Chloé Rossetti
Carroll Dunham
Gladstone Gallery | West 24th St
December 2012
Carroll Dunham, master of the solid form, man of the (mostly) closed edge, presents a new suite of nudes, and some trees. Brazen as ever, the scopophilic––verging on misogynistic––treatment of the subject matter belies Dunham’s … READ ON
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Phong Bui
Show Room
December 2012
Phong Bui’s studio in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn fell victim to a flash flood last August, claiming 20 percent of his art. Lining the floor of that space, Bui’s life work, accreted, became an unsalvageable bog, detrital and… READ ON
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Nathlie Provosty
1:1
November 2012
Nathlie Provosty’s intimate works on paper, linen, and sheepskin, on view in her debut solo New York exhibition, are as much a meditation on the lineage of materials as they are a visually compelling investigation into the history of … READ ON
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Richard Gordon
Gitterman Gallery
October 2012
Richard Gordon was a very “slow” photographer, a patron of the patient viewer. His many subjects were often quotidian, well framed, and densely layered with meaning. So slow is the impact of his work that it may take a long time after … READ ON
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“Interior Visions”
Colby College Museum of Art
September 2012
The Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz, at the Colby College Museum of Art, is a wing dedicated to, as its name suggests, a permanent, rotating display of Colby’s considerable collection of Katz’s work. Currently on view is … READ ON
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Park Avenue Armory
August 2012
Enter the Park Avenue Armory in the next month to encounter a near-empty Drill Hall, populated only with a barely-there sound installation so surprisingly sonorous that it fills the immense darkness with a clamorous density, bearing down on… READ ON
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Marisa Jahn
Marisa Jahn talks about El Bibliobandido
August 2012
Marisa Jahn is a New York–based artist, writer, and executive director of the arts organization REV-. Here, she discusses her 2010 project El Bibliobandido, which she created with the support of nonprofit Un Mundo for the largely illiterate… READ ON
500 WORDS
“Anti-Establishment”
Bard Center for Curatorial Studies
August 2012
“Anti-Establishment,” curated expertly by Johanna Burton, is a group exhibition dedicated to those whose artistic practices playfully interrogate, reinterpret, and reinvent the notion of “the institution.” Comprising video, painting,… READ ON
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Caro Niederer
Hauser & Wirth | New York
July 2012
The popping fuchsias, marigold yellows, and burnt reds that percuss through Caro Niederer’s latest canvases create a rhythm of coherence across wildly diverse subject matter, bouncing across dinner tables, penetrating through sex, and … READ ON
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Hélio Oiticica
Galerie Lelong | New York
June 2012
Upon entering this show, viewers pass by a monograph on the receptionist’s desk titled Hélio Oiticica: Painting Beyond the Frame, by Brazilian artist and writer Luciano Figueiredo; those words are an appropriate enough introduction to the… READ ON