Mathieu Lefevre

Regina Rex

June 2013

“Irony as method” is how Mathieu Lefevre, the Canadian artist who passed away in 2011 at the age of thirty, once described his work. The ten pieces—indeed a litany of wisecracks and one-liners—included in his first posthumous solo … READ ON

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YES! Association/Föreningen JA!

YES! Association/Föreningen JA! talk about their work in “Anti-Establishment”

November 2012

The YES! Association/Föreningen JA! is an institution, an art worker, and a group of people working to overthrow heteronormative, patriarchal, racist, and capitalist power structures by redistributing access to financial resources, space, … READ ON

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Zoe Leonard

Murray Guy

October 2012

The checklist for Zoe Leonard’s current solo exhibition lists the materials composing her twenty-three-by-twenty-nine-foot camera obscura, 453 West 17th Street, 2012, as “lens and darkened room.” As with the installation’s previous… READ ON

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Ulrike Müller

Ulrike Müller talks about Herstory Inventory

May 2012

Ulrike Müller is an Austrian-born, New York–based artist whose work investigates form as a mode of critical engagement. In 2007, Müller found an inventory list describing a collection of feminist T-shirts at the Lesbian Herstory Archives… READ ON

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Deville Cohen

November 2011

The five aluminum-mounted ink-jet prints on view in Deville Cohen’s first New York solo exhibition seem like souvenirs from the main event: a nineteen-minute video playing on a large screen in the gallery’s basement. Combining photographs… READ ON

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MPA

October 2011

“To perform is a request for witness,” states MPA. Since 2005, the self-labeled feminist and exhibitionist has garnered attention for her live performances, often pushing her body through hypersymbolic physical thresholds in an ongoing … READ ON

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Glen Fogel

September 2011

For “Goldye,” his second New York solo exhibition this year, Glen Fogel backed his white 1991 Cadillac Seville into Callicoon Fine Arts’ new storefront space—inaugurating the Lower East Side location with a flourish of logistical … READ ON

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Wu Tsang

July 2011

The Silver Platter, a decades-old Los Angeles queer bar and safe space to Latina immigrant transgender women, provides pretext and content for LA-based Wu Tsang’s first New York solo exhibition. Site-specific video installation, sculpture,… READ ON

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“The Unfinished Film”

July 2011

At the heart of this exhibition is a 1,100-square-foot cinematheque where, every day at 3 PM, rarely screened prints of films and working fragments by auteurs ranging from Sergei Eisenstein and Maya Deren to David Gatten are projected. Curator… READ ON

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Matt Keegan

June 2011

A great amount of work—research and its resulting material objects—has been put into Matt Keegan’s latest and meticulously thought out solo exhibition at D’Amelio Terras. With the cool remove of a cultural anthropologist and the … READ ON

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