bronze versions were hand-cast in a French foundry, with over twenty moulds required for a single piece.
Sandra Cinto’s twelfth solo exhibition at the gallery includes paintings, wall paintings and folding screens. For more than three decades, Cinto has used drawing to create intricate images and immersive environments.
Chakaia Booker's collaged works on paper can hold several hundred individual pieces, and a single composition can take more than six months to complete. The Grave Yard Series of photographs is shown in New York in its entirety for the first time.
Meeson Pae's works, produced over the past year, draw in part on visits to Jeju, South Korea, the island where the artist's family traces its origins. Sculptures in ceramic, cast metal and plaster accompany the paintings.
Abstract drawings and sculptures form linear pathways that recall circuit boards, aerial views, genetic engineering, and nervous systems. Maggi marks the silky smooth side of a roll of Reynolds kitchen foil with a 4H graphite pencil.
In a text for the exhibition, Keith J.
The exhibition, Annie Hémond Hotte's first solo show with the gallery, takes Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy as its point of departure. Each of Hémond Hotte's oil paintings is built over long stretches of time from many individual marks in underpainted layers.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in New York, the week’s openings and what’s closing soon.
Gallop's picks for the week of November 5: Karen Gunderson at Yancey Richardson (Chelsea); Christopher Williams at Arts and Letters (Washington Heights); Wade Guyton at Matthew Marks (Chelsea); Mildred Thompson at Lelong & Co (Chelsea). Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Opening the week of November 5: Alexandre de Betak at Salon 94 Design (Upper East Side); Sandra Cinto at Tanya Bonakdar (Chelsea); Chakaia Booker at David Nolan (Tribeca); Meeson Pae at Anat Ebgi (Chinatown).
Last chance the week of November 5: Marco Maggi at Bienvenu Steinberg & C, until Saturday Nov 14; Joshua Abelow & Katya Kirilloff at Essex Flowers, until Sunday Nov 15; Annie Hémond Hotte at Margot Samel, until Sunday Nov 15.
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in New York each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
Gallop's picks for New York, every Thursday.
