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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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Brute Materials
by Kate Addleman
Benjamin Sabatier at Galerie Jerome De Noirmont
May 23rd, 2012 - July 12th, 2012
Posted
6/4/12
If for some reason you’d been worried that contemporary French art was turning into an overly-feminine affair (Grand Palais was so much more manly before Daniel Buren got in there to decorate), go see Benjamin Sebatier’s Hard Work. Bricks, cans, racks, nails, assorted construction-related instruments I’m too girly to know the name of — these are the artists’ materials in use here. The objects they compose seem, in their real or imagined dirtiness, vaguely out of place in the eighth-arro... [more]
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Home Makers
by Liz Glass
Jeremiah Barber, Randy Colosky, Chris Fraser, Christine M. Peterson, Yulia Pinkusevich, Jonathan Runcio, Jesse Schlesinger, Gareth Spor, Andy Vogt at HIGHLIGHT PROJECT SPACE
January 28th, 2012 - February 28th, 2012
Posted
2/15/12
We each have our routines—in our daily lives, and in our art consumption as well. We may bounce around on the hipster-lined streets of Oakland’s Art Murmur on first Fridays, fighting the crowds at Johansson Projects, trading endless text messages with friends we lost in the crowd. We may lurk on 16th Street drinking beers outside of Adobe Books during openings in the Back Room Gallery, pushing our way through for only minutes to try to glimpse actual works of art behind clusters of art-lovi... [more]
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Louis De Cordier, Makeshift
by Nicola Bozzi
Louis De Cordier at Motive Gallery
January 15th, 2012 - March 3rd, 2012
Posted
1/22/12
At first sight, the wooden trunks displayed at Motive Gallery would seem like aboriginal art. But they're no post-colonial ready-mades, unlike those we've seen in Vincent Vulsma's show at SMBA this year, for example. Louis De Cordier's “dugouts”, instead, are hand-carved sculptures made by the artist himself, out of white pines that grow specifically in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, where he lives. These canoe-shaped artworks represent quite a change in De Cordier's work, which often favors syntheti... [more]
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Never Quite Like This Before: Fifteen Years of Gatson
by Hannah Daly
Rico Gatson at Exit Art
September 30th, 2011 - November 23rd, 2011
Posted
10/2/11
In Three Trips Around The Block, Exit Art presents a fifteen-year retrospective of New York-based Rico Gatson. Through video, sculpture, and paintings, the show traces the evolution of Gatson’s work. There is a particular urgency invoked by showing a retrospective of Gatson’s oeuvre at this specific Obama-era moment. With a national vocabulary entrenched in misappropriations of concepts like post-race, colorblindness, and post-Blackness, we find ourselves coming up empty handed. There is no... [more]
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Georg Herold at Sadie Coles HQ
by Alex Field
Georg Herold at Sadie Coles - New Space
September 14th, 2011 - November 5th, 2011
Posted
9/24/11
Sometimes the only reaction you have to a show is “hmmm…ok.” Not because the art is bad, or indeed because it is so spectacular that you are lost for words to describe it, but because the exhibition offers you nothing in the way of engagement. Georg Herold at Sadie Coles HQ is one of these: a selection of works arranged in a large, white space with no curatorial intervention whatsoever. Not bad, not wonderful.
Herold offers two themes in this show: monumental human figures constructed from found materials and canvasses spread with... [more]
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Jake or Dinos Chapman
by James Cahill
Jake and Dinos Chapman at White Cube, Hoxton Square
July 15th, 2011 - September 17th, 2011
Posted
7/31/11
"Jake or Dinos Chapman" is the result of a year spent by the Chapman brothers working in isolation from one another. As the “or” of the title implies, it is unclear – and perhaps irrelevant – which artist has produced which works. Moreover, the authorial split suggested by the exhibition’s title and by its spanning of both White Cube’s galleries (in Mason’s Yard and Hoxton Square), is belied by the polyreferential, "articulated" corpus of work on show.
The upstairs gallery at Mason’... [more]
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Art that takes Risks
by Abraham Ritchie
Gao Brothers at Walsh Gallery
March 4th, 2011 - May 7th, 2011
Posted
3/14/11
In the United States, you can make a sculpture of former President George W. Bush’s head atop a phallus without fear of governmental reprisal, as was demonstrated recently at Western Exhibitions. In the recent Westboro Baptist Church judgment, the United States Supreme Court has ensured that even the most disgusting and worthless acts of free speech are protected. And if as an artist your freedom of speech and expression is stifled, the art world will not be silent about it, as the recent Davi... [more]
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Roy Villevoye, The Histories
by Nicola Bozzi
Roy Villevoye at Motive Gallery
January 15th, 2011 - March 5th, 2011
Posted
1/24/11
At the last Venice Biennale, Elmgreen & Dragset put a bored art collector floating face down in the swimming pool of his fancy house (that is, the Nordic Pavilion at the Giardini). You could tell the guy was dead, but you couldn't get close to see his face. Roy Villevoye's installation at the Motive Gallery, on the contrary, hits you harder. Not only are the two bodies lying on the gallery's floor so close you can touch them (don't, though – hyperrealist art is expensive), but you ha... [more]
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Agitation, Aggression, Compulsion, Regression
by Natalie Hegert
Bryan Zanisnik at Horton Gallery - Chelsea
January 13th, 2011 - February 19th, 2011
Posted
1/16/11
Bryan Zanisnik’s latest solo show at Horton Gallery consists of a series of new large-scale C-prints and a five-minute video, which, in short, depict the chaotic inner workings of a crowded consciousness.
