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April 23, 2025April 27, 2025, by Yasmeen Abdallah

Care / Condition / Control at 601Artspace

In Dialogue

Works by John Coplans (left) Jarret Key (center) and Melissa Stern (right). Photo courtesy of Etienne Frossard/601Artspace

The group exhibition Care / Condition / Control, which ends its run at 601Artspace on April 27th, takes its conceptual root, quite literally, in the form of hair. Experienced by different generations, cultures, genders, and identities, one’s relationship to the very follicles that grow from us and upon us is deeply personal and unique to each of us. As each artist mines their own stories from these relationships, Chapman expands upon the inspiration and undertaking of such a complicated and tangled subject. Yasmeen Abdallah interviews curator A.E. Chapman about the ideas behind this show.

April 19, 2025April 19, 2025, by Andrew Fish

Art Spiel Picks: Boston Exhibitions April 2025

Highlights

*If They Told You, Would You Listen?* at Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA

Spring has sprung and many beautiful exhibitions are in full bloom across the city of Boston. Several exhibitions celebrating fiber art are on view along with multiple shows that highlight the season of rebirth. One of my favorite things about Spring in New England is seeing the trees awake from their dormancy and plants sprouting from the earth. The area thaws out and inspires a creative push toward summer. This means a lot of play, or spiel, for artists who experiment with unconventional materials and new media. This is wonderfully evident in the work on view this month as artists and galleries display playful and profound creations for a new season. Here’s some Art Spiel for you.

April 16, 2025April 15, 2025, by Etty Yaniv

DUMBO Open Studios 2025 with Main Window

A window with a blue and gold art piece

Description automatically generated — *Crossing Spaces* by Winnie Sidharta. On View 24/7 through May 27, 2025

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. Main Window, situated in the historic Clocktower Building at 1 Main Street, has been a presentation space dedicated to public art in DUMBO since 1980. Their enduring mission is to spotlight the diverse voices of under-represented Brooklyn and New York City artists. Main Window is curated by artist and Dumbo resident Jeff Wallace. @mainwindowdumbo

April 15, 2025April 14, 2025, by Etty Yaniv

DUMBO Open Studios 2025 with Woomin Kim

Woomin Kim sitting next to a work table and in front of textiles *Leslie’s Room* and *Live Work*

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025, by Art Spiel

DUMBO Open Studios 2025 with Rodney Ewing

Studies for “*The Architecture of Memory and Loss”* 2024-2025, Drawings: Ink and Colored Pencil on Paper.

April 10, 2025April 10, 2025, by Art Spiel

Water’s Voice and Our Fragile Moment at Hudson Guild

Hot Air

*Black Feather Triangle 1* by Deborah Kruger

Curator Fran Beallor presents Water’s Voice and Our Fragile Moment at Hudson Guild in Chelsea, two exhibitions that focus on environmental damage—melting ice, polluted waters, deforestation, plastic waste, extreme weather, and species extinction. The goal is to make these vast and often abstract issues accessible to the wide public.

April 9, 2025April 14, 2025, by Yasmeen Abdallah

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 8, 2025April 7, 2025, by Taylor Bielecki

Sarah Martin- Nuss: Future Currents- At Rachel Uffner Gallery

In following Martin-Nuss’ work for a few years now, I was always mesmerized by the way they could establish and build a living landscape using both physical spaces and water reflections. A living landscape by means of movement, layers, and currents. This exhibition shows works that each establish their own space and carry with them their own evolutions into an entirely new space the longer you look at them.

April 4, 2025April 3, 2025, by Terra Keck

Field in The Wind: Scott Sueme at Uprise Art

The Field is All Around Us: Scott Sueme’s Solo at Uprise Art Will Change How You See Space

Installation shot of Field in The Wind, Scott Sueme, Uprise Art, 2025

In Scott Sueme’s latest collaboration with Uprise Art, the artist asks, “If you are called to look, what do you see?” In fact, I pose the question to you right now. As you lie in bed reading this when you really should be asleep or as you doomscroll art news to avoid doomscrolling national news, Sueme calls you to look with the consideration of someone devoted to noticing the breath within the breath, the moment within the moment.

April 3, 2025April 1, 2025, by Riad Miah

Lauriston Avery with Riad Miah

In Dialogue

Displaying — Lauriston Avery, *Small Luminary (w/ Magic Halo )*, 2024, Mixed media construction, 16 x 14.25 x 4 inches
(LAC19)

I am happy to speak with Lauriston Avery following his successful recent exhibition at Dutton. Avery is an artist whose work challenges traditional notions of material and space. Through an intuitive and deeply personal process, he transforms unconventional materials—often those found in everyday life—into evocative, textured works that feel both raw and, at times, meditative. His practice blurs the lines between structure and spontaneity, embracing limitations as a source of discovery rather than restriction. In this conversation, we discuss Avery’s approach to materiality, the role of intuition and experimentation in his work, and how the idea of space has become a vital element in his practice. His work invites us to reconsider what we see and feel in our environments.