
Thanks to the Hammer Museum’s traveling retrospective early last year, Indian-born artist Zarina’s elegant, meditative works on paper are receiving some much-deserved recognition. Some of the prints, drawings and collages in her latest show, “Descending Darkness,” reference politically charged Middle Eastern cities (Aleppo, for example), while others are more abstract depictions of urban areas (Faded Roads I and II) or domestic details (the Shadow on my table triptych). Black paper and gold leaf dominate Zarina’s prints, while the show’s title piece—a rare sculpture, made of light bulbs carved in black marble with pewter leaf gilding—hangs from the gallery’s ceiling, casting a somber, lightless glow.