March 2020
William N. Copley at Nino Mier Gallery
On view: February 15–March 13, 2020 Behind a red curtain at Nino Mier Gallery, a wallpaper of squiggled brush strokes on a mottled yellow background sets a particular scene. Within this, eight mirror-cum-drawings are hanging about, each one a delicate line drawing, depicting a female nude at a piano, or a man dancing with a bowler hat. Yet the faint figurative outlines meld with reflections of both the wallpaper and the viewer’s own reflection, making the drawings difficult to see…
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Polly Borland at Nino Mier Gallery
“At its best, portrait photography is psychologically revealing," Polly Borland confesses in the press release for her new show at Nino Mier Gallery. Borland has been snapping intimate portraits for decades, with celebrities like Queen Elizabeth II and Nick Cave serving as subjects alongside her more seedy and erotic series. For “Nudies,” Borland becomes her own subject for the first time, shooting intimate self-portraits that revel in the folds and valleys of the human body. Each is a closely cropped…
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Conrad Ruiz at Nino Mier
As fire season looms, Conrad Ruiz’ solo show “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” looks head on at fire’s destructive and generative properties. All of the watercolor works in the show depict fire in various cultural and urban settings — dousing the front chassis of a truck at a monster truck rally, raging in a dumpster behind a protester’s raised fist, or ballooning a street corner as a man pops a wheelie on his bike in the foreground. In each, fire…
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