“Evil is the reason for Consciousness/Flesh is the reason for Oil paint/the meaning of substance—the meaning of unmeaningness/Cruelty as a condition of art.”When I was invited to Perry McPartland’s studio to write a review of the works in his forthcoming show in Norway, I spotted the above-quoted note stuck in a corner. I couldn’t resist […]

Pioneering computer multimedia artist Terri Ferrari follows a unique, well-considered and deeply felt artistic path. With little fanfare, Ferrari has contributed his knowledge, equipment and vision to countless conceptual, performance and computer artists in New York City over the last decade. He is truly an underground force and growing legend.   Terri Ferrari, Body, Ink […]

When was the last time you visited the Museum of the City of New York? “Black Style Now” would be an excellent reason to visit this brick and marble, Colonial Revival mansion at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street on the park. This exhibition offers a celebrity-driven view of the hip-hop and fashion mesh that has […]

What is the object of art—what is the art object? We might begin by trying to describe the evolution of abstraction in art, or work plus words. Mallarmé and Apollinaire were poets who experimented with graphic elements in revolutionary ways. They were precursors of successive evolutions responding to and advancing the forms that led to […]

Truth being stranger than fiction, the outbreak and ensuing panic of a deadly madness epidemic spread by farm animals provides an apt theater for the absurd metaphor for our times. The title’s use is broad as it refers less directly to the meat-induced disease and more directly to a play on the word mad. The […]

This group exhibition showcases 36 artists from a New Jersey statewide call for entries addressing the concept of identity in an engaging and diverse spectrum of interpretation, regardless of medium. The artists were presented with this premise: “Identity in the 21st century speaks of both our contemporary culture and our heritage. ‘Identity theft,’ cloning, pop […]

Mickey Mouse became a universal icon in the 1950s. Pop artists grew up with Mickey on their neighborhood movie screens, their toothbrushes and bubble gum wrappers. A later generation of artists became familiar with Mickey as a character on a television show and in the Disneyland theme park. How could such a mass-produced American image […]

I recently visited the inaugural exhibition at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn and was delighted to see some of the best paintings I have seen in a long time. These large, abstract canvases are by Lauren Luloff, a young artist living in Williamsburg, NY. On first sight, Lauren’s work looks like an explosion in a […]

I have nine large-scale oil paintings and six collages currently on exhibition in Berlin, where they were first painted.  I lived in Berlin from 1998 to 2001, and moved to New York City the week before the fateful September 11th.  My boyfriend, who was flying with my work from Berlin a week later, landed in […]

Curator Claudio Gonzalez began a visual dialogue between Alejandra Villasmil and D. Dominick Lombardi when he asked them both to exhibit together in his gallery. Both artists write about art as well, so the potential for an interesting linear dialogue between the two was too good to pass up. Here are a few excerpts form […]