
Daisy May Sheff
I overheard a visitor to Daisy May Sheff’s exhibition “Hid it Well in a Walnut Shell” say, “I’m sure this painter didn’t go to art school.” This was incorrect: Sheff graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a BFA in 2018, but the statement was easily understood as a compliment to those in the gallery. Her paintings seem intuitive, confident, and strange, and are filled with hermetic but loaded symbols: seeds, tails, hands, leg-of-mutton dress sleeves and, more than anything else, dogs.
A small canine on the edge of Double Act (all works cited, 2021), feels almost compulsively