review by Janet Bruesselbach Apparently every five years PS1, MoMA’s converted-school extension in Long Island City, has a huge group show featuring local artists. While this may be only the second Greater New York, they seem pretty intent on the historicity of the thing. One of the biggest contradictions of having a “local artists” show … Read more
The “Shadow Play” Paintings of Debra Drexler at HP Garcia In Drexler’s large oil on linen canvases at HP Garcia, swathes of color float and submerge upon a gray middle ground, suggesting an intermediary realm between water and air, consciousness and dream. Her colors appear to float on, or rather within, reflecting pools of aether, … Read more
By Vedan Anthony-North With a name like “2010” you don’t really know what to expect when heading to the 2010 Whitney biennial. Unfortunately, you don’t really know what to think about the exhibit after leaving either. Though the theme of “2010” is justified by the curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari in the exhibit’s introduction … Read more
by Claudine Aime Within the hustle and bustle, nestled in Midtown Manhattan’s highly corporate district, it would be easy to miss any form of artistic expression, but New Yorkers are no stranger to the eclectic collage of art, music, and pop culture that their city has to offer. Deep in Bryant Park, hidden among the … Read more
Janet Bruesselbach responds to Chavisa Woods and Art Less on The Girleye Show. Thank you for wrapping your superior minds so attentively around this tawdry project. So I think what’s coming together is an awareness of the tension between feminisms. Namely, a contention of how best to address Laura Mulvey’s legacy and the “male gaze”: … Read more
Chavisa Woods on the Girleye Show Entering ‘World Feminisms’, the inaugural exhibition for the Elizabeth Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum, some years ago, I overheard a fifty-something white suit whispering to his viewing partner that he was “So tired of women trying to pass their bodies off as art.” I … Read more
The first day, March 10, of member previews of the Marina Abromovic retrospective at MoMA, Steve Cannon asked me to take him up there to say hello to her. He remembered interviewing her by email eight years ago when she spent 6 weeks living in three exposed, spartan rooms at Sean Kelly gallery for House … Read more
(crowd-sourcing) Having met David Hammons twenty tears ago (if not more), I know his motto has always been, how to stay ahead of the game. On a personal level, I’ve always thought of him as someone who never followed trends. His ideas about art have always been something new and different. For example, at one … Read more
Two very young painters have a show together at a gathering of the tribes. Both took their MFA’s in 2009 from the New York Academy of Art in TriBeCa, where the emphasis is on training students to paint, draw & sculpt figuratively, just like the Old Masters (and like the Royal Academy & French Salon … Read more
