Author Archives: Jenn Wirtz

Jenn Wirtz grew-up in Cleveland, Ohio but soon realized at age 18 her dyed jet-black hair, feminist convictions, and punk rock ways would only feel comfortable in one place, New York City. During her eleven years in NYC, she has worked at Vanity Fair, Vogue, Calvin Klein, and recently the New Museum. However, finding her way back to the arts, Jenn is currently a graduate student at New York University, building an interdisciplinary MA that surrounds psychoanalysis and art history. In her spare time, she enjoys spending loan money on dinners, drinks, and shoes she could not afford otherwise.

Part 2 of 3: Interview with Sophie Kamin

Sophie Kamin’s interview, though common and straightforward in its form of interviewing, was actually the most chaotic. With a digital voice recorder in hand, I followed Sophie around her Brooklyn apartment. While we spoke of feminism, motherhood, and femininity, she managed to give her toddler a bath, make dinner, and articulately expand on ideas of [...]

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Present Wave

Photo by Laura Levine
Running back and forth, up and down within our tiny boxes of head space, it is easy to forget we live in one of the coolest and cutting-edge cities in the world. Years before moving to New York City, my friends and like-minded contemporaries would consume our late nights listening to bands [...]

Part 1 of 3: interview with Nico Dios

Exploiting the countless forms of communication, I conducted three interviews with artists, using three different forms of communication. These artists are not necessarily the art-stars we see posing awkwardly on the cover of magazines or hiding quietly in the corners of exclusive nightclubs. They are unique in that they all are creating and completing narratives [...]

A New Chapter, a review by Jenn Wirtz

With the verbose exhibition title, A Cloudburst of Material Possessions: A Metaphor for the Myriad Considerations, I feared that The Canal Chapter’s move from a large loft space at 343 Canal, to a small LES storefront on Stanton Street, would be its final chapter. However, the intimate setting that transforms the gallery space into a [...]

Idiolects, a group exhibition: June 12, London

Idiolects: At Brown Gallery in London
Opening reception: June 12 from 6-8PM
Tauba Auerbach, Bradford Bailey, Brian Clifton, Peter Davies, Eoin Donnelly, Matteo Ghidoni, Lou Laurita, David Malek, Norm, Kay Rosen, Sam Porritt, Molly Springfield, Josh Tonsfeldt, Lily van der Stokker (Curated by Lumi Tan)