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 […]
Artillery March 2007 by Tucker Neel Jefferson Pinder G Fine Arts Washington, DC With his recent video installation entitled Juke, Jefferson Pinder not only exhibits a penetrating knowledge of America’s schizophrenic fascination with race and identity, he proves himself to have an ear for music as well. The beauty of Pinder’s installation is that it […]
The Washington Post By Jessica Dawson First Impressions, Second Thoughts A rare, complicated and utterly engaging video work by Maryland artist Jefferson Pinder is on view in the back room of G Fine Art. Called “Juke,” the piece uses a hoary bit of showbiz treachery — lip-syncing — to force us to think about our […]
ASIAN POP / Art Breakers A new generation of Asian American artists challenges outmoded expectations of what it means to be Asian, American and — for that matter — a “new generation.” By Jeff Yang Monday, October 16, 2006 When you step into the atrium leading to Asia Society’s new exhibition of works by contemporary […]
I LIKE the title of the Asia Society’s latest, and possibly best, foray into contemporary art. “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now” borrows a familiar colloquialism for go-it-alone ingenuity and persistence under pressure, not bad qualities for a young artist. The phrase is also the title of the 1978 punk standard by Blondie, […]
Defying The Definitive By Daniel Kunitz September 14, 2006 To what degree does an artist’s heritage inform his work? It is a particularly American question, since, no matter how deep our roots in this soil may dig, all of us have, to some degree, a multiple identity. But so what? Shouldn’t an American artist be […]
RHIZOME.ORG at THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Net Art News February 1, 2006 Punching the Clock By Peggy MacKinnon “Clockwork,” a documentary-style series of four short multi-channel video works by Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse, centers around the concept of time–as social ordering tool, as cultural construct, and as an intrinsic element in […]
January 14, 2006. Page E-10 By Kenneth Baker Finley and Muse at Sweetow: Under the title “Clockwork,” Bay Area videomakers Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse present four new multichannel works at Sweetow. Using multiple fixed cameras, they took half-second shots every half minute over 16 consecutive hours. They focused on a hairdresser (“Shampoo”), a […]
By Kenneth Baker January 14, 2006. Page E-10 Schulz at Sweetow: Marin County painter Cornelia Schulz still takes seriously the idea, rooted in the ’60s, that abstract paintings ought to exploit their own physical profiles, to make parameters of their perimeters, as author William Gass might say. Schulz’s recent pieces at Sweetow take her […]
Anno at Sweetow: Just four pieces at Patricia Sweetow by Bay Area painter Kim Anno make a substantial exhibition. Anno paints in oil on aluminum, a completely nonabsorbent surface that forces her to modulate color by thinning, wiping and scoring it. These operations in themselves give rise to a kind of abstract pictorial drama. […]