New York: Deepfakes, Maggi Hambling, Lucy Mullican

New York

April 27, 2022 • View in browser

The Beauty of the Ephemeral World

Whereas the creators of landscape abstractions generally believed their paintings were impervious to time, Lucy Mullican makes artworks that are exposed and susceptible. | John Yau

What survives and what is lost seem to be among Mullican’s preoccupations. Knowing that time will eventually subsume our creations and us, she makes no gesture toward the unchangeable.

By working in semi-transparent watercolor on modest-sized wood panels with visible grains, she pulls us past the image, and leads us to scrutinize the relationship between the watercolor marks and the lines of the wood grain.

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Maggi Hambling’s Visceral Abstractions Reflect Environmental Destruction

Hambling’s paintings nudge viewers to consider what we will be losing if humankind continues on its current path, and how much we’ve already lost. | Ilana Novick

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The Print Center Announces A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures With Carmen Winant

On view in Philadelphia through July 16, the project considers the intersections of image making, domestic violence, and the feminist movement. Learn more.

How Do We Know What’s Real in the Era of the Deepfake?

The Museum of the Moving Image show Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen tries to help visitors equip themselves to discern real images from fake ones. | Eliza Levinson

Fragmented Identity Through the Eyes of Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Cleavage at Arcade Project Curatorial, the artist’s first solo show in NYC, pondered how one can hold an identity alongside a shifting sense of home. | Elaine Velie

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Pratt’s 2022 Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition Is on View in Brooklyn

Through May 6, 32 graduating artists present work across disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and integrated practices. Learn more.

Cindy Ji Hye Kim Mines the Dark Recesses of Memory

In Kim’s art, peculiar characters may be skulking out of sight, shrouded in shadow, forever forgotten in bygone dreams, or inscrutable in the recesses of her memory. | Catherine Yang

Cosmos and Earth Collide in Pier Paolo Calzolari’s Alchemical Art

In Calzolari’s recent paintings, organic and metaphysical forces are one: vapors are rudimentary atmospheric gas particles, but they also signify wonder and bliss. | Ela Bittencourt

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CLOSING SOON

Kwon Young-Woo, “Untitled” (2002), Korean paper on canvas, 51.18 x 51.18 inches (image courtesy the artist’s estate and Kukje Gallery. Photo credit: Chunho Ahn)

Kwon Young-Woo: Gestures in Hanji
Tina Kim Gallery through April 30

Cindy Ji Hye Kim: In Despite of Light
Casey Kaplan gallery through April 30

Maggi Hambling: Real Time
Marlborough Gallery through April 30

Hugh Hayden: Brier Patch
Madison Square Park through May 1

Building Radical Soil
Latinx Project through May 5

ON VIEW

Kia LaBeija: prepare my heart
Fotografiska New York through May 8

Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection
Asia Society Museum through May 8

This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
Americas Society through May 14

Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 15