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Dana Hoey at Petzel Gallery

Photographer Dana Hoey describes former world champion boxer Alicia Ashley’s shadowboxing as ‘sublimely beautiful.’  Here, in a 44-foot-long wall mural at Chelsea’s Petzel Gallery, Ashley engages with Hoey’s humanoid, diamond-patterned assemblages in a series of movements that showcases the boxer’s art and her agency.  (On view in Chelsea through August 2nd).

Dana Hoey, Alicia “Slick” Ashley Shadow-boxing, vinyl wall adhesive, 168 x 528 inches, 2019.

Dana Hoey at Petzel

Dana Hoey’s photographed cast of her own head looks so lifelike (despite being chipped and mottled), it’s eerie.  Why not just display the cast?  In the photo, the head is perfectly lit to suggest the raking light of a sunset and framed to force a reckoning with the ageless figure.  (At Petzel through March 30th).  

Dana Hoey, Me Dead, inkjet print, 2012.