Platform: New York by David Zwirner

Platform: New York

David Zwirner

Due to the COVID19 quarantine, all galleries across Manhattan and Brooklyn have been mandatorily shut down, and while this may feel like the end of any ability to see art work outside of quick social media platforms, there have been developing opportunities to allow viewers abiding to stay-at-home orders to view gallery's showcasing artists. David Zwirner has developed a website, tilted Platform: New York, that gives showrooms across the gallery and museum belts in New York City access to showcase artists on display. The hosting website takes in accord not only images of works, but includes brief information on the artist, descriptions of each work, and an image of the curated space.

While it is obvious that a gallery’s function may be hindered through a website, there being no movement or interaction with the works, Platform is an initiative that allows viewers to continue learning of new artists and develop inspiration and thought. 

Traveling through the website is smooth, providing us with a comprehensible simulation of a showroom by an array of artists. A particularly interesting collection of work, from Elijah Wheat Showroom, is that of the artist Zsofia Keresztz. Keresztz’s practice consists of mosaic sculptures of abstracted spider webs embedded with human-like forms. To be able to view Keresztz’s work, and to see the sculptures exist in a space, is something I may have taken for granted before but I am pleased to be able to access the experience from home, along with the work of every artist included.