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Yancey Richardson is pleased to present 'when the sky is a shape', an exhibition of new paintings and painted photo collages by Chinese American artist Mary Lum, on view from January 8 through February 19, 2022. The works in the exhibition deploy detritus gleaned from the urban environment as a foundation from which to explore the emotional, as well as physical contingencies of urban life, while also addressing geometric abstraction, perspectival space, and found language.

Lum’s large scale paintings derive from collage studies comprised of printed material, ephemera and photographs …