Carrie Schneider

moniquemeloche

April 2012

For her new collection of photographs, “Burning House,” 2010–11, Carrie Schneider returned twelve times to a small island in the center of a rural Wisconsin lake. On each visit, she hauled or canoed a small house with her, and then set… READ ON

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Rénee Green

April 2011

For twenty years Rénee Green’s work has explored connections: between color and knowledge; among global networks (of people, ideas, materials); and between art and its audiences. In this sense, her latest exhibition feels like nothing new.… READ ON

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John Knight

April 2011

Entering Greene Naftali’s cavernous Chelsea space for this exhibition feels, in a word, underwhelming. The viewer is greeted by a large corporate font declaring AUTOTYPES—the first word of the show’s title—and a vitrined stack of … READ ON

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“Found in Translation”

April 2011

One could be forgiven for coming to understand this wave of globalization over the past twenty years as a clash of civilizations doomed by religious and linguistic separation. The Tower of Babel scenario is a letimotif highlighted by everything… READ ON

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“Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible”

March 2011

This group exhibition, organized in conjunction with the University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art, takes up the democratic idealism and lived contradiction of the European Union some twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. That … READ ON

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia

February 2011

Philip-Lorca diCorcia, well known for his staged photographs that depict friends, family, and strangers in ambiguous mise-en-scènes, returns to this gallery with “Eleven,” a suite of fashion images culled from the eleven projects he … READ ON

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David Hammons

February 2011

In this exhibition, the esteemed New York artist David Hammons revisits themes that were active in an exhibition he mounted several years ago at this gallery, a posh town house on the Upper East Side. His 2007 collaboration here (with Chie… READ ON

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Odili Donald Odita

December 2010

For those not familiar with Philadelphia-based painter Odili Donald Odita’s vivid revitalization of 1960s and ’70s hard-edged abstraction, this exhibition is a concise and elegant introduction. Since returning almost exclusively to painting… READ ON

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“New Work”

September 2010

This group exhibition features recent pieces by seven of Matthew Marks’s marquee, midcareer artists. What it lacks in coherence it makes up for in the delight of seeing familiar names delivering technically proficient, visually arresting … READ ON

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“Crowd Scene”

September 2010

In “Crowd Scene,” artist Todd Kelly manages a group show that is more than the sum of its parts. As curator, he also unwittingly proves the exhibition’s underlying conceit, that there is simply too much competition out there for emerging,… READ ON

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