Mounds, protagonists in most of Hancock’s stories depicting the never-ending battle between the good and the bad, frequently reappear in his persistent depiction of the human condition.
Beverly Buchanan
“A lot of my pieces have the word 'ruins' in their titles because I think that tells you this object has been through a lot and survived—that’s the idea behind the sculptures […] it’s like, 'Here I am; I’m still here!' ”
Carolee Schneemann
PPOW and Galerie LeLong
"I’m interested in sensuous pleasure and the power of the naked body as an active image rather than the same old, pacified, immobilized, historicized body.”
David Hepher
“Graffiti was a way of painting about the people who lived on the estate without painting them directly. The marks they left behind seemed to me an appropriate way of suggesting the human side of these buildings.”
Françoise Grossen
Museum of Art and Design
Rather than a typical retrospective chronicling her decades-spanning career, Grossen here instead mines the Museum of Art and Design’s vast archive, pairing some of her monumental rope pieces with works from the museum collection.
Cut Ups: Queer Collage Practices
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay Art
Queer anthology, either pages from vintage porn magazines or personal ephemera kept hidden under beds, offer in the exhibition vast source material.
The Apotheosis of the Fish Market
Marc Strauss
For this project, Jinsu Han repurposes redundant materials from collected the space and divorces them from their utilitarian aspects. Jong Oh’s sculptures, including string, Plexiglass, tiny chains and weights, on the other hand are described as “ethereal, ephemeral, and considered”.
Despina Stokou
“I’m very interested in communication and the way information passes—which is also a form of communication, in a way, but also what is left over. I don’t delete any messages or emails. Papers, even”
Merlin James
“I don’t like art to look brand new, nor ‘of its time’ really, because then it dates and goes to look tired.”
Sam McKinniss
Team Gallery
“My work is about material pleasure. My work is about a miraculous thrill. I get there through color and through form and the coalescence of line and shape and texture and material.”
Margaret Lee
Jack Hanley Gallery
“I just wanted to make the most basic thing I could think of. It’s a very democratic food; it’s not exotic at all”.
GCC
If you were struck by Black Friday, Sophia-Al Maria’s first American museum exhibition still on view at The Whitney, wait until you see Positive Pathways (+), GCC’s installation-heavy New York tenure which includes the namesake sculpture first shown at the Berlin Biennale this summer.
Cecily Brown
“Yes, they are abstract, but there is always a feeling that something is happening, rather than a Rothko.”
Agnes Martin
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
“You think it would be easy to discover what is blinding you, but it isn’t so easy. It’s pride and fear that cover the mind.”
Elmgreen & Dragset
Spanning the entire 10th floor, the sculptural installation includes glass-blown vases full of pastel colored food pigments used to dye pills in the most recent HIV medication.