Another lunch break at a gallery. This time I strolled around the corner to The Hole on the Bowery. They’ve got a show of portraits of artist by artists. The artists are paired off. For example, Kenny Scharf does a portrait of Kembra Pfahler and vice versa. I think there are 100 artists involved so it’s …
Today it just so happened that I finished reading WG Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn on the subway as I was riding the subway to the Upper East Side to see Mark Dion’s The Phantoms of the Clark Exhibition at the Explorers Club. Interestingly, both works refer to a trip and in both pieces history, colonialism, and …
Another day of ducking out of work for an extended lunch and visit to a gallery. This time it was e-flux down on East Broadway. Animism, a show with a heady theme and populated with diverse, interesting work. The gallery was appropriately animated with a collection of moving images on monitors, walls, and on a …
I saw a number of videos on my last spin through Chelsea, including Thomas Demand’s meticulously animated “Pacific Sun” (a total of 2,400 individually shot frames, in case you weren’t sufficiently impressed). But it was Adrian Paci’s “Inside the Circle” that really drew me in. I think you can see why.
On Friday I took a break from work and went to check out the show at Sperone Webster down the street from my office. Upstairs were 11 luscious blue ballpoint drawings. Ononimo a piece by Alighiero Boetti. The gallery writes: Boetti’s biro works were systematically colored by others, yet always based on a code or playful schematic …
I visited galleries before heading into work. The first stop was to see Brent Green’s inventive and engaging installation To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given. I didn’t read the notes before going in and was initially confused, wondering why I couldn’t see the animation anywhere. Turns out unless you view the screen through one …
Toothsome May 17-June 10 at bulletspace 292 East 3rd St “Toothsome” brings together artists that work with sugar, honey and candy. Rather than being turned off by the materials’ inherent susceptibility to humidity, time, and vermin, the artists instead explore its seductive qualities, its loaded history and its metaphorical possibilities. Sculptures, installations and videos touch …
Another corn project in the works. The beauty and diversity of corn varieties reflects the cultures that cultivate them. What do we make of a culture whose dominant corn variety is genetically engineered and unfit for human consumption until it’s processed into a food sweetener?
Living life at Anne Peroco’s show at NURTUREart. Anne’s work includes a “scrappy” hut constructed of found materials and lovely images of mysterious mini makeshift shelters assembled from found objects on vacant lots. Anne has also put together a series of skill-sharing workshops with guest artists this month. Check out her website: Anne Peroco
My collaborative project Husk is presenting new work at Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space! Opening April 5th at the Old Stone House, Brooklyn. TUB Park by Husk is a park of public baths and innovative play equipment that can be enjoyed by Brooklynites of all ages. The adult-only hot tubs in the park are …
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