Haute Romantics @ Verge Gallery
Nodding to historical notions of Romanticism, this show of young, mostly downtown New York artists filters its subject through the lens of various other isms: narcissism, voyeurism, consumerism and careerism. Alternately introspective and exhibitionist, it seems, more than anything, to want to have fun.
Margaret Harrison @ Intersection for the Arts
Since the 1970s, Margaret Harrison has explored the politics of domesticity, addressing issues that range from domestic labor to sex trafficking to genital mutilation and domestic abuse. Her work tracks the relationship of gender oppression in the domestic arena to global economic and political systems.
Road Trip: Fallon, NV
04 March 2010
Art in Fallon, NV? Fallon (pop: 7,536) may be the hippest little town in the West. For proof check out sculptor Robert Brady’s show at Oats Park Arts Center, a cultural oasis where you can also catch big-city jazz. Joe Lovano, anyone?
Posted in TravelComments (3)
Mari Andrews & Sheila Ghidini @ Chandra Cerrito
13 February 2010
The sculptures and drawings of Mari Andrews and Sheila Ghidini aim at what Suzi Gablik called a “resacralization” of the world: a reclamation of all that has been lost on our beleaguered planet.
Posted in ReviewsComments (0)
Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook @ JAYJAY
30 January 2010
In their collaborative works, Harvey and Koo wrest order from manufactured chaos. Their wall-sized montages, built from thousands of images, show painting at its maximally expressive.
Posted in ReviewsComments (0)
Eleanor Wood @ Don Soker Contemporary
25 January 2010
Eleanor Wood’s hermetic Minimalism embraces a sense of infinitely plotted spatial extensions while instantiating an intricate, insistent, rigidly contained, eye-catching, hypnotic singularity.
Posted in ReviewsComments (1)
Diane Arbus @ Fraenkel Gallery
21 January 2010
After the exhaustively hagiographical 2003 Diane Arbus retrospective, Revelation, at SFMOMA, what more can there be to say or look at? Plenty, as this show of around 30 early works and outtakes.
Posted in ReviewsComments (0)
Markus Linnenbrink @ Sweetow
18 January 2010
Markus Linnebrink doesn’t compose in the conventional sense; his works are a kind of visual archeology: an exploratory process in which the artist is both creator and excavator.
Posted in ReviewsComments (2)
Mike Henderson @ Haines
15 January 2010
Employing Cubism’s floating color planes and Abstract Expressionism’s turbulent paint and ambiguous ideographs/hieroglyphs, Henderson's works generate their own force field.
Posted in Painting, ReviewsComments (1)
Theodora Varnay Jones @ SJICA
21 December 2009
Can Minimalism’s geometry, impenetrable surfaces and modular units be recast with feeling? Theodora Varnay Jones answers with an emphatic yes.
Posted in ReviewsComments (0)
- Subscribe To SquareCylinder Automatic Updates
Openings - See all photos
