April 03, 2021
Transcending Passages
Maisoon Al Saleh
March 16th - April 6th, 2021
Agora Gallery
Review by Heather Zises
Interdisciplinary Emirati artist Maisoon Al Saleh creates images and objects that serve as diagrams of personal experience, contemporary UAE culture and history. Through painting, drawing, digital prints and sculpture, she uses bold colors and shapes to create abstract images... read more >
October 20, 2020
Unbound Perspectives
September 26-October 17, 2020
Unbound Perspectives celebrates the countless ways a single subject can be interpreted and appreciated through photography, painting and digital illustration. Using natural and constructed materials, each piece investigates themes of nature and abstraction informed by scale and viewpoint... read more >
November 20, 2019
East Villager Billy The Artist Climbs Atop Ai Wei Wei's Fence To Shine A Light On It
A review by Gregory de la Haba
The amplitude and potency of art are in its power to inspire and—as the Public Art Fund in NYC does each season staging ambitious, free art exhibitions throughout the city's urban sprawl—to surprise and delight, as well. read more >
June 20, 2018
A Quick Note on Transplants: Greek Diaspora Artists
A review by Andrew H. Sullivan
I’ve been following artist Peter Gerakaris around NYC from his all-too-temporary rooftop piece, Floating Garden, at the upper east side’s the Surrey Hotel to his hidden gallery exhibition, Ventanas, at the FXFOWLE architectural studio in the Flat Iron neighborhood, and felt it a natural progression to check out his work as a part of the Transplants: Greek Diaspora Artists... read more >
December 19, 2017
The Ventana Series Experience
A review by Andrew H. Sullivan
Ventanas are windows in Spanish, are framed spaces—literally, a border surrounding an empty space—through which we can see into one room or environment from another, let in air, let in light, frame our perspective, deliver access prevent entrance... read more >
April 12, 2017
Teddy Thompson’s Ultimate Funeral Mix Tape
Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace 1972
There is literally nobody in the history of recorded music I would rather hear singing Amazing Grace. This is almost a frenzied version, if something this slow can be called frenzied. Recorded live at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in January 1972, it features the Southern California Community Choir. And the audience is as much a part of this rendition as Aretha is...
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March 24, 2017
Cattelan the Perspectivist
Multi-media sculptor Maurizio Cattelan is known for his conceptual prank art. He has taken things out of galleries instead of putting them in, dug holes in museum floors, used guards as pedalling exhibits and taped his Italian art dealer to the wall so he could merchandize himself... read more >
September 23, 2016
Art
Jason McLean,
Brooklyn based Canadian artist, Jason McLean, creates autobiographical imagery, through scavenged objects, and memory mapping. Jason McLean’s diverse art practice includes sculpture, sound works, zines, book works, mixed-media installations, correspondence art, curatorial explorations, puppets, and performance, but he is probably best known for his diaristic mapping and surreal drawings... read more >
July 27, 2016
Moray Hillary,
Pre-New Reflective
By Heather Zises
Currently on view at Galrie Protégé is Pre-New Reflective, a series of haunting faceless portraits and sculptural assemblages by Scottish painter Moray Hillary. Curated by Alison Pierz, the exhibition explores the artist’s personal obsession with the concept of entropy, the fragile decline of youth into old age, and themes of impermanence... read more >
April 7, 2016
Art
SELFISH
Review by Heather Zises
“With this show, I very much wanted to inspire introspection in other people. SELFISH is really about the existential significance of self-portraiture. This show is not meant to be a spectacle. At its core, it is more of an exercise piece where the viewer looks at the art on the walls and then starts to look within themselves.” - Akeem Duncan, SELFISH Curator... read more >
February 11, 2016
Art Feature
Winter Realm Series
by Noah Becker
2005-2010
Oil on Canvas
December 5, 2015
Art
Paul Rousso at Lanoue Fine Art
Review by Sam Nickerson
Only, Rousso's work is not a typical heirloom. It's usually trash – discarded candy wrappers from days gone by, newspapers that become artifacts a day later – or other bits of an analog culture that is quickly disappearing into the past... read more >
July 31, 2015
Art
Airan Kang,
The Luminous Poem at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
Reviewed by Heather Zises
On view at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is South Korean artist Airan Kang’s most recent body of work, The Luminous Poem. Known for her metaphysical approach to text, Kang creates electronically luminescent sculptures cast from transparent synthetic resin and LED paintings in the form of books and scrolls... read more >
July 23, 2015
Damien Hoar De Galvan at Carroll and Sons
Review by Sam Nickerson
The sculptures of ‘Wake Up,’ Damien Hoar de Galvan’s first solo show at Carroll and Sons, emphasize process over results.
