Joshua Chee Sanford

Joshua Chee Sanford is a writer based in New York. 

Yuko Mohri’s combination of noise, chance, and visuality is reminiscent of pioneering avant-garde composers like John Cage, Yasunao Tone, Yoshi Wada, and La Monte Young, among others. She forecloses the possibilities that conceptual silence invites, instead heeding an endless negotiation between decline and upkeep.

Yuko Mohri, Moré Moré (Leaky): Sieves, 2024. Iron, hose, funnel, LED light, 56 ½ × 59 × 35 inches. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley brings together ten works spanning over four decades. Fetching a harmony across time, this presentation gives voice to formless silhouettes of absent and unknown bodies.

 

Greer Lankton, Jesus's Cha Cha Heels, 1986. Acrylic paint, papier-mâché, metal, wood, 7 × 7 × 4 inches. Courtesy Ortega y Gasset Projects. Photo: Chanel Matsunami.

In Bonded by the Spirit of Doubt, Mitchell Kehe presents work that brings attention to the upended internal logic of abstraction—to abstract meaning in the age of post-objectivity is an overpromise.

Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 14, 2025. Acrylic, oil, enamel, collage, fabric on canvas, 50 × 54 inches. Photo: Jason Loebs.

Playful, frustrating, and undeniably gripping, Ordinary Permanence swaps answers for more questions, pulling the viewer into a composed study of ritual anticipation.

Andrius Alvarez-Backus, I Can Almost Remember (Excision #1), 2025. Shoes, acrylic, lacquered pine wood, dried leaves, beeswax, colored pencil, artificial sinew, stainless steel surgical cart. 36 x 16 x 14 inches. Courtesy MAMA Projects.

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