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03Jul

Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity

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Hyperallergic, July 1, 2017. Lezley Saar explores the ambiguities of being neither black nor white, male nor female. For decades Saar has looked behind the veil of superficial appearance, to explore the emotional conflict underlying mistaken identity from the perspective of a biracial woman who looks white – but feels black. Gender Renaissance at Walter Maciel...

27May

Pippa Garner’s Crossover Art of Gizmos, Gadgets, and Gender

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Hyperallergic, May 27, 2017. Pippa Garner is a crossover artist with a penchant for satirical inventions and ideas. Tinker Tantrum at Redling Fine Art includes pencil drawings and texts, mixed media assemblages, and video performances from the 1970s to the present that showcase Garner’s ingenuity as an absurdist and bricoleur, exploring a vein of popular science...

29Apr

artist profile: rachel lachowicz

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art ltd. May/June 2017. Today more expansive feminisms are trending in the era of transgender politics and once again Rachel Lachowicz is driving the conversation. Lachowicz prefixes red lipstick onto satirical homages of iconic minimalist works in her feminist interventions in minimalism to transgress gender binaries. Her “feminimalist” work fuses aesthetic complexity with conceptual rigor. Lachowicz was...

31Mar

James Griffith’s Tar Paintings, Biophilia @ Craig Krull Gallery

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Mountain Lion 16x12, oiland tar on panel, 2016

HuffPost, March 31, 2017. A review of James Griffith’s tar paintings. Instead of depicting nature, Griffith works with nature itself, extracting images of the milky way, flora and fauna out of tar so that his paintings exude life. Rather than making paintings of nature Griffith’s artwork behaves like nature – recalling Jackson Pollock’s famous comment ” I...

17Mar

Andy Moses’ Kinesthetic Paintings: A 30-Year Survey @ S.M.C’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery

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HuffPost, March 17, 2007. For Andy Moses , nature is the greatest artist. He says, ” I always wanted to make paintings that didn’t emphasize the painter – to get to a natural phenomenon that is so organic that the paintings feel like they created themselves.” Moses explores different optical perspectives of nature drawn from...

25Feb

Llyn Foulkes, Visionary Outsider of Noir @ Spruth Magers

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Installation View, Llyn Foulkes, Old Man Blues. Photo Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy Spruth Magers 2 copy

Huffington Post, February 25, 2017. An essay on Lyn Foulkes’ visionary political work and anti-Trump artworks which opened at Spruth Magers the evening before the Presidential Inauguration. For decades Foulkes has made strong political statements about the abuse of power, corporate greed and the commodification of fantasy symbolized by Mickey Mouse. Foulkes is at the forefront of...

06Feb

Interview with Gisela Colon: Kinesthetic Minimalist Sculpture @ Diane Rosenstein Gallery

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Huffington Post February 6, 2017. Interview with Gisela Colon about the kinesthetic quality of her sculptures at Diane Rosenstein Gallery. The organic overlay in Colon’s sculpture expands the dialogue on Light and Space and Minimalism with a feminine twist. Link: Interview with Gisela Colon: Kinesthetic Minimalist Sculpture @ Diane Rosenstein Gallery http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gisela-colon-interview-kinesthetic-minimalist-sculpture_us_58962a94e4b0985224db55ce ...

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