Author Archives: mauri
Maggie O’Neill’s Vibrant America
If Buddha and Obama had a baby, it might look something like one of Maggie O’Neill’s paintings. Born and raised near Washington D.C., this neo-impressionistic artist weaves together beautiful paintings that portray an appreciative, improvisational, and colorful perspective— one whose visual philosophy strikingly resembles that of Buddhism. When in the presence of her art, viewers […]
Carey Young at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Carey Young’s (b. 1970, lives and works in London) innovative body of work explores the relationships between the body, language, rhetoric, and systems of power. In her first solo show in Switzerland at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the artist addresses the monolithic power of the legal system. The show includes a number of new […]
R.H. Quaytman’s Dalet with Museum Abeitberg
Daughter of a postmodern poet and an abstract painter, Quaytman knows how she wants to operate within the structure of art history. Dalet is an artists book of her work published by Published by Museum Abeitberg. Cryptically named after a Hebrew letter that sometimes operates as a non-sacred stand in for the Jewish names of […]
Acharya Vyakul, Chris Johanson, and Chris Corales at Adams and Ollman
The duty of policing the borders of what art is and who is an artist can be an uninteresting and hazardously mind-numbing task. But this year, when we witnessed the Venice Biennale’s Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) labeled the outsider or visionary Biennale, one does begin, despite herself, to ponder, “what does mark an image […]
Sarah Bednarek’s Geometron at ADA Gallery
Artist Sarah Bednarek’s work in sculpture and drawing addresses ideas of the finite and the infinite, of the perception and possibility of a mathematical and geometric ideal—one that eludes our grasp in our everyday reality but can be faintly glimpsed in mental images and in the world of the imaginary. She articulates a sense of […]
October Fairs
AVENUE Antiques October 10 – 13, 2013 Art & Design at the Armory Show, New York City Frieze London October 17 – 20, 2013 Regents Park, London Vienna Art Fair Oct 10 – 13, 2013 Messe Wien, Hall A, Vienna Cutlog October 24 – 27, 2013 Atelier Richelieu, Paris Art Toronto Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto […]
September Fairs
ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany September 19 – 22, 2013 Houston Fine Art Fair George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas September 19 – 22, 2013 EXPO CHGO Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois September 19 – 22, 2013 Preview Berlin Opernwerkstätten Berlin, Germany September 19 – 22, 2013 Art Moscow Central House Of Artists. Moscow, Russia […]
Zoi Gaitanidou’s Risk Aversion at Scaramouche
Zoi Gaitanidou’s work is a complex mixture of painting and embroidery. Originally trained as a painter, Gaitanidou creates her works on both a microscopic and macroscopic level constantly zooming in to sew each detail and stepping away to view the entire composition. She uses color as a tool in her recurring alternation between abstraction and […]
Building Blocks: Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, and Matt Miller
One of the fundamental games introduced to us as children was a set of building blocks. With unhindered imaginations and seemingly infinite possibilities for rearranging the fragments, we gradually learned depth perception, spatiality, physics, and creative expression. These pieces became representational, familial, and even tools for translating the things that we thought were visually interesting. […]
Anywhere or Not at All: Verso’s Latest Offering from Peter Osborne
In a conceptually challenging and forward-thinking text, Osborne puts forth the idea that the term ‘contemporary’ has been misused as a catch-all tag for current art that is actually quite the misnomer. He instead postulates the idea of a ‘post-conceptual art’, arguing that an accurate art-historical evaluation on the present is not only eventually foolhardy […]
