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Art, dance and representation for your art calendar, May 15, 2024

By Shana Nys Dambrot and HIJNX ARTS

Seguimos: Contemporary Art in Costa Rica closes this weekend at Craig Krull Gallery. Curated by Hannah Sloan, who spends a lot of time in Costa Rica and has brought back much more than souvenirs, the lively, fierce, and fearless group exhibition Seguimos features installation, video, photography, painting, prints, and sculpture by 13 artists, many of whom are showing in the U.S. for the first time. Among an eclectic range of styles, engrossing narratives, innovative materials, and performed approaches to identity and history, the remarkable paintings of Alina Gonzalez have stayed with me. A transgender woman whose journey from curious selfie-taking to mature self-knowledge has played out across decades of richly painted, earthy-hued, gestural, emotional, pensive canvases, González shows three nudes—a melancholy early self-portrait as male, a fleshy portrait of beguiling and troubled muse Brigitte Bardot, and a frank, confident, hypnotic portrait of a young intersex woman. On view at Bergamot Station through May 18; craigkrullgallery.com.

Alina González, Ella Est Sola, 2010, oil on canvas 48 x 36" (Courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery)

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