Dirty Words at Mindy Solomon Gallery (until 18 January 2020) brings together a series of paintings by the artists Mark Flood and Samuel Jablon. Jablon, a Brooklyn-based painter and poet, has created vivid abstract compositions that visualise fractured poems on canvas, sometimes in an illegible manner that aims to give the viewer pause. Flood, one of the founders of the 1980s cult punk band Culturcide, critiques the bureaucracy and ethics of the art world in his work; one piece recreates a grant request, while another canvas duplicates “no touching” signage from museums. The show has been curated by Bill Arning, the former director of Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, which organised the first retrospective devoted to Flood in 2016.
Jiha Moon in State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges