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THE L MAGAZINE
by klompching
at KLOMPCHING GALLERY
October 29th - December 19th
Posted
10/30/09
THE L MAGAZINE, October 30, 2009Antony Crossfield: Foreign Body
"The fused, melted and hybrid bodies in Crossfield's uneasy photo-manipulations are very literally joined at the hips (or elsewhere), yet appear eerily isolated and lonely in their dilapidated and tragic surroundings." [more]
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NEW YORK MAGAZINE
by klompching
at KLOMPCHING GALLERY
October 29th - December 19th
Posted
10/27/09
NEW YORK MAGAZINE, October 26, 2009
Profile — Opening Soon
“Warped and oily and way-too-appealing photographs, considering the sadistic things that appear to be happening to this British artist's models. Most are playing naked Twister—not the fun version—while one little girl is literally stretching beyond her limits. Guillermo del Toro should visit this show."
KLOMPCHING NOTE: A 'little girl' does not appear in the artist's artwork.... [more]
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Untitled (unless this is the title)
by Charlie Schultz
Muntean & Rosenblum at Team Gallery
October 8th - November 7th
Posted
10/25/09
There’s something peculiar about finished works of art that have no title, but come with long parenthetical phrases that follow the word “Untitled.” It is like if your parents didn’t give you a first name, only a middle and surname. Wouldn’t that play games with your sense of self? No doubt your identity would be set to fluctuate and in all likelihood you’d just pick your own name anyway, a nickname, and that would be that. Problem solved. By not giving you a name, your parents... [more]
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Fitting Somewhere in Between
by Natalie Hegert
Katherine Bernhardt, Joan Brown, Otis Houston Jr., Sadie Laska, Chris Martin, Dona Nelson, Agathe Snow at Canada
September 11th - October 11th
Posted
9/20/09
Just a few blocks away, check out this playful, exuberant group show on view at Canada gallery. Entitled Spaced Out / On Time, the show's flyer is a Venn diagram (remember those?) where all the artists names fall in the space somewhere between "Spaced Out" and "On Time", somewhere between slapdash and punctilious, sloppy and precise. Though quite a broad categorization curatorially speaking, it's an apt title for this intergenerational showcase.Standouts of the show are Kat... [more]
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A Master of Photography
by Dominic Rouse
DominicRouse at The New York Art Exchange
April 7th - April 19th
Posted
4/7/09
The Photographs of Dominic Rouse
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth. Dreams are a reality that open windows onto a mystery.
Dominic Rouse, a contemporary digital photographer from England - now living in Thailand, likes to make images where illusion and reality overlap. His photographs put him in aesthetic relationship to Magritte, Dali, Ernst, Uelsmann, Arthur Tress and Maggie Taylor who are also surreal artists whose images are entertaining, visually dramatic and dream-like.
Rouse'... [more]
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Beautiful Men
by Jesse Hensel
Ain Cocke at Goff + Rosenthal
March 6th - April 9th
Posted
3/27/09
Men in uniform who love each other painted proficiently with feeling. This exhibition made my day. Mr. Cooke shows that there is no need to be pornographic to prove a point. It is sufficient to be practiced and sincere. The paintings fill me joy and pride. I think of the men my grandparents fought with in WWII, I think of those I know fighting today. I remember with pride my friends who are no longer closeted, and the platonic bonds between men. I recall D.H. Lawrence’s pastoral passages in ... [more]
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Mermaid Reconsidered
by Jesse Hensel
Wei Dong at Nicholas Robinson Gallery
February 26th - April 11th
Posted
3/27/09
Wei Dong’s exquisite crosshatch technique is reminiscent of Cézanne and my grandmother’s wallpaper. Muted soft tones, caressable female flesh blending into decaying fish bodies. My first thought was that this might me an attempt at subverting the male gaze, but the gender of the painter casts this in doubt. Are the paintings simply twisted ruminations on “the scent of a woman”? Is the, not so subtle, statement that women either porcelain or meat? Is the subject matter merely a springboard to... [more]
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Surface Stitches
by Jesse Hensel
Michael Raedecker at Andrea Rosen Gallery
March 14th - April 18th
Posted
3/27/09
Simple large washed canvasses with embroidery stitched through the surface. Throughout there is a feeling of fog, air so heavy it can be stitched through. “Superficial” is a detail of a dining room table. The knife and fork fall through the foreground and the subtle chromatic details of the tablecloth keep it lively. “Hang” is by far my favorite, wispy windblown and forlorn. Bittersweet fluttering clothes hang loose from the drying lines and drift in the thick stormy air. Some of th... [more]
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(photo)Realist Painting
by Jesse Hensel
David Kassan at Gallery Henoch
March 12th - April 4th
Posted
3/27/09
The problem with photorealist paintings is that they are entierly dependent on their source material. “Call Box”, “Peeling Paint and Through” succeed because the photographs have confusing content. In these works Kassan plays with the photorealist illusion by painting quasi-two dimensional spaces. These works focus on details in worn wheat pasted plywood (the source material has probably come from one of the city’s construction sites). The compositions are overly centrist, but here th... [more]
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Arteaser at NY Art Fairs: The Armory Show
by Dormain Geyer
at The Armory Show
March 5th - March 8th
Posted
3/26/09
Welcome back for another installment of my Spring 2009 Art Fair review! From Scope, where San Francisco art dealer Andrei Rozanoff eventually joined our troupe, we headed over to Pier 94 for The Armory Showcontemporary fair was being held. I only saw one San Francisco gallery,Ratio 3, which was showing several artists, including Ruth Laskey (below):
Photography by New York artist Ryan McGinley (below) were also on display:
Recent SFMOMA SECA award winner Jordan Kantor (below) als... [more]
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