The exhibitions under ask viewers to interact their senses and spend time with artwork that’s slower to disclose itself. Which will means noticing particulars you’d in any other case miss, within the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Deborah-Joyce Holman. It might additionally imply reimagining one thing acquainted, like a rose on the FLAG Basis, or “exposure” within the Ulterior exhibition. Or contemplating what makes one thing pure versus synthetic, within the fascinating conceptual artwork of Luis Fernando Benedit. The final two reveals finish this weekend. Additionally ending this weekend is Etel Adnan: On Paper, 1960-2021 at Galerie Lelong & Co. in Chelsea. Make a day of it this weekend and see all three! —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
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Ulterior Gallery, 424 Broadway #601, Soho, ManhattanThrough April 5
Carlos Reyes, “Popular Jewelry” (each 2023) (photograph Alexis Clements/Hyperallergic)
“Exposure is an exploration of ideas surrounding photographic exposure, ‘our exposure to each other,’ and the ways in which art itself is exposed to the world.” —Alexis Clements
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Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths
Institute for Research on Latin American Artwork, 142 Franklin Road, Decrease East Aspect, ManhattanThrough April 5
Luis Fernando Benedit, “Labyrinth for Ants” (1970)
“[Benedit’s habitats] tread a philosophical line between art and science by raising issues — then prescient, now pressing — about surveillance and control, but prioritizing questions over answers.” —NH
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Deborah-Joyce Holman: Shut Up
Swiss Institute, 38 St. Marks Place, East Village, ManhattanThrough April 20
Deborah-Joyce Holman, “Close-Up” (2024), movie nonetheless (photograph courtesy Swiss Institute/the artist)
“Given the opportunity to pay such close attention to the minutiae of the everyday, a subtle, easily overlooked beauty in each visual element begins to emerge.” —Alexandra M. Thomas
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Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Filled with Planets
American Folks Artwork Museum, 2 Lincoln Sq., Higher West Aspect, ManhattanThrough Could 25
Madalena Santos Reinbolt, “Untitled” (1962–67), acrylic wool on burlap (photograph Debra Brehmer/Hyperallergic)
“Her dense, free-form landscapes, often embedded with childhood memories, seemed to help her hold on to a sense of place, identity, and individuality.” —Debra Brehmer
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A Rose Is
FLAG Artwork Basis, 545 West twenty fifth Road, ninth Flooring, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough June 21
Farah Al Qasimi, “Gurdwara Nanak Darbar Sahib (Kansas)” (2017), inkjet print (picture courtesy the artist and the Third Line)
“The rose might be the most densely described flower in history: It’s pure and chaste, like the Virgin Mary; stained by the blood of Aphrodite and the bloodshed of the Wars of the Roses.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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