Looking Back: Our Favorite Art Happenings of 2021

Written By Dakota X

Boston Art Review
Review by BAR Editorial 12/30/2021

Best of Gallery Hopping: Kim Faler at LaMontagne Gallery, Autumn Wallace at Gaa Gallery, and Catalina Schliebener at Boston Center for the Arts

By Leah Triplett Harrington

Autumn Wallace, “How to Hug Yourself: 10 Steps (With Pictures),” installation view, May 14 — June 28, 2021. Photo courtesy of GAA Gallery, Provincetown.

“Then in June, I was lucky enough to be in Provincetown to see Autumn Wallace’s show-stopping “How to Hug Yourself: 10 Steps (with Pictures)” at Gaa Gallery. At turns sharply precise or elusively abstract, Wallace’s paintings and sculptures are little kaleidoscopes, undulating color, shape, and texture. Their compositions (in both 2D and 3D) accrue stuff from everyday life to create captivating remixes of the familiar. Like Faler, Wallace resolutely considers the confusion and exuberance of living in a human body.”

Dakota X

DAKOTA X (b. Boston, 1961) is a Contemporary American Painter. X's artistic work examines the complexities of individual experience particularly in its relation to home, gender identity, isolation and memory. X is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant and a finalist in the shortlist for the 2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.

https://dakota-x.org/
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