BOSTON Institute of Contemporary Art Simone Leigh’s first-ever museum retrospective demonstrates her abiding use of clay (and nascent use of bronze) as a material and conceptual means to amplify Black female experiences and the spaces created by Black feminists.
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Felt History: A Conversation with Abigail DeVille
Abigail DeVille lets objects reveal America’s invisible histories. Her recent solo shows in New York—“Bronx Heavens” (Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2022–23), “Original Night” (Eric Firestone Gallery, 2022), and “In the fullness of time, the heart speaks truths too deep for utterance, but a star remembers.”
Elzie Williams III
NEW YORK M23 Gallery Camouflaged as art objects ready for sale, Williams’s sculptures and installations assert a provocative polemic.
Grada Kilomba
NEW YORK Pace Representing the ocean or a guardian female deity, the cloth is a synecdoche for a long history of migration journeys across global waters.
Suspended States: A Conversation with Camille Norment
Camille Norment shapes sound in relation to time, space, and the human body. Her work, which embraces sculpture, architecture, and history, explores sonic and social dissonance—as well as harmony—through her notion of cultural psychoacoustics, which includes the investigation of sound as a force over cultures, societies, and minds, as well as human and non-human bodies.
Wangechi Mutu
NEW YORK New Museum Water laps and pools, filling the vessel with poetic possibility as it becomes a fountain, a tub offering a restorative, healing bath, and a conduit of symbolic passage.
Sonia Boyce
MARGATE, U.K. Turner Contemporary Boyce’s videos of this session reveal how the participants grew in trust and how their improvised collaborations became increasingly confident and playful, questioning authority and authorship.
Arthur Simms
LOS ANGELES Karma Improvisatory and yet obsessive, Arthur Simms’s sculptures manifest the intensity of his process. His work is provocative, compelling, hard to look at—and at least part of its power comes from his drive to make such fierce, volatile, and demanding objects.
Simone Leigh
Boston ICA/Boston Through September 4, 2023 Simone Leigh’s exhibition at the ICA/Boston (traveling to the Hirshhorn in fall 2023, and to LACMA and CAAM in summer 2024) includes 10 works from Leigh’s historic presentation for the U.S.
Henry Jackson-Spieker
SEATTLE MadArt Jackson-Spieker creates visual blind spots and distortions that he hopes act as a metaphor for the things we don’t see or question in our everyday surroundings.
