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Simchowitz is pleased to present Apples and Oranges, the gallery’s first exhibition of the Minneapolis-based artist Shaina McCoy. McCoy’s first forays into art were small-sized paintings on paper of her family members, and Apples and Oranges builds on her early explorations of portraiture. The title of the show refers to the apparent differences between items seen as incomparable or incommensurable. McCoy applies the phrase to the complexities and antagonisms that constitute Black being. In the artist’s eyes and hands, Apples and Oranges counters the social conditions that bar Black subjects …