SARAH WAGNER Chattanooga, TN May 2009 by Denise Sanabria The Artist as Alchemist features two contrasting, dynamic installations: Sarah Wagner’s Nuclear Family and Born Between Piss and Shit by Jade Townsend (Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee/Chattanooga; October 14 – November 26, 2008). Both artists produce life-size tableaux into which they invite us to enter. Wagner’s […]
Cornelia Schulz: “Recent Paintings” at Patricia Sweetow Gallery In the 1950s and 1960s, art critic Clement Greenberg championed abstract painting that would explore color, shape and structure divested of references to the real world; the non-rectangular geometric canvases of Frank Stella epitomize that anti-illusionist logic. In the ’70s, postmodern theorists argued instead for an […]
Don’t miss: ‘Natural Blunders’ By Mary Eisenhart This exhibition takes on “our traditionally Western adversarial relationship to nature,” from voracious exploitation to catastrophic pollution to cloning and engineering of artificial life-forms. The resulting works are spooky, creepy, sometimes monstrous and definitely provocative.
By Kenneth Baker Saturday, January 31, 2009. Each time I think that Cornelia Schulz’s work cannot get any better, she enriches it with fresh complexities. See her show at Patricia Sweetow Gallery. For some years, Schulz’s art seemed to build and comment on the project of activating paintings’ perimeters that connects Barnett Newman […]
Please click here to read the article Twentieth century art and social movements offered more than one vision of a world that valued freedom and spontaneity. These values were a challenge to authoritarianism; they also became a foundation from which artists could envision and declare possible future directions of the world. Linda Sormin’s artistic practice […]
December 11, 2008 The Aqua Wynwood Fair Thoughts and Standouts.. First off, when it comes to art fairs, The Aqua Wynwood Fair.. is lucky to have nice real walls, much better lighting, and real Flat Floors… which just makes for a much better presentation experience for Art viewing. If MAO had a drink dollar for […]
EXIT December 2008 by Soraya Murray David Huffman Dig It! And Jefferson Pinder Afro Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise) Patricia Sweetow Gallery What is perhaps most notable about the paired exhibitions of recent works by painter David Huffman and video performance artist Jefferson Pinder, is the series of convergences that occur. Both are African American, and both […]
The Washington Post September 14, 2008 By Jessica Dawson Jefferson Pinder, 37 Video artist Thank you, Jefferson Pinder, for challenging this painting-friendly city’s oil-on-canvas habit. The District native plants himself — and his blackness — in almost every frame of his racially charged video works. “I play the role of social scientist and specimen,” Pinder […]
ART Sarah Wagner: Nuclear Family Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery’s cement floors and plaster walls, creating gardens that grow wild with tulle flowers, organza leaves, and burlap roots. Wagner’s work takes inspiration from the biology of the natural world, exploring […]