Tag Archives: painting
The Phantom: John O’Connor’s “Machine and the Ghost”
How persistent is the wish to somehow find a human face in whatever kind of art—to see a real presence there that invites us to know its secrets and enjoy its troubles? How powerful is that illusion of a real presence, when a ramshackle and effaced effigy, an ugly or beautiful scarecrow clothed and stuffed […]
Vladimer Asatiani
My art works is a plastic effort of a colorist representation of the space-time continuum. I try not to copy the reality of the object, but the rather objectification of its live appearance; it’s artistically-embodied formalization. This is related to the thing as well as to the space around it, which is apprehended by me objectively […]
Muted Beauty: Russell Tyler at DCKT Contemporary
Russell Tyler’s Solo show at DCKT in the LES returns back in the direction of bad painting but stops midway at a comfortable apex. He has come a long way since I first saw his work at Freight and Volume in 2010. I remember clearly thinking about Kim Dorland when I saw Tyler’s paintings at […]
Ana Cardoso and Christian Bonnefoi
Ana Cardoso and Christian Bonnefoi January 10 – February 28, 2014 Longhouse Projects 285 Spring Street New York City longhouseprojects.com
Russell Tyler’s Analogue Future at DCKT Contemporary
Russell Tyler’s Analogue Future December 14, 2013 – January 26, 2014 DCKT Contemporary 21 Orchard Street New York City dcktcontemporary.com
Vittorio Carradore
I am looking for the essence of nature, stripping the landscape of all the descriptive details that distract, communicating without words, my view of the universe.
Kara Asilanis
All art is collaboration, whether I am collaborating with myself, or with the subject, or doing a home portrait for someone—it’s one of the things I love best about painting. Then the painting is shared and it becomes a collaboration between the viewer and the piece. blacklionart.com
Unpacking John Burtle’s Support Constructs
A strawberry candy-wrapper, recreated extra-large in the bold, commercial colors of the original throw-away, hangs just inside the entry; it is a cheerful welcome to this exhibition, and the shift in scale startles me—the painting is about the size of my head, and this makes me think of the urgency of a child’s valentine offering: […]
The Eye Fell in Love with the Ear by Shirazeh Houshiary
Iranian born London based Shirazeh Houshiary’s sixth solo exhibition The eye fell in love with the ear at the Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, is very aptly titled. Infused by her deep metaphysical concerns, her ethereal abstractions speak volumes to anyone who listens. The largest most breathtaking work Echo, 2013, evokes an expansive body of […]
