FOR AN ARTIST, FINDING THE ENTRY POINT to a canvas can be the most confounding part of the creative process. Tomer Aluf, a 35-year-old Israeli who has lived in New York City for the past eight years, uses fictional narratives in which he is the protagonist as his...
Facing the Sublime in Water, CA
NOTWITHSTANDING THE RECENT HURRICANE THAT FLOODED New York City's galleries, the mundane act of pouring four liters of sea water from the nearest shoreline and leaving it to evaporate on the gallery floor creates a profoundly moving effect. Emilie Halpern's...
Amanda Ross-Ho
WHETHER ONE THINKS OF AMANDA ROSS-HO AS A SCULPTOR, A photographer, or more broadly, a conceptual artist, it is clear that she applies a deliberate approach to exploring and controlling a passion for "stuff." Through inventive modes of display—of objects and images...
London Calling
Phyllida Barlow, "Rift," a site specific installation in three parts, 2012: Untitled: hoardings, 2012, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, London, photo by Maksim Belousov, Mykhailo Chornyy. DO WE NEED ANOTHER BIENNALE? CERTAINLY UKRAINE SEEMS to think so,...
UNDER THE RADAR
UNDER THE RADAR Pearblossom Hwy MIKE OTT'S PEARBLOSSOM HWY REACHES for reality, in a real way, sort of. LA filmmaker's Mike Ott's last movie—LiTTLEROCK (2010) was a surprise smash in indie terms, racking up the kewpie dolls at LA's AFI Fest, indie fests in Boston,...
Eli Langer
ELI LANGER'S RECENT SOLO SHOW IS AN ENCHANTING LANDSCAPE of nocturnal emissions and conversations. Seemingly crafted out of countless late nights spent in furtive dialogue with self, nature and others, the show offers suggestions of urban influences and psychological...
Kerry Tribe
IN HER CURRENT WORK, KERRY TRIBE APPROPRIATES CONTENT from Hollywood films, specifically those shot at the Greystone mansion in Beverly Hills, piecing together dialogue culled from over 60 films. "There Will Be" features the 30-minute original film Greystone, as well...