The Washington Post October 9, 2009 By Jessica Dawson Colossal Transformations at Hillyer and G “El Museo del Ghetto,” a joint project by Jefferson Pinder and José Ruiz. (By Paul Vinet — G Fine Art) A curious two-person show landed at G Fine Art’s temporary space on E Street downtown. (Remember Cheryl Numark’s old gallery? […]
October 4, 2009 Kim Anno: Liquescent By Zachary Scholz PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY The works in this tranquil exhibition reward prolonged interaction. Their quiet presence, reminiscent of Morris Louis’ veil paintings, offers viewers a hushed space within which to reflect. Like much of Kim Anno’s previous work, they are painted in oil on sheets of aluminum. […]
Modern Painters June 1, 2009 Jefferson Pinder By Kiki Anderson Jefferson Pinder, installation view of “Juke” (2006). John Riepenhoff/Inova/Kenilworth Gallery, Milwaukee “Jefferson Pinder” at Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) Milwaukee Feb. 25 – June 14 Assembled here together for the first time in this large-scale survey, Jefferson Pinder’s films and videos feature subjects who never […]
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 […]