An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Contributed by Sarah Friedman / Liz Scheer’s “Nocturama,” now up at Galerie Shibumi, is a trippy journey into multimedia works that combine everyday objects, religious texts, and human emotions. The style of the vignettes evokes Mexican votive paintings, conjuring the viewer’s longing for coherent narrative. However, the enigmatic captions do not always seem to explain the scenes they are paired with.
Contributed by Liz Scheer / “Shoot for the Stars,” on view at Swanson Kuball in Long Island City, surveys intergenerational works by members of the Abelow-Kirilloff family, which includes New York artists Joshua Abelow and Tisch Abelow. By presenting the work of siblings, spouses, grandparents, and children, gallery directors Laura Swanson and Greg Kuball raise fascinating questions about the relationship between family and art. Do the formal parameters of a family foster or impede an individual’s creativity? Is a family itself a means of artistic production?
Contributed by Liz Scheer / On Harmonious Regulations, released on Bandcamp on January 6, Bronx-based poet and musician Conor Gannon interlaces disparate mediums and genres to develop what he terms “tone poetry,” which uses electronic music to establish and maintain meter. Born of Gannon’s preoccupation with the shapes of audio waves, his tone poems have a sculptural quality in their use of sample-based repetition to structure metered verse.
