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Charlie Schultz
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Doing the Dishes
by Charlie Schultz
Joan Linder at Mixed Greens Gallery
April 25th - May 24th
Posted
4/30/13
When Joan Linder draws something she tends to do it with such intensity that the image on the page makes a monument out of whatever her subject may be. For her fifth solo show at Mixed Greens Linder’s subject is her kitchen sink: a standard double-bowl fixture in stainless steel with a single-headed faucet that has a pullout spray option and a drying rack in one bowl. She’s depicted it three different ways in eleven new works that collectively invest this sink with the status of an icon. In... [more]
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From the Vernissage Floor: Armory Week in 48 Hours
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
3/8/13
In the last forty-eight hours I’ve walked through six fairs, looked over the presentations of more than 350 galleries, and seen the work of more than 1000 artists. If pressed to put an adjective to the experience, I’d choose enthusiastic, because when you attend these sorts of events in the first few days of the run everyone is pretty hopeful. Everyone smiles, and if you can keep your tradeshow cynicism at bay, you can soak up some of the excitement and be energized. The trick is to not take... [more]
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No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Exhibition
by Charlie Schultz
Huang Yong Ping at Gladstone Gallery - 21st St.
November 13th, 2012 - January 19th
Posted
12/16/12
The Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping has drawn the scorn of humane societies for his use of animals in artworks considered to be cruel and disrespectful to the lives of the creatures involved. No such controversy will arise from Circus; all the animals are dead and stuffed. Notable connections remain, however, such as the ploy of the spectacle as a critique of entertainment and religion. Huang Yong Ping’s work seems to suggest that life is a succession of cages and stages one navigates as best one can... [more]
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Destruction, Distress, and Disaster in NYC
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
12/5/12
An enormous American flag hangs in the MoMA’s atrium above Martha Rosler’s buzzing installation, "Meta-Monumental Garage Sale." Its stillness seems at odds with the commotion on the floor below where visitors rummage through stacks of records, videos, old books and magazines, piles of sweaters, and tables crowded with knick-knacks and old plates. Perhaps the flag is meant as a reminder that America is a consumer society, and that in such a nation to shop is to do one’s patriotic duty. Where th... [more]
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RxArt: Healing and Hope in Hospitals
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
11/9/12
For the most part art in hospitals is an afterthought, if anyone even gives it a thought at all. Motivational posters and kitschy bucolic scenes of anthropomorphized wild animals seem to be the standard. This does not appear to be the result of any kind of study that has proven such things enhance the healing process, rather it seems the consequence of institutions with no budget for anything better and willing to take what they can get. Fortunately this epidemic of cheesy décor is being attended... [more]
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Art at All Hours: Artist-Run Spaces in Brooklyn
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
10/4/12
It is Friday night and the commercial galleries have all closed. Naturally, one might say, but such a simple fact points to a more profound stipulation: that most of the art one can visit in a city as a sleepless as the Big Apple has a curfew. Like a patient in a hospital, art has viewing hours. This sociological constraint unwittingly links the art object with every other saleable commodity in town. It’s hard to say whether a work of art would strike one differently at noon than it might at midni... [more]
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September Bonanza
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
9/11/12
The first Thursday of September marks the opening of the fall season for many art galleries. It’s a celebration not of the art, per se, but of the community that supports it and this year’s mood was vivacious. The night was cool with a light breeze drifting in off the Hudson, and through some coincidence of scheduling Fashion’s Night Out, a very similar sort of celebratory fete in the name of fashion rather than art, was also going on in Chelsea. The crowds mixed and overflowed from gallery... [more]
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Young Curators / New Ideas IV
by Charlie Schultz
Sterling Allen, Ben Alper, Pan Aterson, Amy Beecher, A.K. Burns, Darren Coffield, Jillian Conrad, Adam Curtis, Teresa Henriquez, Peter Hobbs, Brookhart Jonquil, Jerry KEARNS, Jen Kennedy, Ryan Lauderdale, Liz Linden, C.J. Matherne, Hugo McCloud, Matt Nichols, Miranda Pissarides, Erik Blinderman & Lisa Rave, Josh Reames, Prem Sahib, Judith Shimer, Adam Parker Smith, Kasper Sonne, Jeni Spota, Jeffrey Vallance, Julia Weist at Meulensteen
June 7th, 2012 - August 24th, 2012
Posted
8/20/12
Youth and newness are the totems of this exhibition and it feels that way. An excitement like an electric current runs through the arrangements of artworks, which seem to function as conceptual experiments or curatorial prototypes. The exhibition is built on a somewhat peculiar precedent; a dozen aspiring curators were each allotted a section of the gallery to mount individual micro-shows. Most chose to work with two or three artists; in all there are twenty-nine artists represented by an abund... [more]
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Transformers
by Charlie Schultz
