One of many biggest items an artist may give the viewer is a way of the artist as an individual — their lives, loves, losses, and the mundane particulars that quantity to their worlds. This can be a nice second for attending to know your artist, with exhibits that includes the at all times spectacular Sylvia Sleigh, whose pals and lovers actually bared all, in addition to the fantastically private combined media works of Paul Gardère, the celebrated visible and textual world of Christine Solar Kim, and extra. —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
Kenneth Tam: The Medallion
Bridget Donahue, 99 Bowery, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanThrough March 8
Set up view of Kenneth Tam, “The Medallion” (2025), 2-channel HD video with sound (photograph Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)
“The message is clear — tides of technology wielded for personal enrichment rather than societal improvement will obliterate us with cold ease.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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Rudy Burckhardt: A Portray Exhibition
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 11 Rivington Road, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanThrough March 8
Rudy Burckhardt, “Sixth Avenue” (1977), oil on linen (courtesy Property of Rudy Burckhardt and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York)
“Through his directness, modesty, and scrupulous attention to detail, Burckhardt’s representation of the oddness of the ordinary is unrivaled.” —John Yau
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Sylvia Sleigh: Each leaf is valuable
Ortuzar gallery, 5 White Road, Tribeca, ManhattanThrough April 5
Set up view of Sylvia Sleigh: Each leaf is valuable at Ortuzar. Left: “Annunciation: Paul Rosano” (1975); proper: “Triple Portrait of Philip” (1971) (photograph Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
“There’s something wonderful about Sleigh’s paintings that feels like showing up to a nudist colony where people are fine letting it all hang out.” —Hrag Vartanian
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Paul Gardère: Vantage Factors
Stuyvesant-Fish Home, 21 Stuyvesant Road, East Village, ManhattanThrough June 6
Paul Gardère, “Rowing to Giverny” (1999) (photograph Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)
“Gardère’s techniques and materials merge with his subject matter to sketch out a portrait of his life” —NH
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Christine Solar Kim: All Day All Night time
Whitney Museum of American Artwork, 99 Gansevoort Road, West Village, ManhattanThrough July 6
Set up view of Christine Solar Kim and Thomas Mader, “Palm Reader” (2020), at Readings from Under on the Instances Artwork Middle Berlin (© Christine Solar Kim; {photograph} by GR.Berlin, courtesy the artists, François Ghebaly Gallery, and White Area)
“Kim revels in translation not just between languages or systems of notation, but between concepts and feelings or experiences.” —LYZ
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