Brooklyn Artists Explore Surface, Scent, and Global Oppression in New Exhibitions

At Studio 10, new paintings incorporate vinyl supermarket banners. A Brooklyn-based artist engages with oppressed communities worldwide. Recent violent events have prompted artists to create works expressing both passion and compassion. A perfumer and sculptor presents new pieces that make absent bodies perceptible through scent, sight, and touch. Another artist's embroidered fragments function simultaneously as drawing, sculpture, and collage. Lee's panels merge aesthetic and biographical heritage while revealing their own process and materials. An exhibition features Bee's photograms, unseen for over three decades. Sculptures and paintings exuding beastly sexual energy are on display. Galloway demonstrates head-hand coordination in a show. Two recent Brooklyn exhibitions investigate surface as substance.