Margaret Curtis ’S

'S, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Margaret Curtis, depicts sprawling landscapes populated by larger-than-life figures assembled from neon signs and plywood billboard scraps. Familiar American tropes—a sheriff star, cowboy hats, guns, the striped legs of Uncle Sam, oil pipes—appear as towering constructions held aloft by rickety scaffolding, operating as facades that reveal the fragile architecture upon which gender politics and national identity are constructed.