“ERICKA BECKMAN: DOUBLE REVERSE”
Curated by Henriette Huldisch Characterized by ingenious artisanal special effects and communicating an infectious POW!, Ericka Beckman’s early movies infused object theater with playful psychodrama,...
View ArticleWillie Cole
Iron scorch on wood, scorch on paper: Over the past thirty years, Willie Cole’s work with irons and ironing boards has summoned heat and steam to create imagery that draws on that of the slave trade...
View ArticleHuma Bhabha
Drawing on more than two decades of work, “They Live” was Huma Bhabha’s largest survey to date. Curator Eva Respini deftly highlighted the artist’s remarkable range of temporal and spatial reference...
View ArticleALICJA KWADE
Curated by Henriette Huldisch Alicja Kwade’s confounding sculptures challenge perceived realities and destabilize systems of measurement and value, unsettling viewers with mirrors and sculpted...
View Article“WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY: MIGRATION THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART”
Curated by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini with Ellen Tani The twenty artists in “When Home Won’t Let You Stay” were selected as speakers for the dead and downtrodden. Americans make for notoriously poor...
View Article“Christine Sun Kim: Off The Charts”
Curated by Henriette Huldisch Shit Hearing People Say to Me, 2019, a drawing by Christine Sun Kim, displays a pie chart with one segment labeled “My neighbor’s dog is deaf. You two should meet!” In...
View Article“Tschabalala Self: Out of Body”
Curated by Ellen Tani Born and raised in Harlem, Tschabalala Self grew up with maternal figures who sewed curtains, transformed old pants into skirts, and knit oversize blankets. Thus, textile...
View ArticleJonathan Berger
Eros rides a dolphin or a swan&#—or else a crab, a snail, a dove, a lion, an aquatic goat, a unicorn-drawn chariot, a turtle. I thought about this history of images while reading of a man’s...
View ArticleChristine Sun Kim
I first encountered Christine Sun Kim’s drawings in the Museum of Modern Art’s “Soundings” exhibition in 2013, where she was showing poetic, gestural works based on the movements of American Sign...
View ArticleRami George
In the early 1990s, Nelli George began receiving pamphlets in the mail from a place called the Samaritan Foundation. Nelli was a ceramist and homemaker who lived in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her...
View ArticleDeana Lawson
Curated by Eva Respini of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, along with Peter Eleey of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and Shanghai, this Deana Lawson survey&#—which travels...
View Article“Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere”
Life arises from difference. That’s what biologist Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) averred when she proposed that endosymbiosis&#—the nesting of one unlike organism inside another&#—allowed for the...
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