November 2009- ArtSlant writer Mike Tuck has the great opportunity to speak with Dara Birnbaum about her practice and her solo exhibition, First statements and then some..., at the Wilkinson Gallery. This exhibition showcases Birnbaum’s works spanning from the 1970’s to the present day and follows a successful retrospective of her practice on show earlier this year at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.).
Mike Tuck - Much of your early work is concerned with TV. Have you shown... [more]
Berlin, November 2009 - Myth, allegory and fairy-tales are rarely just fantasies. They are often coded or veiled ways of understanding the world, as Hayv Kahraman’s metaphorical representations of women’s struggles in the Middle East demonstrate. Kahraman’s delicate yet elegant graphic drawings present troubling and painful subject matter with compelling grace and beauty. She gathers her inspiration from traditional Japanese prints, art nouveau, Persian miniature painting and fashion imagery... [more]
November 2009, New York--Dineo Seshee Bopape is an artist whose work defies categorization: it spans a variety of media, from painting and drawing to video and installation; a variety of forms, from raw performance to the poetically abstract; and tackles subjects of gender, politics, race, psychology, sexuality, and more. I had the opportunity to visit Bopape at her studio near Columbia University, where she is an MFA candidate. She showed me some of her video works, including some that are on... [more]
October 2009, New York: Sophia Powers had the pleasure of meeting with T.V. Santhosh in New York, where he traveled for the recent opening of his show “Blood in Spit” at the Jack Shainman Gallery.
Sophia Powers: Let’s start by talking a little bit about your show that just opened at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. I know that both your B.A. and your M.F.A. were in sculpture, but this recent show is dominated by paintings. Can you talk about your work in these two media, a... [more]
Chicago, October 2009— From Abraham Ritchie, ArtSlant's Chicago City Editor: This has been a good year for artists Michael Langlois and Rob Davis who work together and show together as Robert Davis/Michael Langlois. They began the year with “House of the Rising Sun,” an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. In September they showed “Into The Void: The Ballad of The Martyr as Told by Ingres” for the UBS 12 x 12: New Artists / New Work series of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). Monique Meloche Gallery, who represent the arti... [more]
October 2009, Los Angeles - In a catalogue essay from a couple years back, Benjamin Weissman puts quotes from a diverse gang of writers (ranging from Walter Benjamin to Gaston Bachelard to Virginia Woolfe) into the mouth of a character he calls Madame Gabbiani. Quotes from De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium jump from her lips with the same strange deliberation as a few words on decadence from Gautier’s introduction to Baudelaire’s Les Fleur de Mal. The strange power of the writer... [more]
ArtSlant's writer, Lillian Davies, met with Samuel Richardot and discussed his recent work at La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (on view from September 19 - November 21, 2009). Since graduating in 2006 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Richardot has shown at Balice Hertling in 2008; he was featured at Printemps in Toulouse in 2008; and has received numerous prizes and honors. The exhibition at La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, focuses on recent work completed in Berlin. T... [more]
New York, September 2009 – Franklin Evans’ first solo show at Sue Scott Gallery in the Lower East Side was developed over a year-long residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program in DUMBO. The show is an obsessive articulation of the gallery, as Evans utilizes watercolors and everyday studio materials such as tape, bubble wrap, sheets of canvas, and dozens of gallery press releases to transform the space into a wonderland that narrates partial stories of the New York art world an... [more]
September 2009, Chicago: I was first introduced to local Chicago artist, Francine Turk’s work when a little bird told me about her charcoal figures adorning the set of the film The Break Up (2006).
Turk comes from both a feminist and minimalist perspective, and much of this city’s art scene has fallen in love with her highly intimate style. While Francine was preparing for her upcoming show at Chicago Art Source (Body Language, on view from Sept 14 - Oct 30, 2009), I had the pleasure of talking with her about art history, France, and inspi... [more]
September 2009, Paris: ArtSlant's Georgia Fee visited Lahcen Khedim at his studio in northern Paris where they talked about his new series, his process and small studios. Khedim is an emerging artist whose work has been exhibited in various galleries and art spaces throughout France.
ArtSlant : Can you talk a bit about your process. What are you currently working on?
Lahcen Khedim: I am a rather instinctive painter; I react to what I see, what touches me or shocks me. I am not trying to express an idea but rather an emotional response. I look... [more]
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