Insight: Emily Blair Quinn at 5-50 Gallery NYC
This review examines Emily Blair Quinn’s exhibition at 5-50 Gallery, focusing on her paintings, resin sculptures, and photographs that reinterpret vintage porcelain figurines through a contemporary feminist lens. Drawing on Gilded Age aesthetics and themes of gender norms, beauty standards, and female subjectivity, Quinn transforms decorative statuary into psychologically charged narratives. The exhibition critiques historical and contemporary constructions of femininity, including the impact of social media and AI-driven beauty culture, presenting a cohesive body of work grounded in feminist aesthetics and material experimentation.
Whispers on the Horizon: The 14th Taipei Biennial
Whispers on the Horizon: The 14th Taipei Biennial examines how the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s latest biennial navigates the tension between international visibility and local cultural specificity. Framed around the concept of “yearning”—defined as migration, identity, memory, and futurity—the exhibition reveals both the strengths and limitations of its curatorial structure. Through close analysis of works by Shiy De-Jinn, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Skyler Chen, and Ni Hao, the essay interrogates how the Biennial negotiates Taiwan’s geopolitical positioning within global contemporary art. While visually compelling and institutionally ambitious, the 14th Taipei Biennial ultimately exposes the unresolved friction between global validation and self-definition.
La Rebelión Traviesa
Mia Westerlund Roosen en Nunu Fine Art, New York Por Yohanna Magdalene Roa Al entrar a la galería de Nunu Fine Art para visitar la exposición de Mia Westerlund Roosen, la experiencia fue la de atravesar un conjunto de piezas escultóricas-espaciales marcadas por una tensión monumental entre la carne y la verticalidad, entre lo humano […]
The Naughty Rebellion
A critical essay on Mia Westerlund Roosen’s exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, New York, reading sculpture through flesh, materiality, dance, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero sueño.
Jeanne Jaffe: Becoming Hybrid, Emilio Martinez: Freedom From Fear. At L’Space
Art critic Dominick Lombardi explores the compelling dialogue between Jeanne Jaffe and Emilio Martinez at L’Space, where hybrid bodies, faith, migration, humor, and resistance converge into two distinct yet deeply connected artistic worlds.