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Unlike London, New York galleries are open for business. After my first Covid jab last week, a wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided with a dear friend’s much-heralded solo show, an introduction to work by two inspiring artists I previously did not know of, and even the Outsider Art Fair’s annual and beloved event, spread between galleries. Monday New York was blanketed with an unusually dramatic snowstorm, so my weekend jaunt was perfectly timed. (And as I send this out, it is yet another snowy Sunday, one week later)
The Drawing Center opens Ebecho Muslimova s first solo museum exhibition
Ebecho Muslimova, Fatebe Phantom Cage, 2020. Enamel and oil paint on Dibond aluminum, 96 x 144 in. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Maria Berheim, Zürich and Magenta Plains, NY. Photo by Matt Grubb//Object Studies.
NEW YORK, NY
.- For Ebecho Muslimovas first solo museum exhibition, the artist presents Scenes in the Sublevel, a site-specific installation that includes ten large-scale mixed-media drawings. Muslimova (b. 1984, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia) is known for her pen and-ink drawings and large-scale paintings that feature her bold and uninhibited cartoon alter ego, Fatebe. Her latest body of work takes up The Drawing Centers downstairs gallery as the stage for Fatebes intrepid misadventures.
View of Martha Diamond’s “1980–1989,” 2021. Magenta Plains, New York.
Over the course of her fifty years as a painter in New York, Martha Diamond has applied her love of place and structure to canvases that capture the architecture of the five boroughs in striking hues and energetic, wet-on-wet brushstrokes. On the occasion of “1980–1989,” an exhibition of oil paintings and studies on Masonite made during the titular decade on view at Magenta Plains in New York through February 17 Diamond looks back on her childhood in the city, her affiliation with the New York School, her informal education in painting, and her artistic community.
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Jan. 7, 2021
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A puzzle version of Kwesi Botchway’s “Self Love” (2020) comes in a box designed by Cary Fagan.Credit.Courtesy of MQBMBQ
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For the fourth installment of My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness (MQBMBQ), an ongoing visual exploration into the experiences of queer Black people around the world that encompasses