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Chuck Close
Eykyn Maclean | New York
May 2013
Whether in laboriously executed paintings or technically complex fine art prints, Chuck Close has famously reprised the same subject throughout his long career: the visages of his friends, his colleagues, and himself. The degree of removal … READ ON
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Richard Misrach
High Museum of Art
July 2012
For almost two decades the High Museum has sponsored “Picturing the South,” an initiative through which established contemporary photographers compose and present purely subjective portraits of the region. Given Richard Misrach’s … READ ON
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Elise Adibi
Churner and Churner
June 2012
Using a process determined equally by seriality and human presence, Elise Adibi draws on the sparse parameters of Minimalist facture to, paradoxically, call attention to the unique, individual character of artistic production. Five six-foot-square… READ ON
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Martin Kippenberger
Carolina Nitsch
May 2012
In its display of sublime suffering and desperation, Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa seems an unlikely inspiration for Martin Kippenberger, an artist often remembered for his dark humor. As well, the earlier … READ ON
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Mira Schor
Marvelli Gallery
April 2012
Since the late 1970s, Mira Schor has integrated text into works that interrogate the formal and theoretical concerns of artistic production. Her current show could be a summation of this long-term project, as the paintings and drawings on … READ ON
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Martha Wilson
September 2011
For the past four decades, Martha Wilson has mined herself and others to reveal the masquerades required and produced by everyday life. In particular, her project has involved highlighting, undermining, and subverting the construction of … READ ON
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Allan deSouza
August 2011
Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration” series, 1940–41, has long stood as the most comprehensive and telling visual account of the dramatic relocation of African Americans from the rural South to cities such as New York and Chicago during the… READ ON
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Miroslav Tichư
August 2011
With their soft focus and voyeuristic viewpoint, the untitled photographs by the late Miroslav Tichý seen in this exhibition immediately recall the long art-historical legacy of the female bather. Adapted by artists as venerable as Ingres,… READ ON
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B. Wurtz
July 2011
For over four decades, B. Wurtz has produced sculptures made from the neglected artifacts of daily life, presenting objects similar to each other primarily in their improbability as works of art, typically within minimalist exhibition contexts… READ ON
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Keith Haring
June 2011
Keith Haring rapidly ascended in the fever-pitched art world of 1980s New York to become a fixture of both the downtown scene and popular culture. His status as a founder of the street art movement was secured with drawings characterized by… READ ON