We again walked down to the south end of the High Line to the Whitney Museum. There we met Harriet and entered this fantastic gallery. We were especially lucky as they were showing their Biennial 2024. (click on the photos to enlarge them)
Even Better Than the Real Thing.
Suzanne Jackson made these suspended paintings without canvas, slowly building up many layers of acrylic, detritus, gel medium and objects from the natural world including seeds from her garden. She says “I don’t call it collage because … it’s all paint – acrylic on acrylic. And it’s suspended: paint suspended in space….”
In Kiyan Williams’s outdoor sculpture Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master’s House, the north facade of the White House leans on one side, sinking into the floor, and is composed of earth. If you look carefully you can see that the flag is upside down – this symbol is used by people who believe that Trump did not lose the election.
Hopper
The museum had a great collection of paintings by Hopper.
