BOSTON Piano Craft Gallery The works in these two exhibitions are formidable—the result of long experience and dedication to process.
A.A. Murakami
LONDON Superblue Silent Fall is the sort of installation that engulfs and dislodges the sense of self, which is appropriate considering that it draws on Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, offering a contemporary take on the Fall as we teeter on the brink of environmental catastrophe.
Firelei Báez
BOSTON ICA Watershed Firelei Báez, the third artist invited to create a site-specific work for the ICA’s East Boston annex, was the first to use the space successfully, taking the history of the location as a pivotal point of reference.
Ashley Bickerton
NEW YORK Lehmann Maupin The works in “Seascapes at the End of History” do not so much commune with nature as represent vignettes of a life lived in concert with it.
“Ceramics in the Expanded Field”
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA “Ceramics in the Expanded Field,” organized by MASS MoCA senior curator Susan Cross, presents work by eight, multi-generational artists from diverse backgrounds who are furthering clay’s move out of isolation to play with other media in dynamic ways.
Lina Puerta
NEW YORK Hunter East Harlem Gallery Puerta’s marvelously varied and often highly ornamented constructions translate traditional imagery and values into a contemporary language steeped in environmental concerns.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
SAN FRANCISCO SFMOMA Truly experiencing Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work requires us to pay close attention: to make our minds and imaginations available in ways dangerously eroded by the distractions of the Internet. This is somewhat paradoxical, considering the technological complexity of his installations.
Guadalupe Maravilla
LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK Socrates Sculpture Park Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” at Socrates Sculpture Park provided a welcome respite for pandemic times. Offering a space for meditation, healing, and recovery, the project reflected Maravilla’s engagement with mutual aid and therapy, focusing on the ways that art can sustain, restore, and provide solace.
Judy Pfaff
PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS Gaa Gallery Though filled with Pfaff’s typical energy, “opsins” is infused with a glowing vibrancy and color unusual for her frenetic forms. The exhibition hinges on gradations across light, color, and darkness, making it one of Pfaff’s most joyful bodies of work to date.
Sreshta Rit Premnath
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS MIT List Visual Arts Center Premnath combines a Minimalist context with Arte Povera sociopolitical influences, conveying a narrative that invites reflection on the psychic weight of waiting in relation to the exclusionary experiences of displacement, incarceration, immigration, and disability.
