Sculpting Water Danielle O’Steen  Winand Staring has created a context of nature in his paintings that speaks to his own experiences with the land and with water. He seeks to pay tribute to nature’s precious resources and portray a seemingly objective entity, water, as a personal experience. The connection between the artist and the paintings […]

Jim Dine’s Kara Vander Weg  During the first ten years of his professional career, Jim Dine began his lifelong pursuit of the themes of self, body, and memory through a variety of mediums–painting, performance, mixed-media assemblage, and sculpture. Apparent in nearly all of Dine’s early works is his use of everyday objects as surrogates for […]

We Want More: An Interview with Walton Ford Daniel Menges When you first see a Walton Ford painting—and I don’t mean glancing, like one glances at an advertisement—after you really see a Walton Ford painting you are never the same. You’ll never look at animals—or people, the same way. The animals stare at you while […]

Saskia Hetzer: New Flavour Constanze Musterer New Flavour? Welchen Geschmack haben wohl Saskia Hetzers Fotografien auf Esspapier aus der Serie "Von der Verdaubarkeit alter Meister"? Die visuellen Reize der Kunst vereinen sich seit Jahrhunderten mit einem eigens dafür organisierten gesellschaftlichen Essgenuss. Die Organisation des Gesellschaftlichen zur Kunstbetrachtung ist geblieben, doch das Residuum des oralen Genusses […]

„perfect silent blue" Ingeborg Middendorf Er hatte sich selbst zugeschaut, sich beobachtet in den Spiegeln, während er sich auszog und sah sich weiter zu, wie er sich zu ihr ins Bett legte. In diesem Moment waren sie beide allein und nackt zusammen – ein Mann und eine Frau – in diesem dunklen verspiegelten Raum, der […]

GET RID OF YOURSELF Ralf Katzenstein „Um die Mitte des ersten Tages passierte etwas Wunderschönes. Ich traf eine alte Freundin, die ich seit Monaten nicht gesehen hatte. Ich sah sie ganz alleine einen Geldautomaten mit einem Hammer zertrümmern. Sie schien vollkommen in einer anderen Welt zu sein. Sie sah glücklich aus." So lautet ein Zitat […]

Back to the Future, From Slovenia Birgit J�bstl At this year’s Venice Biennale, exhausting myself in the curators’ shows at the Arsenale, I discovered a handful of paintings, hung nearly up to the ceiling, the Irwin Icons (2003). In their ordered manner and as a traditional medium they provided a bit of room to take […]

Ellsworth Kelly: The Sky’s The Limit Peter Lucas At least three of Ellsworth Kelly’s shows over the last decade have fascinated and moved me: "New Displays: Ellsworth Kelly" at the Tate Gallery in London in 1993; "Sculpture for a Large Wall" at MoMA in 1999; and "Tablet 1948-1973" at The Drawing Center in SoHo in […]

Grandes Expectativas: Art Basel Miami Beach II Dave Powell Despite the high hopes long held by many PoPoMoans for America’s tertiary cities, let’s face it: there are still only two major art centers in this country, and if I have to name them for you, just flip to the next article.   Sure, the list […]

Tales of Happy Communion: New Work by Su-en Wong Jill Conner  Best known for combining self-portraiture and multiplicity within erotic contexts, Su-en Wong will close out the year of 2003 with two solo shows. A third exhibition of her art is currently scheduled at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, for 2004. In contrast […]