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Precious Okoyomon. Photo by Sarah Cascone. New York’s Frieze Art Fair opens today, but the prestigious Frieze Artist Award commission, a performance featuring artist and poet Precious Okoyomon, has already come and gone, staged quietly last week before a small, socially distanced crowd. When art collectors descend on the Shed for the city’s first in-person art fair since March 2020, they will only be able to experience  This God Is a Slow Recovery (2021) in video form, playing at the fai...

The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/t-magazine/precious-okoyomon-artist-shed.html The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields Precious Okoyomon’s vast installations, which often incorporate plants as well as poetry and sculpture, celebrate the chaos of nature, and warn against its destruction. The artist Precious Okoyomon in their Brooklyn studio.Credit...Emiliano Granado By Coco Romack Published May 3, 2021Updated May...

6 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now Gerald Jackson’s collages; Precious Okoyomon’s reimagined ecosystem; Damien Davis’s sculptures; Beverly Buchanan’s “shacks”; and more. Daisy May Sheff’s “Stiff and Tawny Wavelets,” from 2021, at White Columns.Credit...Daisy May Sheff April 28, 2021 Through May 15. White Columns, 91 Horatio Street, Manhattan, (212) 924-4212, whitecolumns.org. In its pairings of large and small shows, White Columns has come up with some extraordinary combinat...

An Eerie Landscape Of Ashes And Ladybugs Beckons In The East Village View all 5 A physical post-Covid landscape -- and a powerful place of mourning -- has been created inside Performance Space New York in the East Village. Artist Precious Okoyomon (they/their) made the installation on commission after winning the Frieze Festival’s Emerging Artist Award. Called “Fragmented Body Perceptions as Higher Vibration Frequencies to God” -- the title is from their own poem -- this...