Thomas Micchelli reviews the exhibition Nancy Spero: From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s & 1990s at Galerie Lelong, New York, on view through February 16, 2013.

Micchelli writes: "The installation is, in a word, stunning — as spare and light-filled as the work itself. The collages, with their rhythmic interplay of repeating images, shimmer across expanses of paper with touches of jewel-like color when they’re not exploding in flashes of graphic intensity. That they can be so materially beautiful in spite of their often wrenching subject matter is one of the paradoxes that carries Spero’s work out of the times for which they were made and makes them invaluable for our own."