Jess Chen

Jess Chen is an art historian and critic from San Francisco.
The show features seven oil paintings of the night sky in Rome, Berlin, Kaliningrad, Mount Everest, and other locations in the year 2100, based on projections modeled by the aptly named software Starry Night. Though the paintings are of different sizes, each work follows the same pattern: a depiction of the sky—small white dots on solid-color ground, shaped like a rectangle on three sides with a catenary-curved bottom—and a border of unpainted linen.
Paul Fägerskiöld, Malé, the Republic of Maldives. View east. January 1 2100., 2022. Oil on linen in walnut frame, 43 1/4 x 78 3/4 in. Photo: Gerhard Kassner; Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City.
At Gladstone, Wangechi Mutu’s sculptures stand alone, but at the Legion of Honor they mount a meta-critique of their environment.
Installation view: Wangechi Mutu, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

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