Kevin Teare: Bumpology, the Clinton Years
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Kevin Teare. Teare admits to a perhaps unhealthy level of preoccupation with covert U.S. history, English rock bands from the 60s, and other matters pop or political. You wouldn’t immediately know it to look at his paintings—gorgeous abstract compositions of shape and color floating on pale expanses of primed canvas—but titles like There Are Exactly 57 Reds (for John Frankenheimer), which alludes to both a notorious quotation from Senator Joe McCarthy and to Frankenheimer’s film The Manchurian Candidate, suggest that Teare’s paintings are operating on other levels besides those immediately apparent.
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Kristin Baker at Deitch Projects
NY Arts, March/April 2004
The crowd at Deitch Projects, one of the few vital galleries in SoHo to have resisted the exodus to Chelsea, had already spilled out onto Grand Street by the time I arrived. This was the first Friday of the 2003 art season and a grand tour of openings had lead me through [...]
Kristine Moran: Dissolution Plan at Angell Gallery
Canadian Art, Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 2005
In her second solo exhibition, Kristine Moran sharpens the focus in her sci-fi paintings, zeroing in on the ideas of utopian theorists from the 20th century—Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, Constant Nieuwenhuys and Buckminster Fuller—to present inner-city landscapes from an imagined alternative present. While still sprinkled with her signature [...]
Nicholas di Genova at Le. Gallery
Canadian Art, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 2004
‘Street Art’ exists in heavily urbanized environments from Tokyo to Toronto. Much of it is ‘graffiti’, that pestilence of territorial pissing by visually impaired half-wits who have little creative output beyond barely-literate scratches of their own names. However, an informed eye notices that the seas of scribbled spray [...]
Richard Kern at Feature, Inc.
NY Arts, July/August 2001
On a recent Saturday afternoon, I found myself standing in front of a series of framed photographs by Richard Kern, writing in my journal notes that seemed more like Penthouse letters than art criticism. “Staring wantonly into the camera lens, Lucy slides her delicate hand into her bikini bottom, daring the viewer [...]
Richard Stipl at Daniel Silverstein Gallery
Canadian Art, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 2003
A spontaneous chain of personalities and events lead to Czech-born sculptor Richard Stipl’s debut solo show in New York. It started in 2001, at Art Forum Berlin, where the artist’s Toronto dealer, Christopher Cutts, was encouraged by the American collector Steve Shane to take part in the first [...]
Royal Art Lodge at The Drawing Center
Canadian Art, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2003
“I would like some bad-acting and wrong-thinking. I would like to see some art that is courageously silly and frivolous, that cannot be construed as anything else.” So wrote the art and culture critic Dave Hickey in an essay that appeared in Art issues during the summer [...]
Force Majeure
The premise is almost unthinkable: finding inspiration in the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. Yet that disaster moved artist Kara Walker to organize After the Deluge, an exhibition tucked away in a mezzanine gallery at the Met, where Walker pairs a roiling selection of tangentially related paintings, prints and collages from the museums collection with her own works.
Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964; Andy Warhol at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964; Andy Warhol at the AGO
Memo to the Art Gallery of Ontario: fire your marketing staff. Initially, we welcomed the news that the AGO would be hosting an Andy Warhol show. And, even though he might not be the first person to leap into our heads to curate, we welcomed [...]
A Flood of Details: Digging Into Yun-Fei Ji’s Source Material
Yun-Fei Jis monumental new landscape paintings, depicting scenes along the winding banks of the Yangtze River just prior to the areas flooding by the Three Gorges Dam, are composed of imagery sampled from a vast archive of photographs, notes and sketches he has developed on several trips to China over the past five years.
