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Inna Babaeva: Luminous Bodies

Inna Babaeva: Luminous Bodies

Babaeva’s work transcends material constraints while keeping a consistent intuitive approach to creating objects. Eschews literal meaning, her instead embraces poetic gestures, sensual aesthetics, and a welcome touch of the absurd.
Nov 14, 20239 min read
Brian Barr and Lauren Rice: The Center and Periphery

Brian Barr and Lauren Rice: The Center and Periphery

Straddling the edge between image and object, Barr and Rice’s work draws on our understanding of visual boundaries and their transgression.
Aug 16, 202312 min read
Timothy Hull: Archaeology and Eros

Timothy Hull: Archaeology and Eros

In Hull’s work, historical archaeology is referenced through the appearance of ancient ruins, artifacts, statues, and sketchbook images from his travels to such places. But there also an existential archeology present; one that leads towards recovering personal experience in the here and now.
Jul 26, 202315 min read
AI and the Question of Authenticity

AI and the Question of Authenticity

The fields of art and writing have recently seen increased exposure to AI. How do we identify the value of human creativity over AI as well as other forms of replication?
May 22, 202318 min read

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Robyn Brentano & Andrew Horn: Cloud Dance

Robyn Brentano & Andrew Horn: Cloud Dance

In Cloud Dance, currently in the show “Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019” at the Whitney Musem, standard logic has disappeared and been replaced with stimulation of internal perception.
Nov 6, 20214 min read
Mary Simpson: No Island Is An Island

Mary Simpson: No Island Is An Island

Simpson’s work in Chicago deals with tactility and time, revealing how through material and mark-making we can connect to something deeper and cathartic.
Oct 29, 20215 min read
Lizzie Wright: Present Future Primordial

Lizzie Wright: Present Future Primordial

Lizzie Wright’s approach to art-making is one where ideas appear to come together from different directions and create uncanny, yet […]
Jun 21, 20215 min read
Inna Babaeva: This Time Tomorrow

Inna Babaeva: This Time Tomorrow

In Babaeva’s grouping of works, she combines a variety of materials and objects that, paired with the gallery’s white painted floor and spare lighting, produce a sense of visual and aesthetic bliss.
Apr 2, 20214 min read
Ryan Lauderdale: Haunted Futures

Ryan Lauderdale: Haunted Futures

To look at Ryan Lauderdale’s multi-disciplinary work as a mere sum of its material effects would fall short of the mark. It also addresses the ambient environment surrounding it
Mar 16, 202111 min read
Malia Jensen at Cristin Tierney

Malia Jensen at Cristin Tierney

‘Nearer Nature‘ In the four-channel video from Malia Jensen’s current show at Cristin Tierney, a group of deer take turns […]
Feb 5, 20212 min read
Brian Buckley at ClampArt

Brian Buckley at ClampArt

‘Uncertainty‘ Brian Buckley’s second solo show at the gallery presents more than a dozen framed images that pair cephalopodic forms […]
Feb 4, 20212 min read
Fawn Krieger: The Civics of Metaphysics

Fawn Krieger: The Civics of Metaphysics

Fawn Krieger explores ideas of materiality, civics, and the illimitable through sculpture, drawing, and performance. Arriving at the convergence of environment and intuition, her work appears as a means of understanding how the universe works through its physicality, social interaction, and their metaphysical implications.
Jan 16, 202111 min read
Gordon Parks at Jack Shainman

Gordon Parks at Jack Shainman

This show, featuring the influential work of American photographer, film director, composer, and writer Gordon Parks, spans the gallery’s two locations on 20th and 24th street and highlights—in both intimate and exquisite form—the realities of the Black experience in America during the mid-to-late 20th century.
Jan 7, 20214 min read