"Intimacy Composed: The Paintings of Sarah Canright" by Bethany Johnson

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In this expansive exhibition, Sarah Canright presents paintings from her ongoing exploration of—almost exclusively—the greyhound as compositional form and psychological subject. Canright constructs her compositions with the dogs' twisting bodies and limbs, producing works that are as visually eloquent as they are psychologically stirring. These paintings embrace the visual subtlety and emotional depth of oil on canvas, while also embodying the intimacy and immediacy of drawing.

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"Harvesting Narratives: Tales of Rural America and Race in the Work of Mitchell Squire" by Elly Fishman

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In the studio, the tile is spattered with old coffee stains and the persistent remains of misdirected meals, while the walls are marked with remnants of cigarette and stovetop smoke. The three small rooms harbor an atmosphere of feral domesticity and are saturated with history and the evidence of past lives. It makes perfect sense then that Squire would choose this space to make his artwork, concerned as it is with the poetic interaction of loaded objects and materials, echoing across open or abandoned space.

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"Simon Leung: The Surface of the Earth" by Cole Akers

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Throughout the 1990s, Simon Leung produced a series of works that addressed what he calls "the residual space of the Vietnam/American War." The term "residual space", in Leung's words, "evokes a sense of a remainder-the physically repressed that is bound to return."[1] In each of these projects-comprising video, performance, and a variety of other media-the artist explores the legacy of violence and displacement generated by the Vietnam War, as well as the disparate identities forged by war.

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Emily Sessions on Hope Ginsburg

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Walking into Hope Ginsburg's exhibition at CUE Art Foundation, you are confronted with an array of objects that, like archaeological artifacts, seem to vibrate with significance. These books, mittens, trophies, and photographs don't reveal their meanings immediately, like the showier paintings and sculptures in other Chelsea galleries. They invite investigation, questioning. What are these objects, what are they saying?

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