The whimsical, colorful oblongs – mostly constructed on thin wooden strips – make for a breezy, light summer show... read more >
June 25, 2015
Theather
ANTIGONE, 2015,
directed by IVO VAN HOVE
Seen at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Fr
Reviewed by Katia Zoritch
One fine Thursday evening, I left Théâtre de la Ville and started walking towards Jardin du Luxembourg in order to catch my train home. An hour and 45 minutes of the play’s length into the evening, and everything had already changed in the dark gloss of the lampposts... read more >
May 21, 2015
Karen Jerzyk's unsettling Parallel World
at Art Block Gallery
by Sam Nickerson
In place of words, dilapidated buildings and delicate, gaunt figures form the vocabulary of photographer Karen Jerzyk's Parellel World.
Jerzyk admits to struggling to express herself verbally, especially in relation to family tragedy, and instead relies on the nightmarish tableaux that make up the show to say what words cannot. The 22 works on view at Gallery @ Art Block...
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May 07, 2015
CEK
Concrete Functional Sculptures
CEK is not easily confined to one label. The Italian-born transplant to Toronto fuses many disciplines – design, architecture, art – into an equally unpredictable medium, poured concrete. His opening reception, April 23 at Goodfellas Gallery in Toronto, is the result of two years’ experimentation in molded and cast concrete sculptural forms... read more >
March 05, 2015
ALEXIS DAHAN,
ALARM! AT TWO RAMS,
FEBRUARY 5-22, 2015
by Heather Zises
Currently on view at Two Rams is a conceptual playground of art and space called Alarm! Conceived of by Alexis Dahan, the immersive exhibition continues the Parisian artist’s investigation of city streets as a source for visual experimentations, a location for public art interventions and a place to disseminate philosophical content... read more >
January 23, 2015
Do Ho Suh
Drawings, at Lehmann Maupin
September 11-October 25, 2014
by Heather Zises
Known for his elegant sculptural installations that are volumetric shells of his past homes, Korean artist Do Ho Suh creates exquisitely detailed portraits of spaces in a variety of media... read more >
January 15, 2015
Film
Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Directed by Mami Sunada, 2013
by Raqi Syed
Hand drawn films are a dying art. Perhaps even dead already. The industry attitude towards these films is that they represent a high watermark in artistry, but are painstakingly slow and expensive to make... read more >
January 08, 2015
Art
Nir Hod, Once Everything Was Much Better Even the Future
September 11-October 25 2014 at Paul Kasmin
by Heather Zises
Israeli artist Nir Hod is known for creating artworks that explore relationships between glamour and loneliness, beauty and death. As a painter, Hod’s palette ranges from the old master portraits of Peter Paul Rubens to the photo-realist technique of Gerhard Richter... read more >
December 04, 2014
Art
Reuven Israel, Multipolarity
Fridman Gallery
by Heather Zises
Photos Courtesy of the Fridman Gallery
It used to be the case that parody was the final signifier by which a genre had become so ubiquitous, its conventions so overplayed, that the only way in which the genre could continue on for another cycle was to spiral in on itself... read more >
October 17, 2014
Exhibition Review: Mario Schifano 1960 – 67
Luxembourg & Dayan
27 June–16 August 2014
by Owen Duffy
It used to be the case that parody was the final signifier by which a genre had become so ubiquitous, its conventions so overplayed, that the only way in which the genre could continue on for another cycle was to spiral in on itself... read more >
October 9, 2014
Subverting the Realist Impulse in the Work of Shauna Born
by Robert Anderson
Shauna Born’s latest series of drawings, Christopher Sunset, opened at Kartharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. Approaching the gallery, it’s hard to believe Toronto’s West Queen West was once a derelict district dominated by a sprawling, archaic mental institution... read more >
September 25, 2014
Linder: Femme/Objet
by Erik Martiny
The circular structure of the exhibition space accommodating this retrospective of Sterling Linder’s work is perfectly suited to her unwavering interest in collage over the last thirty years: from the first scalpel-cut, hand-assembled images of the seventies to her more recent Photoshop-assisted photomontages... read more >
August 28, 2014
Kara Walker, A Subtlety,
Domino Sugar Factory, Williamsburg, Summer 2014
