Art review: Hangin' Together at Koplin Del Rio
Kerry James Marshall titled the group show he guest-curated for Koplin Del Rio “Hangin’ Together” to suggest the mood of an end-of-summer reverie, a “relaxed, easygoing social gathering.” He invited six artists to the conversation, making sure the mix was aesthetically and generationally diverse, “unburdened by a weighty theme.” The exhibition isn’t all small talk, however, more like a sequence of brief, variably engaging monologues, touching on a range of concerns, among them sex, religion, race and the beauty of nature.
Stacy Mohammed’s reductive paintings of Christian icons have an immediacy and sobriety that is deeply affecting. At the other end of the spectrum, David Lozano’s large, flamboyant, mixed-media canvases overstate their case, piling on sequins and gloss to heighten their erotic allure. Candida Alvarez’s drawn and painted abstractions exude a jaunty, sensual sense of humor, and Luis Serrano’s pencil and gouache renderings of dense woods are gorgeously realized, detailed but not fussy.
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