For the past 20 hears, Saya Woolfalk has centered her multi-media art practice around her invented, utopian world in which cultural and even physical hybridity leads to empathy towards other beings. In advance of the artist’s mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Art and Design in April, Susan Inglett Gallery in collaboration with Leslie Tonkonow Gallery present a compact but enjoyably diverse selection of Woolfalk’s work from the last c. 9 years in a range of media, from prints on paper and silk to glass fused with plant material. In this print, Woolfalk pictures a composite figure of apparent spiritual importance holding two planet-like orbs in her hands, framed by natural growth and prominently anointed with a multi-colored disc. (On view at Susan Inglett Gallery in Chelsea through March 15th).
