A few shows approaching the figure in various ways differing in color intonation, formal distribution, perspective, and subject matter. I struggle and am often overwhelmed by the lack of a unified movement in contemporary art but am also grateful that within a few visits I can experience a myriad form of expression and am able [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Gallery’
November 25, 2008
Disentangle at Andreas Grimm
A while back I saw what is definitely one of the best shows this year (which isn’t saying much since I haven’t really seen too many shows this year) at Andreas Grimm in Chelsea. It was titled Disentangle and all the works in some form or another focused on hair. Hair. HAIR! It was quite [...]
November 25, 2008
Keltie Ferris at Sunday
Aviator, 2008, oil, acrylic, spraypaint on canvas, 80×70″
Last Thursday I attended the opening of artist Keltie Ferris at Sunday gallery in the lower east side. I was lucky to meet her and her work last year through a previous gallery stint and am was very excited to experience this new body of work.
Keltie seems to [...]
November 21, 2008
Logan Grider at Thierry Goldberg Projects
At a recent gallery hop through the Lower East Side I fell upon the paintings of Logan Grider at Thierry Goldberg Projects. I was attracted by the color and size of the paintings, small and manageable, playful with a tinge of conservative. There are references to modernist abstraction but with an energetic rambunctiousness that is [...]
November 7, 2008
Anton Henning at Zach Feuer
Anton Henning stirs me in a way that is rare during my art viewing sessions. He has an all-encompassing oeuvre that mingles paintings (portrait, landscape, still lifes abstracted), sculptures, and photographs into installations that all gather to become one work. He paints and blends the wall that keeps the painting hanging, he builds paintings to [...]
November 3, 2008
Weekend Recap
Friday was spent at the cafe not working hard but hardly working, and by the time I came home and tried on my Yayoi Kusama unitard and tried sticking red dot stickers I was horrified to see they didn’t stick. In case you didn’t know, Yayoi Kusama is a mentally ill Japanese artist who [...]
November 2, 2008
Grim Adolescence
4 shows during my art crawl displayed a nostalgic creepy yearning for childhood, images that might have been created by a disturbed demon child, or something more somber and reaching for a grounded history where one is supported and taken care of by a larger force.
My initial reaction to Amy Wilson’s drawings at BravinLee programs [...]
November 2, 2008
Matthew Day Jackson and Chris Johanson
I’ve been putting off writing about my Chelsea gallery crawl, it takes so much more mental effort and stresses me out. Its one thing to use my hands to prepare food and write about how delicious it was, its a completely different hemisphere trying to write articulately and coherently about art, its not something you [...]
October 8, 2008
Happening Agenda
Happening Agenda will be for those of you in my neck of the woods. It’ll be a listing of events I wouldn’t mind attending but probably haven’t made the time or effort because of other things I’m attending that I have taken the time and effort to do.
If you’ve seen, heard or eaten at any [...]
