In “Green Calvin,” Calvin Marcus’s first New York solo exhibition, the artist installed nine paintings, each titled Green Calvin. A riff on the nature of artistic production, each brightly hued painting consists of a ceramic chicken inscribed with a face. Positioned slightly above the horizontal midpoint of each frame, the eyes both reflect the viewpoint of its creator while functioning as reliefs that serve to confront the viewer, an effect Marcus enhances by employing the green that a film production might use for a green screen. The exhibition closes March 1.
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