The photographs show, in brilliant color, various studio installations of collections of objects: clocks, baseball cards, soap bottles, toy cars, greeting cards. Objects are melted together, tied up, hanging suspended. In Off Season, a triptych of filing cabinets appear to be in mid-explosion... [more]
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Chance/Covert Operations
by Natalie Hegert
Seth Price at Friedrich Petzel Gallery (West 22nd Street)
January 7th, 2011 - February 19th, 2011
Posted
1/16/11
One of the most delightful aspects of Seth Price’s show of new video works at Petzel Gallery is the element of chance. Unless you’re by yourself in the gallery, the movements of your fellow art viewers dictate your progress through the exhibit. In Non Speech, Fire & Smoke, each video work is presented as a solo experience and can be viewed by only one person at a time, in separate viewing booths—recalling both the earliest days of cinema at penny arcades and the contemporary condition of so... [more]
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Long Live 2nd Cannons
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
at 2nd Cannons
January 8th, 2011 - February 19th, 2011
Posted
1/10/11
After three years (already?!) of mounting shows in the ever-endearing smallness of Chinatown’s Bernard Street cul-de-sac glass closet (née Trudi under the guidance of Matthew Chambers), Brian Kennon’s 2nd Cannons is closing with a final exhibition of the Institute of Social Hypocrisy. The Institute of Social Hyposcrisy (ISH) is the collaborative, Paris-based project of artist Victor Boullet. Calling itself “a protracted performance piece,” ISH (Boullet) invites artists into... [more]
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Lamentations
by Mike Tuck
Rachel Kneebone at White Cube, Hoxton Square
November 19th, 2010 - January 22nd, 2011
Posted
12/20/10
White Cube presents a selection of Rachel Kneebone’s new works as a play in two acts: Lamentations, a group of plinth based works on the ground floor, counter positioned against Shields in the first floor gallery. In both parts Kneebone has continued her reworking fragments of human anatomy into compositions in porcelain.
Reminiscent of the contortions present in a Hieronymus Bosch painting or a Goya etching the imagery is curiously more uneasy than horrifying. The shock of seeing mu... [more]
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God is in the Details
by Charlotte Jansen
Alex Ball, Leah Bradford, James Brooks, Gary Colclough, Tom Cookson, Erica Dorn, martin krolzig, James Musgrave, Damien O'Connell, Rose Turner, Emma Wieslander, Miyo Yoshida, Gong Yu at Gallery Primo Alonso
October 28th, 2010 - December 5th, 2010
Posted
12/5/10
Now that the snow is thawing and it’s safe to go out onto the streets again, Primo Alonso’s God is in the Details, whose run has been extended for another week, is definitely worth a visit. This small and unpretentious Hackney gallery, set away from the gauntlet that is nearby Vyner Street, has struck gold with this captivating exhibition. Stepping through the door is like walking into a borrower’s version of Narnia. As the name would suggest, it’s art that points to the... [more]
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Lizzie Scott
by Robert J. Hughes
Lizzie Scott at John Tevis Gallery
November 6th, 2010 - December 18th, 2010
Posted
11/8/10
The shapes of the urban landscape are really also those of the countryside, a series of pyramids, ovals, squares that create patterns for our eye to ignore or delight in. Only, generally, the city features manmade rather than the natural vistas most of us like to believe we prefer.
Few people actually delight in the way the city landscape shifts.
For the bulk of us, a sidewalk is an obstacle course of sifting detours from drains, grates, bumps. Everything gets in the way of our getti... [more]
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Death Does Its Part
by Charlie Schultz
Matthew Day Jackson at Peter Blum Gallery- Soho
September 17th, 2010 - November 13th, 2010
Posted
11/7/10
From the perspective of the empiricist, it’s not often once finds oneself walking underneath an artwork, neck craned back for an upward gaze, shoulders brushing hulking wooden sculptures. Even in the realm of installation art the narrow corridor isn’t a common spatial creation, but it’s precisely what Matthew Day Jackson evokes in his new large-scale work, The Tomb, at Peter Blum’s Soho Gallery.
The Tomb is more than just a passageway; it’s a freestanding sculptural piece large and complex enou... [more]
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