The spirit of creative collaboration is on display in gallery and museum shows this fall and winter. Across the United States, exhibitions focusing on artists’ relationships with each other — such as Henri Matisse and André Derain, and Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney — and to their subjects — like that of Il Guercino or John Singer Sargent — offer new avenues for audiences to explore their work and contemporary impact. Here is a selection...
New York
NEW YORK CITY
“Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility”
This group show examines the notion of visibility, both in the way people are physically seen and, more abstractly, the way they are perceived in society. Many of the more than 100 works feature partially obscured or hidden figures, as explored in photographs by Ming Smith, paintings by Kerry James Marshall and installations by Sandra Mujinga. Friday through April 7; Guggenheim Museum, https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/going-dark-the-contemporary-figure-at-the-edge-of-visibility
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WORCESTER, MASS.
“Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please”
The name of this exhibition comes from words Faith Ringgold included in her painted story quilt “Picasso’s Studio” (1991), which is central to the show and offers a critical look at the Spanish painter’s cultural influences. The rest of the paintings, prints and textiles from various periods of Ms. Ringgold’s long career will be tied thematically back to that piece, including a reconfigured U.S. map, “United States of Attica” (1972), and re-contextualized depictions of American history from her “Declaration of Freedom and Independence” suite of paintings. Through March 17; Worcester Art Museum, https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/faith-ringgold/
