Balancing precision with irregularity is the guiding principle in Elise Ferguson’s richly layered paintings. Her labor-intensive process begins with applying multiple rounds of pigmented Venetian plaster onto panels, which are then drawn over with imperfect guidelines in graphite to help register multiple rounds of silkscreened plaster in repeating geometric designs. […]
Day: May 12, 2025
Romanian Painter Radu Oreian’s “That Magic Light” @ 1969 Gallery, NYC
Romanian artist Radu Oreian has returned to 1969 Gallery with That Magic Light, his second show with the gallery and first since 2022’s A Sea of Green and Blue. That Magic Light transports us into the inner workings of the artist’s mind, asking the audience the ultimate ontological question of what it means “to be.” Oreian […]
Yu Nishimura: Clearing Unfolds @ David Zwirner New York, 69th Street
In the first moments I saw the works of Japanese artist Yu Nishimura, I felt this enormous sensation, a wave of grief almost, of what happens after the world is flipped upside down and we are left to repair. You wouldn’t, I maybe think, go to a Last of Us […]
Preview: Kenichi Hoshine “And There Came a Storm Beneath a Cutthroat Moon”
Even though Kenichi Hoshine’s artworks (an alum of the Juxtapoz Clubhouse and now readying to show with Nino Mier) evoke a sense of the uncanny, blending barely recognizable figures or body parts with abstract shapes in direct, attention-demanding arrangements, they also immediately wash over the viewer with a feeling of […]