Author Archives: mauri
Lightspeed: Trygve Faste at Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Contemporary design compresses the problems of quantum physics into domestic space. In Lightspeed, a show opened September 7th at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California, Oregon artist Trygve Faste explores the kinetic architecture of such transformations. His work experiments with the way lines organize space dimensionally, how angles catch and refract light, and […]
Rachel Beach at Blackston Gallery
Long Standing is Rachel Beach’s second solo exhibition at the Blackston Gallery, presenting a collection of new works exploring themes of balance and illusion. Featuring: Rachel Beach Long Standing September 8 – October 27, 2013 Blackston Gallery 29C Ludlow St, New York City blackstongallery.com
Cynthia Daignault at Lisa Cooley Gallery
Cynthia Daignault’s large format paintings utilize vast expanses of sinuous mark-making as fields within which to play with our notions of perception and light. Feauturing: Cynthia Daignault Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow? September 8 – October 20, 2013 Lisa Cooley Gallery 107 Norfolk St, New York City lisa-cooley.com
A Healthy Suspicion: The Josef Albers Interaction of Color App
As a young man really sinking my teeth into what it meant to be painter in undergraduate school, I’ll never forget the day our professor hauled out the legendary Josef Albers book on the Interaction of Color. Hers was a really well-loved copy with loose pages spilling out from the tired binding here and there. […]
DUMBO Arts Festival 2013
Each year the DUMBO Arts Festival seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to and presence in the arts community by presenting the best in local, national, and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. DUMBO Arts Festival September 27-29, 2013 Multiple Locations DUMBO, Brooklyn dumboartsfestival.com
Ben Pritchard on James Cullinane: Into a Place Beyond
It is always a joy to see an exhibition that immediately establishes a specific intention. It is even more enjoyable when the artist goes about exploring and developing this intention and pushes a way of working into a place beyond an initial thematic logic, into something or somewhere else. James Cullinane’s show Limbus at Robert […]
Sculptural Kudzu: Randy Wray as Interviewed by Kris Scheifele
Kris Scheifele: To call you a multimedia artist is an understatement. Online photos don’t do justice to how intentionally dense your work is, not only in the breadth and depth of your materials and techniques, but also in the way your practice is a kind of cannibalized familial gene pool. For instance, your paintings have […]
Fountain Art Fair Chicago September 20th-22nd 2013.
Brooklyn Based Art Fair Partners with Chicago Tastemakers For Exhibition This Fall (July, New York City)— In a bold move, Fountain Art Fair announces that it will launch a satellite exhibition this September 20-22 to coincide with EXPO Chicago 2013. Fountain’s renowned emphasis on showcasing the most progressive programming will provide an accessible platform for […]
Paul Black talks Voyeurism and Mortality with Justin Mortimer
Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post-God mortality. For both twentieth century artists, a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are when […]
From Kitsch to the Coffin: Irena Jurek talks to Brent Birnbaum
Irena Jurek: You are an ardent collector of pop cultural ephemera. The lines between your art and collecting often blur. Did your interest in art as well as collecting develop simultaneously or did one precede the other? Brent Birnbaum: Certainly. I was collecting and saving things before I was making art. I just knew I […]
