KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM in The New Yorker
GALLERIES—DOWNTOWN
KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM
What this tiny Lower East Side space—billed as an office as opposed to a gallery—lacks in square footage it more than makes up for in curatorial impact, under the keen direction of Howie Chen and Gabrielle Giattino. Their latest show introduces New York to a promising young sculptor from Los Angeles whose shelf-mounted arrangements interlace low-fi haptics (felt, hand-dyed from oak bark) and high-tech theories (a digital rendering of four-dimensional space) with hints of spiritual mysteries. The healing mandalas of Emma Kunz come to mind, especially in a great big “God’s Eye,” woven in red, green, and blue yarn. If it seems hippy-dippy, consider the colors—the computer’s R.G.B. palette. (Dispatch, 127 Henry St. 212-227-2783.)
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