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 […]
Jiha Moon at Saltworks by Rebecca Dimling Cochran May 2008 Jiha Moon studied both traditional Korean painting and Western painting at university in her native Korea. She furthered her knowledge of the latter in the United States, but it remains particularly telling that her early training was based in a system in which the two […]
Evanescence and Fragility Nuclear Family/ No Vanishing Point May 1 – June 14, 2008 GALLERY HOP IN TOWN WITH NATALIE STANCHFIELD Until June 14th, as you walk in the door of Patricia Sweetow Gallery you will be greeted by a luminous, ghostly, silk deer, the head of Sarah Wagner’s Nuclear Family. He is suspended from […]
May 2008 young at art: 15 artists under 35 Jamie Vasta, San Francisco by Laura Richard Janku All that glitters may no be gold, but Jamie Vasta has a definite Midas touch with a certain crafty material. With a brush of her fingertips, glitter is alchemized from carnivalesque into uncanny and classic figurative paintings. Vasta’s […]
April 2008 Jamie Vasta at Patricia Sweetow By Melissa E. Feldman Imagine punked out Pre-Raphaelites up to no good and you have an idea of Jamie Vasta’s meticulous paintings in acrylic and glitter on wood (aII 2007). Tangled branches of leafless trees marble the backgrounds of scenes dominated by monumental, classically posed sleepwalkers and stalkers, […]
What a feeling: Quaking the walls at the Mint By Scott Lucas April 2, 2008 THE WINDS: Work included in Jiha Moon exhibit at The Mint Museum of Art. Courtesy of the artist and Moti Hasson Gallery, NY. Ever recall being told a good story of great joy or regret or sorrow, and later, on […]
WE INTERRUPT YOUR PROGRAM Mills College Art Museum Oakland, California January 16 — March 16, 2008 By Meredith Tromble If, as some linguists say, men interrupt women as a way of asserting their power, the fourteen artists in We Interrupt Your Program turn the tables. Curator Marcia Tanner has assembled an international cadre of artists […]
JAMIE VASTA AT PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY Reviewed by DeWitt Cheng If we accept modernist dicta, art should be pure and abstract, and appeal to the eye. If we adopt postmodernism’s analytical mindset, art should appeal to the wary, ingenious mind seeking fortification against the blandishments of an ideologically corrupt reality. For some, the extreme choices […]
The Washington Post February 15, 2008 By Michael O’Sullivan Hip-Hop Artists Take Center Stage Could there be any better indication that the once stodgy museum world has now fully embraced pop culture than the appearance of graffiti on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery? Well, that and the portrait of Stephen Colbert that hangs […]