This week, we've got a list of shows you won't want to miss this month, a group exhibition in honor of Christina Yuna Lee, and reviews of Mary Beth Edelson, Donald Evans, Terry Adkins, and more.
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including colossal sculptures along the East River, spectral ceramics in a South Brooklyn cemetery, and more. | Billy Anania Its first iteration at Knockdown Center in Queens will be ditching white-walled gallery spaces and VIP ropes to reflect New York’s greater population, with more than 130 independent artists working to break the industry’s barriers to entry. Food justice is at the center of recent discussions on global supply shortages. As such, the New York Botanical Garden is exploring the diasporic origins of common household foods through planting and cooking traditions that date back millennia. Heeseop Yoon's new exhibition finds her commanding an entire gallery at Korea Society with monochromatic still life drawings that incorporate architectural elements of major American cities. An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains. | Gregory Volk Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands. | John Yau Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present. | John Yau Edelson followed the hunch that if women artists didn’t create this history for themselves, no one would. | Ela Bittencourt with her name, penetrate earth’s floor remembers the Korean-American creative producer who was murdered in Lower Manhattan at age 35. | Isabel Ling Squeak Carnwath, "Don't Mess" (2022), oil, alkyd, gouache, and graphite on polypropylene, 56 x 57 1/4 inches (image courtesy the artist and Jane Lombard Gallery) |