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.
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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Painting Disaster From a Distance
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
Michael Wang’s installation resembles an assisted living facility for plants.
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Listening to Plants
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.