John O’Connor encrypts and encodes the complexity of our moment into ciphers of drawing. His exhibition Man Bites Dog Bites Man at Pierogi Gallery in collaboration with L Space feels akin to listening to the radio on a late-night drive, like O’Connor’s practice is tuned to that space on the dial between radio towers, where the drift from one message cuts in across another as magnetic fields begin to shift.
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Curated by writer Raphael Rubinstein and artist Heather Bause Rubinstein (whose labyrinthine fabric painting City as Shape (2019) is included in the show), Schema takes up the question of how artists have employed a broad cross-section of diagrammatic forms, from the map and the mandala to the isarithm and the ideogram.
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