John Wood and Paul Harrison: Bored

In their first solo gallery exhibition in the United States, English artists John Wood and Paul Harrison arrive just in time and too late. Just in time in the sense that even as this country emerges from the pandemic-that already sounds too optimistic-we need to learn how to laugh at ourselves in a way that doesn't seem hollow or mordant or politically self-serving. Too late, on the other hand, because we may have lost the taste for small gestures. If that is the case, then we would miss the opportunities that Wood and Harrison provide to encounter worlds in grains of sand and experience the oxymoronic pleasure of deep jokes.