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Weaving That Opens to the World and Heavens
Claudia Alarcón and the Wichí women weavers who compose the collective Silät create artworks that seem to channel land and celestial bodies.
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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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Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Ballad of the Bomb
The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons.
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Six Art-World Cool Kids Take Over Abandoned High School in Upstate NY
At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab.
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Glass Art That Reflects the Human Condition
Josiah McElheny’s latest sculptures reject traditionally idealized forms in favor of the imperfect.
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The Gap Between Things and Their Names
A deep sense of loss, of being cut off or isolated from communication, runs through Elsa Gramcko’s works, imbuing them with inchoate feelings that precede language.
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Yun-Fei Ji's Great Leap Forward
The Chinese painter learned the state-sanctioned style of Socialist Realism and then elected to unlearn it in order to reinvent himself.
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Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings
Encountering Pierre's dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world.
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Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination
Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.
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Byron Kim Achieves Equilibrium
Perhaps these paintings are what it feels like for the artist to be in a state of not being harried, anxious or in deep existentialist dread.
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Cathartic Art for Precarious Times
Fred Tomaselli’s incorporation of printed news in his paintings long before the pandemic now seems downright prescient.
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The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist
Josiah McElheny's glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.