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Nasim Moghadam’s “Birth Certificate” is a nearly eight-foot tall, multi-page booklet that resembles a passport, with a snapshot of a woman wearing a headscarf, its pages covered in Farsi script. The effect is that an American-Iranian background has an outsized impact on one’s life because of the distancing effect that the language barrier imposes.
Using the scourings of a restless life, ektor garcia creates and recreates objects that flout common assumptions about art versus craft, gender identity, and the nature of museum-ready works of art.
The perception of light filtered directly through the elements comes as a balm to the many hours most of us spend before the cold glare of a digital screen. It is a question of transmission versus emission. Stained glass is one of those technologies that has stood the test of time.
“Love Letters to Aliens” encompasses a group of six artists who reflect upon the politicized nature of exclusion endured by disenfranchised people. The show explores the impact of politicized alienation, showing how humanity is defined by prescribed, if arbitrary borders.
In tracing the evolution of Alejandro Cartagena’s aesthetic and social concerns through his numerous photographic series, we see how he deftly marries visual accessibility with sociopolitical subtexts.
Torreya Cummings and Sarah Lowe merged research and shopping to assemble their found objects around the gallery in a series of stage-set-like tableaus alternating traditional wall displays and installations with more stage-like scrims and sets.
The term Artificial Intelligence is largely a misnomer, implying that there is a sentient entity that exists in machine form. Where does this idea of computers being “intelligent” spring from? From the earliest days of digital media the question arose as to whether computers could actually think.
Composed of several series that are grouped thematically, Seiko Tachibana’s exhibition reads as a contemporary Wünderkammer — a cabinet of wonders — in which individual works function both autonomously and as parts of a larger system of interrelationships.
Six paintings by Simone Simon transmutes images of deep consciousness into radiant atmospheric abstractions. Simon brings a self-imposed set of formal conditions to each work — two colored forms, mingling, mutating, and slow dancing together.
