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April 11, 2025April 10, 2025

DUMBO Open Studios 2025 with Anne Neely

Anne Neely, Eruption (2024). Oil on linen. 22 x 28 in. Photo credit: Kay Hickman, Julia Featheringill

On April 26th and 27th, from 1 to 6 pm, artists in DUMBO will open their doors to the public as part of DUMBO Open Studios, offering a rare look inside the art studios along the Brooklyn waterfront. Since the 1970s, DUMBO has been shaped by its vibrant art community. This interview series highlights a handful of participating artists in 2025. Each response offers a glimpse of what’s waiting behind the studio door.
Anne Neely has been in DUMBO since November 2024 as part of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program at 20 Jay Street, #720.

April 9, 2025April 14, 2025

Metamorphosis at Taplin Gallery, Arts Council of Princeton: Yasmeen Abdallah with Anna Shukeylo

In dialogue

Metamorphosis at the Arts Council of Princeton brings together 4 mid-career artists whose work artist and curator Anna Shukeylo has long admired—and envisioned sharing the same space. Each piece explores transformation or shapeshifting in its own way, reflecting the theme that gives the exhibition its name. Since its initial conception, the show has undergone some changes, with some works so new they haven’t even fully cured. Shukeylo invites the artists to interpret the theme freely and engages them in the selection process, though she makes the final curatorial decisions. I spoke with Shukeylo about her process and how the show has evolved.

April 7, 2025April 5, 2025

Lilac Madar: Poppy Pink in Central Park

Featured Project

*PoppyPink New York [Rehearsal]*, June 2024, Participatory Performance, Central Park, New York, NY. Photo: Yonatan H. Mishal

Lilac Madar, best known for her photomontages and assemblages exploring feminist themes, turned to performance in the wake of October 7, 2023, as she began to grapple with mounting evidence of atrocities committed during the Hamas-led massacre in Israel—including the rape, sexual brutalization, and murder of women. Her grief made creation feel impossible—until a vision emerged: she was lost in Central Park, leaving a trail of pink thread behind her. PoppyPink, for her, is an act of remembrance—a body unraveling in real time, marking the absence and memory of the women violated and silenced. Named in part for artist Inbar Haiman (Pink), murdered at the Nova festival, the performance aims to affirm what art demands: to witness, to endure, to insist on presence. In this interview, we take a closer look at the project and its origins.

March 27, 2025March 25, 2025

1000 Days of Drawing: A Conversation with Joshua Drayzen

In Dialogue

Installation shot of *Spirit Wave*, a solo exhibition of drawings at Massey Klein

I met with Joshua Drayzen at Massey Klein shortly after the opening of his solo exhibition, Spirit Wave. A Brooklyn-based artist, Drayzen recently surpassed 1,000 consecutive days of drawing. I wanted to learn more about the enigmatic images and the devotional practice behind them. What I discovered, however, was that this was more than just a habit—it’s a ritual that shapes and invigorates his entire creative practice.

March 25, 2025March 24, 2025

Raymond Saá at Morgan Lehman

On the 4th floor of one of Chelsea’s heavily trafficked art buildings, Morgan Lehman gallery is presenting a jazzy solo exhibition, Pan Con Timba, by abstract, musically-influenced painter Raymond Saá. This exhibition brings together the artist’s love for music that he skillfully reflects in his rhythmic paintings and spice of his Cuban background; after all , Pan Con Timba is not only a jazz song that inspired Saá, but also a famous Cuban sandwich with guava preserves.

March 18, 2025March 19, 2025

Gizmos and Gadgets: The Meticulous Craft of Kathleen Studebaker

Kathleen Studebaker: Gizmos & Gadgets, at Patricia M. Nugent Gallery at Rosemont College, @rosemontcollege is on view through: Mar 30, 2025

AstroObject [2f.x1] Copper, Bronze, Brass, Steel, Aluminum, Walnut 7.25” x 8.5” x 9” 2023, photograph courtesy of the artist

Gazing upon Kathleen Studebaker’s solo show at Rosemont College, one is immediately reminded of an inventor’s workshop. Puzzle-like constructions of gleaming rods, intricate gears, and nested circles radiate from central points in the sculptures, reminiscent of gyroscopes and astrolabes from a bygone era. Each sculpture is situated on a regal walnut base and many are suspended in the air by elegant arching armatures. They possess an old-world charm, but the pristine copper, bronze, brass, steel, and aluminum components suggest the vibrancy of active use.

March 15, 2025March 19, 2025

A Sight for the Senses: Dance the Distance at Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea

The two-person show of luminous abstract wall works at Atlantic Gallery offers viewers a dynamic sensory experience where light, shadow and unexpected materials form a conversation about how we see and engage with the world.

Installation view of *Dance the Distance* in Atlantic Gallery, 2025

Dance the Distance: Anne Berlit and Michele Foyer at Atlantic Gallery.
Curated by Suzan Shutan. It runs through March 23, 2025

March 12, 2025March 10, 2025

Up: Janet Goldner’s Zigzags at FiveMyles

Janet Goldner, installation view at FiveMyles

A cavernous cubbyhole with a variety of enigmatic gunmetal stalagmites emerges from the relative monotony of the urban backdrop of St. John’s Place in Crown Heights. Janet Goldner’s collection of sculptures, called Zigzags, populate FiveMyles’ exterior space, and while the viewer can enter this space through the gallery, the initial impression of jagged edges, pent-up energy, and the cold solidity of the welded metal objects makes one relieved there is a metal gate between us, the viewer, and them, the sculptures.

February 25, 2025March 3, 2025

Material Wonder: Jewish Joy and Mysticism at Drawing Rooms

A display of art on a white surface

AI-generated content may be incorrect. — Anne Trabuen (left wall), Denise Treizman (right wall), Carol Salmanson (front)

At Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, Material Wonder: Jewish Joy and Mysticism in 2025 presents works that engage with Jewish identity, mysticism, and inherited traditions. Curated by Anne Trauben, the exhibition, on view from February 13 to April 5, 2025, features artists Carol Salmanson, Denise Treizman, Rachel Klinghoffer, Pesya Altman, and Trauben herself. Their works—encompassing drawing, painting, fiber, mixed media, and light-based sculpture—explore memory, ritual, and transformation.

February 19, 2025March 3, 2025

Jenny Hankwitz and Amanda Church at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

Installation of “Intersection” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. Image courtesy of the gallery.

The current exhibition by Jenny Hankwitz and Amanda Church at Steven Harvey, running from February 8 to March 8, explores a subject central to painting since its inception. Independently, their work engages with abstraction and figuration, using color, surface, and shape as primary vehicles. When viewed in person, the exhibition demonstrates how each artist approaches their medium to address their own interest between abstraction and the figure. However, when this exhibition is viewed together in the digital realm, another issue emerges—one that was pivotal in art criticism during the 1980s and 1990s that deals with an issue that pre-occupied Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco: the topic of simulation and simulacra or simulacra and hyperreality.