Bortolami

What a beautiful main exhibition room. Larger works are well presented in the main gallery.

Walking into the space at 3pm, the sunlight hits just right and the predominantly warm palette from the 40 or so paintings floods retinas with heat, triggering joy on a cool, late-fall day. I turn to one of my students, wearing a pair of 3M earmuffs, and she says, “This is my dream. I am so happy right now. We have nothing like this in Ecuador.” I ask her what she likes about the exhibition. “The color.” Bortolami presents ‘Good Luck Spot’—a euphoric installation of paintings by Cecily Brown & Jutta Koether.

When I want to go for a gallery tour in Tribeca, Bortolami is definitely on the list!

Beautiful contemporary art gallery in SoHo, representing a wide variety of artists, and all are challenging, creating, and analyzing contemporary culture. The gallery itself is architecturally interesting as one enters a lengthy hallway with access to offices, a smaller gallery space, and then opening up into a large gallery at the rear of the building.

Beautiful contemporary gallery with the nicest staff and amazing contemporary artists.

A must go to if you are looking at galleries . Every time I stay in New York I make it a note to swing by . The last show I saw was an incredible collection of oil paintings by Marina Rheingantz.

I do not suggest this place if you do not look like you belong in SoHo. Was actively ignored and no assistance towards the information on the art displayed.

I showed my work there. Love the place.

I saw an exhibition here by Jutta Koether, a painter who likes to apply fluorescent colors with an expressionistic/primitivistic brushstroke. She mixes in some strange material once in a while, too--one painting had pools of clear gelatinous liquid that looked like it had been spilled on there to harden. Also the floor of the gallery was covered wall to wall with gravel the color of dried blood or cedar chips. The contrast of the rusty rocks and the paintings' fluorescent pinks and oranges from a totally different part of the "hot" palette created the kind of visceral gross-out effect that a lot of artists are using these days to try to make painting seem like a relevant and compelling medium. Works for me! Four stars.

Nice gallery, but a relatively limited selection during this particular visit. The Eric Wesley piece is certainly something to see, but aside from that there is not much currently on display.