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Reconnecting with the Earth, Cyrah Dardas Collages Paintings with Handmade Pigments

Reconnecting with the Earth, Cyrah Dardas Collages Paintings with Handmade PigmentsDardas invokes ancient, ancestral ways of being in the world by consciously connecting to her natural surroundings.

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The Artist’s Process is the Subject in Lisa Yuskavage’s Masterful New Exhibition

The Artist's Process is the Subject in Lisa Yuskavage's Masterful New Exhibition
In a city that makes stars, across a landscape that seconds as a backlot for so many film studios, Lisa Yuskavage focuses her newest exhibition on the magic behind the finished product. This is an interesting if not endlessly fascinating body of work from an already influential and famed painter. Yuskavage seemed to take the occasion of her first show in LA in 3 decades to heart, it’s about sets and process, about the making of a universe just as much as the universe she is creating herself. It is a show about production, about a woman’s place in the history of production. It is about the artist and the aritst process while looking at something quite final, and David Zwirner’s spacious…
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Dada Khanyisa: this is for you

Dada Khanyisa: this is for you
In their first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Radio Juxtapoz and featured artist alum Dada Khanyisa presents a group of ‘sculptural paintings’ that look to their immediate community in Cape Town, popular culture, and Khanyisa’s extensive research into the social and political histories of South Africa, producing lively figurative assemblages that convey the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary life. Throughout their labour-intensive practice – incorporating hand carved wood, meticulously compiled sculptural elements and found objects, and painted backdrops borrowed from candid or historic photographic sources – Khanyisa expresses interpersonal dynamics through the lens of their social observations and lived experience.