Overview
In an exclusive interview, Greg Tate speaks to Deana Lawson about how her monumental staged portraits trace cosmologies of the African diaspora. āWhat Iām doing integrates mythology, religion, empirical data, dreams,ā says Lawson, whose work is the subject of major solo exhibitions this year at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
In an in-depth profile of Judith Joy Ross and her iconic portraiture, Rebecca Bengal shows how a constellation of strangers is brought together through Rossās precise, empathic gaze. āRoss is guided by a rapt, intense, wholehearted belief in the individual,ā Bengal writes.
A portfolio of Michael Schmidtās acutely observed work from the 1970s and ā80s reveals the realms within realms of a once divided Berlin, while Feng Liās surprising black-and-white snapshots zigzag between absurdist dramas in various Chinese cities. Ashley James distills the surreal visions of Awol Erizkuās still lifes and tableaux; Casey Gerald contributes a sweeping ode to Baldwin Leeās stirring 1980s portraits of Black Southern subjects; and Pico Iyer meditates on Tom Sandbergās grayscales marked by both absence and reverence.
Throughout āCosmologies,ā artists cast their attention on the great mysteries of both personal and shared lineages, tracking their locations in space, time, and history, and reminding us of the elegant enigmas that can be unraveled close to home.
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