Olga Korper Gallery (Toronto) presents new work by Angela Grauerholz from April 28 to June 2, 2018. There will be an opening, with the artist, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 28.

Grauerholz, a Canadian photographer and photographic performer, balances betwee the realistit and the romantic. Large scale dreamlike photographs draw the audience into a sense of nostalgia. There is a familiarity, almost a muscle memory
in the images. But not really. It only seems that way.

GT2P collective's Manufactured Landscapes runs May 3 to June 9, 2018 At Friedman Benda (515 West 26th St. New York). There will be an opening reception 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 3.

GT2P, Chilean collective, are making their first solo gallery exhibition. It is the culmination of four years of work with Friedman Benda. Work combines the traditional with the digital. Material is harvested from Chile's innumerable volcanoes the pieces feature sculptural manipulation of re molten petrified lava.

frosch&portmann (53 Stanton Street, New York) presents One For The Road, an exhibit of work by Edie Nadelhaft and Yanik Wagner. There will be an opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 2018.

The title refers to the mixed-blessing of the USA's car dependence. Pieces range from picturesque back roads to freeway overpasses. The idea of motion is ever present as is a notion of melancholy that comes with the monotony of the daily grind and the anonymity that our automotive lifestyle sometimes brings. The title of the exhibition comes from the 1943 song by Johnny Mercer One More for My Baby (and One more for the Road).

by Patrick Ogle

Tania Khoury's interactive performance pieces--Gardens Speak and As Far As My Fingertips Take Me were traumatizing and moving during Miami Art Week 2017.

Describing these does not do them justice.

Gardens Speak, in particular, is far more than the sum of its parts. Participants are given a card, with a name in Arabic and then brought into a room with gravestones in dirt. You then climb into the dirt and have to dig down until you can hear talking. The voice, the name on the card and on the grave marker, is an actual person killed in Syria at various points in the nation's recent history. They tell you their story.

The piece is much more than the description above. It was a profound experience of the sort you rarely get from any art of any sort. It brings you, as much as is possible, into the life and death of a real human being. You walk away feeling for them.

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me brings you the experience of a recent Syrian refugee. You listen while a tattoo artist draws the story on your arm. Less disturbing and not traumatizing though this is , the tactile part of it is moving. Your arm is placed through a hole in a wall. While you can feel, you cannot see. This mirrors how we empathize with refugees; we can see what they go through, we can empathize but we really cannot experience their lives in a meaningful way.

Find out more about the artist at taniaelkhoury.com.

I asked Khoury one question--what does she want US to take away from her pieces. It is a nuanced response. She doesn't feel she important in her work, ergo she did not want the video to be of her.

Fridge Art Fair Brooklyn is, once again, at the NU Hotel (85 Smith St, Brooklyn) May 2-6. 2018. The fair has new curators
and this year's them is The Tonya's Tasty Triple Axel Icebox Cake Edition, featuring Ziggy's Stardust Powdered Donuts (New York Edition #6). This is an odd juxtaposition but the Brooklyn Museum is showing the wonderful David Bowie Is exhibit.

The Fair also features Eric Ginsburg's Greatest T.V. Pets Hallway of Fame (worldoferic.com) and a Pop Up Fridge at Van Der Plas Gallery (156 Orchard St.).

Curator Natalie Fisk (natalielomeli.com) is joined by special programming curator, Liz Publica, editor at ARTpublika Magazine (artpublika.com).

There will also be a screening of the documentary of A Charmed Life, about New York performer, Daniel Booth.

Find out more at fridgeartfair.com.