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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists explore home and identity.

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1. In her work, Sherman proposes powerful questions about identity, representation, and the role of images in contemporary culture. From screen siren and pin-up to socialite and businesswoman, the roles Sherman depicts through her monumental body of work provocatively engage with contemporary life’s mediated personas and stereotypes, drawing not only from art history but also from the histories of advertising, cinema, and media at The Broad
2. Divided into two sections installed in separate galleries, the exhibition is organized around the two outposts that Peter Beard calls home – Africa and the East End of Long Island at Guild Hall
3. Wild West explores artistic responses to the natural and cultivated landscapes of the western United States from the frontier era to the present at Legion of Honor
4. Brian Jungen’s new sculptural objects, wall reliefs, and hanging curtain are made of cut, spliced and reformatted Air Jordan trainers transformed into abstracted compositions that generate broader interpretationsat Casey Kaplan Gallery
5. Hilary Pecis’ El Verano displays honest depictions of the everyday objects and the living spaces that sustain the artist and her family; husband Andrew Schoultz and son Apollo at Guerrero Gallery
6. Imagined Futures features works by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman, John Berkey, Jim Burns, Don Dixon, Bob Eggleton, Chris Foss, Fred Gambino, Ron Miller, Ludek Pesek, Richard Powers, Alex Schomburg, and Tim White, alongside, for the first time, works from other artists inspired by the visualization of the unknown; Ansel Adams, Max Ernst, Robert Longo, René Magritte, Simon Norfolk, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth at Pivot

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks are colorful, quirky and perfect for summer.

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1. Jack Pierson’s new body of work is comprised of small watercolor and graphite works on paper, paintings and driftwood assemblages, made while in a self-imposed retreat on the island of North Captiva, on Florida’s gulf coast, from December to March, of the past year at Cheim Read
2. In Mauricio Toro Goya’s Milagreros, he reveals the reality behind folklore at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca
3. Les Biller’s latest work is informed by the vibrant pacific sunlight in Los Angeles & Hawaii, and the intrigues of visiting China & living in Japan at Rosamund Felsen Gallery
4. In 1964, inspired by both the long history of art and by imagery he found on contemporary printed postcards, Roy Lichtenstein began to explore the genre of land and seascapes, using paint, plastic, enamel, drawings, collage, print, and even film to realize his various works at Guild Hall
5. Robert Seydel created a series of works using the alter ego Ruth Greisman, a resident of Queens, New York, who was inspired by his aunt of the same name; his exhibition features a definitive selection from this fictional archive with a selection of Ruth’s “journal pages” and almost one hundred collages at Queens Museum
6. Lindsay Morris’ “You Are You” documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families at Clamp Art

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