One of many best 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. It is a nice second for attending to know your artist, with exhibits that includes the all the time spectacular Sylvia Sleigh, whose pals and lovers actually bared all, in addition to the fantastically private blended 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 (picture 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 Avenue, 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 treasured
Ortuzar gallery, 5 White Avenue, Tribeca, ManhattanThrough April 5
Set up view of Sylvia Sleigh: Each leaf is treasured at Ortuzar. Left: “Annunciation: Paul Rosano” (1975); proper: “Triple Portrait of Philip” (1971) (picture 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 Avenue, East Village, ManhattanThrough June 6
Paul Gardère, “Rowing to Giverny” (1999) (picture 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 Evening
Whitney Museum of American Artwork, 99 Gansevoort Avenue, West Village, ManhattanThrough July 6
Set up view of Christine Solar Kim and Thomas Mader, “Palm Reader” (2020), at Readings from Under on the Occasions 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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