Marcus Civin
Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars
By Marcus CivinIn the library galleries, you can listen to intimate and rare recordings such as a staticky tape of Reed singing lovingly to his early mentor Andy Warhol about art as business. Walking through, you start to think Reed always managed to look sculpted, ironic, and cool. Portraits of Reed are satisfyingly iconic, each one like raw material for a Warhol silkscreen.
Cici Wu: Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness)
By Marcus CivinIn Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness), her second solo exhibition at 47 Canal, Cici Wu presents nine sculptures, four drawings, and a video, all dated 2021, that invite us to expand our understanding of proto-cinema by letting light, perception, and philosophy lead the way.
Alex Callender: All Her Loves and All Her Disappointments
By Marcus CivinThrough historically informed works, Alex Callender resituates and reframes colonial images of Black people, especially Black women, asserting possibility and agency and enabling a kind of rebirth and immortality.
Dawoud Bey: An American Project
By Marcus CivinFrom life, Bey renders character. There are nearly 80 photographs in his traveling retrospective, An American Project, the artists first in 25 years, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney, originating at SFMOMA.
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data
By Marcus CivinFor Dinkins, one of the main problems with AI is the existing data it uses.