RECOMMENDED In a second and smaller complement to his photographic reflections on Mexico City’s Tepito barrio at La Llorona Gallery down the street, Francisco Mata Rosas shows us the neighborhood in which the subjects of his individualized portraits create their colorful lives and distinctive personae. From above at a distance, Tepito stands out from its environs as a low lying tract sporting ubiquitous orange, red, blue and yellow tarps. When we get closer, we are greeted by multi-hued clothes hanging out to dry on roof-tops. At street level, we are enveloped in a crazy quilt of signage, awnings and discarded boxes. At last, we look down on a street corner littered with crates, where a man in a grim-reaper costume—complete with a death head, red cape and chains—stands ready to be plucked by Mata Rosas for one of his “studio-street” portraits. (Michael Weinstein) Through November 9 at Havana Gallery
Lost in Translation: A Review of Crip* at Gallery 400 The strongest works in the exhibition succinctly express the ways the artist relates to their own body while calling out how the artist’s body and body of work has been perceived or coded against norms or ideals.
Repurposing AI: A Review of Stephanie Dinkins at Stamps Gallery While this show is timely for everyone, I consider its setting within a university art gallery and emerging tech hub like the city of Ann Arbor a subversive provocation which Dinkins invites the greater public—including members of the university community—to consider our own positionality to AI and technology.
