Sumpthin Bout Dat Show at Rare Gallery uh Jim Wright’s Paintin’s at Got Me Aaron Zimmerman       Jim Wright, Fuzz Love in the Tub, 2003. Acrylic on panel, 56″ x 56″. Image courtesy of Rare Gallery.         Damn. You know, I wuz ina hills a West Ver-Gin-I-A for most a […]

e$u$ $ave$ Chicago Adam Barraclough       Gregory Shirilla, Agatha.     Gregory Shirilla, Agatha. Whether you love or loathethe paradox of such statements, it is hard to escape them. They have become apart of the American cultural dialogue. It’s not uncommon to find contemporaryart that comments on this omnipresence, so the idea of […]

Ann Hamilton’s CorpusCharles Giuliano   View from installation, Ann Hamilton, Corpus, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, December 13, 2003 through October, 2004.         Seated on thesteps of the football field sized Building 5 of Mass MoCA, we tried to get thesense and insight of a new installation by Ann Hamilton. It is […]

Chuck Close: Process and CollaborationHarriet Zinnes       Chuck Close, Self-Portrait/Pulp, 2001. Stenciled handmade paper pulp in 11 grays, 57 1/2 x 40 in, Edition of 35.     Ifit is the human face that a viewer is interested in, then the artist ChuckClose’s depiction of his own face, fascinating and inexorable, must be […]

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 […]