Tag Archives: Matthew Hassell
Everything Has a Dick: The Work of Tatiana Berg
Matthew Hassell: Surely you haven’t always painted quite the same way you do now. Could you tell me a little about where your work comes from and some of the experience that led you to make the work you are currently involved with creating? Tatiana Berg: I haven’t been painting for that long, relatively, but […]
Night Bloom: New Work by Samuel Payne
There are a number of people making work right now that aptly dig holes into what a sculpture or installation can be, purposefully pointing fingers at the ways we encounter art in the round. I am thinking specifically about a show by Daniel Turner that is coming to an end at Team Gallery, an experience […]
Playing G.I. Joes with Jacolby Satterwhite
NY Arts: Has your approach to art always been associated with performance art? Jacolby Satterwhite: No, I started with drawing and painting; however, the images I’ve been making since childhood have been performative and used the figure as a compositional pivot. Ten years into my painting practice, I became exhausted by painting’s history because it’s […]
Best March Art Fair of 2014: The Independent
Seemingly everyone’s favorite art fair, at least according to the artists I talk to each year, The Independent has put on another strong showing in 2014. Set in the old Dia Chelsea space as usual, the more open, airy floor plan makes for easy digestion of the largely varied media of work on display. Galleries […]
Shoulda Coulda Gone to Volta
Many art fairs do their best to put in a classy air. In my opinion, this should also involve making the viewing experience as direct and digestible as possible. Volta is the only fair that attempts to do this in limiting the number of artists each gallery is expected to hang in their given booth. […]
Get Loose With Us at the Spring/Break Art Show
The Spring/Break Art Show is the surly new kid on the block and everyone involved could not be more excited. Now in its third year, this rough little gem of a fair is organized by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori in what was once an old school house in NoLita. This is in fact the […]
Sonic Weaponry with Smolenski and Szwed
It’d be funny to say that Konrad Smolenski is someone you will soon have heard of. Already a pretty big deal throughout Europe, he had the honor of representing Poland at the Venice Biennale this year and made quite the lasting impression. The exhibition, titled Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More situated two […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pamela Rosenkranz’s No Core from JRP|Ringier
Free-standing sheets of clear acrylic are adorned with messy, seemingly hand-smeared gestures. Brand name water bottles are filled with flesh-colored solids and set facing walls painted designer colors. Messes of acrylic paint hold tight to films of spandex material, hung loosely against the gallery wall so as to visually manifest the grip of the paint’s […]
