“Taboo”

Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

February 2013

Whether sacred or profane, taboos often focus their proscriptions against perfomativity and the bodies that enact them. “Taboo,” a provocative exhibition of contemporary Australian and international artists, whose works are presented … READ ON

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Conrad Ruiz

Jessica Silverman Gallery

November 2012

Dominant artistic means have changed since the 1960s, when a healthy penchant for all things experimental first drew the art world’s sun-loving dreamers to Southern California to draw inspiration from its beaches and freeform scene. A … READ ON

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Adam Henry

Joe Sheftel Gallery

May 2012

The first cut, the saying goes, is always the deepest. And for his debut New York solo show, Adam Henry cuts right to the bone. A lambent play between surface and material, the works making up “In Spectral Form” confront the finitudes of… READ ON

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Paul Mpagi Sepuya discusses Studio Work

May 2012

Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Brooklyn-based artist. His forthcoming publication Studio Work documents the art he made during his residency last year at the Studio Museum in Harlem; the book will be available through D.A.P. starting this fall. Select… READ ON

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Stan Douglas

David Zwirner | 525 & 533 West 19th Street

April 2012

“I feel the same way about disco,” Hunter S. Thompson once quipped, “as I do about herpes.” Indeed, the decade of jive is often relegated to a less than Periclean position within our cultural history. However, time, as the maxim goes,… READ ON

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Bill Jenkins

Laurel Gitlen

March 2012

Our knowledge of the past is founded, quite directly, upon the trash heaps of history. And while archaeologists are content to dig for the cast-offs of bygone epochs to better comprehend man’s past, there are those, artist Bill Jenkins … READ ON

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“The Displaced Person”

Invisible-Exports

February 2012

Alienation, it would seem, can be a creative force for inclusion. And, as each of the artists in “The Displaced Person” proves, one is rarely found without the other. Freud viewed alienation as the by-product of a cultural divorce between… READ ON

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Nan Goldin

November 2011

“Scopophilia,” a term borrowed from the psychoanalytic set to denote a desire rooted in observation, is a fitting title for an exhibition by an artist well known for her voyeuristic proclivities: Nan Goldin’s latest show is a penetrating,… READ ON

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Ari Marcopoulos

September 2011

Time, they say, is of the essence. Or is it fleeting? Either way, for his first solo exhibition with this gallery, Ari Marcopoulos continues his prolific documentation of time’s ebbs and flows. Most well known for his vérité depictions … READ ON

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