Series: Clarion

The third title in the Clarion series features Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary culture. "Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humour of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to...

A colourful, fantastical, and musical body of work by the painter Bob Thompson The New Yorker describes Thompson as an artist who "finally seems to be on fame's doorstep" and praises his inventive style: "he makes you feel how it might have felt to see a picture of an angel for the first time." Influenced by jazz music, Bob Thompson...

Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope L.: Impossible Failures brings together two artists who explore their shared fixation on the challenges of architecture, language, institutions, scale, and value. "[The exhibition is] powerful and unhinged and overbuilt—a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance of its inhabitants." — The New York Times Gordon Matta-Clark and Pope.L are renowned...

Heji Shin's photographic practice pushes boundaries and challenges societal ideals surrounding fashion, celebrity, and sexuality. "The German artist . . . is one of the wildest experimentalists working in photography today." - Interview magazine Shin's practice oscillates fluidly between the commercial and fine-art realms, and the work she exhibits in gallery and museum contexts is strongly influenced by the editorial...

Williams draws on her background in dramaturgy to envision a space that accommodates the biopolitical economies that inform how movement might be read. Looking at the interconnections between popular culture and myth, she relates in her work anatomy, regions of Black diaspora, and communication and obfuscation. Williams's body of work shapes an alternative language that examines how Black moving bodies...

Immersing the audience in sound and light, Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT subverts understandings of viewership by prompting spectators to question their subjecthood within 52 Walker's site-specific installation. Creating an aurally and visually rich environment, Gale engages with the architecture of the surrounding space, stimulating all senses through site-specific installation and muses on the boundaries of performance art. Considering and...

Tiona Nekkia McClodden considers the presence and absence of the Black figure and aesthetic tropes of representation through work traversing film, installation, sculpture, painting, and writing. "An artist who may be America's most essential today." - Siddhartha Mitter, The New York Times Known for her poignant examinations of biomythography and identity, McClodden uses a research-based approach in her practice as...

Kayode Ojo's sculptural installations made of ready-made items prompt reflections on class, consumption, and the fragility of luxury. "There is a sense of urgency in these fleeting collisions between fashion and art. It's the kind of tenuous exchange between culture and commerce that he does best." —W magazine Replete with sequins, chrome finishes, and transparent and reflective surfaces, Ojo's sleek...