The Washington Post The State of Black Art Folk video artist Jefferson Pinder seeks to cast off ‘black art’ label By Blake Gopnik Sunday, January 24, 2010 Jefferson Pinder stands in the Jacob Lawrence room at the Phillips Collection, studying the great “Migration” series Lawrence painted in 1941. Watching Pinder look, you realize how much […]
Preview: Jiha Moon’s new solo opens Saturday at Saltworks by Jeremy Abernathy January 21, 2010 The imagery in Jiha Moon‘s paintings can thunder with laughter, whisper of legends long forgotten and some yet to be lived, and shed mournful tears of dripping blue and pink paint. Her new exhibition, opening at Saltworks Gallery this Saturday, […]
NATURE|Vol 462|3 December 2009 By Marc Weidenbaum Gail Wight, artist of science Restless Dust by Gail Wight Imprint of the San Francisco Center for the Book: 2009. 36 pp. $280 Gail Wight explores the habits and history of scientific practice in this installation of pinned butterflies. The artist Gail Wight has examined X-rays with neuroscientists, […]
November 19, 2009 Art in Review By Roberta Smith FREDERICK HAYES ‘Build an Empire’ Number 35 Frederick Hayes is an encouraging anomaly. At 54, he is only now having his first solo gallery show in New York. Mr. Hayes’s subject might be defined as both the richness and harshness of urban life. His drawings depict […]
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.