I come from a dance background. Both of my parents are dancers—I came out of the womb, and they were like, “Here are your tap shoes, here are your ballet shoes.” I had a show coming up in New York, and Curtain Call seemed like the perfect subject matter; it was where my heart was leading me.
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Rhea Dillon
LONDON Tate Britain Metaphorical storytelling lies at the core of Dillon’s work, and in “An Alterable Terrain,” she applies that approach to sculpture, overlaying expressive narrative onto the language of minimal abstraction.
Michael Richards
NEW YORK Bronx Museum of the Arts As “Art You Down?” makes clear, Michael Richards, who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, was an artist ahead of his time. He focused his practice on Black identity and social injustice, often using casts of his own body to invest the work with personal and political meaning.
Martin Puryear
NEW WINDSOR, NEW YORK Storm King Art Center Among the highlights of the exhibition is the earliest maquette that Puryear completed for Lookout; dating to 2016, the model is rendered in wood, the medium of his best-known public works.
Igshaan Adams
LONDON Thomas Dane Gallery There is an immediate and captivating tension at play in Adams’s use of sophisticated technology to provide the foundation for his densely worked and extensively layered handmade pieces.
Controlled Explosions: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew’s massive wall-bound tableaux, objects, and installations engage the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his abstract, emotionally charged compositions possess a metaphorical weight, transcending time and place to approach the infinite through the discarded and finite.
Ebony G. Patterson
NEW YORK New York Botanical Garden In the conservatory, discretely placed sculptures disrupt the palm court with evidence of exploitation and concealed secrets, revealing the hidden histories that lie just beneath the botanical garden’s scientific reserve.
Henry Taylor
PHILADELPHIA Fabric Workshop and Museum By stacking, binding, and juxtaposing an assortment of formal elements to configure new images and meanings out of the familiar, Taylor coalesces the seemingly disparate objects making up this installation/exhibition into an itinerary of interrelated allusions.
William Edmondson and Brendan Fernandes
PHILADELPHIA Barnes Foundation Brendan Fernandes’s Returning to Before, commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in response to the exhibition “William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision,” proposes that gesture can reach back through time and connect us with the past.
