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The gallery has divided works by 18 artists into images for summer days and summer nights. The exhibition opens Friday and runs through Oct. 5.

Judith Eisler has been painting film stills for more than two-and-a-half decades. While such a procedure places her in the discourse of appropriation, when an artist engages with a single subject over such a long duration the initial idea, in her case painting appropriated images from films, mostly of women, ceases to be an adequate explanation of the artist’s practice. Something much harder to define occurs. Think of Morandi. It would be absurd to say that his “idea” was to paint bottles....

Strange Weather Summer, Judith Eisler’s second solo exhibition with a href= http://www.CASEYKAPLANGALLERY.COM target= _blank Casey Kaplan /a ,

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