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Cinga Samson "Ukuphuthelwa" @ White Cube Gallery, NYC

Cinga Samson
South African artist Cinga Samson’s exhibition of new paintings is titled ‘Ukuphuthelwa’, an isiXhosa word in the artist’s native language that translates as ‘unable to sleep’. Unlike the English word ‘insomnia’, the isiXhosa term carries no negative connotation and accordingly, for Samson, sleeplessness is not a condition to be cured but a state of spiritual alertness, a sensitivity that deepens in the dark. Rendered in the artist’s signature occluded palette of near-blacks, carbon and deep Prussian blues, Samson’s scenes depict men-like figures, dogs in overgrown fields and portraits of plant life native to South Africa. Encouraging slow, contemplative looking, a sense of existential gravity pervades Samson’s new series of oil paintings, attempting to depict a vast reality that is continuously…
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No Coward Soul: Rachel Gregor @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco

No Coward Soul: Rachel Gregor @ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco
Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present No Coward Soul, a solo exhibition by Kansas City-based artist Rachel Gregor. Inspired by Emily Brontë’s 1846 poem No Coward Soul Is Mine, Rachel Gregor’s latest body of work explores faith without religion, resilience without certainty, and the fragile boundary between dread and hope.
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Nuart Aberdeen 2026: Poetry In The Streets

Nuart Aberdeen 2026: Poetry In The Streets
Welcome to the latest edition of Nuart Aberdeen. As far as we can ascertain, this will be the first street art festival in the world with a focus primarily on poetry and text-based works. Over the years, for better or worse, the large scale colourful figurative mural has come to dominate the culture we work with, and although it’s an aspect of the culture we support, due to the resources required to produce murals, they’re perhaps also the least democratic form of art on the streets. As curators, researchers and producers working in “festival” culture, we have a responsibility to not only showcase and celebrate the most interesting and technically competent works of our time, but to also ensure the…
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Good Looking: Raymond Lemstra @ Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo

Good Looking: Raymond Lemstra @ Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo
NANZUKA is pleased to present “Good Looking,” a solo exhibition of new works by Raymond Lemstra at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. This exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show at NANZUKA following his first exhibition in Japan held at 3110NZ by LDH Kitchen (now Sushi Saito Hanare NANZUKA) in 2024. The show will be on through April 4, 2026. 
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Chris “Daze” Ellis "Orchid Rain on the Underground" @ PPOW Gallery, NYC

Chris “Daze” Ellis
PPOW are pleased to present Orchid Rain on the Underground, Chris “Daze” Ellis’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is on view through April 25, 2026. Featuring a new series of paintings, multimedia installation, and a site-specific mural, the exhibition harnesses the passion and spontaneity of the graffiti movement of the 1970s and 80s while demonstrating a thoughtful and meticulous practice honed over the past five decades. While the version of New York City that fostered Daze’s beginnings as a fine artist may feel like a bygone era, the works in this exhibition are evidence of its enduring legacy. By revitalizing that foundational energy for the present moment, Daze affirms the continued relevance of those figures and places, and their profound…
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Casey Bolding "Bloodstream" @ Karma, Los Angeles

Casey Bolding
Casey Bolding’s paintings make memory material. Using plaster and industrial paint in concert with oil, acrylic, and Flashe, the artist builds up densely layered surfaces which he then scrapes and reworks, excavating embedded imagery drawn from mementos, photographs, and art history. As personal as they are process-based, Bolding’s paintings of landscapes and interiors are particularly informed by his childhood in the plains of Colorado, his longtime practice of graffiti writing in abandoned buildings and trains, and commercial faux-finishing techniques learned from his uncle. For Bloodstream, Bolding has created a suite of works that he describes as “mirages or scenes captured from the perspective of someone floating down the Colorado River,” from the Rocky Mountains to the Mexico-California border. This traveler…
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Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC

Last Days to See Kate Meissner's New Paintings @ Lyles & King's Project Space, NYC
Lyles & King presents new paintings by Kate Meissner in our project space, on view through April 4. Kate Meissner writes: "These works are an exploration of the human body's elasticity and capacity to metamorphose. Informed by my own experience of pregnancy and the birth of my first child last year, these paintings are a meditation on physiological transformation and the body's underlying animalistic and mammalian nature."
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