Liz Glynn’s American Progress (after John Gast) (2017) is currently on view in Paula Cooper Gallery’s vitrine. The work is part of Glynn’s ongoing series The Shape of Progress , which reflects critically on United States history and the contradictory myths woven into the foundation of American identity. In American Progress (after John Gast) , thin copper sheeting evokes the draped folds of the woman’s dress in John Gast’s 1872 painting American Progress , an allegorical depiction of the…