by Heather Zises
Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist whose work is fraught and intersected with issues of race, gender, identity, and sexual politics. She is best known for her panoramic friezes of black, cut-paper silhouettes set against white grounds that pungently address the history of slavery and racism... read more >
August 1st, 2014
Justin Kimball at Carroll and Sons
by Sam Nickerson
When photographer Justin Kimball was a child, his family did what countless other American families did during the twentieth century; they hopped into a van and drove around the country, joining the crowds at National parks and beaches, watering holes and other sites of leisure and recreation designated to the general public... read more >
June 27, 2014
Kay Rosen: Blingo
by Heather Zises
Renowned for her text-based works, American artist Kay Rosen uses language as her primary material and subject for her paintings, drawings, editions, and installations. By playing with different approaches to typography and layout, format and scale, space and color, Rosen’s compositions explore the many avenues of language and how it can be represented visually. While a proclivity for puns and vernacular wit allude to the artist’s background in language and linguistics, the adroit use of words as objects and icons reinforces Rosen’s role as an artist who has mastered the interplay between visual and verbal realms... read more >
May 29, 2014
Told & Foretold: The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak, at Pucker Gallery
by Samantha Burgoon
In a 2008 interview, Samuel Bak explained his connection to the maxim: a miserable childhood is a writer’s goldmine (1). That statement certainly holds true for the painter and Holocaust survivor, who, by the end of World War II, had experienced countless atrocities, and who, aside from his mother, was the only surviving member of his once-large family... read more >
May 23, 2014
Collective Memory Manipulated: Sara Cwynar’s Flat Death
by Caroline Hayward
Flat Death is the latest iteration of an ongoing project by artist and photographer Sara Cwynar. Through a process that encompasses collage, photography, sculpture and digital alteration, she obsessively manipulates found photos and objects to create works that confront the image as an influential object in contemporary society... read more >
May 08, 2014
Letinsky’s Creases Turn Sour by Sam Nickerson
by Sam Nickerson
The photographs can trick you. At first glance you're seeing a pile of litter on a table. It's only when the photographs are viewed up close that the messes are revealed to be neatly arranged collections of random items: cups, ribbons, a slice of toast, a pepper. Still, the items seem incongruous, they're not actual cups and ribbons, but clipped photos of said items organized in familiar ways... read more >
April 24, 2014
The Universal Archive by by Sam Nickerson
by Sam Nickerson
William Kentridge’s “Universal Archive” presents typewriters in all shapes, sizes, and levels of tangibility, but is no technical study of the machine. The works are, however, a record of masterful printmaking techniques and a reminder of the fluidity of fact.
The eight typewriters on view at Barbara Krakow Gallery—which has worked with the South African artist since 1999—form a small and quiet show... read more >
April 17, 2014
Accumulation: Sculptural work by Alben at Gallery Nines
by Caroline Hayward
Visitors to French artist Alben’s latest solo show at Gallery Nine5 on Spring Street in New York City are greeted with a half-life-sized standing figure of former Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. The sculpture is rendered in clear resin and filled with sharp edged, broken pieces of blue and white pottery... read more >
March 20, 2014
Paris Street Art
Musée de la Poste
by Erik Martiny
Philip Larkin once said that desolation was to him what daffodils were to Wordsworth. Interviewed for the current exhibition at the Musée de la Poste in Paris, French Street artist Reroalso remarked that he finds “the energy that derelict places radiate inspiring.” This fascination with the beauty of urban wasteland has been vivifyingly enhanced by the Musée de la Poste for its current exhibition... read more >
February 14, 2014
Trellises by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann
gallery nine5 by Allan M. Jalon
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann says her real start as an artist came when she got a critical stab from the renowned 1950s painter Grace Hartigan.
