Making the ordinary inexplicable, painting landscapes of the psyche, and creating layers that shouldn’t exist. Those descriptions correspond to Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler, three of the artists we’re looking at this week. We’re also pretty enthusiastic about the Asia Society’s pairing of collection items with works by invited contemporary artists. And personally, I could spend hours going down the rabbit hole of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s online exhibition for the Dia Art Foundation. —Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor
David Kennedy Cutler: Second Nature
Derek Eller Gallery, 38 Walker Street, Tribeca Manhattan
Through April 12
“Cutler’s inkjet transfer and acrylic works, poised mid-transformation from painting into sculpture, capture everyday objects from this disorientingly kaleidoscopic perspective.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
Read the full review here.
Dorothy Hood: Remember Something Out of Time
Hollis Taggart, 521 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Through April 12
“Chilean poet Pablo Neruda describes [Dorothy Hood’s] art as driven by inbuilt contradictions, tracing in it both a ‘savage silence’ and a ‘desperate interrogation.’” —Tim Keane
Read the full review here.
Catherine Murphy: Recent Work
Peter Freeman, Inc., 140 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Through April 19
“[Murphy’s] formal mastery is devoted to making the ordinary inexplicable, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we are seeing.” —John Yau
Read the full review here.
(Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection
Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through August 10
“How do you claim your place in an artistic lineage without distorting or romanticizing it? Is that even possible?” —Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Read the full review here.
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth
Dia Art Foundation, online
Ongoing
“As questions and opposition are quelled in the United States by strategic governmental efforts to expunge words, names, and archives, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth proposes that holding onto these moments is a powerful political act.” —NH
Read the full review here.
