NUEVA YORK: EXPOSICIONES OTOÑO/INVIERNO
Wangechi Mutu
The Nairobi-born artist renders otherworldly, hybridized feminine figures to forge new myths and usher in potential alternative futures. Eight large cast bronze sculptures, including a 15-foot-long canoe that functions as a water fountain, dot Storm King’s grounds, while an indoor presentation pairs sculpture with film.
Storm King Art Center (stormking.org), 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, New York. Hasta el 7 de noviembre de 2022.
Cristina Iglesias: Landscape and Memory
Two bodies of water once coursed underneath Madison Square Park. Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias engages with the layered, largely forgotten geographic history of this urban green space in a site-responsive installation of five subterranean bronze sculptures with elaborate bas-reliefs through which water flows.
Madison Square Park (madisonsquarepark.org), 11 Madison Avenue, Flatiron, Manhattan. Hasta el 4 de diciembre de 2022.
Camille Norment: Plexus
Site-specific sonic installations by Camille Norment occupy each of the two galleries at Dia’s Chelsea location. A brass sculpture intersperses amplified ambient noise with static from radio reporting on 1960s and ’70s social movements, while a rhizomatic wood installation transmits sounds of singing and grinding teeth.
Dia Chelsea. Hasta el 7 de enero de 2023.
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
La mayor retrospectiva de la artista autodidacta Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982), desde sus vibrantes pinuras a sus esculturas gomosas.
Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4 planta. Del 2 de septiembre de 2022 al 1 de enero de 2023.
Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers University’s museum took a look at its holdings of Black women artists and assembled this exhibition featuring Emma Amos, Kara Walker, Nona Faustine, Atisha Fordyce, and Daonne Huff. While you’re there, be sure to check out Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, which features 10 revolutionary Black women who changed the world, including Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Bree Newsome, and others.
Focus Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum (zimmerli.rutgers.edu), 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Hasta el 11 de diciembre de 2022.
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries
Douglass Library, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Hasta el 14 de diciembre de 2022.
Martine Gutierrez: Supremacy
Harnessing the slick visual language of advertising in subversive photo-performances that challenge the commodification of bodies, artist and activist Martine Gutierrez questions normativity and supremacy in their many guises.
Whitney Museum of American Art (whitney.org), 99 Gansevoort Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan. De septiembre de 2022 a marzo de 2023.
LaJuné McMillian: The Black Movement Library
Inspired by Katherine Dunham’s Movement Library, LaJuné McMillian’s Black Movement Library compiles motion data from Black performers, who are typically underrepresented in online databases, and transforms their actions and gestures into live performances as well as into virtual and augmented reality projects.
Recess (recessart.org), 46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn. Del 15 de septimbre al 29 de octubre de 2022.
Karen Lamassonne: Ruido / Noise
Perhaps best known for her Baños (Bathrooms) series (1978–1981) of watercolor portraits that were censored in Colombia when they were first shown, the Swiss Institute looks back at six decades of work by the Colombian-American painter, video artist, and theatrical designer, much of which engages with feminine identity and sexual intimacy.
Swiss Institute (swissinstitute.net), 38 Saint Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan. Del 14 de septiembre de 2022 al 8 de enero de 2023.
Indecencia
Over two dozen diasporic artists of Latin American descent wield props, cameras, and “indecency” as tools for collective self-determination at one of the city’s first institutions dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists. Rooted in decolonial theology, the show’s focus on performance invites an exploration of queerness, religion, and Latinx identity in all its confines and possibilities.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (leslielohman.org), 26 Wooster St, Soho, Manhattan. Del 16 de septiembre de 2022 al 15 de enero de 2023.
Earth & Iron: Archival Visions of Land and Struggle
Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo created new visions of the future by cutting, pasting, and restructuring early 20th-century colonial photographs taken in West Africa and the Caribbean, to highlight and reimagine Black and Indigenous relationships to land and labor. The artworks are full of wonder and beauty.
Project Room at BRIC (bricartsmedia.org), 647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Hasta el 22 de diciembre de 2022.
Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye
In her first United States solo show, the British artist and poet characteristically operates at the intersection of the visual and the textual, projecting a filmed performance of a poem onto a velvet screen and silk wall hangings alongside paintings incorporating handwritten text.
White Columns (whitecolumns.org), 91 Horatio Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan. Hasta el 29 de octubre de 2022.
Henrike Naumann: Re-Education
For her first US solo show, Berlin-based installation artist Henrike Naumann scrutinizes the ways in which political ideologies are embedded in American interior design and furniture, parsing the role that domestic taste plays in propagating Western, capitalist ideas of the “good life.”
SculptureCenter (sculpture-center.org), 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, Queens. Del 22 de septiembe de 2022 al 27 de febrero de 2023.
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum
“Pivotal projects” en las trayecorias de una docena de fotógrafas miembras de Magnum, de Susan Meiselas a Sabiha Çimen, con ocasión del 75 aniversario de la influyente agencia de fotografía.
International Center of Photography. Del 30 de septiembre de 2022 al 9 de enero de 2023.
Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces
In 1974, Linda Goode Bryant founded Just Above Midtown (JAM), an alternative art space devoted to centering diverse work by Black artists and artists of color. The influential gallery and the now-iconic artists it supported — among them David Hammons and Lorraine O’Grady — are the subjects of this exhibition.
MoMA. Del 9 de octubre de 2022 al 18 de febrero de 2023.
She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C.
A broad look at women in ancient Mesopotamia with a special focus on the earliest recorded author in the world, the high priestess and poet Enheduanna.
Morgan Library & Museum, themorgan.org. Del 14 de octubre de 2022 al 19 de febrero de 2023.
Meret Oppenheim
You’ve seen this Swiss Surrealist’s fur-lined teacup. But have you seen her collages, her bronze sculptures or any of the other nearly 200 works in this overdue retrospective?
Museum of Modern Art, moma.org). Del 30 de octubre de 2022 al 4 de marzo de 2023.
Domesticanx
Drawing on the concept of “domesticana” coined by artist, scholar, and critic Amalia Mesa-Bains, Domesticanx considers Mesa-Bains’s Chicana and feminist theory, and Latinx intersectionality, through the private sphere. The intergenerational show features artists who focus on healing, spirituality, and home, while refuting one-dimensional categories.
El Museo del Barrio (elmuseo.org), 1230 Fifth Avenue, East Harlem, Manhattan. Del 27 de octubre de 2022 al 26 de marzo de 2023.
Archeology of a Studio
For her 14th solo show at the US’s first artist cooperative gallery run by and for women artists, Ann Pachner’s studio is examined through the lens of excavation. A selection of works, from carved pine sculptures to prints and sketches, offer a glimpse into five decades of creation and a meditation on past and present.
A.I.R. Gallery (airgallery.org), 155 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. Del 10 de septiembre al 9 de octubre de 2022.
Maren Hassinger: Steel Bodies
Socrates Sculpture Park last exhibited work by Maren Hassinger in 1988 when it included the artist in the group show Sculptors Working. More than three decades later, Hassinger is back with a solo presentation of enormous open steel vessels — which stand up to 11 feet tall — and two steel bushes.
Socrates Sculpture Park (socratessculpturepark.org), 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens. Hasta el 5 de marzo de 2023.
