Archives for June 2026

In “Nature of Painting,” Isabella Kirkland puts the natural environment under a microscope: detailed, close-up, and in sharp focus. Her ultra-precise work is not simply a rendition of insects and plants, it’s a statement about humans’ nefarious impact on the natural environment.

The impression is one of Stan Chan’s “Hidden Treasures” is of a diaristic cabinet of curiosities, with no single element as a focal point. The works convey the sense of a life having been lived by the rhythmic cadence of handwriting and the subjective experience it describes.

While the idea of a spiritual journey derives largely from Asian art, Modernism’s influence, despite having largely abandoned overt religious feeling, is nonetheless very much present in Younhee Paik’s painterly works.

Ward Schumaker, “Paintings 2007-2026,” surveys his second life as an artist following a successful career as an illustrator and designer. Everything on view has to do with his reinvention of books, literature, language and the notion of the page, manifested through color choices that lean heavily on brick reds, yellowy oranges and type-like blacks.

Among Mona Kuhn’s ten black and white and two-color photographs in “A Love Affair,” only two are nudes, marking a pointed deviation from the previous work for which she is best known. The new photographs are seductive and delightfully creepy, looking like captures of an unquiet spirit haunting the nocturnal hallways of a forlorn mansion.

“Amitié” (friendship) is a collaborative effort between Léonie Guyer and Joyce Burstein that presents itself as an elaboration on David Ireland’s space and its history. It is simultaneously an installation, a curated body of work, a re-organization, and a re-consideration. It is also an homage to the artist, the house and its objects, and the social web of intertwined lives that have appeared within its rooms.

Chiharu Shiota speaks with disarming candor about the existential unease that informs her sculpture, installations, drawings, and performances. Among her inspirations, we learn, is the ancient East Asian belief in “the red string of fate” that links people and communities.

This expansive exhibition of Sahar Khoury’s recent sculpture displays a rich lineage of contemporary and historical art forms, cultural traditions, and philosophical inquiry. Her eclectic sourcing and scavenging brings together a remarkable array of disparate elements.

Nancy Friedmann-Sánchez’s slyly decorative still life works reflect upon centuries of colonial trade relations. Each of the thirteen new paintings included in “Arcane Appetrites” at first convey domestic tranquility with compositions of bouquets and bowls of fruit.

David Horvitz’s work demonstrates how thoroughly the concerns of international curatorial culture have become inseparable from the realities of contemporary life: foregrounding themes of migration, digital mediation, and unstable forms of communication.