From Aaron Gilbert’s take on capitalism to Weegee’s distortions of celebrity culture, these exhibitions all critique or reflect the world around us.
Faye Hirsch
Faye Hirsch is an art historian and critic who chairs the MFA program in Art+Design, Purchase College SUNY. She is co-writing a book about Skowhegan with Ingrid Schaffner, to be published by Dancing Foxes Press.
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Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still
Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace.
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Judy Pfaff’s Garden of Unearthly Delights
At Wave Hill, the artist presents a teeming world of natural and artificial abundance.
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The Force of Community Bends Space in Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portraits
The artist depicts Los Angeles dancers as they dance, dress, and rest.
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The Passions of Joan Snyder
Snyder’s painting suggests a constant, self-examining practice, one that remains absolutely faithful to the veteran who wields it.
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Lois Dodd’s Life in Nature
From the mid-1960s, when Dodd first took her Masonite panels outdoors to paint, her production has been shaped by observation.
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Witches Take Over Westchester
Bowen’s multimedia art is an alchemical mix of the sensuous and arcane, and it is more than a little witchy.
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The Stirring Political Etchings of Nicolás De Jesús
The Mexican artist’s works reveal the radical possibilities of an indigenous sensibility charged with a keen awareness of politics and art history.
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A Historical Art of Dissent for the Digital Age
In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
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Nikolai Astrup’s Enchanted Norway
There is not a hint of psychological trauma in Astrup’s art, despite the parallels in his own experience to that of his countryman Edvard Munch.
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A Feminist Take on Medieval Statuary
Funky and elegant by turn, Ann Agee’s ceramic Madonnas testify to an imagination run wild.