Alice Miceli, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Radioactive Woods, Belarus, archival inkjet print, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler.

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Your Concise New York Art Guide for Fall 2019

By Ilana Novick and Seph Rodney

 Hyperallergic features the upcoming Visual Arts exhibit, Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl

 

As always, there are many wonderful exhibitions, film festivals, and art events taking place throughout the fall in New York. We’ve put together our recommendations, and hope that they encourage you to explore the artistic happenings of this great city. Focusing on museums, art nonprofits, and galleries that continue to make New York a global hub of the arts, we hope you’ll push yourself to discover something new...

Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl
When: October 9, 2019–January 25, 2020
Where: Americas Society (680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan)

Miceli will display a series of 30 radiographs produced between 2006 and 2010. These images document the persistent effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of 1986 through a method the artist developed that uses film as a record of the gamma radiation still present in the area. By making this pernicious force visible and legible the artist evokes how and under what conditions our vision can intersect with our memory, politics, and our sense of what constitutes our environment...

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