Luis Gispert watches Mad Men; the design and form of the show appeal to his recent fascination with minimalism. It’s actually kind of a minimalist re-visiting for the Miami-born artist (who could pass for a character on the show with his swarthy good looks). Gispert was originally drawn to minimalism during his MFA studies at [...]
Category Archives: Art
The Wild & The Innocent
April 11, 2012 – 8:00 am
When photographer Jordan Sullivan returned to New York City after spending 12 months in “middle-of-nowhere Texas,” working construction in the land of ranches and wide-open places, the urban setting proffered a profound jolt, placing him on a new path of artistic investigation. “I wanted to explore our relationship with nature at a time when I [...]
Forever Vision
April 9, 2012 – 12:51 pm
Josh Slater is an artist known for his trippy, psychedelic line drawings of complex geometric shapes. His references combine science fiction and other futuristic influences with natural wonders of the world ike moss and other stuff like that. His latest thing is taking his graphic skills off of the page and making multi-dimensional videos, sculptures [...]
Jonas Wood
April 3, 2012 – 1:52 pm
At Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood’s first untitled solo show, at David Kordansky Gallery, a man in a suit signs a check against a glass-paneled wall, perhaps not realizing the entire gallery can see him. Bets are made on what piece he may have purchased, and it’s agreed that it’s likely the painting on the [...]
The Virgin Suicides
April 3, 2012 – 1:18 am
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 [...]
Roommates
March 25, 2012 – 12:33 pm
A portrait of a frenetic Christopher Walken takes over both the psychic and physical space on the second floor of the old Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. The actor appears contemplative, his life experience revealed through lines on his face rendered in a volcano of warm reds, yellows and oranges; his facial hair [...]
I Must Confess I Still Believe
March 23, 2012 – 2:23 pm
Three girls, one Polaroid camera and stickers by the bucketload – that’s how these pictures came about. It’s 2012 and it’s all about being relevant in this Tumblr obsessed generation. Posting and reblogging are the order of the day. We eat LOLcats for breakfast. Yet, sometimes you just want to get your hands dirty. Enter [...]
*95 IN PARIS, THE OUTSIDERS ARE OFFICIALLY IN
March 16, 2012 – 9:00 am
“Looking for a future with a positive, vibrant energy.” This is how Rei Kawakubo described her Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer collection to Amy Spindler of The New York Times in 1995, although the designer could just as well have been talking about Paris at that exact moment. *95 (IN PARIS, THE OUTSIDERS ARE OFFICIALLY IN) [...]
In Conversation with Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith
March 15, 2012 – 12:28 pm
When Gertrude Stein declared, “A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears,” she was challenging artists to shift their perceptions. The upcoming exhibition at the Fondation d’Enterprise Hermès, opening March 16, takes the assignment a step further, tasking not only the artist but also the subject of the work [...]
