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Reality Check

by Kate Skelly
Seung Woo Back, ZOE BELOFF, Thomas Demand, Mark Dion, Leandro Erlich, Omer Fast, Cao Fei, John Gerrard, Johan Grimonprez, Iris Haussler, Jonn Herschend, Pierre Huyghe, Bertrand Lavier, An-My Lê, Joel Lederer, Sharon Lockhart, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yes Me, Jonathan Monk, Vik Muniz, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, Dario Robleto, Eve Sussman, Mary Temple, Ai Weiwei at SITE Santa Fe July 8th, 2012 - January 6th
Posted 8/15/12

From the flash and swagger of Vegas, to the manicured, lamppost-lined Main Street of Disneyland, we are proffered up a regular cultural diet of distorted, exaggerated versions of reality. The hyperreal seeps into even the most mundane crannies of our existence: our newspapers, breakfast cereal, tennis shoes, and coupon-clippings. Everywhere you turn there is something to buy, sniff, gnaw on, or run your finger along the sides of that has that certain smack of the real, that kind of chewy, overripe... [more]

Culture: Yours or Ours?

by Abraham Ritchie
Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Matthew Barney, Alfredo Jaar, Mike Kelley, Sharon Lockhart, Richard Long, Richard Prince, Lorna Simpson, Tony Tasset, Gillian Wearing at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) March 13th, 2010 - September 5th, 2010
Posted 5/17/10

It’s impossible to enter the Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCA) current exhibition “Rewind: 1970s to 1990s, Works from the MCA Collection” without first encountering Kay Rosen’s new work Yours/ours, 2010. Rosen’s language-based works explore the significant shifts in meaning that can happen to words or phrases when seemingly insignificant shifts in their presentation are made. At the MCA, Rosen presents the word “YOURS” divided by the entrance to the galleries in su... [more]

A Dialogue in a Trecartian Tone

by Janine Armin
Peter Campus, Joachim Koester, Sharon Lockhart, Ryan Trecartin at The Power Plant March 26th, 2010 - May 24th, 2010
Posted 5/4/10

This dialogue, derived from texts by art critic Hal Foster and physicist Richard Feynman, among others, has been mediated by the internet personas of Hunter S. Thompson, Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler. In a post-humanistic stasis, and based on Ryan Trecartin's major exhibtion at the Power Plant in Toronto, the mode of dialogue gains a Trecartinian tone. Written and regurgitated with Mathew Timmons. 1: For the non- initiate public the situation is quite different (as opposed to trans... [more]

Breaking In

by Emily Nathan
Sharon Lockhart at Gladstone Gallery - 24 St. December 11th, 2009 - January 30th, 2010
Posted 1/24/10

Sharon Lockhart’s photographs and films are not only the products of but are contingent upon intimate, studied involvement with her chosen subject; Lunch Break, an exhibition of new work which closes on January 30, is no exception. This time, she focuses exclusively on the few haloed personal minutes that constitute lunch break for the laborers of Bath Ironworks in Bath, Maine, and the ritual’s various locations and accoutrement. Lunchboxes are photographed from a variety of angles a... [more]

Sharon Lockhart in Culver City

by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Sharon Lockhart at Blum & Poe November 21st, 2009 - January 9th, 2010
Posted 12/21/09

In “Lunch Break,” Sharon Lockhart’s recent body of work that is the first solo show in Blum and Poe’s enormous and enormously monied new space, the artist presents two new films and twenty-seven photographs related to her investigation of industrial working life at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Departing from the fixed camera composition of her past films, a long sustained tracking shot moves the frame slowly and steadily over its eighty minute duration down a tremendous narrow... [more]