Please join me for the opening of “Softly Radiant, Half-Buried,” this Thursday June 26th at Marianne Boeksy. Curated by Martyn Cross, this group show uses Arthur Dove as a touchstone to bring together a group of artists who make work that, like Dove’s, “lives in a fuzzy, interior space operating according to ecological or geological laws of accumulation and erosion.” I’m thrilled to be included—thank you to Martyn and Marianne Boesky!
Continuing from the text Marianne Boesky released:
Cross brings together 15 artists whose work occupies a place beyond time, consciousness, and reality—artists with whom Cross feels an innate connection and who have served as points of inspiration and reflection as he works toward his next solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery, slated to open in October.
“Softly Radiant, Half-Buried” borrows its title from critic Sanford Schwartz’s Artforum review of Arthur Dove’s 1976 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the review, Schwartz identified the difference between Dove and two of his peers: “If in John Marin’s mind,” Schwartz wrote, “it’s always one o’clock in the afternoon on a glitteringly bright day, a world without shadows, and Marsden Hartley is most himself when he conveys the threat and lordly grandeur of the world at night, Arthur Dove is the painter of the softly radiant, half-buried, in-between times.”
“Softly Radiant, Half-Buried” features work by Gertrude Abercrombie, David Altmejd, Paul Becker, Arthur Dove, Lonnie Holley, Paul Johnson, Bridget Mullen, Aimée Parrott, Clayton Schiff, Daisy Sheff, Emma Talbot, Thom Trojanowski, Hannah van Bart, Co Westerik, and Tom Woolner.
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Bridget Mullen, “What’s Eclipse,” 2025. Flashe on linen, 82 1/2 x 59 inches
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