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We have abandonment issues lately/forever – desolate, disconsolate and a bit fragile. In Henry Taylor’s painting, that fragility coexists with an incongruous durability – a hard thing that cracks against identity or classification or simply swallows it up. Taylor’s...
If Rebeca Puga's paintings could speak, they might quote, in their collective voice, the Socratic paradox, "I only know that I know nothing." Instead of formulating bold statements, they suggest ineffable speculations.In pencil lines, thin washes, and wobbly...
Photographer Richard Learoyd has returned to the ancient roots of his craft to grasp the materiality of that moment of our impact upon the world, specifically with the camera obscura in its most literal definition – the image received on a large sheet of...
Curated by the New York-based art and fashion magazine collective DIS, The Ninth Berlin Biennale: “The Present in Drag” (or BB9), attempts to examine a “postcontemporary” condition through the presentation of unavoidable inauthenticity. Mostly it consists of work made...
Joseph Stashkevetch is a consummate craftsman, his work suspended effortlessly between drawing and photography. In his recent show at Von Lintel Gallery, the addition of a literal third dimension leverages his simple process (conté crayon on rag paper) into an...
Federico Solmi’s “The Brotherhood” offers a dystopian nightmare-scape where the cult of celebrity overwhelms one’s every sense. The pseudo-cliché of the beautiful versus the profane collides in the meticulously painted frames of “smart” TVs projecting Solmi’s drawings...
Activities are often pierced by interludes that have little to do with them. One’s reading, for instance, may be interrupted by thoughts, noise, a graphic on the opposite page, a text message. This sort of discontinuity is central to Paris-based Denis Darzacq and...
Constructed spaces, both virtual and actual, link the works of Barry Anderson and Timothy Paul Myers (in collaboration with Andrew Barnes). In the front galleries, Kansas City-based multimedia artist Barry Anderson presents projections, stills and monitor based works...
Curated by critic Michael Duncan, this 15-year survey consisting of 40 mixed media works, paintings, textiles and sculptures was evocatively entitled “Tree. Lingam. Void.” The exhibition offered an in-depth look into the artist’s ongoing exploration of the collective...
The vast, empty expanses of the southern California landscape, whether desert vistas or sprawling webs of highways, have long fascinated artists. John Divola photographed a moldering beach house in Zuma and an “Isolated House” series of desert abodes while Ed Ruscha...