@Craig Kalpakjian. Natural Beauty, 2023. UV pigment over color pencil on dibon, satin black maple wood, 61 x 61 in. 154.94 x 154.94 cm. Courtesy of Kai Matsumiya gallery, New York.

Kai Matsumiya | March 30 - May 6, 2023

Craig Kalpakjian’s work unsettles the infrastructures that surreptitiously organize our experience and scaffold our perception. He incisively renders the violent banality of contemporary life visible—forging a diagonal from the cop’s nightstick to linear perspective. His tactics are never wholly transparent but develop through a carefully elaborated language of abstraction that makes use of trusses, plants, robots, and surveillance equipment. Kalpakjian’s new work shifts his focus to the compositional convention of the horizon line in warped scapes that dismantle any simple delineation of land, sea, sky, and ground. As in his earlier work with queue barriers or spotlights, the “exterior” devices that guide perception are folded into the work.

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@Benjamin Rasmussen. President Donald Trump enters his private living room in the White House Residence. *75 cm x 60 cm pigment print framed in white.* ©Benjamin Rasmussen, courtesy to the artist and Picture Gallery, Bloomington, IN.

Picutre Gallery | April 7 - May 2, 2023

In The Good Citizen Benjamin Rasmussen uses archival and contemporary photographs to ask us to engage more honestly with the history of the United States. The exhibition charts the ripples of the nation’s past as they are seen in the present, considering citizenship, who was freely invited into this space and who wasn’t.

“I was raised in the Philippines by a North American mother and a Faroese father. Since moving to the United States 20 years ago, I have grappled with my North American citizenship and the privilege inherent within it. The Good Citizen creates a framework to bring these and other narratives into communication with one another. The threads of historic legal decisions and government policies are woven together with contemporary experiences. Through my photographs and essays by critical race theorist Frank H. Wu, we create a revisionist history of what it means to be a North American. Following the ripples of that history to our present allows us to interrogate the legacies of whiteness, violence and national character.”

— Benjamin Rasmussen

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@Priscilla Aleman. Portrait, An Ocean Within, 2022, Coconut from grandmother's yard embedded with wishesfrom various friends, Swimming pool, Filtered Lighting, Breathing, One Hour Meditation whilefloating. ©Priscilla Aleman, courtesy to the artsit and Baxter ST Camera Club of New York, New York.

Baxter ST | March 29, 2023 - April 26, 2023

Baxter St, in partnership with YoungArts, is thrilled to present In a Field of Ancient Stars, an immersive installation of archaeologically-informed new works by Priscilla Aleman (2009 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), the 2023 YoungArts Baxter St Residency recipient. Aleman’s research and artwork invites viewers to examine archeological and lens-based materials to consider the waves and ways we are interconnected; it resuscitates both real and imagined memories by creating portals to new and old worlds. In this body of work brought forth during her residency, Aleman looks at the meaning and resonance of sports and how sports leave archeological traces that ignite an energetic field and hold cosmologies.

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