Curator Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels on We Buy Gold's epic exhibition

In the entrance at Nicola Vassell, a vibrant domed shaped painting activates the room, featuring fallen trees and two feet in pink shoes evoking Dorothy— or perhaps The Wicked Witch of the West? — from The Wizard of Oz. Joeonna explains how it functions in conversation with Max Guy’s The City and the City (7th Cut), a video piece juxtaposing The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz hanging at Jack Shainman down the street. “I just love the relationship here, and this idea of breaking through space,” she says as we continue, pointing to a series of jet-black cut-out sculptures — also by Max Guy — mounted on the floor, that seem to spill out from a black and blue fence resembling a folding dressing screen by Abigail Lucien.