Peter Cardone’s color photograph of a young woman in a cranberry hoodie exquisitely represents what a Sarah Palin voter’s reaction might be to the works of the other four emerging Finnish and Chicago artists, working in various pure and mixed media, in this energetic and cutting show. Cardone’s subject, shot against a white aluminum-sided house, stares at us with gaping eyes and a radically bemused expression on her lips. What else is she supposed to feel when she looks at Riiko Sakkinen’s slide show of appropriated ads mixed in with animation cels in Japanese kitsch style that sends up smarmy commercial culture? Indeed, it seems like everyone is turning Japanese; Melanie Schiff’s photo of an aging Sonic Youth poster, in which the band has dressed up as jolly space warriors, has a Gen X self-ironic laugh at the expense of a Japanese comic-book cover. Postmodernism is alive and well, even if some of us are still dumbfounded. (Michael Weinstein)
Through December 14 at Golden Gallery, 816 W. Newport, (773)559-5850.
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.
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