Yuji Agematsu, Harold Ancart, Cameron, Ariel Dill, Jimmie Durham, Sam Falls, Amy Granat, Matt Hoyt, Patrick Jackson, Gyan Panchal, Sophie Stone at Nicole Klagsbrun
June 21st, 2012 - August 10th, 2012
Posted
8/6/12
If this show had a motion it would be centripetal, and the energy generator would be the lithesome red-headed vixen Cameron Parsons (1922-1995), poet, mystic, actress, artist, whose ink drawings are like observations of other dimensions. Curators Amanda Friedman and Taylor Trabulus picked up on the exploratory impulse in Cameron’s practice and looked for connections in the contemporary landscape. The ten artists they chose may not be oriented to the same occult-compass that guided Cameron, but each... [more]
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Interview with Mariam Ghani
by Charlie Schultz
2012-08-04
Kassel, June 2012 – Mariam Ghani’s research-based projects explore the socio-political histories of specific places, and often respond directly to the site upon which she works and exhibits. For Documenta 13, Ghani collaborated with a team to create the multichannel film, A Brief History of Collapses, which is based on and filmed within Kassel’s Museum Fridericianum and the Dar ul-Aman Palace in Kabul. In addition she produced Afghanistan: A Lexicon, with her father for Documenta's 100 Notes,... [more]
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Non-Intimate Encounters: Bushwick Open Studios
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
6/7/12
There is no skirting the intimacy of a studio visit. Even if you’re not in a one-to-one situation, you’re still in the private space of a person for whom that environment is charged in a very unique way. You’re conscious of this immediately, or, just as likely, you’re overwhelmed and distracted by the plethora of tools and studio detritus that give the place character and always correspond with the idiosyncrasies of the artist. As I thumb through the pile of cards I collected, the fact tha... [more]
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MFA Thesis Shows: Columbia & Parsons
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
6/1/12
The crucial factor that distinguishes the graduate thesis exhibition from any other group show is this: the participants know one another’s work intimately. Such nearness has interesting consequences for an audience whose familiarity with the artists is most likely naught. We encounter a panoply of individualism built out of the communal urge to develop personal visions, and within this we find sophisticated webs of thought worked out amidst issues that have been felt deeply, be they politica... [more]
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Fair-a-thon: The Experience of Way Too Much
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
5/2/12
Art Critic’s Warning: an experience of Way Too Much may result in the mental and visual impairment known as “art-malaise,” or “A.M.” Symptoms include eyestrain, inability to concentrate, short-term memory loss, stiffening of major muscle groups, emotional exhaustion, and general indifference. Children, pregnant women, and the elderly are at the highest risk.
I used to think the proper way to experience an exhibition of art was slowly, moving at a stroller’s pace... [more]
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Christiane Löhr
by Charlie Schultz
CHRISTIANE LÖHR at Jason McCoy Gallery
March 9th, 2012 - April 20th, 2012
Posted
4/7/12
There are times I feel I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve seen; and there are moments when art works I never expected to remember—never tried to recall—assert themselves with a lucidity so precise and sudden as to merit, even demand, extended consideration. The German artist Christiane Löhr makes work that, for me, falls into this latter rank. Two years ago I came across one of her sculptures for the first time at the Museum of Art and Design. I didn’t know it was Löhr’s work, but when... [more]
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A creeping feeling of familiarity
by Charlie Schultz
Yang Fudong at Marian Goodman Gallery
March 28th, 2012 - April 28th, 2012
Posted
4/7/12
Yang Fudong is making the boundary between painting and film seem about as sturdy and secure as an old split rail fence in an open field with a tornado whipping on the horizon. Both of his two new short pieces on view at Goodman’s gallery are presented entirely in shades black as ink and silvery white, as a traditional Chinese painting would be. No character in either film speaks; communication is achieved in glances and gestures, while narrative arcs build out of suggested and implied relation... [more]
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The Overlooked and the Unmentionables
by Charlie Schultz
Shaina Anand, Tuan Andrew, Minam Apang, Invisible Borders, CAMP, JULIA DAULT, Jonathas de Andrade, Rita Ponce de León, Abigail DeVille, House of Natural Fiber, The Propeller Group, Phunam Thúc Hà, Iman Issa, Hassan Khan, Kit Lee, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Matthew Lucero, José Antonio Vega Macotela, Cinthia Marcelle, Dave McKenzie, Public Movement, Nicolás Paris, Bona Park, GARY-ROSS PASTRANA, Pratchaya Phinthong, Amalia Pica, Adrián Villar Rojas, Gabriel Sierra, Mounira Al Solh, Ashok Sukumaran, Rayyane Tabet, Pilvi Takala, Slavs and Tatars, Mariana Telleria, Wu Tsang, Danh Võ, Hu Xiaoyuan, Dana Yahalomi, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ala Younis at New Museum
February 15th, 2012 - April 22nd, 2012
Posted
3/31/12
By now both the New Museum’s Triennial and the Whitney Museum’s biennial have been open long enough for the critical voices of the popular press and blogosphere to have weighed in on the virtues and shortcomings of these highly anticipated exhibitions. I’ve been to both, though rather than add another idiosyncratic opinion to the heavily populated mix I decided to take a cue from the nature of the exhibition itself, and survey the critics.
