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Louis Bury

Louis Bury is the author of Exercises in Criticism (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015) and Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY. He contributes regularly to BOMB, and has published art writing in the Brooklyn Rail and Art in America, as well as creative writing in Boston Review and the Believer.

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Agnes Denes’s Future Imperfect

by Louis Bury January 4, 2020January 3, 2020

Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes’s art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today.

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Painting Disaster From a Distance

by Louis Bury October 26, 2019October 25, 2019

Motohide Takami’s images locate the exact distance at which you can contemplate tragedy yet remain untouched by its damage.

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A Greenhouse for Extinct Flora

by Louis Bury October 19, 2019October 18, 2019

Michael Wang’s installation resembles an assisted living facility for plants.

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Listening to Plants

by Louis Bury September 14, 2019September 13, 2019

Adrienne Adar’s attention to botanical sentience seeks to decenter human perspectives on non-human entities.

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A Sanitation Worker’s Collection of Salvaged Objects

by Louis Bury September 7, 2019September 11, 2019

Whether objects are considered trash or treasure depends on how we care for and arrange them.

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Rachelle Dang’s Meditation on Past and Present

by Louis Bury July 13, 2019July 12, 2019

If white often symbolizes innocence and purity, Dang’s pervasive use of the color gives her tropical tableau a ghostly, washed-out feel.

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Building an Architecture for Climate Change

by Louis Bury July 9, 2019July 8, 2019

The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab evidences the importance of the artistic imagination for developing an architecture adequate to the planet’s climate future.

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Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future

by Louis Bury July 6, 2019December 10, 2020

Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.

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The Southern Gothic Moods of Allison Janae Hamilton

by Louis Bury June 15, 2019June 14, 2019

Hamilton’s immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.

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Paradise Lost: Paul Davies’s Fictive California

by Louis Bury June 8, 2019August 31, 2021

The painter’s depiction of breezy palm trees and picturesque mountain ranges contain eccentric, discordant details.

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Josh Kline’s Water World

by Louis Bury May 26, 2019December 10, 2020

The artist imagines a future in which an Antarctic ice sheet has broken, resulting in a catastrophic sea-level rise.

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Coping with Climate Change

by Louis Bury May 11, 2019May 12, 2019

The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.

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