Exhibitions by women artists at women-owned galleries on view this month!
Factory Doomscroll is a two-person exhibition of new work by Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn. The exhibition examines cycles of consumption, obsolescence, and repetition embedded in contemporary digital and wellness cultures. Wang’s paintings translate internet memes into labor-intensive images, slowing the rapid decay of online content, while Youn’s motorized sculptures animate discarded self-care technologies beyond their intended use. Together, the works address how comfort, gratification, and attention are produced, sustained, and exhausted across physical and digital systems.
Feb 21 - Apr 4
Portmanteau is Mirena Kim’s first solo exhibition at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, presenting intimate oil paintings and paper sculpture made from reclaimed paper pulp. Kim works with reduced palettes and close attention to architectural space. Limiting color to two or three tones, often tone on tone, she articulates space across two and three dimensions.
Feb 21 - Mar 28
Trial of the Finger presents new and recent works by Tacita Dean, including the 35mm film installations Paradise and Geography Biography, and a new 16mm film, Sidney Felsen decorates an Envelope. The exhibition also features chalk and slate drawings, Polaroid works, and works on glass. The title references Dr. Samuel Johnson’s critique of the Metaphysical poets and reflects Dean’s sustained engagement with analog processes and embodied systems of measure.
Feb 21 - Apr 25
Imago is an exhibition by Isabel Rower presenting paintings, vessels, seating, and tables that draw from historical design and architectural references. Inspired by the Garden Room of the Villa of Livia, the installation pairs paintings on antique linens with functional sculptural objects that reference trompe l’oeil traditions and ancient materials. Across ceramics, paper pulp, and painted surfaces, the works examine imitation, transformation, and the boundaries between function and image.
Feb 14 - Apr 4
In Aragonite and conchiolin, Emma McIntyre presents new paintings that probe paint as substance and event. Named for the materials that form pearls, the works shift between microscopic matter and sweeping composition. Pools of pigment, rust, vermilion, and iron oxide react and transform, accelerating processes of change. Gestural marks, impressions, and layered images accumulate into charged surfaces where material instability becomes visible and immediate.
Feb 24 - Apr 4
