Unmaking the City
Demolition becomes a generative force in Jackie Castillo’s new exhibition at the ICA LA, Through the Descent, Like the Return.
Speculative Ecologies and Sacred Grief
Michelle Ruiz interviews Elsa Muñoz and how her exhibition, Botánica Apokalíptica, inaugurates Pecha Projects with eco-mystic hope.
The Land and Its Shadow
Teresa Baker’s solo exhibition ruminates on the experience and memory of landscape through its inextricable ties to modern artificiality.
From Surfing to Sinking in the Internet: Yehwan Song
The solo exhibition Are We Still (Surfing)? subverts technology to reflect on our digital habits.
Carolyn Lazard’s Simulated Reality
Lazard connects the modern healthcare system’s treatment of Black women to postmodern philosophical commentary.
Moments of Muscle Memory
Kang Seung Lee discusses regeneration, queer kinship, and the paradox of pleasure and pain.
Review of vanessa german’s “GUMBALL”
Sculptures made of crystals, porcelain, and poetry outline german’s process of spirituality and vulnerability.
Ramón Saturnino: “Aquí no es así”
Ramón Saturnino’s first solo exhibition approximates the architecture of the Mexico-USA border.
Sealed Spirits
Curses and spirits embed themselves in Emma Rose Schwartz’s new exhibition at Derosia.
Veils of Velvet: Decoding Lior Modan’s Reliefs
Lustrous, ephemeral, and mysterious velvet reliefs subtly reveal the ambiguous spaces between reality, memory, and feeling.
Troy Montes Michie: “Black on the Face of the Moon”
Troy Montes Michie patchworks archival and personal media in an investigation of the self and its constituent identities.
Archive and Absence: Ohan Breiding
Breiding examines violence in resource extraction through the lens of the archive at A.I.R. Gallery.
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer on Reclaiming Memory
A space transformed explores the womb, Indigenous knowledge systems, and BIPOC bodies within the American medical complex.
Terran Last Gun’s Eternal Ledger Drawings
Working in a powerful tradition, Last Gun presents an exhibition of transcendent abstractions at Chapter NY.
Fugitive Forms and Fading Memories in Joan Jonas’s “Empty Rooms”
Joan Jonas reflects on personal and natural loss in her new installation at Gladstone Gallery.
Separating the Art from the Artist
Lyne Lapointe transcends the self by shifting through different materials and modes of corporeality at Jack Shainman.
Thiang Uk’s Contradictions in Harmony: “Shadow’s Edge” at Bureau
Tradition and mythology transcend time in Uk’s shapeshifting paintings.
Abstracting the Everyday
In Pennies from Heaven, Kianja Strobert lets us draw our own material conclusions.
Porcelain and Power: The Female Body in Jessica Stoller’s “Split”
The artist's new solo exhibition at P·P·O·W Gallery examines femininity, control, and bodily autonomy through the delicate yet defiant medium of porcelain.