New York City based photographer, painter, and videographer Marilyn Minter began her art career in 1989 with an unflinching series of paintings based on still images from hardcore pornography. Since then, the artist’s work has evolved through various mediums, while still examining the presentation of sexuality within the confines of fashion, art, and media. Despite, [...]
Category Archives: Exhibits
American Beauty
May 14, 2012 – 3:00 pm
Up this month at LAX/ART is a group show combining two non profit art spaces, New York’s Participant Inc. and Los Angeles’s LAX/ART. Curated by Participant’s Lia Gangitano, the show thoughtfully exhibits the work of artist Laura Parnes with the duo Lovett/Codagnone. Parnes’ video installation, titled County Down, takes from the aesthetics of traditional horror movies [...]
A Look at Frieze New York
May 10, 2012 – 1:57 pm
London’s perennially popular Frieze Art Fair descended on New York City for the first time last week with a roar, bringing with it Frieze’s famous custom-designed tent (this iteration designed by Brooklyn-based SO-IL), and unique programming around the fair’s temporary home on Randall’s Island. The Frieze Art Fair, organized by the inimitable duo Amanda Sharp [...]
This Land Was Made for You and Me
April 26, 2012 – 2:39 pm
Opening tonight in Berlin, This Land Was Made for You and Me explores the idea of America, through the eyes of young American photographers. The title is taken from the Woody Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land, which was written as a critical retort to Irving Berlin’s saccharine God Bless America. Guthrie meant for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
*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 [...]
SA MI 75 DZ NY 12
February 24, 2012 – 11:00 am
I am not sure that it can be done, but I will attempt to describe the experience precipitated by Doug Wheeler’s installation SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 (2012). Through the use of something—fiberglass and lights—Doug has created nothing, or perhaps everything, as the exhibition is often referred to as the Infinity Room. There is [...]
