Saturday, April 06, 2019

Paints and Prints, Flowers and Texts

Sangram Majumdar's first exhibition at Geary, Once, and Twice. Gallery Link

Detail
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani, American Univerity Professorial Lecturer in Global Modern History, writing on Majumdar's work, asks, " In what ways can painting reach and touch as bodies can?"
The exhibition impetus: an illustration from the 18th century tale Ramayana.


Lizbeth Mitty at M. David & Co. Gallery Link through 4/21/19
She exhibits here with her daughter, Dana James. The affinities in their works emerge despite James' liquidi and Mitty's sculpted surfaces.
Mitty
Mitty

Details of the above - incision and layering





Warhol at the Whitney, From A to B and Back Again. Museum Link





Josef Albers in the unexpectedly fantastic Programmed exhibition at the Whitney. Exhibition Link 
Meet Wave Hill and Neumeraki curator Eileen Jeng Lynch at the Lower East Side  Printshop,  where she curated an exhibition of artists working there, Awaken.  Lower East Side Printshop exhibition link
Yesuk Seo, In-Between, 2019, Screenprint on Asahi Bookcloth
Naomi Nakazato, nononononono, 2018, Screenprint
Sarah Faux Monotype
JC Lenochan's socio-political text works
Detail 

Nina Feigin Monotype, Lost Children, giving color, surnames and life to children mired in bureaucratic systems (20 x 16 inches)
JC Lenochan


Yesuk Seo in front of her works
In the Presence of Absence at EFA Project Space, curated by Jillian Steinhauer. Gallery Link
The exhibition examines states and conditions of grief.
Among the works are Edward Heap of Birds' viscosity prints, messages to and about indigenous peoples.
Nene Humphrey's braided metal and home-made table sculptural installation Circling the Center and video, If You Were to Peer Into the Mourner's Skull, that explore the neural pathways of emotion in the brain.
Jaamal Olawale Kosoko's Accidental Saint, (J.I.K.D.I.S.Y.G.I.B.), 2019, an altar to his murdered brother, with texts and references that provide a larger cultural context for the death. 
Taken from the chair provided, next to which is a copy of James Baldwin's On Being White...and Other Lies, 1984.

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