This week in Newly Reviewed, Holland Cotter covers Sheyla Baykal’s downtown stars, a group show from a radical feminist art collective and Young Joon Kwak’s quieter side.
So, in the spirit of timeliness, let me recommend three additional New York exhibitions that keep the spark of Resisterhood burning. The group show “Ficciones Patógenas,” also at Leslie-Lohman, addresses the torturous history of Indigenous gender diversity under European colonialism in the Americas. For “Deviations” at James Fuentes, the artist Oscar yi Hou has assembled, pretty much on the fly, a survey of his downtown-ish artist-friends, most of them trans or gay. And P·P·O·W has the first New York solo show in 15 years of the Cuban-born painter Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). He was a fixture of the East Village art world of the 1980s, who, with his early nude self-portraits and later images of his imperiously glam mother, deserves a hero’s welcome back to town.