Bouquets Highlight Plants Used to Control Women’s Reproductive Health An exhibition looks at plant remedies that women have used to control their reproductive lives. by Claire Voon April 10, 2017 Ann Shelton, “The Vixen, Ginger (Zingiber sp.),” from jane says (2015-ongoing) AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Delicate and dainty, Queen Anne’s Lace is a popular pick for wedding bouquets — but the white flower also has a long history as a naturally occurring contraceptive. The alleged power of its seeds, when…Read More
Elizabeth Denny spoke with Claire and Erica from Of a Kind about running an art gallery. Episode 82: An Education in Making Costume Jewelry and Running Your Own Gallery Listen Of a Kind podcast.
Future Retrieval: Permanent Spectacle April 15, 2017 – October 1, 2017 Permanent Spectacle features a fantastical world that reinterprets museum exhibition and display. The immersive tableau includes constructed landscapes, scenic hand-cut wallpaper, wildlife, and other objects that have been altered through the process of digital collection and material selection. Created by Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker working collaborative under the name Future Retrieval, the site specific installation is informed by the duo’s extensive research of historical collections from the…Read More
Jordan Tate Visits the Big Apple for Recent Exhibition March 15, 2017 by Caitlin Confort Read on Art Zealous. Jordan Tate is an artist who doesn’t use Instagram filters. #nofilter He’s a Cincinnati resident who works as an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati – although Jordan is an art professor, he did not have a traditional art school experience. His focus was more towards critical thinking, critique, and deconstruction so he has always approached art from…Read More
Get Beamed Into an Alien Afterlife via This Trippy Video Game and Gallery Show MARCH 13, 2017 BY SAM PATWELL Taken by yours, mine, & ours gallery You wake up in a hospital. There is a doctor standing over you in scrubs, running his hand down a clipboard, a mask pulled tight across his face. There’s a vague beeping behind you and the sounds of miserable sobbing coming from somewhere. The beeping grows longer and louder until, all of a…Read More
NEW YORK Jeremy Couillard YOURS MINE & OURS 54 Eldridge Street February 17–April 2, 2017 On a dusty, slate-colored couch reeking of bong water and dirty laundry, Jeremy Couillard invites visitors to experience a multidimensional journey into the great beyond with Alien Afterlife, 2016–17. The installation’s centerpiece is a video game designed and engineered by Couillard, unfurling as a quest for reincarnation amid kaleidoscopic landscapes and eccentric extraterrestrials. When the player is killed, the game abruptly ends with a stern…Read More
Lots to Explore During Annual NYC Art Fair Week By Stephanie Simon Friday, March 3, 2017 Watch on NY1. NY1 VIDEO: It’s Art Fair Week in NYC, meaning more than 75,000 art lovers, buyers, collectors and the curious will take in one or more of the 10 major art fairs. Most run now through Sunday. Most fairs have an array of admission prices starting around $15 and $25 plus multiple day options.
Art Uncovered with Kimberly Ruth Listen on BTRtoday. This week Art Uncovered hits the Spring Break Art Show, a curator-driven art fair that showcases over 150 curators who premiere new artworks created by over 400 artists. The selected curators were chosen based on their proposals that deal with the theme of “Black Mirror,” which is not a reference to the popular Netflix series, but, rather, a concept that includes ideas such as self-reflexivity, especially in the digital age.
Occupying Offices: Independent vs. Spring/Break By PAUL LASTER, Mar. 2017 Read on Whitehot Magazine. Armory Arts Week brings the touring art circus to town—without the live animals. The Armory Show, which focuses on contemporary art, looks better than ever under the leadership of new director Benjamin Genocchio this year; it’s sister fair VOLTA, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, shines a spotlight on new art; the ADAA Art Show offers a smart, blue-chip selection of galleries, which mix classic modernism…Read More
FACING THE BLACK MIRROR: SEAN FADER’S AWESOME YEAR BY ANDREA ALESSI Read on ArtSlant. Oscar Wilde famously suggested great art “reveal beauty and hide the artist.” For the 2017 BLACK MIRROR exhibition at SPRING/ BREAK, more than 100 curators will feature artworks that explore the dance of identity the artist undergoes—between showing what’s unseen and hiding in plain sight—especially in the face of modern technology, political unrest, and glimmers from ghosts of Art History’s past. ArtSlant will be exhibiting the…Read More
Ann Shelton In Conversation with Casey Carsel and Laura Thomson March 3, 2017 Through a wide range of photographic investigations, Wellington-based artist Ann Shelton has, over her 20-year career, explored the construction of narratives that surround social, political and historical contexts. A selection of Shelton’s prolific practice has been brought together in her review exhibition, Dark Matter, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, which opened on 26 November 2016 and continues through to 17 April 2017. While studying photography…Read More
The SPRING/BREAK Art Show Curator List Is Finally Here There’s a lot to look forward to next week. Sarah Cascone, February 24, 2017 Read on Artnet. New York’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show has finally revealed the list of its 2017 curators responding to the theme “BLACK MIRROR,” based on the idea of identity and what artists chose to reveal to the world of their personal selves. It’s an organizing principle that is drawn from the Claude glass, or black mirror, used…Read More
