Jessica Holmes
Jessica Holmes is a New York-based writer and critic. She is an Art Editor and ArTonic Editor for the Brooklyn Rail.
This conceptual framework of covering and uncovering has played out consistently through the decades of Beverly Semmes’s long and varied career, and Slip, a focused show at Susan Inglett Gallery, justly highlights this thematic pursuit across the artist’s sculpture, installation, and performance photography.
Inside the new Calder Gardens, it quickly becomes clear that most of the construction has taken place below ground level, which at first seems a startling decision for an artist so associated with effervescence and air.
“Looking out at those / Open plains / Nothing on either side / And your heart / Syncs up / With other animals / Until there’s one beat.” These words, excerpted from artist and poet Pamela Sneed’s poem, “Speaking Tongue,” are scrawled on the wall of Dashwood Projects alongside the paintings that make up her current exhibition.
Berry Campbell Gallery is presenting BINGO, an important show of the Bernice Bing's artwork that will surely do much to further scholarship on this under-acknowledged artist.
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