Have you had it up to here with the Cheeto-in-Chief? Are you enraged by the garbage spewing from the White House? If so, head for “Sandow Birk: An Illustrated History of the Present,” a survey of the artist’s major series of multi-media works executed over the past thirty years.
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Amy Hamley
For Amy Hamley, being creative is not so much the desire to do something as it is listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials. The material itself is full of suggestions for its use when approached receptively.
Mayme Kratz
Mayme Kratz forages natural materials for her art on hikes in rugged regions of the Southwest. She collects globe chamomile and Texas laurel. The shells deposited by ancient seas show up in her work. So do the remains of insects and bones of animals, ranging from fish to bobcats and deer.
Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon
Wolfgang Paalen & Alice Rahon, “Worlds Gone and to Come” is the first dedicated two-person exhibition of the couple’s work. It brings together two individuals whose lives and artistic paths were deeply intertwined, even as each developed a distinctive Surrealist vision.
Lava Thomas
The story at the core of “Lava Thomas: Lineage” begins with Thomas’ portrait of her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Arthur, whose likeness she crafted from a photograph attached to a deposition. Born free to an enslaved father, Arthur had the first legal Black marriage in Wise County, Texas.
Caguiat Delacruz
“The Tramp” makes no mystery that its artist collaborators, Caguiat Delacruz, pay tribute to Charlie Chaplin’s lovable drifter. They have created an experimental film that playfully reinterprets the character of the Tramp.
Liam Everett
Liam Everett poetically suggests the works in “the passenger” are just “thin nets to catch the light,” indicative of his ambivalent relationship to the canvas. The title, relates to Everett’s questioning the nature of consciousness, i.e. “who is the passenger” residing in our mortal coil?
Gladys Nilsson
Chicago-based Gladys Nilsson paints mostly female figures captured in states of unabashed reverie, their obstreperous bodies portrayed half-way between physical solidity and ectoplasmic ecstasy. Are they grotesque? They are certainly that, but not in any way we might normally think of when considering the term.
Objects USA
“Objects USA” showcases the work of 61 artists working in the craft tradition, expanding and updating a historic exhibition staged under the same title in 1969 at the Smithsonian. The new show argues for a coherence between successive generations of artists drawing a line that tells us “things changed after this happened.”
Shaghayegh Cyrous
In Shaghayegh Cyrous’ multimedia installation “Breathe the Sun” a vivid cast of characters perform ritualized movements in a wall-length video projection. This is an immersive, ritualistic space that acknowledges and bridges the physical and cultural distance between North America and her native Iran.