Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week

Artnet | April 25, 2022

By Neha Jambhekar

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Above:

We Got Natural Light Here, 2022
Airbrush, oil stick, and acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in.

Don’t miss Brooklyn-based painter Catherine Haggarty’s first solo show at Geary Contemporary this week. In something of a departure from her abstract style, the paintings and works on paper in this show consist of figurative elements that give an “honest and fractured view” of her life since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a statement. She depicts scenes from her bedroom where light and shadows play, which have the distinct effect of inviting the viewer inside her intimate space, which she fills with personal references to art history, psychology, grief, and loss experienced during this time.