New York Magazine | To Do: Twenty-Five Things to See, Hear, Watch, and Read

June 3, 2024

BY JERRY SALTZ

 

20. See Suzanne Mclelland.

Abstract effluences.

Marianne Boesky, 507 West 24th Street; through June 8

 

For more than three decades, this maker of gritty quasi-abstract paintings marked by signs, symbols, and pebbly fields has probed the estuary where meaning and chaos merge. This show of large works gives us Suzanne McClelland in full control, always trying novel things and arriving at unexpected alchemical endpoints.