>Carry van Delft works emphasize the aesthetic of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. Carry van Delft works emphasize the aesthetic of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. They awaken our emotional memory, and empower us to see more […]

In Amir H. Fallah’s lat­est body of work, he con­tin­ues his prior explo­rations into boy­hood mem­ory, the inten­sity of rela­tion­ships, both past and present, and the thin line between the real and the imagined.   In Amir H. Fallah’s lat­est body of work, he con­tin­ues his prior explo­rations into boy­hood mem­ory, the inten­sity of rela­tion­ships, […]

Michael Linares’ recent exhi­bi­tion Found & Lost at Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art Puerto Rico high­lights the alter­nately polit­i­cal, pro­saic, spir­i­tual, and flam­boy­ant meth­ods by which life is expe­ri­enced and observed. The exhi­bi­tion employs Linares’ own flu­ency in mul­ti­far­i­ous forms of discourse—from sculp­ture, to pho­tog­ra­phy and video. Suzie Wal­she on Michael Lineares   Michael Linares’ recent […]

Some of the things I make are obvi­ously built for audi­ence inter­ac­tion—Eleven Heavy Things, the sculp­tures for the Venice Bien­nale, are objects that lit­er­ally have holes for peo­ple to fit their bod­ies into and pose with. Sim­i­larly, my Web site Learn­ing To Love You More (with Har­rell Fletcher) gives assign­ments to the pub­lic.   Some […]

Venezue­lan artist Patri­cia Cazorla cre­ates “diaries” or per­sonal col­lec­tions of por­traits of women who have a sig­nif­i­cance to her, whether because of their bold char­ac­ters or because of their sim­ple beauty.Cazorla depicts the emo­tions, sen­si­bil­i­ties, and per­son­al­i­ties of her sub­jects through vivid col­ors, strong brush strokes, and col­lages of images taken from the media, although […]

I have been making pretty straight city scenes from my head for the past couple of years. I like to believe they are similar to what the Internet looks like, with all the individualistic people existing invisibly, unable to observe each other over at the colliding room town, with no walls, piled in more than […]

As any cynic will tell you, a utopia is not only a perfect world, but it is also a purely imaginary one. And looking to the word’s etymology, there’s some truth to this contention: “Utopia” comes from the Greek ou, “not” and topos, “place,” and so beneath the term’s idealism, there is an underlying pathos—the […]

I first came across Nava Lubelski’s work in 2007, during open studios at CUE Art Foundation while she was a resident artist there. Her delicate and sinuous abstractions beckoned me from across the room. It was only up close that I realized they were not just made of paint, nor were they merely drawn. The […]

An abundance of conceptually informed exhibitions opened in New York in the space of three days at the end of October 2008, buoying the spirits in the wake of collapsing world economies. Consider that art is a language, intentions and materials, techniques, historical referents, among its parameters. The relational aesthetics, demonstrated by a core group […]

The project called “C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience),” installed in the museum’s Shaft Project Space, comprises the following: a series of looped videos on monitors in the closet-size gallery, with a driving instrumental sound track playing softly and piles of rainbow-dyed clothing stashed here and there; a projection, on a wall outside the museum, of […]