by Siba Kumar Das
When Night Falls – Making Embodied Cognition Sublime
A Cosmopolitan Reconnaissance
by Steve Rockwell
Continue reading “A Cosmopolitan Reconnaissance”The Remains of the Day: Sarah Sze and her Images in Debris
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Continue reading “The Remains of the Day: Sarah Sze and her Images in Debris”Melanie Vote’s The Washhouse: Nothing Ever Happened Here
by John Mendelsohn
Continue reading “Melanie Vote’s The Washhouse: Nothing Ever Happened Here”Frank Holliday’s SEE/SAW at Mucciaccia Gallery in NYC
by Christopher Hart Chambers
Continue reading “Frank Holliday’s SEE/SAW at Mucciaccia Gallery in NYC”Gelah Penn: Uneasy Terms at Undercurrent
by John Mendelsohn
Continue reading “Gelah Penn: Uneasy Terms at Undercurrent”Apollonia Vanova’s Sleepover Gallery in Toronto
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
EKH: Darren Gallery is reopening after, as you’ve said, a long and painful renovation with a new concept: Sleepover Art Gallery. Where did this idea come from?
AV: The sleepover gallery concept came about from a variety of factors. It’s difficult to sell art, as it’s not a life necessity and not a surprise when galleries close down after a few years. Continue reading “Apollonia Vanova’s Sleepover Gallery in Toronto”
Points of Engagement
by D. Dominick Lombardi
The success of an exhibition, or any work of art for that matter, is its ability to engage the viewer. Engagement can be a bit more difficult to achieve when you eliminate any sort of representation, as with the current exhibition at the Hofstra Museum of Art, Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age. Continue reading “Points of Engagement”
Janghan Choi at the Korean Cultural Center in Tenafly, New Jersey
by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D.
Choi’s multifaceted installations employ the abstracted human form in movement as sign language thus demonstrating a relationship to collective memory and Jungian archetypes, and in their essentialized forms, to cave painting also. Human Evolution I, 2019 which a triptych of neutral background with navy and puce colored signs and a central tondo with rune-like shapes, reveals the artist’s interest in pre-historic cultures. Continue reading “Janghan Choi at the Korean Cultural Center in Tenafly, New Jersey”
A Few of My Favorite Things: An Eclectic Show
by Siba Kumar Das
The Elga Wimmer favorites on display in her Chelsea gallery from December 7-21, 2019 are an eclectic group. But they also embody a unifying theme. What unites them is this: Conceptualism is still an important force but ideas must go hand in hand with physical product.
Richard Humann exemplifies the adventurousness of a neo-Conceptual artist who has taken to the technology of Augmented Reality to push viewers into a new artistic frontier – as The New York Times’ Ted Loos suggested on November 27, 2019 in a review of an AR show projected above the High Line. That projection threw up 12 imaginary constellations in the sky. Continue reading “A Few of My Favorite Things: An Eclectic Show”