With technical finesse and painterly interludes, Kristin Calabrese transforms everyday scenes and enlarged objects into portraits of psychological states.
"To Fix the Image in Memory" demonstrates a sensitivity to the singular oeuvre of Vija Celmins, who was born in Latvia and has developed her practice over the past half-century, attesting to this…
I love the elasticity of a summer group exhibition; it's a low-stakes, high-reward format that, when done well, can produce the most exciting viewing experiences at New York galleries.
It is easy to misread Vija Celmins's paintings and drawings of the sea and the night sky, or indeed her work based on desert images or cobwebs or stones, as the result of an obsession with nature…