British photographer Alys Tomlinson explores faith and community in her austere and unsettling portraits of the ancient folk characters of Sicily and Sardinia
January 10–February 14, 2021
Resistance is a manifestation of fierce hope. After Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, Fawn Krieger took this notion to heart and into her studio, where she began to make a new body of work by pressing fired, underglazed pieces of clay into ceramic, frame-like troughs, filled with wet, often dyed, cement. Four years and 113 sculptures later, Krieger’s “Experiments in Resistance,” 2017–21 a series of ceramics done in vibrant Atomic Age hues (’50s-bathroom pinks, subdued yellows, and Formica greens) reads like a record of time, tactility, and emotional perspicacity. Arranged in clusters spanning the floor, set upon pedestals and shelves, or directly mounted onto the gallery’s walls, these hanging and freestanding objects fifty-eight in total here combine geometric and organic forms in considered yet spontaneous ways. In