Jiha Moon: Peach pit Saltworks exhibition offers a state of grace By FELICIA FEASTER Wednesday January 23, 2008 For a time in the 1990s, the word “hybridity” was the kind of academic buzzword that burned up the tenure circuit. Hybridity attested to identity that was fluid, complex and not easily boiled down to one “essence.” […]
January 6, 2008 By Jessica Dawson Taking a Shine to Sound-Picture Symbiosis Not only did video fail to kill the radio star, it opened up possibilities for a generation of art stars. Jefferson Pinder, 37, grew up watching MTV and now relies on carefully considered soundtracks to enrich his video works. His latest, the 31/2-minute-long […]
November 21, 2007 Dark sparkle: Jamie Vasta’s art glitters By Johnny Ray Huston Sparkle, San Francisco, sparkle — the Bay Area is a birthplace for visions of glitter. The Cockettes weren’t averse to throwing a few antique trunks full of metallic iridescence over their song and dance routines, and the late Jerome Caja mixed glitter […]
Joachim Bandau A Painter Doesn’t Dare: A Dialogue Between Sculpture & Watercolor Patricia Sweetow Gallery October 19, 2004 – November 27, 2004 Reviewed by Jordan Essoe A Machine For Living In In the statement accompanying German artist Joachim Bandau’s new solo exhibit at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, he writes of his watercolors that “the […]
Jiha Moon: Line Tripping To Saturday, Oct. 27, at Curator’s Office KRISTON CAPPS OCT 5, 2007 For all her fine-lined flourishes—the icons, ribbons, symbols, and content she lifts from both Eastern and Western orthodoxies—Jiha Moon revels in the muddy and abstract. In her latest works, now on display at Curator’s Office, the painter once again […]
by Jessica Gorman September 2007 Korean-born artist Jiha Moon talks with urbancode magazine in advance of her upcoming solo exhibition at the Curator’s Office micro gallery. The space is located in the District at 1515 14th Street NW, suite 201. Moon’s work will be on view from September 15 – October 20, 2007. JG: Process […]
Galleries: Painting turns conceptual as you look Kenneth Baker Saturday, September 22, 2007 Under what circumstances does painting turn into conceptual art? You can see it happen in the work of German artist Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow, which at first looks excessively optical. Viewer fatigue effects the conversion. We reasonably demand that a […]
Visual Art Fifteen minutes is enough time to discover that Markus Linnenbrink’s paintings combine muscular methodology with a fondness for glitter and droll humor. By Johnny Ray Huston Fifteen minutes with Markus Linnenbrink? Well, I didn’t say no – and didn’t regret spending that amount of time and a bit more […]
Washingtonian July, 2007 By Mary Clare Fleury Video Art Holds a New Take on Race Relations Jefferson Pinder came up with the idea for his exhibit “Juke” while driving around Washington. Pinder, a video artist, found himself turning down the volume on bands like Radiohead and Ben Folds Five. He asked himself why he felt […]
Weather Channels By DAVID COHEN May 17, 2007 When it comes to painting, evoking the elements calls for elemental solutions. In three beautiful exhibitions in Chelsea right now, contemporary artists balance a fascination with water, clouds, and ethereal, billowing forms with audacious experimental attitudes toward traditional materials. Each body of work manifests a heightened consciousness […]