
Johanna Fateman’s top ten highlights of 2020
Johanna Fateman is a writer, an art crtic, and a co-owner of Seagull Salon in New York. She is a contributing editor of Artforum.
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K8 HARDY (REENA SPAULINGS FINE ART, NEW YORK)
While the “Best of 2020” sounds like a grim joke (the ten best catastrophes?), the year wasn’t without absurdist bright spots, such as Hardy’s ten-foot-long pigment-soaked maxi pad (her show’s sole work). Which is not to say the “canvas”—an old-fashioned Color Field painting in a sour-power palette—was played for laughs. For me, it was the indelible gesture of the New York fall openings. Greedily absorbent, radiant with