# Petzel Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, one of On View's top galleries there. - Address: 520 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001 - Hours: Tue–Sat 10–6 - Website: https://www.petzel.com - Instagram: [@petzelgallery](https://www.instagram.com/petzelgallery/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/manhattan/map/petzel-gallery ## Exhibitions ### Ross Bleckner: *Octopus* Sep 17 – Oct 24, 2026 · on view New paintings by Bleckner built from images he has saved for years, reworked until they hover between bodies, diagrams and abstraction. Bleckner’s fourth solo show with the gallery brings new oils that grow out of photographs gathered from newspapers, books and the internet, each painting leading into the next. In Medicine Cabinet (2025), a web of red lines and organic shapes suggests veins, cells or an anatomy chart; in Where Is My Body (2025), pink lattices drift over fields of blue and white; in The Dancers (2026), see-through bodies take shape out of broad strokes of paint. Full details: [petzel.com](https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/ross-bleckner4) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/petzel-gallery/octopus ### Emily Mae Smith: *Transit of Venus* Sep 17 – Oct 24, 2026 · on view New paintings in which Smith’s broomstick, grapes and eyeballs mutate into part-human, part-animal, part-plant figures caught up in questions of labor and power. Smith’s second solo show with the gallery follows her 2024 survey at the Magritte Museum in Brussels. Some of the new works borrow from Jean-François Millet’s scenes of peasant labor. In The Locust II the broomstick rises from straw as a near-human figure holding a scythe; in Only Human a bunch of bright grapes, each with a single eye, look for one another’s gaze. The surfaces are built up in thin, transparent glazes. Full details: [petzel.com](https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/emily-mae-smith3) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/petzel-gallery/transit-of-venus --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in New York City: https://onview.so/manhattan.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt