On display are Yoshitomo Nara’s alluring childlike figures in New York, works by Salvador Dalí alongside his predecessors’ in Florida and Raven Halfmoon’s towering sculptures in Oklahoma.
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This season, the nation’s museums and galleries are inviting visitors to meditate on collective experience, with exhibitions that explore interconnectedness and collaboration.
In Palo Alto, Calif., a collection chronicles the long friendship between Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe, tracing their influence on each other. “Shared Ground: Art and Animals,” an exhibition in Idaho Falls, Idaho, examines the ways in which humans are inextricably bound to animals, while “Mountain—Hour—Face,” in San Antonio, draws out the connection between people and art with sculptures that gently shift in response to viewers’ movements through the space.
In Washington, Chinese textiles from the Ming and Qing dynasties are placed alongside contemporary Japanese metalwork to illuminate connections across time and place. In Seattle, the sculptor Karon Davis deploys the metaphor of a circus to confront the complicated feelings inherent in performing for others.
Here is a selection of exhibitions from around the country.
SANTA FE, N.M.
“Sara Genn: How to Build a Sky”
In her painted works, Sara Genn embraces analog methods and rejects the digital world, condensing the medium to its simplest form by focusing on the subtleties and distinctiveness of custom pigments and the tactility and minimalism of crisp, handmade lines. Presented here are many multihued geometric paintings that demonstrate her singular technique, and a site-specific outdoor mural that surrenders to the desert sky above. Through Feb. 14; Site Santa Fe, sitesantafe.org
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