The newest gallery openings this week, including the dark side of the American dream, traditions of Aboriginal Australian painting, a cheeky photographer, and more.
New York, “The Calling of Home” (Until Sept. 6)
In Malaysia, Cheong See Min grew up near a pineapple plantation, a legacy of the British colonial economy, which inspired her most recent handwoven textiles. Made out of pineapple-leaf, the textiles draw from her archival and anecdotal research into the history of land and labor. In this show, See Min and three other Southeast Asian artists—Dutch painter Jennifer Tee of Chinese-Indonesian descent, Singaporean painter Khairulddin Wahab, and Malaysian textile artist Marcos Kueh—trace how colonial history has shaped their homelands.
—Vasilisa Ioukhnovets
