Art Review
Dorothy Hood’s Landscapes of the Psyche
Labels such as “Modernism,” “Surrealism,” or “Color Field” fall away in the abstract painter’s first New York show in half a century.
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Noah Davis’s Black American Arcadia
Davis portrayed scenes in which Black people could truly recognize themselves, eschewing stereotypical depictions and imbuing his subjects with a sense of the surreal.
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“Work From Home” Takes on New Meaning at CalArts’s Postgrad MFA Show
The increasingly blurred boundaries between labor and domesticity are the subject of an exhibition of 24 artists who graduated from the program last year.
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The Shapeshifting Paintings of Kelly Sinnapah Mary
The various iterations of the artist’s schoolgirl avatar allude to a burgeoning womanhood at a crossroads of celestial being and commonality.
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An Artist’s Songs for the Armenian Diaspora
With the stringed qanun as its beating heart, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian’s show explores how music crosses boundaries and preserves collective memory.
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How Do You Paint Language?
A group show curated by Hilton Als meditates on words in the visual arts, but wields silence in ways that verge on obstinate obscurity.
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Rashaad Newsome's Riveting Artistic Universe Continues to Expand
Using projections, artworks, spoken word, music, and dance, Newsome continues to push the boundaries of his artistic vision.
New York
Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing
Most everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.
Los Angeles
Jennifer Packer Portrays Friends Through the Haze of Memory
Packer processes the horror of 2020 into elegiac mood studies that wrestle with exhaustion, fear, and longing.
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Jennifer Packer’s Lucid Tributes to Black Life
In Packer’s canvases, swathes of abstraction express aspects of human experience that lie beyond representation.
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The Allusive, Improvisational Artworks of Thaddeus Mosley
The formal aspects of Mosley’s work have been thoroughly considered over the years, perhaps at the expense of exploring symbolism in his individual works.
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The Genius of Thaddeus Mosley
Mosley did not need the art world’s approval to keep going, but the art world certainly needs him for more reasons than I can count.