Two Coats of Paint

Contributed by Alessandrio Teoldi / Angelo Vasta’s exhibition “Luci Spente” (Lights Off) at Tappeto Volante in Tribeca centers on a simple gesture: turning down the light. Not removing it, not rejecting color, but softening its intensity. For an artist whose visual language has often featured bright, vibrant palettes, this is a bold shift of deliberate subtraction.

Contributed by William Corwin / Depictions of spirits and monsters are often combinations of the diagrammatic and the visceral: attributes packaged in an erotic or terrifying container. Amorelle Jacox’s luminous female presences in “Mothers of Time,” now on view at Management, are unassuming and recessive beings peering out between throbbing bands of color and eerie cones of lig...

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In June, in the wake of an exhausting month of fairs, NYC galleries are again presenting a full slate of exhibitions. At Field of Play, look for a survey of paintings by Lee Sherry (1947–2012). She had close ties with the Language Poets and was part of an avant-garde painting circle in Soho but never gained wide recognition. If old reconfigured tex...

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / This month I am looking forward to the opening of Putting it Together: Transforming Collage at 68 Prince Street Gallery. This group exhibition features the work of over forty artists and is the first in a series of ten collage exhibitions taking place this summer in the Hudson Valley....

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / David Humphrey has accustomed his audience to acerbically penetrating representational paintings in which witty riffs resolve into considered pronouncements about the world. His 2022 painting Art Shipping – depicting a van about to bring a painting of a misogynistic act of torture from the artist’s serenely rustic home to a presumptively herme...