This week’s gallery picks feature bursting color, pattern and unique perspectives.
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1. A selection of paintings, collages, drawings and prints by Dado from the 1970’s. His phantasmagorical dramaturgy draws its inspiration from a sort of redemption, through painting or drawing, of adolescent memories of tragedies and human cruelties that occurred in his native Montenegro at Jeanne Bucher Jaeger
2. A group show featuring six contemporary photographers from Africa and its diaspora. The exhibition explores multiple themes that challenge accepted notions of belonging and identity; the everyday and the fantastical; the past and the future; the public and the private at Red Hook Labs
3. Anne-Sophie Cochevelou offers a reflection on the cultural appropriation within an “unplanned obsolescence” – through a maximalism that is dear to her, thus celebrating the richness and variety of different cultures through reclaimed material. The artist questions the female body within the post-modern society and particularly the paradoxes of feminism through a costume-based performance at Isabelle Gounod Gallery
4. Presented on yellow walls, Natalie Frank’s new paintings in paper and on wood portray women who have created worlds of their own liking–full of voyeurism, performance, pets and the hot colors and exuberance of horror films at ACME
5. Mike Davis renders complex paintings embedded with symbols of mortality, folly, and hubris in the style of the Netherlandish Flemish Primitives such as Bosch, Bruegel and van Eyck. His oil paintings create an alternate world where anything is possible, combining arcane personal symbols with social commentary. His work depicts a world of myth and colliding timeframes, a land “on the other side of the bridge,” but one that resonates with our own—not as memory but as a dream at Copro Gallery
6. Collin van der Sluijs’ work is marked by the various artistic techniques he blends together to render his unusual subjects. He has created his own intricate, colorful, odd world with the subjects of his pieces. He takes inspiration for these subjects from the personal pleasures and the struggles of daily life. This world when expressed through the various techniques Collin has mastered, creates beautiful, multi-dimensional pieces of art work, that draw the eye in and keep it there at Vertical Gallery
