Hyperallergic: 15 Shows to See in New York, April 2023
Katinka Mann’s show Perception of Space was recently featured in Hyperallergic’s article of must-see exhibitions in NYC for the month of April! The show has been extended to April 18. Come see it while it’s still on view on the 3rd floor of EFA!
Valentina Di Liscia’s Hyperallergic writeup is copied below:
It’s tempting to anchor the abstract works of New York artist Katinka Mann in the safe and well-trodden lineages of Minimalists like Frank Stella or Conceptual photographers such as Barbara Kasten. But her photographic paper constructions, shaped sculptures, and “collages” of colored light — relatively little-known despite their presence in major museum collections — don’t need an art historical introduction. The most intriguing pieces in this show at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, where Mann was a member of the Studio Program starting in 2009, are her ethereally light sculptures of the late 1990s, made of Cibachrome paper folded to create cones and other volumes that jut out provocatively from the wall. Her most recent series, which she worked on up until her death last year at the age of 97, consists of painted aluminum forms in juicy color combinations, like “Any Now” (2014), a glossy fuchsia bean shape punctuated by a tiny blue trapezoid that appears to recede into space.
—Valentina Di Liscia
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (studios-efanyc.org)
323 West 39th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Through April 18