Alice Rahon, Impressions: the poet who became a painter in Mexico

The French-born Alice Rahon arrived in Mexico in 1939 and here transformed her work until she became one of surrealism’s most singular artists. Impressions, at the Museo Kaluz, gathers seventy-eight pieces to examine up close the formal qualities of her painting, still less studied than it deserves. Rahon worked the surface like someone writing a poem: with textures, scratches and layers that hide and reveal. Interest in her work keeps growing, and this show helps explain why. With ArtGuide you pause on the nuances of each impression.