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  • View of “N. Dash,” 2022. From left, Untitled, 2021; Untitled, 2022.

    View of “N. Dash,” 2022. From left, Untitled, 2021; Untitled, 2022.

    N. Dash

    Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)

    In “earth,” her first solo museum presentation in Europe, New York–based artist N. Dash continues to find room for innovation within a set of terms she established more than a decade ago. She still uses what could be considered common materials, such as jute, mud, and string, and over time has added more blatantly industrially produced detritus to her inventory: agricultural netting and plastic bottles, for example. But the earth referenced in the exhibition title is a constant, often used as a ground to which the artist sometimes adds pigments drawn from a palette composed of neutral whites,

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