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“Did These Used to Be People?”: Jenny Gagalka and Sarah Sarchin in conversation
Sarah Sarchin writes: Jenny Gagalka’s works are pop-culture fever dreams pressed through the vernacular of painting. They are image and gesture as one; they are color as form. Gagalka’s upcoming presentation at Good Weather Gallery in Chicago is a homecoming of sorts – a reunion with gallery director Haynes Riley who curated her first solo…
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There’s Something as the Air: Madison Greenstone and Weston Olencki in conversation
The clarinetist sits in a stackable chair on the chancel of a Queens church in winter. Eyes closed, cheeks puffed, instrument angled downward, knees straight, perfect posture, no wasted movement. Their deliberate de-emphasis on the “self” cuts a figure of someone with a heightened sensitivity of their body in space, but also a sacred ritual…