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Tuesday’s Gallery Picks




This week’s artists come together to contemplate differing realities.

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1. Look up here, I’m in heaven, a group exhibition of unconventional portraits featuring paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media work by David Antonio Cruz, Yashua Klos, Tschabalala Self, and Yoon Ji Seon. While cultural and political realities are central elements of the work on view, the artists create imagery that aims to transcend the here and now to establish a more transcendent sense of self at BRIC House
2. Maryrose Crook draws on traditions of surrealism, still life and folk art creating worlds where beauty and brutality exist in close proximity at La Luz de Jesus
3. Group show School’s Out aims to capture that same sense of freedom – of playfully breaking from the ordinary and letting the imagination run wild at Mike Weiss Gallery
4. Aaron Frisby and Lane Cyril Mountain’s newest works at Seeing Something Gallery
5. An examination of the profound physical and emotional impact of violence in America, particularly against women at Paradigm Arts
6. At once charming and provocative, Michael De Feo reinterprets and embellishes the existing imagery in a novel spin for the age of appropriation at Danziger Gallery

August 9, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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In this week’s gallery picks, our artists explore the complex relationship between the present and the past with their richly layered techniques.

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1. Knowingly borrowing what iconography lies just as easily in thrift shops as any museum collection, Holmes navigates grandiose concepts of biography, introspection, and materiality with all the sincerity of a scrawled cocktail napkin at Mike Wise Gallery
2.Using Renaissance images, long forgotten in dusty archives of museums, Ingrid Dee Magidson combines them with the contemporary materials and objects at Unix Gallery
3. Sage Vaughn explores the physical and abstract associations of the phrase “nobody’s home” through an examination of stale interiors and the vacancy with which society unquestioningly consumes objects and occasions of mass appeal at Lazarides Rathbone
4. Lalla Essaydi covers her models, and sometimes the garments and walls, in layers of hand-painted henna calligraphy, subverting traditional Muslim gender stereotypes through the presence of the written word.at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
5. Yinka Shonibare’s latest show focuses on education, enlightenment, and opportunity – all ideals embraced by Dr. Barnes at Barnes Foundation
6. Through Margo Wolowiec’s dizzying textiles, the internet’s grating imagery washes away into something softer, almost dreamlike, like when cereal turns to mush after hours left in milk at Johansson Projects

 

February 4, 2014 | By: Shayna Kulik

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