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Sargent’s Daughters is pleased to present Emily Furr’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery: Delirious New York.  Across paintings, drawings, and collages, this new body of work places Furr’s precise imagery in dialogue with the iconic built environment of New York City. Rem Koolhaas’ seminal work of the same title is a sprawling analysis of the architecture and planning of Manhattan and a manifesto on 20th century urbanism. Furr’s new work critically engages with the history and mythos of the city she calls home, reinterpreting its signifiers through surreal and playful compositions.

A few months back, we sat down with Mark Whalen on Radio Juxtapoz to talk about making sculpture and his upcoming solo show, Night Lights, at Harper’s. The show opened this weekend, featuring Whalen’s eclectic works, works of glass, aluminum, bronze, and marble within these freestanding and wall-hanging sculptures. As the gallery notes, “Whalen captures the complexities of human emotion across seven heads juxtaposed with assorted materials and form,” and much of what Whalen told me in our podcast was the absurdity of life and how sculpture should be, and can be, a vehicle to show this. Listen to the conversation below.—Evan Pricco