The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat

By Ann C. Collins

JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen

The tension between forced confinement and self-designed sanctuary lies at the heart of Leigh’s art-making, which spans sculpture, installation, video, and social practice: the show takes its name from the 1861 memoir of slave-turned-abolitionist and writer Harriet Jacobs

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon

By Olivia Gauthier

DEC 19-JAN 20 | ArtSeen

For The New Eagle Creek at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Sadie Barnette’s first solo museum exhibition, the artist has reimagined her father’s historic bar with a glittering fictional patina. The installation, a version of which originally debuted at The Lab in San Francisco, functions as both a physical archive of the bar as well as a space to be activated by visitors, where coming together in each other’s company is foregrounded as something to be celebrated.

Vertigo Dance Company: One. One & One

By Jen George

APR 2019 | Dance

The Vertigo dancers execute movement like a well-organized mission, with confidence and commitment. As one soloist stumbles down the stage's diagonal, her colleagues plait her hair, swooping under and over each other to manipulate their taut sections of the braid.

Sons of the Nation

By María Iñigo Clavo

FEB 2021 | Critics Page

We can think of the nation as akin to a narcissistic father figure that hopes to see his image, feats and aspirations reflected in the citizens