Patrick Hill writes, "I know it’ll take a little more than art and words to heal our national fabric, but here’s a January group show for folks in need of a shot of collective optimism. GIVE ME TWO, curated by Marcus Jahmal and Giorgia Alliata, takes on the group show itself as its thematic conceit, placing twelve living artists across three generations in space together. The intended effect is musical, like a streaming playlist that leapfrogs from Chuck Berry to Nettspend and back again. The result is closer to the productive radical chaos of a one-day festival, where rhythm and melody ultimately foreground communal action and splendor, making way for new modes of free association that couldn’t have existed if not for the pairings at hand. The press release, written by Jahmal and Alliata, calls it “deliberate adjacency.” With respect to both, the word on my mind is “solidarity.”"
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