At the 1-54 Fair in Chelsea some wonderful things: work by Shourouk Rhaiem; two by Sophia Bounou, “Viridarium,” 2026, and “Pattern” 2024; a few by Samuel Nnorom; a selection of works by Marcel Gotène (who passed on in 2013); Eymric Moderne, “Les trois oiseaux en échos” — “The Three Echoing Birds”; Kendra Frorup, A Light Sense” 2024; Gerardo Castro (who also passed away), “Angel’s Sugar” 2018 and “Obba - El Aroma de Las Flores,” 2022; two pieces by Candice Tavares “Shower Me With Your Love” and “The Light “; with by Rommulo Vieira Conceição “The physical space requires the other to be either ally or enemy,” 2025; and Lidia Lisbôa, “Sem título” [Untitled], da série [from the series] “Tetas
que deram de mamar ao mundo,” 2022
See my review for Hyperallergic here: /the-joy-of-discovery-at-1-54-art-fair/
At Skarstedt gallery: “Édouard Vuillard: Early Interiors.” Most of the paintings are tiny, maybe 4x6 inches or close. But they are full of life and ambition.
There is a bit of wall text that’s illuminating too: “Although he was intimately familiar with the rooms of his social and family life, Vuillard, again and again, offers us disorienting visions of the domestic interior, which became the stage for a radical reconstruction of pictorial space. Flattened perspectives, dense ornamental patterning, and compressed spatial arrangements dissolve distinctions between figure and ground, collapsing architectural space onto the flatness of the picture-plane. Narrative and perspectival coherence are often subordinated to pictorial structure, as figures and objects disappear into continuous fields of color and motif.“
Exactly!
For the New York Times, I’ve written an “Art Gallery Shows to See in April column: /2026/04/02/arts/art-gallery-shows-to-see-in-april.html.
Images 1-5 are from the exhibition “Waves of Knowing” Ryan Lee Gallery, which gathers together some compatriots of the Hawaiian artist group Metcalf Chateau.
Images 6-10 are of the work of Chester Higgins at Bruce Silverstein gallery all about the endurance of African diasporic people.
The last image (not taken by me) is of the work of Pàulla Scàvazzini, a Brazilian artist from São Paulo, and Austin Fields, a glass blower, Texas native who lives in Los Angeles. The glass work swims in the seas of the paintings.
At the White Cube gallery: South African artist Cinga Samson’s exhibition titled ‘Ukuphuthelwa’, an isiXhosa word in the artist’s native language that translates as ‘unable to sleep’.
I’m not sure what I think about these paintings.
At François Ghebaly: “Assotto:ottossA,”Jeffrey Meris’s solo exhibition. It’s about a posthumous dialogue with the Haitian-American poet and AIDS activist Assotto Saint.
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