Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie journeyed from New York to California to discover the top solo shows for September. From a dynamic exhibition of billboard-style collaged canvases commenting on American politics and consumerism by Paris-based artist Robin Kid at Templon in New York to Tom McKinley’s hyper-realistic paintings of sophisticated American spaces and places at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, these are the shows that are not to be missed this month.
3. Robin F. Williams at P·P·O·W, New York
Celebrated for their visual analysis of the representation of women and the construction of gender in portraiture, advertising, folklore, social media, and film, Robin F. Williams injects humor and insight into their colorful portrayal of psychological subjects. Fresh off a seventeen-year survey of their work at the Columbus Museum of Art, the Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based artist returns to P·P·O·W for their fifth solo show. Their exhibition “Good Mourning” features a series of new large-scale paintings and gouaches on paper that mine horror films and psychological thrillers for subject matter. Continually experimenting with different ways of applying and manipulating paint, Williams presents graphically sophisticated scenes that speak to our dramatic and often terrifying times.