Julie Mehretu and John Jasperse Collaboration at Marian Goodman Gallery

The New York Times reports on a collaboration between artist Julie Mehretu and choreographer John Jasperse at the Marian Goodman Gallery in TriBeCa. Mehretu's exhibition "Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)" features her "TRANSpaintings," which are abstract and translucent, viewable from either side. Jasperse's dance piece "Wandering" responds to the exhibition, with seven dancers moving through the space, arranging their bodies along white walls and between archways, weaving paths around the translucent paintings and brushing by other works and audience members. The performances run Wednesday to Saturday. Mehretu, a major American artist known for large, dense paintings that often occlude topical source material like blurred photos of riots or wildfires, was first attracted to working with a choreographer while observing how her "TRANSpaintings" were arranged in another exhibition. The paintings stand in metal brackets by sculptor Nairy Bahramian. The article includes photographs of dancers Maria Fleischman, Zo Williams, Jace Weyant, Andrea Soto, and Catherine Kirk rehearsing in front of specific paintings such as "Black Monolith (after Atopolis: For Édouard Glissant by Jack Whitten)" and "Inside Totality (what the lungs cannot hold)."