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Alexandra Giniger

20130312162505-crop-bh12 Subverting Society: Autonomy in the Portraiture of Barkley L. Hendricks   Pick-button
by Alexandra Giniger
Barkley L. Hendricks at Jack Shainman Gallery 20th Street February 28th - April 6th
Posted 3/12/13

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” —Audre Lorde One might assume that the power of the artist lies in his ability to create his subjects. The series of portraits shown in Barkley L. Hendricks’ Heart Hands Eyes Mind, however, finds its unique authority in the artist’s capacity to allow his characters to define themselves. Rather than dictating the terms of their appearances, Hendricks seems to paint his su... [more]
20130127130755-o Brice Marden: The Illuminating Flatness of Painting   Pick-button
by Alexandra Giniger
Brice Marden at Gagosian Gallery - Madison Ave. January 17th - February 23rd
Posted 1/27/13

In his iconic 1965 essay on Modernist Painting, Clement Greenberg seemed to be anticipating Brice Marden, whose 1974 Red Yellow Blue series touches directly upon Greenberg’s analysis of the emergent Minimalist school of painting at the time: “Flatness, two-dimensionality, was the only condition painting shared with no other art, and so Modernist painting oriented itself to flatness as it did to nothing else...One is made aware of the flatness of [Modernist] pictures before, instead of after, bein... [more]
20121225085452-exhibition_work Smash the Looking Glass   Pick-button
by Alexandra Giniger
Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin - 26th St. November 1st, 2012 - January 5th
Posted 12/25/12

 “...And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.” - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Viewing an exhibition situated at multiple locations may prove a daunting endeavor to the quickie gallery hopper, who is accustomed to bouncing through the white cubes of Chelsea for a warm respite from the currently chilly High Line. In fact, I found it impossible to accomplish my goal of visiting both Lehmann Maupin spaces on the opening night of Mickalene... [more]

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