Photo District News by klompching Jim Naughten at KLOMPCHING GALLERY
March 14th - May 4th
Posted
2/28/13
PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS – Exposures Section (February, 2013 issue)
For his new book, Jim Naughten created typological photographs of Namibia’s He rero people, whose military and civilian clothes are symbols of their historic struggle against colonialism. By Conor Risch
Many nations and cultures remember military heroes, great victories, and fallen soldiers through statues and monuments. On national holidays, war veterans don old uniforms and medals, or wear clothing decorated with patches... [more]
Independent On Sunday by klompching Jim Naughten at KLOMPCHING GALLERY
March 14th - May 4th
Posted
2/28/13
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY – COSTUME DRAMA by Peter Popham
Colonial rule may be history for the Herero tribe of Namibia but the style conventions of their 19th-century German oppressors live on – albeit with a certain bovine-inspired twist…
When European women jettisoned their ankle-length frocks and the multiple petticoats that kept the frocks full and plump, they gained a great deal in the way of freedom. But they lost something, too – and what they lost is brought home by the magnificent... [more]
By The Book – Looking at Words -- Review by Mary Gorgy by M Gorgy Siona Benjamin, Robert Eustace, Harriet Finck, Tracie Fracasso, Adel Gorgy, Kenneth Kaplowitz, Howard Lerner, Lou Storey, Winston Young at Arts Guild New Jersey
February 17th - March 14th
Posted
2/21/13
Adel Gorgy 2009 (c) A Hundred Veils Fall ... after Matisse (Odalisque) 22x40" Archival Pigment Ink
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but words can also create images. In the powerful new exhibition, “By the Book” at the Arts Guild New Jersey in Rahway, words have been the inspiration for visual works of art. Curator Lawrence Cappiello has brought together a varied, colorful and fascinating collection of work... [more]
Anne Sherwood Pundyk: Rented World by Viola K. Timm Anne Sherwood Pundyk at The MAve Hotel
December 1st, 2012 - February 28th
Posted
2/11/13
by Viola K Timm
From the overdetermined choice of venue, the MAve hotel, to the invocation of Euclidean geometry in the shapes of the opaque surfaces comprising the elements of the composition, to the title’s allusion to the unfinished epic of American camp aesthetics, Jack Smith’s “Sinbad in the Rented World” of Disney and MTV, Anne Sherwood Pundyk’s installation Rented World searches for the visual language of an identity that has lost its origin and sense of immuta... [more]
Elena Berriolo: Transcription of Piero Manzoni's Infinite Line with Sewing Machine
Charles Bernstein
Nothing could be more purely poetic than the line, so it is perhaps less a metaphor than usual to think of Elena Berriolo's performance as a reflection on the verse line. Charles Olson was once asked, how long is a line? He put his chalk to the board and ran a line to the end and continues, chalk in hand, to walk out of the room. Berriolo's work had something of that quality, tho... [more]
Elena Berriolo: Transcription of Piero Manzoni's Infinite Line with Sewing Machine
Charles Bernstein
Nothing could be more purely poetic than the line, so it is perhaps less a metaphor than usual to think of Elena Berriolo's performance as a reflection on the verse line. Charles Olson was once asked, how long is a line? He put his chalk to the board and ran a line to the end and continues, chalk in hand, to walk out of the room. Berriolo's work had something of that quality, tho... [more]
The stoneware sculptures of Sylvia Iskander evoke forgotten memories through ties to both the past and the present. Her clay and porcelain figurative sculptures, now on exhibition at Skoto Gallery in Chelsea, express monumentality and timelessness, finding echoes in human representation from time immemorial. Myth, history, environmentalism, and feminism all strike harmonic chords in the earthy abstract figural pieces which convey many and multi-layered messages. As with all sophisticated artwork, her s... [more]
Overlapping Histories: Curatorial Practices in San Francisco
Christina Catherine Martinez talks with Margaretta Lovell and Andrew McClintock
Yes, thanks to the Philistines of Cyberspace the word CURATOR is being stretched to the very limits of semantic significance, but rather than join the chorus of affronted cultural elites pointing fingers at every blogger or boutique-owner who dares to don that hallowed mantle, I thought it might be more productive to speak with two perso... [more]
Stacey Clarfield Newman Painting, Collage
Lives & Works in: Westchester and New York Website: staceypaintsindia.com To Purchase Contact: Stacey Clarfield Newman
A collagist and painter, Stacey Clarfield Newman has developed a unique method of recycling ephemera and the ancient craft of ebru marbling to create striking hand-painted papers. Most recently, Ms. Clarfield Newman spent two months living and working in Kolkata, India at the Udayan School, a welfare and rehabilita... [more]
Linda Newman Boughton Drawing
Lives & Works in: Los Angeles Gallery Website: www.lawrence-fine-arts.com To Purchase Contact: Howard Shapiro
Artist Linda Newman Boughton mixes what appear to be elements of photography, etching and pop art in what are actually pen drawings. Originally a scenic artist painting sets and murals for movies (including One Fine Day, Fight Club and Austin Powers), Linda Boughton has evolved into a singular portraitist who can conjure up emotion and with a grow... [more]
Curator: A Slippery Word...
Natalie Hegert talks with artist and curator Darren Jones
What does it mean to be a curator? Of late the term has taken on a few new meanings. It’s become a buzzword in the realms of blogging, fashion, design, interior decorating, Pinteresting, Tumblr-ing, publishing, thrift-ing, and all other sorts of realms where selecting, choosing, filtering, or procuring sundry images or objects and placing them in some order, by theme, by color, by mood or mat... [more]
I first met Penny Arcade outside of Barbara Gladstone Gallery in NY in April of 2011, where she was giving a talk on Jack Smith’s work which had recently been acquired by Gladstone. I came to hear her speak because I was a little suspicious of the situation -- Jack’s work being gobbled up by the market --- was Smith turning over in his grave? After Flaming Creatures and good old Uncle Fishhook Smith never made a completed work, he changed each work upon presentation to deliberately avoid t... [more]
I first met Penny Arcade outside of Barbara Gladstone Gallery in NY in April of 2011, where she was giving a talk on Jack Smith’s work which had recently been acquired by Gladstone. I came to hear her speak because I was a little suspicious of the situation -- Jack’s work being gobbled up by the market --- was Smith turning over in his grave? After Flaming Creatures and good old Uncle Fishhook Smith never made a completed work, he changed each work upon presentation to deliberately avoid t... [more]
Krzysztof Wodiczko's Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection is the best public space installation in 2012, this is a must see! You can get a few minutes of a quick documentation at https://vimeo.com/53446621 but I suggest viewing the installation live. Like all of Wodiczko's work, this installation is politically charged, moving and mesmerizing. The brilliance is behind the images of 14 war veternas from Vietnam, Afganistan and Iraq, projected onto the cold bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln. As... [more]
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