Nicolas Linnert
Dashiell Manley
Redling Fine Art
June 2013
Upon entering Dashiell Manley’s installation, The Great Train Robbery (Scene 3 version B), 2013, the viewer is immediately confronted with a large steel wall frame and, leaning against it, a glossy Plexiglas surface. Beneath the acrylic … READ ON
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Peter Roehr
Osmos
May 2013
As an artist, Peter Roehr explored making objects that could be mechanically reproduced. He worked feverishly at times, but ultimately rejected the idea of being an artist, his life ending shortly thereafter, when he died of cancer at the … READ ON
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Sverre Bjertnes and Bjarne Melgaard
White Columns
March 2013
“Do you ever question me and my loyalty as your friend?” Sverre Bjertnes asks collaborator Bjarne Melgaard in their video If You Really Loved Me You Would Be Able to Admit that You’re Ashamed of Me, 2013. Melgaard is silent. Alissa … READ ON
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Yvonne Venegas
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG)
January 2013
Yvonne Venegas’s photography, possessing elements of portraiture and social documentation, tends toward individuals used to attention: adored actors, detested socialites, proud brides, or a famous twin sister. Her museum survey chronologically… READ ON
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Gerard Byrne
Protocinema
November 2012
At a vacated corner store on the Lower East Side, dried dirt marks the interior’s tile floor while the storefront’s awning, lined with Chinese script, is the remainder of its previous owners’ aborted entrepreneurial pursuits. For now,… READ ON
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Charlotte Prodger and Jason Loebs
Essex Street
August 2012
Everywhere at Essex Street gallery, one sees objects depicted nearing the end of life. Faded signatures and waning pastel Visa logos are overlaid with sections of credit card information in Jason Loebs’s five untitled vertical prints (all… READ ON
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“Fükengrüven”
BODEGA
July 2012
“Driving enjoyment” is the rough English translation of Volkswagen’s 1990 advertising slogan. The German mantra—Fahrvergnügen—projected ease and playfulness and quickly spawned a decal, seen on cruisers like the VW Bus, that featured… READ ON
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Jon Rafman
M+B Gallery
June 2012
There is an easy space for skepticism when facing the shifty depictions in Jon Rafman’s art. His latest exhibition, “Mirror Sites,” is currently on view at M+B and closed at International Art Objects on June 9. Among other works, the… READ ON
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Francesca Woodman
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
May 2012
Because we know how her story ends, Francesca Woodman’s retrospective reads equally as psychological study and survey exhibition. Before her suicide at age twenty-two, Woodman had produced a sizable collection of serial photographs, often… READ ON
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Cheyney Thompson
MIT List Visual Arts Center
March 2012
Cheyney Thompson’s art touches on such wide-ranging subjects as the art market, temporality, and the French archetypal villain Robert Macaire—sometimes within the space of a single work. For his first US museum survey, the artist’s … READ ON