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Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s artists examine the narrative and cycle of change.

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1. In Minoan Girls, Elaine Reichek focuses on the ways in which the Greek myths are continually retold and reenacted over the centuries, in the same way that sewing doubles a thread back upon itself repeatedly at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2. Peter Linde Busk’s work is sincerely concerned with detritus: the literal, cultural and societal. He channels ancient Spolia architecture, where unneeded buildings or monuments were demolished and repurposed for the construction of new patchwork structures at Derek Eller Gallery
3. Inside Out, Home and Place will bring together a series of van Dalen’s works, providing a meditation on his longstanding interest in the clash between nature and technology, capitalism and humanity, and the way in which one’s sense of home and place in the world can be an ever-shifting construction due to external and often uncontrollable circumstances at Sargent’s Daughter’s
4. Sara Jimenez excavates personal and historical narratives as part of her artistic process. This search has led her to the image of casting wide nets into the deepest parts of the ocean, which symbolically connect here (NY) and there (the Philippines), two spaces that connote  “home” for the artist. In the attempt to capture and contain lost information, she weaves fabric nets which are suspended from the ceiling of the gallery and fill the space at Five Myles
5. Ayline Olukman, Stephane Joannes, and Amanda Scuglia come together to present present NATURE/MADE at Massey Lyuben Gallery
6. Michel Huelin imagines a universe of mutations giving rise to both fascination and discomfort, manifestations of a techno-kind expansion according to a principle of proliferation, as nature itself without control or limit except that of the perception of detail, this notion itself becoming imperceptible and blurred at galerie zürcher

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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This week’s gallery picks explore the intertwined nature of environment, memory, and culture.

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1. Observations in Nature is bound thematically by the metaphor of the shark. Influenced by philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s analysis of the film “JAWS” (1975), Abdul Mazid’s conceptualization of the shark refers to society’s tendency to insist upon the “othering” and villification of people, ideas, and practices at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2. The Chosen Form of Your Destroyer is focused on a new series of mixed media works by Ian Francis depicting the coexistence of beauty and destruction in modern society at Lazarides Rathbone
3. My Dakota captures not just the state of South Dakota’s changing economy and landscape but also a personal catharsis. Rebecca Norris Webb came to understand the series as a means of addressing her grief for her brother—“to try to absorb it, to distill it, and, ultimately, to let it go.” at The Cleveland Museum of Art
4. Robert Minervini’ Invisible Reflections surveys six monuments in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Each of the six paintings depicts one individual monument, but interwoven with this imagery are white line drawings which represent the memorial’s historical framework. Minervini’s work invites the viewer to become more engaged with the rich history of San Francisco, with the hope that it will inspire further inquiry into our surrounding environment at Rena Bransten Gallery
5. Inspired by Argentinian author Adolfo Bioy Casares’ 1940 novel, The Invention of Morel, the exhibition Memory Burn observes mortality and death in relation to recording devices. The title of the exhibition refers simultaneously to unforgettable visions burned in the mind and to digital burning used to archive memories.
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6. FAILE, a Brooklyn-based collaboration between artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, raises questions about our relationship to consumer culture, religious traditions, and the urban environment by blurring the boundaries between fine art, street art, and popular culture at Brooklyn Museum

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