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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
