I’m frequently asked about exhibitions I’m visiting and artworks I’m seeing. I recently joined Pinterest (a site that allows you to pin visual items onto online boards to share with followers) and thought this would be the perfect way to share art. The “Art I’m Seeing” board allows you to see what I’m seeing as [...]
Archives: Artwork
Anne Collier on the Highline
February 4, 2012 – 1:38 pm
If you saw my photo tweet from Thursday night, here’s more info on the Anne Collier billboard that is currently up on the Highline. HIGH LINE BILLBOARD Anne Collier, Developing Tray #2, 2009 On View Wednesday, February 1 to Wednesday, February 29 Billboard next to the High Line at West 18th Street Great text about [...]
Glenn Ligon Print at Paddle 8
February 2, 2012 – 4:43 am
I’m frequently drawn to conceptual art that references art, history, and literature, and Glenn Ligon’s work fits right into that category. I loved “Glenn Ligon: AMERICA,” the artist’s mid-career retrospective at the Whitney last year. The text-based large scale paintings, which draw upon various literary sources, including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and [...]
Lover Bowl
January 17, 2012 – 2:22 pm
Love this bowl by my cousin Mildred Simantov and Nils Thornander – Signed and Numbered Edition of 35 available here at the New Museum.
Melissa Gordon at Marianne Boesky Gallery
January 10, 2012 – 1:56 pm
Melissa Gordon ‘Composition n.1/Composition C/Composition (White and Blue)’ in Time and Space, 2011 Wood, acrylic and iron painting: 59 x 45 1/4 inches 149.9 x 114.9 cm Sculpture: 62 1/2 x 11 x 15 3/4 inches 158.8 x 27.9 x 40 cm Signed and dated in acrylic (verso) Image Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery website [...]
Hanging ‘Maurizio Cattelan: All’
November 16, 2011 – 2:38 am
In the art world, one often hears ‘to hang an exhibition’ or ‘to install an exhibition’ used interchangeably. However, in the case of ‘Maurizio Cattelan: All’ at the Guggenheim in New York, the former terminology was taken very literally. The show, which opened November 4 is literally suspended from a complex structure in the middle [...]
Jesse Hamerman in Mirrored Thoughts / Spaces Between
February 13, 2011 – 3:07 pm
Jesse Hamerman’s “iwillhearyou@hotmail.com” uses fleeting materiality and an intangible medium to hold a conceptual mirror up to a passerby. The artist’s disposable stickers with the email address iwillhearyou@hotmail.com displayed throughout several cities call upon strangers to write to the anonymous email address established by the artist. When someone takes up Hamerman’s invitation, the writer is [...]
Jamie Lund in Mirrored Thoughts / Spaces Between
February 13, 2011 – 3:05 pm
Jamie Lund plays on both the materiality and distance in his works to elicit feelings of loss, trust, and fear. “My Loss is Your Gain” is made up of Polaroids of events, friends, and family, taken to immortalize the artist’s final year in his 20s. These images have been covered in gold leaf as an [...]
Letha Wilson in Mirrored Thoughts / Spaces Bewteen
February 13, 2011 – 3:04 pm
Letha Wilson’s photo sculptures depict the intersection of architecture and the natural world and the dichotomy between the constructed and the natural, the real and the imagined. In “Right Back at You” and “Horizonline,” Wilson’s sculptural elements add to or obstruct the photograph, thereby reminding the viewer of the potential betrayal of photography as a [...]
Carrie Pollack in Mirrored Thoughts / Spaces Between
February 13, 2011 – 3:02 pm
Carrie Pollack’s “Present” works are textured canvases that are delicately and deliberately gilded with leaf that is then meditatively rubbed away in a process that reminds artist and viewer of their own vulnerability and loss. The artist’s constructive and destructive actions are foiled by the unpredictable surface of the canvas. Ultimately the play between raw [...]