Author Archives: mauri
Sally Schaedler
Art is not a choice; it has always been an obsession for me. I have always had to find an outlet by painting in some form or another, whether large scale abstractions , portraits or a combination of the two. I turned to portraiture when my children were small, realizing I could not meet commercial […]
Jeff Tallon
In the early 2000’s, after receiving a BFA in Drawing from ACAD, Jeff Tallon lived throughout Canada, Europe and Asia. These experiences inform the global yet local nature of his work and question nationalism, truth, identity, commerce, consumerism and communication. Since 2009, Tallon has been synthesizing painting and technology. Some of his paintings include QR […]
Ana A. Zgonjanin
In life, when you do art it’s hard to feel what it starts. Art becomes an inseparable part of my life. Sometimes it seems as if the brush has become part of the body. Inspiration is a giant compared to anything else, and somehow what it boils down to is that I’m looking for that […]
Jason Stopa’s Brooklyn Zoo at Novella Gallery
Jason Stopa’s Brooklyn Zoo January 9th – February 2nd, 2014 Novella Gallery 164 Orchard Street New York City novellagallery.com
Ana Cardoso and Christian Bonnefoi
Ana Cardoso and Christian Bonnefoi January 10 – February 28, 2014 Longhouse Projects 285 Spring Street New York City longhouseprojects.com
Valery Oișteanu’s Top 5 Exhibitions of 2013
Valery Oișteanu (born September 3, 1943) is a Soviet-born Romanian and American poet, art critic, essayist, photographer, and performance artist, whose style reflects the influence of Dada and Surrealism. Oișteanu is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of short fiction, and a book of essays. Here are his selections […]
Russell Tyler’s Analogue Future at DCKT Contemporary
Russell Tyler’s Analogue Future December 14, 2013 – January 26, 2014 DCKT Contemporary 21 Orchard Street New York City dcktcontemporary.com
Comrades of Time, Comrades of Time at Cell Project Space
If Modernism was, in a Greenbergian sense, a mode of calling attention to the conditions and limitation, then contemporary artworks—adopting modern formats—seem to champion what David Joselit calls ‘transitivity,’ that is, works that are referring to information outside themselves. In other words, the specificity of formalism does not lie in the intrinsic value of visual […]
