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Pavel Zoubok Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the season with a solo exhibition of the painter, collagist and ceramicist George Schneeman (1934-2009). The exhibition Going Ape highlights the spontaneous play between images and words that Schneeman’s collaborative style fostered in his life and work, focusing on a series of paintings the artist made with poet Bill Berkson (1939-2016).

In one such collaboration with Berkson, an arm with a spray can emerges from a central black mass adorned with a peach flower, the words “going” and “ape” scrolled above and below in fluorescent paint. Phrases …