Tag Archives: Mack McFarland

Subverting Deadly Materials: The Work of Jesse Sugarmann

A recent Facebook comment on the artistic validity of a social practice project made a snarky case that war could too be considered art, due to its impact and sublime scale. If one took up this misguided thought experiment, then an elaborating context could be the rhetoric of Italian Futurists. As they posited, the tools […]

Posted in News, News-Previews | Tagged Aleister Crowley, California City, GPS, Hans Namuth, Jack Parsons, Jackson Pollock, Jesse Sugarmann, Mack McFarland, Marinetti, napalm, plexi

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 […]

Posted in Exhibitions, News, News-Previews, Uncategorized | Tagged Acharya Vyakul, adams and ollman, Centre Pompidou, Chris Corales, Chris Johanson, Mack McFarland, ny arts magazine, painting, Tantric