Damien Ortega is best known for his “exploding sculptures” made out of found objects. There is one currently on view at the FLAG art foundation. In the 1980s he was a political cartoonist in Mexico and so he is extremely interested in current events. By using humor in his installations he tackles topical issues such as poverty, [...]
Alex Olson at Lisa Cooley
I am a big fan of the artists Lisa Cooley shows in her space on the LES. Her current show has paintings by Alex Olson. The works are very textural and all have to do with an investigation of “surfaces.” She scratches, layers, drags paint until the final composition comes through. [...]
For Immediate Release:
Behind the Light: Nov. 4, 2010- Jan. 4, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, Nov. 4, 6 - 8 pm
Nathan Bernstein Gallery is pleased to present Behind the Light, a group show featuring the work of Nils Folke Anderson, Corey D’Augustine, Laddie John Dill, Spencer Finch, Dan Flavin, Antony Gormley, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jenny [...]
Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine
Rist’s current show at Luhring Augustine is a treat. If you liked the MoMA installation a couple of years ago, you will enjoy the works in this show. In the main gallery, images of sheep, the natural world and psychedelic colors are projected onto gauzy fabric that hangs from the ceiling. Visitors [...]
A friend of mine worked on a show called “Vanishing Spirits” that just ended at the Wendt Gallery in the Fuller Building. This exhibition highlights three Indian photographers who capture different “modes of existence” in India with their lenses. Prabir Purkayastha focuses on remote areas and creates haunting and often powerful black and white imagery. While beautiful, the [...]
I headed to Hauser and Wirth unfamiliar with the artist currently on view. Anj Smith is a young artist who attended Slade and Goldsmiths in London where she now lives and works. Her small and intimate paintings were a pleasant surprise. The paint literally hangs off the canvas in its heavy impasto on some works. [...]
1839 brought us photography and thus, the concept of copies. This exhibition at MoMA focuses on the role of copying in relation to works of art. At first photography documented things that were immobile due to the long exposure time, therefore sculpture was the ideal subject matter. It could be reinvented and reinterpreted. This show [...]
If you can’t see the image below, cut and paste the web address below to read the review in the September 2010 ARTnews magazine of the show I curated this past spring at Nathan Bernstein Gallery:
http://i1.exhibit-e.com/nathanbernstein/064c058c.pdf
For her latest show at Marian Goodman Gallery, Rineke Dijsktra filmed a group of young schoolchildren’s reactions to a Picasso painting of Dora Maar from 1937 at Tate Liverpool. The children, all in uniforms, have such innocence in their responses to the horror that the work, which references the bombing of Guernica, usually instills in [...]
di Suvero
Paula Cooper had a wonderful Mark di Suvero work on view in her gallery, Nova Albion, 1964-65, made of steel and redwood logs. This work was “named after the white cliffs of northern California that were seen by captain Francis Drake on June 17, 1579.” In fact, di Suvero found the wood for this [...]