Jamal Nxedlana in ‘Summer Open’ at Aperture Gallery

Jamal Nxedlana’s portrait of South African stylist Bee Diamondhead leaps off the wall in Aperture Gallery’s ‘Summer Open,’ offering a tantalizing glimpse of South Africa’s fashion elite.  (On view in Chelsea through August 16th).

Jamal Nxedlana, Bee Diamondhead, 2017. Installation view in Aperture Summer Open at Aperture Gallery in Chelsea, July 2018. From an editorial feature in Bubblegum Club.

Beth Galton in ‘Aperture Summer Open’ at Aperture Foundation

If Dunkin’ Donuts used this image by Beth Galton in their advertising, I’d buy. Would you? (Though it is reminiscent of the anti-obesity ads on the subway…) (At Aperture Foundation in Chelsea through August 15th.)

Beth Galton, Coffee and Donut; from the series Cut Food, 2012.