Liz Craft in ‘Dirge’ at JTT

Liz Craft’s speech bubbles, made into faces by the shapes of protruding ceramic mushrooms, are a standout in JTT’s summer group show, Dirge, which considers how artists engage with accounts of history. Here, Craft merges contemporary text-message bubbles with pre-electrical light (a candle). The mushroom face suggests a voice from 70s counterculture speaking from the void. (On the Lower East Side through July 28th).

Liz Craft, Mushroom Bubble (Green), ceramic, grout, aluminum, wood, 30 x 31.5 inches, 2016.