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Select galleries are currently closed for the installation of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech”, opening July 3. Become a member for first access 

In accordance with CDC, State, and City guidelines, fully vaccinated visitors are no longer required to wear face coverings at the ICA. Timed tickets are still required; advance reservation strongly recommended. Learn more

Friday Art Notes

Weekly personal reflections on art shown at the ICA

  • A diptych of color portrait photographs of a young woman with pale skin and shoulder-length dark hair, one in a black tank top, one in military uniform.

    Friday Art Notes: Evgenya

    Montgomery Alcott
    Oct 23, 2020
  • A large dark frame contains 9 separate collages, in three rows, some mounted on fluorescent paper.

    Friday Art Notes: HRG Suite

    Kyle Kittredge
    Oct 9, 2020
  • Six color photographs in two rows of three show a figure rendered in various ways including as a line drawing in dirt, in blood or red pigment on cloth and in sand, and in sticks in an architectural hollow.

    Friday Art Notes: Silueta Works in Mexico

    Jeffrey De Blois
    Sep 25, 2020
  • A horizontal artwork of copperish brown swirling together with a lighter neutral color. Medium is not apparent.

    Friday Art Notes: Alabaster SR08-2

    Naomi Mirny
    Sep 11, 2020
  • A sculpture made of various objects piled on top of a metal shopping cart, tightly wrapped and bound with twisted red and black plastic, culminating in a simple folding chair at the very top.

    Friday Art Notes: Savior

    Mehtap Yagci
    Aug 14, 2020
  • A tall, slender sculpture in white wood of an abstracted figure with carved rounded shapes at the top and a navel-like depression near the midpoint.

    Friday Art Notes: Louise Bourgeois, Untitled

    Carol Jensen
    Jul 24, 2020
  • An installation of a mirrored glass case holdings hand-blown mirrored glass geometric objects to create an infinitely repeating mirrored visual effect.

    Friday Art Notes: Czech Modernism Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely

    Bob Hall
    Jul 17, 2020
  • A color photograph depicts a snapshot of a Black man standing in a yard lying, on top of a page from a textbook showing a photo of Walter Cronkite next to a map of South America, displayed flat on a wooden floor.

    Friday Art Notes: Riffs on Real Time

    Eva Respini
    Jul 10, 2020
  • A sculpture composed of a colorful costume covering the body of a mannequin a chandelier-like headpiece decorated with ceramic birds and strings of beads.

    Friday Art Notes: Soundsuit

    Juan Omar Rodriguez
    Jun 26, 2020
  • A matte black ceramic object in the shape of a shallow dish with unidentifiable contents and a scattering of red accents.

    Friday Art Notes: Basin Theology/La Brea 2

    Sergio Salicio-Lupianez
    May 29, 2020
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    Friday Art Notes: Undammed
    /Desbloqueada

    Nemo Xu
    May 22, 2020
  • SELF Ol Bay install Charles Mayer

    Friday Art Notes: Ol’ Bay

    Kelly Chen
    May 15, 2020
  • A sculpture made of bundles of yellow-colored linen and wool thread piled on a large white platform.

    Friday Art Notes: Banisteriopsis II

    Colette Randall
    May 8, 2020
  • A drawing in Conte crayon on butcher paper depicts a Black woman in a patterned dress and black sneakers with white stripes standing in profile, facing left. She holds a box cutter behind her back.

    Friday Art Notes: Woman with X-Patterned Dress (After Bill Traylor)

    Ruth Quattlebaum
    May 1, 2020
  • A large mixed- media painting depicts the abstracted figure of a man in a tank top and sneakers standing on a sidewalk holding a beer can and the leg of another figure in red gingham pants that appears to have just walked out of the frame.

    Friday Art Notes: Lite

    Gregg Handorff
    Apr 24, 2020
  • One three-dimensional oblong form sits stacked askew on top of another. The top for is translucent yellow with swirls of red that appear to be rising up. The bottom form appears to be a wooden box painted yellow, with the letters WS ROLLING hand-drawn on the side in red.

    Friday Art Notes: ACTS/WS ROLLIN

    Brittany Eckstrom
    Apr 17, 2020
  • Three women in dark clothing move around a room lined on one side by mirrors that distort their reflections. In the foreground, a young woman faces the viewer with arms stretched in a Y position.

    Friday Art Notes: City of Abstracts

    Sarah Hachey
    Apr 10, 2020
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    Friday Art Notes: Nuestro Tiempo/ Our Time

    Katherine Gudiel
    Mar 26, 2020
  • COLLECTION_Beyond Infinity Kusama - Binion and Gilbert & George

    Friday Art Notes: Route One: Box Two: V

    Anni Pullagura
    Mar 20, 2020
  • Six color photographs in two rows of three show a figure rendered in various ways including as a line drawing in dirt, in blood or red pigment on cloth and in sand, and in sticks in an architectural hollow.

    Friday Art Notes: Silueta Works in Mexico

    Emily Mogavero
    Mar 20, 2020

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