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Diversity at 450 Vivek Narayanan       Charles Hecht, Big Mumsa (The Sea Pinnacle Series), welded steel and bronze, 2003.       There were a number ofsmall works – by David Adamo, Paul Yates, Christine Krol or Rocco Alberico –and this suggested, for me, a certain level of maturity. Small works tend notto […]

WINTER SHOWCASE: Chaos and Order at The Eickholt Gallery Kofi Forson             The abstractas an idea is first and foremost originated as order. After undergoing a thoughtprocess it is then formulated, however so, as chaos.   The currentshow at The Eickholt Gallery is an example of the artist’s imagination aseveryday […]

The Bearable Lightness of Being Maya Pindyck       Emily Orling, Infinite Possibility. Oil on canvas, 72″ x 44″.     style=’font-family:Verdana’>There is a child pulling at your pant leg, beggingfor ice-cream. Whining for balloons. She has big eyes and even bigger wants.And she is not going away without your undivided attention. You can’t […]

Activating Space Enrico Pedrini     Daniel Buren, �Les Parall�les� Travaux in situ, Installation view from Galleria Massimo Minini, 2003     Daniel Buren’s beginnings in the art world are to be found insideConceptual Art, the movement favoring rather the idea than the realization ofthe art object. This movement, which had been anticipated in France […]

Gen.R.8ing Art Adrienne Day     Natalie Jeremijenko, One Tree project.         Gen.R.8, an exhibitionthat explores the concept of generative art via video, painting, technology,biotechnology, music, and photography, is less than a means to an end than apeek through the lens of creative process and perpetual, conceptual fusion. The"DNA" of the work […]

John Currin’s Blade Jennifer Reeves         John Currin, Park City Grill, 2000. Oil on canvas, 38-1/16 x 30 in, Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Justin Smith Purchase Fund, 2000. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and Sadie Coles HQ. Photograph by Andy Keate. � John Currin           It […]

KnitKnit: Shaped By Touch Sabrina Gschwandtner Coming into itsthird issue, KnitKnit currently exists as a numbered, limited edition artist’sbook that provides a forum for the growing movement in contemporary art thatloves to craft. Not concerned so much with defining boundaries between fineart and craft – or fashion, architecture, and other seemingly disparatefields – this movement […]

Spring Equinox Jamie Dalglish “Around and around she goes Where she stops Nobody knows" The third eye bleeds. Parsifal blinks into the cold potential Reclaimed eclectic arenas, periphery Excavated by complex artists Dancing to the smearing sound Eggs stand up Pushing hard frames per second Contradictions Searing truths in jest, just FPS, rich Solutions sold […]

City Without Walls: New Ark Tony Zaza In 2004 it willbe 338 years old. It is the largest city in New Jersey. Only Paris has a widermain street. Newark was the last effort of the Puritans to establish a theocracy,to create a “Kingdom of God on Earth”. The Mayflower people had wantedto settle in the […]

PessimismCedar Lewishohn             It’s December 15, 2003. Saddam Hussein has just been captured, caughthiding in a hole somewhere south of Tikrit. The world is watching and waitingin anticipation to see what happens next. Meanwhile, back in Glasgow I’m looking at the work of Polish painterPiotr Janas. Sloppy yet refined, his […]