Margaret Wharton and Issy Wood, “I came as soon as I heard”

The “psychological pull of domestic objects [and] the impulse to anthropomorphize them” is the theme behind this two-person show featuring work by Chicago sculptor Margaret Wharton (1943–2014) and London painter Issy Wood (born 1993). Wharton was best known for taking apart chairs and reconstituting them as different sorts of objects (here, they include talismanic effigies). Wood’s canvases, meanwhile, picture items—clothes, teapots, etc.—as metonymical portraits of women. Despite differences in the artists’ chosen mediums and generational affiliations, their pairing yields some interesting resonances.