By Stephen Knudsen
Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist and filmmaker. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. His art has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Palais de [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Take a stroll around gallery exhibitions and art fairs around the world these days and the increasing tendency of dealers and curators to dig into the past seems to be still going in full swing. In all fairness, it has to be said that for a long time the whole phenomenon [...]
By Jeff Edwards
It seems like Ed Clark is finally getting a bit of the recognition he deserves. In early 2014, his bold poured-and-push-broomed paintings were the subject of “Ed Clark: Big Bang,” a retrospective at New York’s Tilton Gallery that also included a handful of artworks by Clark’s friends Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, [...]
By David Pagel
I write art criticism for two reasons: 1. To find out what I think about what I’m looking at; and 2. To make the world safe for me. The first is pretty simple. So is the second, but it’s a little harder to explain.
When I walk into an exhibition or come [...]
Dublin-based artist Jesse Jones seeks out modes of resistance through parasitic alliances with institutional structures. While “laughing a defiance,” she pushes the limits of cinematic expression, creating aesthetic experiences that weave together art with activist passion. Jones incorporates a range of research-based and socially-engaged practices in her development of collective projects that illuminate [...]
Microclimates of nostalgia and exploration is how I describe the installations of Val Britton. Her complex work is composed of collaged paper forms floating and curving through space like weather patterns guided by gossamer tethers. In our discussion, Val openly comments on the evolution of her work and the relevance of maps as [...]
By Christina Schmid
Rather recently, the choreographic has captured the imagination of curators.1 The choreographic has left the world of dance and performance on stage and entered galleries, where, for the duration of an exhibition, bodies perform scores and gestures amid more traditional art objects and audiences. The effects of this curatorial practice involve [...]
Artist Nari Ward, born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963, moved to the U.S. at age 12, where he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and received his Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College and Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College.
Ward’s artistic investigations reference urban space, performance, the dynamics of [...]
By Christina Schmid
In 2013, at the opening of “Painter Painter,” the Walker Art Center’s first exhibition of contemporary painting in over a decade, Jan Verwoert ended his memorable talk with a demonstration: a simple baseline on a Roland TP 3 Base Synthesizer entering a feedback loop. The filter the sound passes through begins [...]
Known for his peculiar urban renderings as representations of symbols of power, Gustavo Acosta (Havana, 1958) has based his work on the social and political aspects that architecture represents. He talked to ARTPULSE about what has influenced him through the years, how he dissects his surroundings with an almost cinematographic eye, and how [...]