Enter an ‘Alien Afterlife’ Inside a Video Game Installation Aliens and the Tibetan Book of the Dead collide in artist Jeremy Couillard’s latest new media installation. By DJ Pangburn February 19, 2017, 7:50am What if the afterlife is neither total universal awareness nor void, but an alien world? Artist Jeremy Couillard envisions the possibility in Alien Afterlife, a first-person video game installation where players die in a hospital, then find their afterlife hijacked by aliens. This surreal and disorienting world,…Read More
Jordan Tate: Prefaces @Denny By Richard B. Woodward / In Galleries / February 17, 2017 Read on Collector Daily. JTF (just the facts): A total of 7 color photographs, framed in light orange and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the main gallery space and the reception area. All of the works are Lambda prints, mounted to ACM board with gloss laminate and dated 2016. Physical sizes range from 16×24 in. to 40×60 in. Six of the 7 are…Read More
Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg discusses his project “Workflow” currently installed in various locations at LACMA. Posted: February 15, 2017. Michael Mandiberg’s solo exhibition Workflow is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, CA from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2018. For more details please visit LACMA’s website. Part of Workflow: Quantified Self Portrait (Rhythms), a one-year sonic installation in LACMA’s Pritzker Parking Garage elevators, January 1, 2017 – January 1, 2018. View video documentation. Quantified…Read More
Unavoidable Encounters: An Interview with Sculpturist John Dante Bianchi Art — 13.02.17 Words by Kathleen Hefty Read on Teeth. Despite the resolved surfaces and forms that distinguish much of John Dante Bianchi‘s work, his cavernous studio reveals an unexpected collection of detritus and treasures: pitched electronics accumulated over years of walking down his Brooklyn street, ghostly screen-printed photographs of hippies, a sculpture of a narwhal, and guitar pedals cast into assemblages are just a few. In the sculptor’s most intimate…Read More
Read on art|REAL By Nicole Bray, posted February 2, 2017 Walking into Russell Tyler’s studio is an absolute treat for the eyes as you’re greeted with an array of colorful and luscious canvases. A master of color and movement, Tyler draws upon our art historical forefathers of Abstract Expressionism, the Sublime, and Minimalism. Tyler works in three different styles, yet they all look and feel unquestionably connected: minimalist forms with expressive gestures, expressive abstraction of instinct and chance, and abstract…Read More
Read on ARTNews Opening: Jordan Tate at Denny Gallery (Thursday, January 26, 6-8 p.m.) Jordan Tate’s latest show features photographs of exhibitions that never existed. To some extent, they seem real—you could be tricked into thinking that IDGI @ Kunsthalle Bern (2016), in which images of ancient Greek sculptures hang on a teal wall, really was on view at one point, but that’s an easy effect to create with digital technology. Relying on Photoshop and the sense of irony that…Read More
“20 Artists for the Trump Era” Artsy Editorial | Jan 19th, 2017 Donald Trump assuming the office of the United States Presidency today is an event few on either side of the political aisle saw coming a few months ago. And so, as many think about the four years after Inauguration Day and ask what is to be done and what comes next, a natural step is to look around and ask, what country do we live in? Many artists…Read More
WORK IN PROGRESS Issue 1: January 2017 By: Sholeh Hajmiragha This first issue of Work in Progress focuses on the medium of paint, presenting interviews with five artists who represent a range of approaches and styles within contemporary painting today. It’s long been clear that despite Paul Delaroche’s claim in 1839 that painting is dead, the reality is actually quite the opposite. The artists showcased in this issue are all critically engaged with challenging and evolving painting’s history both as a…Read More
MICHAEL MANDIBERG | SIMON DENNY by Ian Cofre The process of banks failing due to the subprime mortgage crisis greatly accelerated after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. Facing systemic risk and contagion, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), a U.S. government organization, helmed the swift and ruthless effort to quarantine this plague. Eight years to the day from Lehman’s failure, artist and educator Michael Mandiberg debuted his current exhibition, FDIC Insured, which captures the extent of this…Read More
For his solo exhibition “Unavoidable Encounter,” John Dante Bianchi has made sculptures that initially register as paintings attempting to escape their supports. Concertina-like folds of what seems to be canvas—but is actually immaculately engineered strata of wood and aluminum—wrest from their stretcher bars, rising and jutting forth in sharply angled planes, revealing trusses and screws beneath. Acrylic paint is applied to the surfaces in layers, then sanded back to form warm clouds of pinks, purples, and oranges, with patches of…Read More
Michael Mandiberg: Workflow at LACMA January 1, 2017 – January 1, 2018 Workflow is a project by Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg. The artist uses self-tracking technology to understand the changing definition of labor in the digital age. The endeavor has multiple components, including a one-year sonic installation, Quantified Self Portrait (Rhythms), in LACMA’s Pritzker Parking Garage elevators, and a three-channel video, Quantified Self Portrait (One Year Performance), which will begin at LACMA’s Ray’s & Stark Bar on…Read More
This Artist Creates Fascinating Work That Literally Comes Off the Wall John Dante Bianchi’s art is both architectural and ethereal By Carrie Hojnicki, January 3, 2017 Read on Architectural Digest. Part painting, part sculpture, wholly intriguing, the work of Brooklyn-based artist John Dante Bianchi escapes classification in about as many categories as one can muster. Showing through January 22 at Manhattan’s Denny Gallery, Bianchi’s “Unavoidable Encounter” presents a series of meticulously crafted wall panels and floor sculptures that defy classification and…Read More
