Zoe Strauss’ star has risen. After garnering notice in her native Philadelphia, Strauss was selected by curator Chrissy Iles for “Day for Night” at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Remarkably, Strauss continues to make her work as accessible as possible, even amid a flurry of media attention, with affordable prints (every print sells for $5 each); […]

Two exhibitions of Eva Hesse’s drawings and sculptures are on view in New York City, one uptown at the Jewish Museum and one downtown at the Drawing Center. Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at The Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curated both: the Jewish Museum exhibition with Fred Wasserman, Henry J. Leir […]

At about five in the evening the skylight is brutal and I am momentarily blinded as I round the corner of a temporary wall. As I turn away from that awesome beam of light and my eyes regain focus I find myself looking at a wall covered in yellow Post-it notes. Or rather, a wall […]

The Stairs to Somewhere can be found in Liz-N-Val’s “Selected Artsites 2006” on view at Henrybuilt in Soho, NYC.  Even though these 6 inch-tall stairs, folded like an aluminum fan, do lead their tiny protagonist teetering somewhere 6 inches above the floor, the real “somewhere” to the success of this installation is the austere space […]

Hollywood. The more glittery the light, the darker the shadows in the fabric, the mass-produced dreams. The more realistic the film, the more virtual reality seems to be. You can lose yourself in both, but in the movies, the actors always show the way while reality often seems planless and lonely. Some, however, are helpful […]

Benjamin Franklin’s paintings are undeniably seductive. Covered with a pristine coat of resin, their enamel-like surfaces gleam like freshly painted sports cars. Their vivid, candy-colored palette is equally crisp; its highly saturated colors have a cosmetic clarity, as appealing as freshly painted toenails. As objects, the paintings elicit a palpable desire, but within these jewel-like […]

Three concurrent solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary featuring artists Jennifer Coates, Susanne Simonson and Nick Blinko form a divine comedy, conjuring visions of heaven, hell and purgatory. Coates’ celestial landscapes are infused with brilliant color and soft radiance; Simonson’s paintings of spectral figures exist between murky realms of longing, memory and physicality, and Blinko’s drawings […]

São Paulo is a continuously sprawling home to approximately 20 million people, and the setting to a vibrant and active graffiti scene. Spawned from political protest, one of its many branches echoes Latin muralism and turns eyes towards a new niche in Brazilian artistic production.Much like the face of a theatre actor, the surface of […]

There’s a disquieting stillness to the hot rods in Jack Butler’s pinhole photographs. Streamlined shapes of hard steel that should suggest speed and testosterone-driven rivalries à la Rebel Without a Cause appear instead to float in a diffused wrap-around light, a knocked-back world of lustrous finishes and mechanical repose. But stillness has its advantages…by not […]

I began taking photos as an extension from my work in painting. At the time I felt that painting was not enough, I really needed a more forceful registry and I began to experiment with a camcorder, capturing motion images and then extracting photogram with software on my PC, a ridiculous system to work with, […]