It was, Mann recalls, probably her first formal critique in graduate school, at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where Hartigan was a guiding figure as administrator and artist... read more >
October 21, 2013
The Colour of Laughter
by Erik Matiny
About Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny's reviews have appeared in London Magazine and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in France.
Born in 1962 in Daqing, China, Yue Minjun studied art at the Normal University in Hebei Province. After having joined the (now no longer existing) Yuan Ming Yuan community of artists outside Beijing in the early 1990s... read more >
July 1, 2013
Art Paris Art Fair 2013 Review
by Erik Matiny
About Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny's reviews have appeared in London Magazine and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in France.
This year's contemporary art fair in Paris held March 28-31 displayed a dizzying array of 144 of the world's high-quality galleries. If just over half of the galleries present were Paris-based, there were others from 20 countries including Europe, China, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and last but not least Russia since it was the honoured guest... read more >
March 19, 2013
Topography of Destruction Kemper Museum
About Kayti Doolitle
Kayti Doolitle graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in Creative Writing. She is the Art and Film Reviewer for Fjords Review. Kayti is writing an anthology of essays about the sex industry in countries around the world, while living in South Korea.
"The Map as Art," group show at The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art includes artists inspired by the origins, intentions, and purposes of maps. Artist Joyce Kozloff's installation is like a walk-in, inside-out globe. The outside of the structure is comprised of wooden panels and the inside is lined with twenty-four maps of countries bombed by the United States... read more >
February 11, 2013
Erothanatos
by Erik Matiny
About Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny's reviews have appeared in London Magazine and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in France.
If you come to this exhibition expecting to see only works of art that illustrate the social historian's view that art produced in times of war is an expression of its horror, then you are in for a surprise. Of course, the exhibition showcases the expected kinds of works exuding period angst: Georges Rouault's Homo Homini Lupus ... read more >
November 29, 2012
Hopper the Frenchie
by Erik Matiny
About Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny's reviews have appeared in London Magazine and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in France.
Erected for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in an attempt to equal the sensation produced by the Eiffel Tower (built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889), the Grand Palais is a sumptuous architectural treat and it's a good thing too as it allows the viewer a measure of respite from the two-to-three-hour wait in the exhibition queue. No one complains about this as Hopper is the must-see show on at the moment in Paris... read more >
November 8, 2012
The Louvre Relocates to Africa
by Erik Matiny
About Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny's reviews have appeared in London Magazine and The Times Literary Supplement. He lives in France.
"Like Norman Rockwell's paintings they look better in reproduction than in reality." This is a line taken from the New York Times review of Kehinde Wiley but it's hard to see how such a statement can be true of any work of art, and Wiley's is no exception - far from it. Even Gustav Klimt's tiny painting "Die Musik" in Munich's Neue Pinakothek ... read more >
May 26, 2012
A French Priest, Tears and Fire: The Art of Jean-Michel Othoniel
About Kayti Doolitle
Kayti Doolitle graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in Creative Writing. She is the Art and Film Reviewer for Fjords Review. Kayti is writing an anthology of essays about the sex industry in countries around the world, while living in South Korea.
Used matches line the bottom of Jean-Michel Othoniel's Wishing Wall, for his My Way exhibition at the Plateau Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea. The large-scale wall is covered in one of Othoniel's precious metamorphic mediums: phosphorous... read more >
February 17, 2012
North Korean Defector's U.S. Art Premiere
About Kayti Doolitle
Kayti Doolitle graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in Creative Writing. She is the Art and Film Reviewer for Fjords Review. Kayti is writing an anthology of essays about the sex industry in countries around the world, while living in South Korea.
Song Byeok was a propaganda artist who escaped from North Korea through China and arrived in South Korea in 2002.
Song Byeok believed in North Korea's messages until famine struck in the 1990s. As his loved ones starved to death, Byeok and his father resorted to crossing the flooded Tumen River to China in a desperate search for food... read more >