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.
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.
Ruin and Flight: Counterhistories and Simulation in The Wayfinders
A critical review of Peggy Ahwesh’s The Wayfinders, a feminist counterarchive blending ruin, simulation, and decolonial historiography in a major NYC video installation.