The nature of my looking wasn’t qualitative; I wasn... [more]
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Armory Week: Green Collars, Scholars & Dollars
by Charlie Schultz
Posted
3/5/12
Can an art fair be a site not only for commerce but also critical engagement? Can it include some of today’s most relevant, interesting, and ambitious artists and thinkers? Dr. Horowitz thinks so, and he’s made it his mission as the Armory Show’s newly hired Managing Director to prove it’s not just possible; it’s doable. As a patron of scores of art fairs who has never had the purchasing power to do more than look, I am hopeful.
In his book, “The Art of the Deal,” Dr. Horowitz descr... [more]
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Double Tornado
by Charlie Schultz
Jene Highstein, Lawrence Weiner at Bowery Poetry Club
January 11th, 2012 - February 29th, 2012
Posted
1/30/12
“Catch as Catch Can” is a mustard-yellow print as big as a billboard currently pasted on to the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall. In black block capitals that titular phrase occupies the print’s central space in a stencil font. Beneath it arcs a black band that loops once over itself, while whips of line that take the shape of sketchy tornado drawings bookend the phrase on both sides. When the exhibition ends the print will be torn down.
This piece was produced collaboratively between Lawrence Weiner and... [more]
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Rising Ruins
by Charlie Schultz
Ethan Breckenridge, David Brooks, Zipora Fried, Emily Henretta, Wyatt Kahn, Zak Kitnick, Erik Lindman, David Scanavino, Erin Shirreff, Nick van Woert at Room East
January 8th, 2012 - March 4th, 2012
Posted
1/30/12
“Ruins in Reverse” is the inaugurating exhibition of this nascent gallery, and it’s well organized. Ten artists, each represented by a single work, share two small floors. Repurposed materials abound. No art is older than 2009 and the three newest works were made (or at least completed) in the first week of January. What’s well demonstrated here is the skill of reconfiguration, the ability to manipulate an object or a series of objects in such a way that they maintain a piece of their or... [more]
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Interview with Laleh Khorramian
by Charlie Schultz
2012-01-29
New York, Jan. 2012 - Laleh Khorramian doesn’t recall an artistic inclination as a child. She was in her late teens when she began to paint in earnest and though she focused on the figure she admits to youthful fantasies of being a landscape painter. She tells the story with a sigh and a smirk, “It was the thing I yearned to paint, but couldn’t."
Khorramian, who is Iranian by birth, grew up in sunny Orlando, Florida. She started as a painting major at RISD before transferring to the Art... [more]
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Pattern Jam
by Charlie Schultz
Anne Morgan Spalter at Stephan Stoyanov/Luxe Gallery
December 8th, 2011 - January 6th, 2012
Posted
12/26/11
Typically if I’m entranced in front of a television monitor it’s because the narrative plot of whatever I’m watching has got me gripped. Well there’s no storyline in any of the six videos Anne Morgan Spalter is exhibiting in her debut New York solo, “Traffic Circle,” but the visuals are so hypnotically mesmerizing it’s easy to stare yourself into a state of spellbound captivation. Fans of psychedelic art will try to herald Spelter’s videos as ideal specimens, and though they hav... [more]
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Minimal Mayhem
by Charlie Schultz
Elena Bajo, Sara MacKillop, Cristiana Palandri at Scaramouche
November 13th, 2011 - January 8th, 2012
Posted
12/26/11
There’s nothing beautiful in this show and that’s the way the three women exhibiting work wanted it. Elena Bajo, Sara MacKillop, and Cristiana Palandri—all Europeans born in the mid-seventies—have created an assortment of sculptural assemblages from domestic and discarded material designed to flout the pretexts of aesthetic consideration. It’s the sort of work that probably wouldn’t strike you as art if it wasn’t in a gallery.
