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Will Kasso Condry was awarded the first-ever Vermont Prize for visual work made by artists in the state. The Brandon-based visual artist, graffiti scholar and.
Julie Mehretu
Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan
Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual information. Some of the most recent works on view also smartly deal with contemporary social issues, as the process begins with photographs one started with police in riot gear following the killing of Michael Brown, for example, while another began with images of climate change-related firescapes. These images are then blurred and erased beyond recognition before paint and other materials are stacked on, and are then sanded and erased, creating a pentimento surface where older layers peer through
Alice Neel: People Come First
Until 1 August at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
The Met’s retrospective to the late US painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) chronicles six decades of the artist’s prolific career, from her ruminative portraits of New York’s global diaspora to her visceral depictions of motherhood. Some of the most striking pieces in the show are the nude portraits Neel painted of pregnant women a subject she said was missing in Western art that capture the psychological and physical weight of the moment, like the painting
Margaret Evans Pregnant (1978) depicting a friend of the artist who was pregnant with twins. The show also examines Neel’s lifelong engagement with New York, including piercing portraits of her neighbours in Spanish Harlem, and her work for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Neel stuck to an Expressionist painting style in an era where Abstraction reigned, and was “ambitious at a time wh