by Mario Naves | July 23, 2024

Prior obligations kept me from writing about Kim Uchiyama’s regal variations on architecture and antiquity at Helm Contemporary, a show that closed its doors at the end of June. An exhibition of Hester Simpson’s eye-popping distillations of natural forms, seen at Ricco/Maresca alongside landscape studies by her grandfather, Jean Schweckler, is also over-and-out, but those canvases, too, were kvell-worthy.