Weekend: Amy Sherald, Katherine Bradford, Fred Eversley

In this weekend’s issue, the weight and weightlessness of materials and emotions are explored in revi

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In this weekend’s issue, the weight and weightlessness of materials and emotions are explored in reviews by Natalie Haddad, John Yau, Megan Liberty, Mengyun Han, and Gregory Volk. Looking back over the COVID year, Yau writes of the ways that Katherine Bradford’s new paintings convey the disconnectedness, vulnerability, and helplessness of that time, while Haddad, discussing the parabolic sculptures of the California Light and Space artist Fred Eversley, looks upon the rationalism of “Eversley’s elegant, jewel-like sculptures, as especially welcome, essential even, in times of unrest.”At this pivotal moment for local, national, and international culture, please consider becoming a member of Hyperallergic and help keep our independent journalism and diversity of opinion free and available to everyone.— Thomas Micchelli, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

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Katherine Bradford's Joy and Grief In her Mother Paintings, Bradford’s observations of life in a pandemic have merged with her interior world. John Yau

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Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death There are many in Kentucky who wish to get beyond the Breonna Taylor tragedy, but Amy Sherald’s magnetic portrait of Taylor insists otherwise. Gregory Volk

A Year of Struggle in Words and Images Manjit Thapp’s first full-length graphic novel, Feelings, charts a young woman’s emotional journey through South Asia’s six-season calendar. Megan N. Liberty

SPONSORED Stanford Arts Presents a Conversation With Teresita Fernández and Sir David Adjaye The university’s Artists on the Future series pairs renowned artists with cultural thought leaders. This virtual event is free and open to the public.

Echoes of Buddhist “Emptiness” in Contemporary Chinese Art The four artists in the exhibition Silent Thunder display varying degrees of engagement with Buddhism — as a faith, an aesthetic choice, a school of philosophy, or a social phenomenon. Mengyun Han

Fred Eversley's Joyful Light Eversley’s parabolic sculptures draw us into a self-aware and ever-shifting encounter with space and perceptual phenomena. Natalie Haddad

John Lees’s All-Too-Human Paintings By repeatedly returning to the same motif, Lees attempts the impossible, which is to freeze a particular object, individual, or moment in time. John Yau

Required Reading This week, the Tartarian conspiracy, labor issues at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, a Russian singer trapped in a Chinese reality TV show, Hollywood’s copyright obsession, and more. Hrag Vartanian

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