The house, the psyche, the mortal coil — it’s barely fall and artists are already alluding to the existential territory that encroaches as annually involves an in depth. Maybe introspection is simply what we’d like proper now; as AX Mina’s artwork tarotscope famous final week, with the approaching of the Fall Equinox, “it’s worth asking what artists and creatives can do to ease the suffering for both themselves and their communities.” Asako Tabata is actually wanting inward, with an exhibition of work and mixed-media works that concentrate on her mom’s passing and her personal mortality at Seizan Gallery. In the meantime, Emily Janowick’s corn backyard at Kate Werble Gallery is each a group venture and a psychic panorama that bridges the artist’s reminiscences of her childhood in Kentucky along with her present life as an artist; and a bunch present at BlankMag Books in Chinatown is a visit into a number of psyches by the “house-tree-person” psychological evaluation take a look at. Even Stephen Westfall’s geometric abstractions channel the numerous meanings of “bird” within the artist’s angular, enigmatic types. A requiem for seasons previous or a track for these to come back? Learn John Yau’s evaluation and resolve for your self. —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
house-tree-person: a bunch iteration
BlankMag Books, 17 Eldridge Road, Chinatown, ManhattanThrough October 5
A replica of the Home-Tree-Particular person Method by John N. Buck within the exhibition (picture Monica Uszerowicz/Hyperallergic)
“A home, a body, our relationship to the land — these are multitudinous concepts. … Perhaps the uninterpreted, curated responses reveal as much as the standardized test itself.” —Monica Uszerowicz
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Emily Janowick
Kate Werble Gallery, 474 Broadway, Third Flooring, Soho, ManhattanThrough October 11
Set up view of Emily Janowick, “Obsession” (2025) (picture Louis Bury/Hyperallergic)
“Janowick peppers her work with whimsy, from the goofiness of the orange buckets to the zine photograph of two plants wearing seatbelts while being transported in her car.” —Louis Bury
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Asako Tabata: Ready for Bones
Seizan Gallery, 525 West twenty sixth Road, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough October 18
Asako Tabata, “Bye Bye” (2024), oil on canvas (picture courtesy Seizan Gallery)
“Tabata’s introspective solitude leads her to an unexpected, even surprising confrontation with mortality.” —John Yau
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Stephen Westfall: Ornithology
Alexandre Gallery, 25 East 73rd Road, Second and Third Flooring, Higher East Aspect, ManhattanThrough October 25
Stephen Westfall, “Cabana I” (2024), oil and alkyd on canvas (picture courtesy Alexandre Gallery)
“Westfall has spent his career working within the geometric abstraction genre while trying to disrupt the rhythmic patterns associated with planar abstraction and Op Art.” —JY
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