MODESTY L�via P�ldi Currently, in the seemingly trendless and pluralistic milieu of contemporaryart making again there is a strong awareness concerning formalistic approachesand objectuality – the status, position and presence of the art object inthe social, aesthetic and commercial triangle. Art in the 1990s was focused moreon the social context and participatory practices of art, […]

Philip Guston – A Life Lived Matt Bourbon Writing about PhilipGuston is like writing about a religious icon. One need be careful, because thereverence he’s afforded is extreme. Of course, there are many reasons whyGuston is adored. First, he is a traditional painter who’s smitten withart history. The conservatives love him. Second, his paintings are […]

Queers, Crime, Midgets & Murder Maya Pindyck First find BrooklynFire Proof Inc. then prepare yourself for a treat far more profound than thevaudevillian title hiccups. “Queers?” Expect sepia colored paintingsof women enjoying love orgies in the grand old style of male master painting/bating.“Crime” refers to nostalgic portraits of individuals who have beenexecuted on death row. […]

Travelogue 21: San Bernardino, CA, May 2003 MeryLynn McCorkle In a recent New York Times article, Roberta Smith excoriates the socially conscious/relevantwork proliferating in museums and arts festivals. In her words, these shows consistentlydemonstrate “moralizing primness, eccentric materials, intellectual dryness,multidisciplinary amorphousness or high-tech spectacle slowly revolving on a pedestal of arrested artistic development”. I compare […]

LETTER FROM ZURICH Nina Zivancevic Sometimes tracingthe individual artist’s work can be an interesting Enterprise – as I spoketo several Swiss artists who are supposed to have a show at Lubelski’s NewYork gallery in May, they advised me to see their specific work at Zurich’sGallery Incontro and the show which has just opened there in […]

Putting Down the Indifferent Blade Jennifer Reeves Guesswork hasnothing to do with understanding abstraction. The personal associations we mayglean from an abstract work of art is ours to discover but only the appetizerto a greater more singularly defined significance. This significance is concreteand more in our bones than our bones are. Consequently, we are behooved […]

Isolde Kille: Painting • Video • Installation Norman Douglas Isolde Kille hasinstalled her second solo exhibition in the cozy second floor space where SteveCannon has maintained his venerable Lower East Side cultural center, Tribes Gallery,for the past ten years (and where I volunteer). I’ve attended a vast rangeof exhibits at Tribes since artist, curator and […]

Mobilizing Difference Nuit Banai Like a post-modern bricoleur, toying with concepts and conditions of possibilityrather than gadgets and gizmos, Romeo Doron Alaeff disassembles and rebuildsthe devices that help maintain the semblance of a unified sense of self. In practicesthat include video, film, photography and music, Alaeff pirouettes on the thinline between fusion and confusion, gently […]

Korean-American: Artist Dream Ok Kee Kim This year, Korean-Americanscommemorate the centennial anniversary of their immigrant experience. To celebratethis occasion, the Space Gallery is proud to present the 100 Korean-Americanartists’ exhibition in one of the artistic centers of the world, New York City. Many Korean-Americanshave distinguished themselves in America with their work ethic and self-reliance.Likewise, Korean […]

Demetrius Manouselis: Towards an Architectonics of Painting Raul Zamudio Whenever paintingpurportedly dies, it seems to always return with a vengeance. Its most recent“fatality” concerns its possible eclipse with what has been fashionablytermed new media; for the supposed waning of painting has been the curatorialimpetus of recent painting exhibitions. With titles such as Trouble Spot Painting, […]