@Ming Smith. Acid Rain (“Mercy, Mercy Me,” Marvin Gaye), 1977. Archival pigment print, 24 x36 inches. © Ming Smith, courtesy of Ming Smith Studio and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | May 26th — October 1st, 2023

Drawn from the full complexity of Smith’s oeuvre, Feeling the Future places works from the artist’s five-decades of creation in conversation with one another, and the cultural movements she witnessed and participated in. Exploring themes such as Afrofuturism, Black cultural expression, representation, and social examination, the exhibition offers a glimpse into unperceived moments of life as captured by one of the most profoundly gifted artists of her generation.

The exhibition showcases Smith’s expansive use of lens-based media and features her street photography, figurative imagery, portraiture, and abstractions, plus new commissions in experimental film, sound, and installation.

To view more, visit Comtemporary Museum of Art website.

Generation, Braquage, Ladj Ly, Wheat-pasted posters, 2004. © JR-ART.NET, courtesy to the artist and Lotte Museum of Art

Lotte Museum of Art | May 3rd — August 6th, 2023

JR: Chronicles features over 140 photograph, video, anamorphosis, and wheat paste-up works illuminating the overall artistic world of JR. The artist, who had been doing street graffiti since an early age, began documenting fellow graffiti artists in action with the camera he found by chance in 2001. Expo 2 Rue, a piece shown in a nontraditional method by pasting enlarged framed images on building façades, demonstrates the artist’s early motivation to reach a broader audience. His first public project, Portrait of a Generation, was also his first portrait endeavor in which the artist reveals in a raw, realistic manner a local community and its members wrongfully portrayed as threats to society by biased media, highlighting the injustice of social misconception prescribed to a specific community.

To view more, visit Lotte Museum’s website.

@ Antoni + Alison. Donna No.1, 2017. © Antoni + Alison, courtesy of the artists and Elliott Gallery

Elliott Gallery | May 27th — September 23rd, 2023

Throughout their career, spanning more than 40 years, Antoni + Alison have studied to understand and work with the History of Fashion and for the past decade, the placement of fashion on a body. The draping of fabric, the height and placement of a line, the disguising or accentuating of a figure. The placement of a bow (or a tractor). Imagining how a Photograph can be worn in the best way possible.

This knowledge of both Photography and Fashion leaves them in a unique position to use the two in harmony, in order to balance a piece of work - whether it will be hung on the body or the wall. The cut of each dress has been meticulously worked out to be the most appropriate for the wearer, the photograph and the onlooker. All designed to not disturb the print, but equally make the wearer and the viewer happy and intrigued.

To learn more, visit Elliot Gallery’s website.