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Enrique Martinez Celaya’s The Tears of Things

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Riot Material October 21, 2019. Enrique Martinez Celaya’s haunting exhibition at Kohn Gallery is conceived as visual poetry predicated upon Virgil’s phrase “the tears of things.” As a physicist trained to ask questions that uncover contradictions he uses the poetic implications of Virgil’s phrase to make a quantum leap into the lofty realm of...

19Oct

Laura Krifka’s Wickedly Deviant Game of Patience

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Riot Material October 17, 2019. Laura Krifka enjoys doing things she is not supposed to do. Having absorbed the tenets of neoclassical paintng, she bypasses high-minded seriousness by adding a sugar-coated veneer of hyper-artificiality adopted from 1950s MGM musicals to the domestic decor of private scenes which she undercuts with a deviant sexual subtext recalling...

12Jun

Interview: Christina Quarles and the Aesthetics of Ambiguity

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Riot Material June 12, 2019. Interview with Christina Quarles about the Aesthetics of Ambiguity. Christina Quarles is at the forefront of a generation of millenial artists who are making ambiguity the aesthetic of our time. Few artists can incorporate as many painting styles as fluidly as Quarles does because few artists have the chops to...

05Jun

Deborah Roberts Explores The Fragility of Black Masculinity in Native Sons

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Riot Material June 5, 2019. Deborah Roberts’ impassioned exhibition memorializes Black boys who lost their lives from the social injustices of false accusations for murders they did not commit. This solemn exhibition is predicated on African American literature and takes its title from James Baldwin’s non fiction esssay, ” Many Thousand Gone” ( Notes of...