March 31, 2006
Tom Sanford at Leo Koenig
Tom Sanford The Triumph of Passion over Reason 2006 oil/acrylic on canvas 119.5" x 119" [installation view, with thumbnail detail*] We had first seen his work at 31 Grand in Williamsburg several years ago. Today Tom Sanford continues his...
March 30, 2006
Eduardo Sarabia at I-20
Eduardo Sarabia Guadalajara (country) 2005-2006 hand-woven wool tapestry 94" x 124" [large detail of installation] Eduardo Sarabia A thin line between love and hate 2005 hand painted ceramic vases and silkscreen boxes, dimensions variable, each unique [detail of installation]...
Metro Mall plays April Fool early
a noble experiment A Queens shopping center has cancelled Saturday's Metro Mall Art and Science Fair which had been organized by Jacques Louis Vidal. The young artist had planned a very imaginative sculpture/event along with 26 other artists and...
Jacques Louis Vidal and friends to energize Metro Mall
Vidal's multiple exposure We're going to the mall on Saturday. It will be my very first visit, since the day I exited a highway in Victorville, California looking for a place to pee, to a representative example of Middle...
March 29, 2006
Paolo Arao at Jeff Bailey
Paolo Arao and John Miserendino Cabinet 2006 tube televisions, DVD players, plywood, screw, flashe paint, blue extension cord [detail of installation with still from DVD] It's like walking into a wonderful playhouse populated by four very good, gentle friends....
March 28, 2006
Barbara Probst at Murray Guy
Barbara Probst Exposure #11A: N.Y.C., Duane & Church, 06.10.02, 3:07 p.m. 2002 Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 2 parts: 16" x 23.5" each It's so simple, but so very beautiful. This was just one of the multiple-image pieces Barbara...
March 27, 2006
Fiona Banner at Printed Matter
Fiona Banner [detail of installation, including various graphite drawings on paper and the reflection of the set of three neon sculptures, Backfire (a force of nature)] As difficult as it may be to add superlatives to what this bookstore...
David Humphrey at Triple Candie
David Humphrey [detail of installation, "Snowman in Love"] David Humphrey said goodbye to his "Snowman in Love" at Triple Candie last night, and we were there to watch as fifteen dancing and very physically-engaged, recently-retired holiday airbags were rapidly...
March 26, 2006
the people of Belarus vote with their bodies
citizens resisting an illegitimate regime in a haze of tear gas in Minsk's October Square In some nations a noble and aroused people will determine to do something when it becomes clear that their "democrcacy" is a fraud. Here...
March 24, 2006
Faille in Williamsburg
Faile is a more-than-conventionally-stealthy street art collaborative whose work is typically spotted first in the corner of an eye. This sighting was in Williamsburg, on Wythe Street I believe....
Tara Donovan at Pace Wildenstein 22nd Street
Tara Donovan Untitled (Plastic Cups) 2006 plastic cups, installation dimensions variable, approximately 5' x 50' x 60' [large detail of installation] Pace Wildenstein is showing Tara Donovan's remarkable 'landscape' installation of stacked plastic cups in the space on 22nd...
Crackerfarm, Duncan and Linn at Envoy
(when they looked like siblings) (although only one of them could have passed as an angel) The tiny Envoy gallery has currently has a show, "(Un)masked", which includes the work of three artists or artist-collaboratives, Crackerfarm, George Duncan and...
Hannon, Jürgensen and Noonan at Foxy Production
Foxy Production [installation view of the gallery show, with a large detail of Jacob Dahl Jürgensen's Untitled Construction in the foreground] Frank Hannon Abbyssinium 2006 archival inkjet on brown paper bags, collage, ink, spraypaint [installation view] David Noonan Untitled...
Jacob Dyrenforth at Wallspace
Jacob Dyrenforth [installation view, including large details of Stand-In for Ceremony in the foreground and Three in One on the wall] Jacob Dyrenforth The Compound 2006 graphite on paper 22" x 30" [installation view] Cultural heroes, cults, sensational news...
March 21, 2006
swimming in Iraq
swimming on our aircraft carrier in the desert Not many people will get to read my post or the original The Nation article available only in the print edition, but maybe a color image and the accompanying story from...
March 20, 2006
Pierogi is moving to Leipzig
before Pierogi No, Pierogi 2000, the pioneering Williamsburg gallery is actually only opening up a second space. Brooklyn and the island to the west can breathe a sigh of relief. It's interesting that it's Leipzig [in the Spinnerei] rather...
Brock Enright and Ivan Hürzeler at Cynthia Broan
Brock Enright and Ivan Hürzeler [large detail of diptych still from installation] Now that I have your attention I can talk up the incredible Brock Enright show installed at Cynthia Broan this month. When I wrote a post a...
