“Around 1955, my canvases literally splintered,” wrote Dorothea Tanning in her 2001 memoir Between Lives: An Artist and Her World. “Their colors came out of the closet, you might say, to open the rectangles to a different light.” Tanning had many gifts. She was a self-taught Surrealist painter, having become enamored with the discipline after attending the Museum of Modern Art’s 1936 exhibition. She became a skilled sculptor and printmaker, a writer and poet. She also happened to be the wife of Max Ernst. Tanning lived a long life—in 2012, she died at the age of 101—and consequently evolved from surrealism to abstraction and collage. This exhibition at Kasmin focuses on her collage work from the 1980s and 90s; a highlight is the monumental five-panel collage, Encyclopedia (1990–95), on view in its entirety for the first time. —Elena Clavarino