New York: Abstraction for a Shattered World

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June 22, 2022 • View in browser

Geometric Abstraction for a Shattered World

Gary Petersen recognizes that whatever dream of unity geometric artists once pursued is no longer possible. | John Yau

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WHAT TO CATCH THIS WEEK

Yvette Drury Dubinsky, detail from “Anguish” (2022) (image courtesy the artist and A.I.R. Gallery)

Leslie Hewitt
Dia Bridgehampton, opening June 24

Dia’s Long Island outpost brings Hewitt’s fragmentary, minimalist collages into conversation with soundscapes by Jamal Cyrus, resulting in a multisensory experience throughout the repurposed home and outdoor space.

Wonder Women
Jeffrey Deitch through June 25

Curator Kathy Huang draws from history, fiction, and personal experience to foster dialogue amid an epidemic of anti-Asian violence.

Maya Jeffereis, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Zazu Swistel
A.I.R. Gallery through June 26

Dumbo’s A.I.R. Gallery presents three new solo exhibitions focused on language, memory, and intergenerational trauma.

Angela Miskis: It’s a Luxury to Look Back
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, opening June 30

The Ecuadorian artist transforms recycled materials into colorful, nostalgic abstractions through a process she developed during her family’s migration to Southeast Queens.

Check out our complete summer guide to see our top picks for NYC's most-anticipated shows this season!

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The National Museum of the American Indian Launches Ancestors Know Who We Are

Contemporary Black-Indigenous women artists Rodslen Brown, Joelle Joyner, Moira Pernambuco, Paige Pettibon, Monica Rickert-Bolter, and Storme Webber are featured in this digital exhibition. Learn more.

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Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings

Encountering Pierre’s dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world. | Gregory Volk

The Endless Realities of Evelyn Statsinger’s Art

Statsinger has created a world that is simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic, cellular and cosmological, wherein the inexplicable and enigmatic coexist. | John Yau

Circle Jerk Takes the Absurdity of Modern Existence to the Extreme

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the hybrid film/theatrical production is a dense and irreverent look at the performance of queerness. | Juan Barquin

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CLOSING SOON

Pia Camil, “Saca Tus Trapos Al Sol (Air Out Your Dirty Laundry)" (2022), part of Intervención/Intersección at Rockefeller Center in New York (photo courtesy MASA)

Intervención/Intersección
Rockefeller Center through June 24

Chloe Chiasson: Fast Hearts and Slow Towns
Albertz Benda Gallery through June 25

Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through June 25

Circle Jerk
Online and in-person at Connelly Theater through June 25

Gary Petersen
McKenzie Fine Art through June 26

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Vivian Browne: Africa Series 1971-1974
RYAN LEE Gallery through July 1

Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Noon
Tina Kim Gallery through July 1

Stanley Lewis: Paintings and Works on Paper
Betty Cuningham Gallery through July 1

Heidi Lau: Gardens as Cosmic Terrains
Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs through July 3

Kate Casanova: Gut Feeling
Yi Gallery through July 9

Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
Brooklyn Museum through July 10

Ani Liu: Ecologies of Care
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space through July 30