March 19, 2006
March 18, 2006
'Permanent Bases' and Rachel Corrie, both in The Nation
There are few issues more important to our own survival and that of the entire world than the state of Israel and the war in Iraq. In two consecutive issues this month The Nation's contributors offer enlightenment in these areas...
Elia Alba in "Disco" at Longwood
Elia Alba Masks 2005 photocopy transfer on muslin [view of installation] Elia Alba Muscle Boy 2006 C-print mounted on Sintra (from the series "Larry Levan Live!") [installation view, including portions of two other works by the artist] [continuing images...
Christian Marclay in "Disco" at Longwood
Christian Marclay Who's Looking Back (from the series "Body Mix") 1992 two record covers and cotton thread [installation view] [continuing images from the Longwood show]...
March 17, 2006
Brock Enright with Vilma Gold at Armory
Brock Enright's Start Me [three large details of installation] London's Vilma Gold gallery showed this wonderful installation by young New Yorker Brock Enright. I believe it helps to know that the video artist is relatively notorious for his intense...
Iván Navarro with Roebling Hall at Armory
Iván Navarro Backstage 2005 [detail of installation] Roebling Hall showed this very electric sculpture by Iván Navarro at the Armory. I love shiny pictures....
Erwin Olaf with Magda Danysz at Pulse
Erwin Olaf [unidentified video still] The somewhat outrageous Erwin Olaf appeared in the booth of the Paris gallery Magda Danysz. I regret I have no notes and no idea where this video goes but the little that I saw...
John Weir has a new book - finally!
John Weir has a new book. It's been a while, and although I can't say I've been able to hold my breath all these years, I admit that I'm almost surprised that it won't be called "Mr. Novel". That's...
"Sophie Scholl-The Final Days"
Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who...
March 16, 2006
"Do You Think I'm Disco" at Longwood Arts Project
[the view inside the entrance to the show, with Carrie Moyer's 2005 "Rock the Boat" silkscreen installed on the wall] We visited a show at the Longwood Arts Project at Hostos this afternoon, just in time to tell about...
Paul P. with Ropac at Armory, Selwyn at LA ART
Paul P. Untitled 2006 watercolor on paper 27.5" x 20" [large detail of installation] Paul P. was represented during last week's fairs by at least two galleries on nearly opposite sides of the earth. The image above, shown here...
Scott Myles with Modern Institute at Armory
Scott Myles Meat in America 2005 unique silkscreen on paper 28" x 40.25" each of two parts [large detail of installation] Glasgow's very hot The Modern Institute showed Scott Myles at the Armory....
An-My Le with Murray Guy at Armory
This awesome work by An-My Le was shown at the Armory by Murray Guy. I can't add anything....
March 15, 2006
Aaron Krach with DCKT at Pulse
Aaron Krach Indestructible Artifact #8 (Fatigue) 2006 bumper sticker [installation view] Aaron Krach [two photographs otherwise unidentified] DCKT showed work by author and artist Aaron Krach in their booth at Pulse. I like the toys, but the bumper sticker...
Shih Chieh Huang with Virgil de Voldère at Pulse
Shih Chieh Huang Rise and Fall of Civilization 2006 mixed media, dimensions variable in time and space [three views of installation] Shih Chieh Huang's beautiful kinetic sculpture dominated Virgil de Voldère's booth at Pulse, and that's quite an accomplishment,...
Jacobs Jeroen with Magnus Müller at Pulse
Jacobs Jeroen Ka De We 2005 sculpture in concrete 12.25" x 11.75" x 10.25 [installation view] I've decided I'm a sucker for concrete sculpture, and not just when it's a real building, but the pieces by the Dutch artist...
Simon English with Galerie Römerapotheke at Scope
A fascinating booth, good people, great chocolate, and Simon English drawings. A great way to end our visit to Scope Saturday night, inside the Zürich gallery with the wonderful name and the great facade, Römerapotheke. Bought the book; maybe...
Carter Kustera with Solomon Projects at Scope
The world unfortunately continues to grind out a rich load of subjects for Carter Kustera's singular art. This piece, exhibited by Atlanta's Solomon Projects at Scope, pretends to offer fashion advice, but it's really about the fashion of violence....
James Rieck with Lyons Weir at Pulse
James Rieck Something Special 2006 oil on canvas 82" x 74" [installation view] Lyons Weir Gallery showed something new from James Rieck at Pulse, a luscious color version of his party dress oils. While visiting the gallery itself several...
Melissa Pokorny with The Front Room at Fountain
Melissa Pokorny Drag (Double Goer) 2005 MDF, laminates, polyurethane resins, polar fleece and fabric 38" x 41" x 74" [installation view] Melissa Pokorny You and Me and Bird Shit 2005 MDF, laminates, polyurethane resins, bogus bricks, fabric 33" x...
