Nikki Maloof at Jack Hanley Gallery

Nikki Maloof puts her audience right in the cage with these canaries while free pigeons cavort outside.  Newspaper headlines on the pages papering the cage alternate between self-help and anxious messages while a dynamic twisting branch and electric colors of the yellow birds against a pink wall suggest pleasure and danger.  (On view at Jack Hanley Gallery on the Lower East Side through April 21st).

Nikki Maloof, Canaries, oil on canvas, 70 x 88 inches, 2018.