Nicole Rudick
James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook
James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook talk about 7 Miles a Second
March 2013
James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook are New York–based artists who, in 1984, opened the East Village gallery Ground Zero, which showed pioneering installation, performance, and multimedia work. One of their earliest artists was David … READ ON
500 WORDS
Gary Panter
October 2011
Gary Panter’s first solo show at Fredericks & Freiser is an odd affair. It is presented much like a debut exhibition, with introductory remarks about his general style, yet it offers a quarter century of work. What's more, the show’s … READ ON
PICKS
Rachell Sumpter
July 2011
The seven paintings in Rachell Sumpter’s latest exhibition—bright, delicate evocations of tribal existence in forests thick with plant life—measure just under one square foot each. Populated by impossibly small human figures and vines… READ ON
PICKS
Comic Strip
Nicole Rudick on Dash Shaw
December 2009
CINEMATIC IS OFTEN A FRAUGHT TERM when used to describe comics. On the one hand, it can aptly express a story’s visual syntax (close-ups, jump cuts, dissolves); applied a different way, however, it derogatorily suggests that a series of … READ ON
FILM
Mariah Robertson
October 2009
While most young photographers plunge into theory, politics, or portraiture to develop their themes, Mariah Robertson can’t get out of the darkroom. Her aim is to explore the process of making pictures, rather than making meaning, and she… READ ON
PICKS
Andrei Molotiu
Andrei Molotiu discusses Abstract Comics: The Anthology
August 2009
Andrei Molotiu is an artist and art historian who teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington, and who recently edited Abstract Comics: The Anthology, the first collection devoted to the genre. Offering experiments by established cartoonists… READ ON
500 WORDS
Basil Wolverton
June 2009
What do Miss Bedney Flunt, Miss Fludney Bent, Miss Flentney Bunt, and Miss Blentney Funt have in common? Unreasonably odd proboscises and the hilarious misfortune of being drawn by Basil Wolverton. An artist and writer of sci-fi and humor … READ ON
PICKS
“Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde”
May 2009
The first extensive show of Funke’s photographs outside Europe displays his lyric imagery alongside that of twenty-two of his compatriots. Some seventy works will contextualize this lesser known movement of self-taught photographers within… READ ON
PREVIEWS
“Silent Pictures”
May 2009
The show combines selections from Art Spiegelman’s collection of rare early-twentieth-century wordless comics with materials gathered in the course of cartoonist Andrei Molotiu’s research into contemporary abstract comics.… READ ON
