Author Archives: mauri
Illuminating Social Concerns: The Work of Jan Tichy
Politics of Light, Jan Tichy’s first solo exhibition in NYC, is a moody paean to light and shadow, to the ebbs and flows of what light reveals and what darkness hides. Tichy’s installations are a fluid integration of diverse media incorporating animation, film, photography, and sculpture, all invested with the presence of mechanical light—be it […]
High Fiber at Present Company
Featuring: Amanda Browder, Yo Fukui, Donna Huanca, August Krogen-Riley, Jacob Rhodes, Patrick McDonough, Jim Nolan, Brent Owens, Stacy Scibelli, Jeff Spaulding Interwoven throughout a multipurpose and multilevel space in Dumbo, High Fiber excises an undercurrent of artmaking that incorporates textiles as process-based markers that lead to sculpture, installation and other acts of imagemaking. HIGH FIBER […]
Last Meeting with Deborah Turbeville
Deborah Turbeville, a fashion photographer, always claimed that she wanted to blur the boundaries between fashion and art. Her early avant-garde works back in the 1970s were strikingly different – melancholic, unsettling and technically imperfect: grainy, overexposed, and cropped in unusual ways. They changed fashion photography from clean and predictable into dark and strange. I […]
Constructing Liquid Veils: An Interview with Claire Chesnier
Matthew Hassell: Where do you find inspiration for your compositions? Are they organically evolving through your process, or are they sourced from the outside world somewhere? Claire Chesnier: My compositions proceed from the avoidance of the edges of the paper facing me. The shapes I create result from a physical relation with the support: its […]
Pinta NY Brings New Programs
For 2013, Pinta NY presents a curatorial format with four new platforms and a team of internationally recognized curators. The curated platforms include: Emerge, curated by Jose Roca; Video, curated by Octavio Zaya; Centro, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud; and Next, a joint project of Pinta’s full curatorial committee. Exhibitors for the modern section of galleries were […]
Arte Fiera, Italian Stories
“We didn’t want a didactic show, but instead an opportunity for reflection, even if only for the fair’s brief interval. We wanted it to be a critical countermelody to the dense and variegated kermess of the galleries, full of so many different kinds of works. But we also wanted it to have a close link […]
Mode at Foxy Production
MODE traces the interplay between corporate design strategies and artistic practice, foregrounding the intricate relationship between commercial display and art history. The artists in the exhibition offer wry visual insights into how systems of form, color, and style can infiltrate our neural pleasure centers, striking at our fears and desires. Featuring: Sara Cwynar, Andrei Koshmeider, […]
Sarah Morris at Petzel Gallery
Academia Militar, titled after the military academy of Rio, which is located at the base of the infamous and cinematic Sugarloaf, the title encapsulates the contradictory political history of Brazil and its system of power which is currently going through a moment of rapid development and change. Morris’ approach to producing work is iconic, systematic […]
Jacob Kassay at 303 Gallery
Using the residual textiles from paintings long lost, sold or otherwise disappeared, Kassay has produced supports that follow the unique profiles and contours of each remnant for an ongoing series of irregularly shaped paintings. As an inversion of this procedure, Kassay has reproduced the stretchers initially built to conform to these discards as templates […]
Between Asking and Telling: An Interview with Rachel Beach
Matthew Hassell: Outside of previous work, where do you find inspiration to begin a new sculpture? Rachel Beach: The works usually begin with something very elemental. I try to simplify—I think about a construction: how do you build something … a stack, a mark, a seam, an edge, the intersection of two things, a point […]
