The current Francesca Woodman retrospective up at the Guggenheim serves as a glimpse into the prepossessing private appetites and penchants of the young artist. The exhibit focuses on her brief but prolific career, including more than 120 vintage photographs, artist books, and a selection of recently discovered and rarely seen short videos, presenting a new [...]
Author Archives: Alexandra Malmed
Jim Hodges at Gladstone Gallery
December 12, 2011 – 1:03 pm
The pieces in Jim Hodges’ show at Gladstone Gallery cast transient beams of light onto the walls and into your eyes. Each work considers and consists of bits of color and reflective materials (chips of mirrors, washes of metallic and spills of shine). Mirror Ball, on view at Gladstone’s 24 St. space, is the piece [...]
On Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia
November 24, 2011 – 12:33 am
Brisk, spirited classical music pours through Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia at Matthew Marks Gallery. Its reverberations are loud as you enter the gallery and, at first, off-putting; the gilded sound meets you suddenly and without warning.Then as you grow used to it and make your way through the generous three-section space, the noise disintegrates as if [...]
