SEATTLE Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Proceeding from conceptual art’s loaded objects, Faught has crammed and jammed pockets and slits within the woven fabric with archival queer history publications, relics, and trivia.
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Stepping Into Who I Am: A Conversation with Nick Cave
Nick Cave’s recent work is forging new directions, merging art, nature, and self into vehicles for loving, meaningful connections. “Amalgams and Graphts,” his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery’s new Tribeca location, debuts two bodies of work that challenge viewers to open themselves to love, emotion, and connection.
We Have Always Been Here: A Conversation with Jonathan Baldock
Baldock’s interests are rooted in the unseen, places where myth manifests itself. “Touch Wood,” his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Weston Gallery, draws on beliefs and rituals that have brought people together from time immemorial.
“Black Atlantic”
NEW YORK Brooklyn Bridge Park Versed in popular culture and Black history and speaking to the intersecting narratives of migration and the immigrant experience, the works in “Black Atlantic” educate and enrich.
Marc Swanson
CATSKILL, NEW YORK, AND NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS Thomas Cole National Historic Site and MASS MoCA Marc Swanson’s “A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” offers a queer elegy for our collective climate futures. The two-venue exhibition tackles a huge set of parameters, including climate change, the AIDS crisis and the friends he’s lost to it, the Industrial Revolution, the Hudson River School, sublime forests, and backyard gardens.
Nicole Eisenman
NEW YORK Hauser & Wirth Nicole Eisenman’s practice has always been intense, studio-focused, and personal. Their current exhibition, “Untitled (Show),” is overflowing with sculpture and painting, almost two shows in one.
Sheilah ReStack
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA The Blue Building Gallery For ReStack, “control” is the chimera that we reach for in the face of uncertainty. As curator Emily Falencki writes, “ReStack explores the way her identities—mother, lover, artist, friend—are filled with the anxiety and wonder of being (and not being) in control of connection and outcome.”
Object Lessons: Jeffrey Gibson
I’ve been working with fringe as a main element of the work for at least 10 years. Fringe was seen as an accessory, found on fancy dance shawls in powwow dances, and initially I was thinking of it in that context, using it on punching bags and wall hangings.
Sheila Pepe: Claiming Space
Sheila Pepe takes a gender-bending approach to process and material while also blurring the distinction between art and craft.
Inside Materiality: A Conversation with Florence Peake
Born and raised in London, Florence Peake is a sculptor, performance artist, and dancer whose work has been shaped by music, film, and poetry, as well as a keen interest in esoteric and shamanic practices.
