An exhibition of oil paintings by Don Van Vliet, the artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart, has a strange allure, as long as you don’t think too hard
Aaron Curry is a mid-career sculptor working with figures made of light wood, often on chest-high pedestals of the same material, usually embellished with colored pencil and some paint. The figures, divided into two small rooms in the gallery, start out at first like examples of 20th-century modernism, but there is another current: often the faces and bodies of the figures look a bit eccentric, as if their inspiration came from cartoons.
Maki Na Kamura, the Berlin-based Japanese painter, touches on her interest in patterns of structures and texture, a knowing circumvention of figuration and the magic of painting