Tim Hawkinson with Pace Wildenstein at Armory
Tim Hawkinson Bike Spin 2004 [view of installation] But it still rolls, er, spins. This was just about the very first work I saw at my initial stop during a long weekend of art fairs. What looks like just...
March 14, 2006
Robert Mapplethorpe with Alison Jacques at Armory
Robert Mapplethorpe Star (gold) 1983 stained wood and gold mirror 47" x 49" [large detail of installation, including reflection] STAR I've always preferred Mapplethorpe's 1980's cold, minimal sculptural work, with or without the photographs, to anything else he ever...
Heather Rowe with D'Amelio Terras at Armory
Heather Rowe Untitled (screen #1) 2006 metal studs, wood, tape and glass 42" x 28" x 82" [installation view] Dynamite. Couldn't walk away. Don't know why. Want to know where it's going now. Can I visit? Heather Rowe's sculpture...
Birgit Brenner with Eigen + Art at Armory
Eigen + Art Berlin showed drawings by the German artist Birgit Brenner at Armory. I felt like I was barely shown the tip of a very large iceberg; I'd like to see more. I would also like to have...
Louise Fishman at Cheim & Read, and . . . .
Louise Fishman Rock and Ruins 2005 oil on linen 60" x 70" [detail*] Louise Fishman The Arto of Losing 2003 oil on linen 80" x 60" [view of installation] Louise Fishman The Moon in My Sky 2005 oil on...
March 13, 2006
Paper Rad with Electronic Arts Intermix at the Armory
Paper Rad's cardboard mural made up the entire western wall of the Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) cubicle at the Armory show....
Jimmy Robert with Galerie Diana Stigter at the Armory
Jimmy Robert Untitled 2005 15.75" x 15.75" print [view of installation] Jimmy Robert Untitled 2005 mixed media [view of installation] The Amsterdam gallery Diana Stigter showed beautiful work at the Armory by the young French (Guadaloupe) artist and performer...
Kehinde Wiley with Roberts and Tilton at LA ART,
and with Rhona Hoffman at the Armory Kehinde Wiley Willem van Huythuysen 2006 oil and enamel on canvas 8' x 6' [large detail of installation] Gosh, he just gets better. This magnificent painting was offered by Roberts and Tilton at...
Jacques Louis Vidal with Curator's Office at Scope
Jacques Louis Vidal Hurricane Machine 2004 digital video [still from video installation] \ Jacques Louis Vidal Tower of Light 2004 digital video [still from video installation] Jacques Louis Vidal Air Filter 2004 digital video [still from video installation] At...
March 12, 2006
Armory, Pulse, Scope, Fountain, LA ART, DiVA
THE NEW YORK ART SHOWS If the Armory Show was the slightly stuffy grown-up, Pulse was the younger sibling who wanted to be liked as much as respected, and Scope was the sassy kid who decided to ignore the rules....
March 10, 2006
Scope New York is a huge, huge success - and a blast!
[details on these images to follow soon] Not to take away anything from the other "major" art fairs going on in New York this weekend, but if you're only going to hit one of the shows, make it Scope...
it's all about the art
Art is elitist only for those who say it is. This was what the Artists Space installation of several Charles Goldman pieces looked like yesterday afternoon during the press and privileged-collector preview for the Armory Show. Since there was...
March 8, 2006
a very special daisy
untitled (double Gerbera) 2006 Not until I got the little Gerbera Daisy plant came home did I notice how special it was: One of the blossoms is a double, a gorgeous pair of Siamese twins. They seem very happy....
March 7, 2006
Marilyn Minter hanging out on 23rd Street
Marilyn Minter Splish Spash and Runs 2005 billboard [view of installation] This is a shot of one of four huge billboards installed in Chelsea by Creative Time as a tribute to the wonderful New York photographer and painter Marilyn...
March 6, 2006
Jenny Holzer: bigger will be bigger
Le Corbusier* via Jenny Holzer via Larry Silverstein Speaking of large works of art [from my March 4 post: "...the Whitney rooms are devoted almost exclusively to large works; almost everything can be seen easily from a distance."], Jenny...
March 5, 2006
images from the Whitney Biennial
I've uploaded below some two dozen images of work from this year's Whitney Biennial, but I'm not suggesting they represent anything but a sampling of the work in the show, especially since I'm not going to include any notes. Some...
off-Chelsea in Chelsea, with Nick Mauss
Ken Okiishi "David Wojnarowicz" in "New York" 1999 DVD [still from video installation] Lorraine O'Grady The Renaissance Man is Back in Business (The New York Times, Sunday, September 25, 1977) xerox from newspaper collage/poem [detail of installation] We slipped...
