I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I clipped things out of magazines and stuck them to the wall. I remember vividly having Jodeci, Milla Jovovich and Marilyn Monroe in close proximity. The fact that everything these days is viral and that this might date me makes me slightly sad. I [...]
Category Archives: Exhibits
Tailgates and Substitutes
January 11, 2012 – 6:36 pm
Sexily titled Tailgates and Substitutes after a Bob Dylan song, the group show at Thierry Goldberg includes the work of twelve artists ranging from sculpture, to painting, to photography. Many of the artists in the show are working with abstracted forms in various mediums. The idea of substitution aptly has a connection to abstraction; many [...]
Parasimpatico
January 4, 2012 – 2:24 pm
Parasimpatico, a multimedia exhibition that recently concluded, is the first major solo exhibition in Italy by Pipilotti Rist, a boundary-breaking Swiss artist. Her installations, which transform the medium of film by reinventing language and employing expositive procedures, have been exhibited worldwide at musuems including MOMA in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris. By tapping [...]
In the Studio with Sage Vaughn
December 14, 2011 – 2:36 pm
Owls with gangster tattoos. Children frolicking amidst an industrial landscape. Butterflies possessed by Dionysian fury. All of these unlikely subjects are recurring motifs in the phantasmagoric paintings of Los Angeles-based artist Sage Vaughn. His work continually tests the stability of the elusive boundary that separates the natural world from an urban sensibility—a complicated balance that [...]
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 [...]
Pole Position
November 19, 2011 – 10:08 am
In the wake of the controversy surrounding the current The Lake & Stars ad campaign comes this pole dancing video featuring the lingerie brand’s fall/winter 2011 collection. The film, which can also be seen in The Lake & Stars’ new BOFFO pop-up store, is an abstraction of pole dancing. It aims to highlight the strength of women and [...]
Winsome/Awesome
November 17, 2011 – 10:20 am
Tonight, November 17, a two-person exhibition of photographs by Heather Boose Weiss and Danelle Manthey is opening at Susan Eley Fine Art. Gallery One will features a dozen silver gelatin prints of landscapes by Boose Weiss, and in Gallery Two, ten ink jet portraits of individuals in color and black and white by Manthey. The show, [...]
Proof of Purchase
November 8, 2011 – 12:30 pm
This Thursday, November 10, Arts & Sciences Projects presents Proof of Purchase, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Proof of Purchase investigates the contradictions embedded in advertising, global consumer culture, and the underlying motives deep within the new millennial psyche. Click “Read More” to see more and see you there.
Golf Wang
November 6, 2011 – 10:11 pm
Our friends at Family Bookstore are having an opening reception and book launch signing for the LA-based Rap group OFWGKA. Golf Wang features captured moments these friends have spent together and features work from Odd Future, Vyron Turner, Wolf Haley, Brick Stowell, Taco Bennett, Lucas Vercetti, Julian Berman and Sagan Lockhart. I imagine it should be an [...]
Back to the Future
November 2, 2011 – 12:52 pm
The online art gallery It’s Our Playground was built with the idea that exhibitions could live in virtual galleries as well as in brick and mortar spaces. This week, art critic and Dossier contributor Timothee Chaillou curated a customizable triptych featuring an insanely long list of artists including Roe Ethridge, Andrew Kuo, Lizzi Bougatsos, Klara [...]
