Zoe Ariyama

Zoe Ariyama is a contributor currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

I walked into D’Lan Contemporary’s Upper East Side gallery to find Reggie Uluru waving from the corner; it’s early morning in Central Australia, and the eighty-five-year-old artist was Zooming in to attend his first international solo exhibition from a Mac desktop. Sixteen of Uluru’s paintings lined the perimeter of the gallery, shifting from red to orange to ochre to pale purple, having crossed hemispheres to bring a pocket of the desert to New York.

Reggie Uluru, Wati Ngintaka (Perentie Lizard Man), 2023. Synthetic polymer paint on linen. 42 × 26 inches. Courtesy the artist and D’Lan Contemporary.

Heaven in a Wildflower focuses on how Krishna Reddy’s innovative intaglio prints are manifestations of the artist’s philosophy of wonder toward the universe. Reddy’s prints dot the walls with careful explosions, as if a series of experiments in which particles collide to colorful and radiant effect.

Installation view: Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower, Print Center New York, New York, 2025. Courtesy Print Center New York.
A glowing newlywed couple, a graduate in her cap and gown, two portraits of one young boy smiling wide—a small dog sits on his lap in the first, he wears a cowboy costume in the other: records of major life events, taken also for pleasure. Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers brings together nearly 250 unique photographs, pulled from archives and personal collections alike, to trace the histories of images taken by and for Black sitters from the nineteenth century to present.
James Presley Ball, Alexander S. Thomas, ca. late 1850s. Quarter plate daguerreotype. Courtesy Cincinnati Art Museum.

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