News

Goings on About Town: Art

by Vince Aletti

Joshua Citarella

The New Yorker

6/23/2015

Framed and unframed photographs, some half-hidden behind others, are joined by ceramic tiles and metal rods, sand swept into a corner, and small piles of pulverized gold and ore. What unites all the elements in this ambitious young New Yorker’s show is far from apparent, but there is a tightly controlled energy, sparked by two portraits of female nudes smeared in silver. Shifting between abstraction and representation, the elemental and the ephemeral, Citarella constructs a puzzle that seems impossible to solve but is nonetheless dazzling. Through June 27.

More information available at: http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/joshua-citarella-2