One gets a sense of the unabashed intensity of real outsider art when one sees it. The show at Andrew Edlin Gallery had so much of that hard core outsider oddness that it made me giddy. Anchoring the show is Adolf Wölfli’s Untitled, 1925. Like a magic carpet ride, Wölfli can take you to more […]

Danny Licul: When did you originally get the idea for our first project, the book?Kristen Anderson: When did I originally ask you for the drawings?DL: Early October?KA: It wouldn’t have been long before that. I’d been thinking of the feeling of belonging as an indicator of identity and unconscious driver of behavior. It came together […]

Nancy A. Ruhling: Why did you decide to exhibit your in-your-face paintings that depict the seamier side of the city in the Embassy I Theater, the gathering spot of the 1920s elite?Tom Christopher: The contrast is important. Contrasts are what New York City and my paintings are all about. I paint folks that most people […]

At CUBE Gallery, situated in the heart of historic Manchester, is an exhibition of contemporary photography that covers issues so broad that it ranges from Chinese fairytales and Buddhist thinking to the perception of female beauty in Western society and deserted institutional buildings. “Infusion” is the first group show to be undertaken by every member […]

Brash, bold, eclectic, reorienting are some of my first thoughts as I entered Kadar Brock’s painting show at BUIA Gallery. At the opening, all around the throngs of artist friends and admirers hang curious paintings by someone I would have guessed would have to be a wired, rough and torrid type. Probably a little moody […]

When I was a little kid, I used to love to graffiti moustaches and eye patches and assorted types of teeth onto the photos in magazines. Transforming the nice people into something to laugh at, something that looked creepy or disgusting was fun. There was a strange power in over-accessorizing the beautiful or the normal. […]

For his second solo exhibition at Guild and Greyshkul, “The Navigator’s Quarters Must Not be Disturbed,” Halsey Rodman proposes the conceit of an absent doppelganger—the Navigator—in order to explore the very nature of the creative process, space, time and the metaphysics of existence. In the central portion of the gallery, the artist constructs a dwelling […]

I had some artistic talent as a child, so my parents decided to place me in a series of small private art schools. In one painting school, us kids were expected to copy existing art works: poor color repros culled from magazines and books such as Winslow Homer’s The Herring Net, 1885, and those big-eyed […]

Sibylle Fendt’s photo series, “Uneins,” portrays the living spaces and the faces of so-called “pathological hoarders;” pack-rats who cannot distinguish the useful from the useless, whose homes have become overrun with so much junk that they cannot begin to categorize it. Psychologically, the outer chaos of this condition indicates an inner trauma that remains concealed, […]

Last year, I reviewed an exhibition at the Jack Tilton Gallery which included work by Jenny Perlin. She showed an explicit example of what could be considered postmodern art in her piece entitled, Sight Reading. In it, three professional musicians sight-read a composition by Schumann. Every time they made a mistake the screen would go […]