Emily Chun
Emily Chun is a writer based in New York City. Instagram: @emchun
Julien Nguyen: Pictures of the Floating World
By Emily ChunThe sinister, tenebrific aura of Nguyen’s earlier works, like the macabre scene in Mary, Anne, Christ, and John (2018), is tempered in this recent show. It’s true that his works still resist easy projection, but therein lies Nguyen’s main aesthetic claim: like good theology, his works make the familiar strange again.
TR Ericsson: Pale Fires
By Emily ChunTR Ericsson’s solo exhibition at TOTAH constructs a tender portrait of his mother who died by suicide in 2003 at the age of 57.
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