In situations like this one discord is its own brand of... [more]
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Double the Stone
by Charlie Schultz
Matt Stone, Matthew Stone at The Hole
November 1st, 2011 - December 10th, 2011
Posted
11/20/11
I can imagine the ladies running The Hole had a bit of a chortle over the idea of pairing two sculptors with the same name: Matt Stone and Matthew Stone. Had the work of these two gentlemen not been so damn well-suited the name thing would have been obnoxiously trite. As it happened, each artist mounted a solo show in the gallery: Matt, an American, presented Residuum in the rear room, while the British artist, Matthew, used the main space for Optimism as Cultural Rebellion.
Visitors encounter... [more]
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Childish-Like
by Charlie Schultz
Billy Childish at Lehmann Maupin - Chrystie St.
November 4th, 2011 - January 21st, 2012
Posted
11/20/11
Like a girl with facial tattoos and rainbow hair searching for a spoon in the ambassador’s kitchen, the pictures of a painter with a legacy of working outside the system can appear awkward in a blue chip gallery. The knee-jerk reaction is to presume the artist has gone soft, sold out, been absorbed at last by the main stream. In the case of Billy Childish—poet, novelist, musician, painter—from whom the elemental acid of punk rock’s primal ethos gushes forth geyser-like, the surprise is not t... [more]
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Interview with Zhang Wei
by Charlie Schultz
2011-10-16
New York, Oct. 2011 - In 1974 Zhang Wei invited members of the loosely organized Wuming group (“No Name” in English) to bring paintings to the apartment he shared with his mother for an informal showing. They used a secret knock at the door. No one outside the group could know what they were doing. Had the authorities found out Wei, his mother, and the eldest member of the group would have been jailed. By numerous accounts this was the first underground art exhibition in China.
Zhang surviv... [more]
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Getting the Waterlog Treatment
by Charlie Schultz
Sara Greenberger Rafferty at Rachel Uffner Gallery
September 7th, 2011 - October 23rd, 2011
Posted
10/10/11
Sarah Greenberger Rafferty might be described as a meta-photographer or even a New Mannerist. She photographs altered photographs, many of which are distorted representations of the human figure. Like the artists in the MOMA’s 2009 New Photography exhibition, Rafferty’s work is the product of a process structured around image appropriation and manipulation. What sets her apart, however, is a cultivated aesthetic characterized by a loose, painterly style full of color that spreads and seeps and ble... [more]
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Shiny Bliss
by Charlie Schultz
Laurens Tan at Tally Beck Contemporary
September 7th, 2011 - October 30th, 2011
Posted
10/10/11
As far back as history goes so too do toys. In fact, toys reach so far into the depths of humanity’s shared past that we’ve lost track of where the word originated (in English anyway). Two observations follow: that toys are a fundamental component of human development regardless as to what stage of development humanity happens to be passing through; and that toys produced in any given culture will be loaded with the symbolically coded values that a particular society would like to pass on.
The... [more]
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A Lot of ALOT
by Charlie Schultz
David Kramer at Mulherin + Pollard
September 7th, 2011 - October 2nd, 2011
Posted
9/18/11
David Kramer is the kind of artist you might expect to find applying for a residency at a bar. At least that’s the first impression his artwork makes; here’s a boozy joker with a knack for snappy anecdotes and a taste for the bawdy. In truth, Kramer’s output is far too ample for anyone putting in serious time at a drinking establishment. His recent show, The Hangover…Too, included drawings, paintings, sculpture, and installation. Seriously. It’s been a long time since I visited a solo... [more]
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Personality Order
by Charlie Schultz
Kristopher Benedict at Sue Scott Gallery
September 7th, 2011 - October 16th, 2011
Posted
9/18/11
The history of Modernism is, in part, a story of art consuming art. And like that mythical self-devouring serpent Ouroboros, hunger is never satiated and the food is always available. Most artists are natural devourers of images. They show up on the sly, fused like Frankenstein into some newer visual amalgamation. A lot of us take pleasure in finding these pictographic reiterations. But it’s not like a "Where’s Waldo?" scenario; how god awful and trite that would be. It’s a deeper communic... [more]
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Interview with Kenseth Armstead
by Charlie Schultz
2011-07-23
New York, July 2011-- Kenseth Armstead grew up in Washington D.C., so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that he’d discover a missing link in our forefather’s defining triumph over the British at the Battle of Yorktown. That link was a former slave turned double agent named James Armistead Lafayette. Posing as a runaway slave Lafayette gained the trust of the British generals, learned of their plans, and relayed them back to the Americans. It sounds Hollywood but it’s history, and it’s a... [more]
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