Michael E. Smith at Chris Sharp Gallery
Michael E. Smith’s unassuming, poetic sculptures are late capitalist Zen koans: riddles with no answer but which nevertheless spark a moment of satori. For instance, a milk carton covered in mirrors...
View Article“a field once more” at Melrose Botanical Garden & Jane Galerie
Melrose Botanical Garden is not actually a garden, but it might as well be. Tucked between thrift shops and piercing parlors on the avenue, the narrow gallery feels like an oasis. “a field once more,”...
View ArticleGabriel Madan at Gattopardo
Not all pop art is created equal. Gabriel Madan’s literally pops off the wall: As in, a colorful macaw plushie is affixed to one of his paintings, a heart-shaped tag reading “I’m a puppet.” I want to...
View ArticleRaymie Iadevaia at The Pit
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View ArticleDivya Mehra at Night Gallery
A mechanical broom wielded by a robotic arm sweeps across the floor under the corner of a custom-made oriental carpet shaped like India. In an adjoining room, an enormous inflatable Pillsbury Doughboy...
View Article“Scupper” at François Ghebaly
Curated to pose as a mirror to society’s collapse, “Scupper”’s artists address a spectrum of social ills from preservatives in food to inadequate healthcare. The six-page press release does a better...
View ArticleDarya Diamond at Sebastian Gladstone
Looking at Darya Diamond’s limp latex sculpture, In Every Dream Home a Heartache (2024), I think of bruised skin, frail shoulders: a tired body collapsed on the floor — phallic, deflated, stamped with...
View ArticleJane Dickson at Karma
I never feel hotter or more detached (indeed, more American) than in a car, windows down in the August heat. It’s an exercise in movement, longing on an unremarkable plane of asphalt. Each lane is a...
View ArticleLarry Madrigal at Nicodim
With scraped knees, tangled sheets, and yesterday’s discarded clothes strewn across the floor, Larry Madrigal’s new evocative paintings at Nicodim showcase the artist at his strongest. In moments where...
View ArticleMeg Lipke at SHRINE
These paintings have a slight hamfistedness, which suggests distance from their alternately whimsical, mystical, Modernist, and Premodern sources. The allusions and references here—like Lipke’s...
View ArticleKevin Brisco Jr. at albertz benda
Most figurative painting is terrible but these are surprisingly good. Brisco’s restrained brushwork produces a flat clarity that recalls Alex Katz but with harsh moody colors and lonesome figures which...
View ArticlePlugged In: Art and Electric Light at Norton Simon Museum
Grouping art by medium is always too obvious, even when the medium in question has the pizzazz of electric light. This exhibition focuses on the years 1964-1970 but does not, otherwise, establish a...
View ArticleShirazeh Houshiary at Lisson Gallery
Houshiary’s mesmeric abstract canvases depose our human perception of scope and scale, engaging the macro and microscopic; they connect a single breath to the breadth of the sea, carbon’s molecular...
View ArticleEugenia P. Butler at The Box
Butler’s threadbare saffron works-on-silk line the perimeter of the back gallery, floating forward and back, filling and falling as if breathing. Suspended by invisible supports and backlit, the...
View ArticleLotus L. Kang at Commonwealth and Council
To experience lack is to be reminded of the boundaries of the self, of others. Lacking realizes the unassailable distance between you and everything you don’t and won’t ever have. Therein to lack...
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