September 2019
Cynthia Daignault at Night Gallery
On view: September 7–October 19, 2019 Typically, we think of a painting as a stand-alone object (containing its own composition and narrative). But at Night Gallery (located in an industrial area just south of the Arts District), Cynthia Daignault arranges her paintings close together and in a row, suggesting that they should be considered in unison (like a book or a film strip). The paintings are all in black-and-white and give you the sense that you are being shown snapshots…
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Julia Haft-Candell’s interlocking forms
At Night Gallery downtown, Julia Haft-Candell’s ceramic sculptures are installed in the gallery’s outdoor space. The large ceramic forms are suggestive of two hands that connect in the center to imply interwoven fingers. Though “Interlocking Arch” (2019), in which two sets of “hand forms” connect to form a continuous circular shape, seems to transcend figuration, pointing towards the ouroboros symbol of a snake eating its own tail. In this way, Haft-Candell’s imagery is open-ended, suggestive of both human connection, and more metaphysical notions of…
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Brie Ruais at Night Gallery
Artist Brie Ruais literally wrestles her ceramic forms into shape. In her solo show at Night Gallery downtown, her spiraling and wall-bound sculptures are marred with deep divots and imprints that evidence the human touch. For many of the works, Ruais begins with a mass of clay that is equal to her body weight, and then goes about pushing and massaging the raw clay into forms that (like a snow angel) diagram the reaches of the artist’s limbs. The immense…
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Sarah Miska at Night Gallery
Sarah Miska’s paintings take horse and rider as their subject matter. Her new exhibition at Night Gallery, High Stakes, zooms in on race horses and their riders. Many feature jockeys’ hunched bodies draped in billowing fabrics that are rendered with precise detail; with the heads often cropped out of the scene, Miska highlights the performativity, costuming, and opulence of the sport. In one, Trifecta, three jockeys are seen with raised bottoms, hovering above their horses, presumably amidst a race. Their…
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